Accents that do it for you

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
though this is not specific enough... english can be cockney, manchesteran, upper class, etc. american southern can be Missouri, plantation southern, etc. even in a single city, there's great difference... people in north philly sound much different from people in south philly (think the Rocky accent)

The word is Mancunian Alb, for your information arrrrr kid

Has to be Russian, must have been from watching all those Bond films when I was younger

[Provost Harrison]

Still, looks like there is hope for me yet, as I have an English accent

[Sikander]

I find that it isn't any particular accent that gets me going, but more my experience with that accent or the quality of the voice that seems to have an effect. Growing up watching a lot of war movies I thought that German and Russian were vulgar sounding languages. After all I saw them being spoken by a lot of evil Nazis and Communists. Once I was in the army I found that Russian was a really beautiful language (especially when spoken by a certain blonde 6 foot tall instructor from St. Petersburg). While stationed in Germany my first experience with a beautiful sounding voice was the recording of a woman's voice on the streetcar, announcing the stops. This was soon reinforced by a number of lovely German women who deigned to speak to me during my time there.

There are accents that I don't care for particularly, especially East Coast accents in the U.S. as well as some of the nasal midwestern accents like those I grew up around in Michigan. I still don't care for that nasal accent, despite the fact that a lot of friends and former girlfriends who speak it.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Big Crunch


I can give you the phone numbers of a couple of such girls.

Good thing, because I doubt he could understand enough to get it from them.

[The Viceroy]

Indian .. although, like every country, they have as many accents as they do regions (and even sub regional accents)..

[Sikander]

Originally posted by self biased
aren't south african and dutch the same thing?

No, not exactly. Afrikaans is to Dutch what Cajun is to French, though IIRC it has moved even further from Dutch due to the larger population base of its speakers and the larger number of languages that influence it including Portugese, English, French and a number of African languages.

[DaShi]

I know a Chinese girl who when she speaks English, she does it in a very soft sexy French accent. Also, she doesn't realize this.

[self biased]

Originally posted by Sikander


No, not exactly. Afrikaans is to Dutch what Cajun is to French, though IIRC it has moved even further from Dutch due to the larger population base of its speakers and the larger number of languages that influence it including Portugese, English, French and a number of African languages.

eek. i've got a freind of mine that speaks cajun. to think that a language could be even further removed from it's source... oi.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by DaShi
I know a Chinese girl who when she speaks English, she does it in a very soft sexy French accent. Also, she doesn't realize this.

We want a pic!

[DaShi]

She's married now. Sorry. Also, she's a good friend, but obviously racist. You know, Chinese are the best sort of thing. Everyone else is underevolved. If you ignore that she's very nice, and has been a great friend to me.

[Provost Harrison]

I like oriental girls but the Russian accent. What I need is someone who is a cross of both...

[Gangerolf]

you should go for one of those siberian eskimos then

[Gangerolf]

Irish
Australian
US Southern
South African (as in native English speaking South Africans)

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
you should go for one of those siberian eskimos then

As long as she moves here, it would be a bit too cold there

[Drake Tungsten]

and Japanese and Korean accents are different from Chinese ones.

Rearry?