The accent thread.

Sorry about that everybody. The old timer now. Yes, there's Nick doing various accents. I did actually mean him to showcase his own accent, which is very well spoken is my friend. And his mum's got a lovely accent. And they live in a lovely house. And they're lovely people. But I was going to ask, is there, I have one or two, are there any accents, you know, that people, that you,
absolutely, just cannot stand to hear? You know, you don't have anything against the people that speak them. It's not that you dislike the people, but you just can't bear to hear the accent. You know, and somebody with that accent, like a host, you know, a talk, a radio presenter, or an actress, you just cannot listen to anything they do because of their accent. There are people like that. I mean, I find a strong Scouse accent. You know, nothing against the people. They can be lovely people. But,
I just find the accents are grating. You know, I, and a lot of very strong accents, I think, can be. Yeah, me too. Well, take care everybody. Bye bye.

Hi, this is a post in response to Dan's question about what accent she don't like. Again, like Dan, I have one. And again, it's nothing against the people, although it may be an association with a person. She wasn't a bad person, she just used to get on my nerves. The accent in question is the real strong Northern Irish accent. The kind of people that don't say ground, they say grind.
And I think it's because it reminds me very much of my godmother, who in her own right is a very nice person, but she's one of these really gushy people. And she comes up to you and she's loud, and she comes up to you and she puts her arms around you and goes, Hello sweetheart, how are you? And you're like, ah, go away. I think that's why I don't like the accent now, because it just reminds me of this particular person. What was the other thing I was going to say? Oh yeah, that's right, another thing I was going to say.
I think it's funny because I like Billy Connolly and he's funny. And I am three-quarter Scottish, if you go by blood. My mum's dad was Scottish and my dad's Scottish, so I have Scottish connections.
I actually find it really funny when people do that great big Billy Connolly Glasgow accent. It's great fun. I love it.

I used to date a guy from Northern Ireland, and he and his whole family had very strong, you know, Northern Irish accents, and, you know, like the hi, no, Brian Kai, like, and it was fine when I was just talking to him on his own because I could understand him, but, you know, when he'd get together with some of his friends, you know, and they would talk together, they'd talk so fast, it would just sound like la-la-la-la.
And I'd just be sitting there going, I'm just going to sit here and not contribute because I don't understand. I just do not understand what's actually being said here. And his parents had such strong accents that it really did sound like, you know, how are you?
And, you know, they were full of people with, you know, the Northern Irish accents. God, it was horrible.

Stacey, you're correct because I have dated a Welsh girl. Louie, as in Griffin, knows who I'm talking about because, but she didn't talk to her verbally, but she knows the girl. And they have indeed, the reason why you call it Chinese is because
that accent is, when they speak, I mean, at least when Laura, yeah, it's another Laura Talmadge, and Dan, but Dan knows her, I think. And they're almost singing sometimes when they speak. And there is this, yeah, there's some intonations in that accent that I can see why you
compare it to the Chinese. I can see why. It's not Chinese, but I can see where you're coming from. Yeah, absolutely.

Oh, that's an awesome topic. I'm Anne from Germany and I live in Bavaria in the south. I originally come from Baden-Württemberg, that's the county next to Bavaria. For about 10 years I lived in Bavaria and I find myself quite often
talking in the Bavarian slang and that sometimes makes me weird because it's quite difficult for me to keep my accent as it is, as it just is my accent. For example my mum, she lives hundreds of kilometres from
her birthplace, you know, and she lives for about 15 years, she doesn't live there in her birth town and she doesn't have the accent of that place she's living and that's a very, very different accent concerning to her birthplace and that's quite astonishing because some people might
manage to keep their accent as a whole as it is and some people like me, it's quite complicated.

Oh, I actually forgot something because I got relatives living in the United States. Yeah. Yeah, man. And Maryland. And can anybody tell me if that's a good imitation or not? That would be great to hear from you.

Lynn, you're right, and Anne, again, hello, because I've said hello to you in another thread, but I had already noticed this in your reply to one of my voice messages, that you do not have the typical German accent in English. Well, there's nothing wrong about having a German accent, to be honest, but it's not there with you, not much, at least.
It's like me, it's a mixture of a lot of things that I cannot say that I have quite a British accent, I have not a French accent, not an American accent, I don't think, and I can now hear it myself when I sometimes listen to my posts, I should say, but definitely you don't have this, the accent that usually I can expect from a German accent.
So it's very obvious that you traveled a lot, of course, and, well, I have made comments, as far as your singing is concerned, in the singing thread, so you can review it. Well, I will finish this post, because I will be cut off soon,
then

Hey everybody, it's Jake here again. I love listening to different accents and I think they're interesting. One of the accents, one of my favorites I think to listen
to is Irish. I have a friend whose mother was from Ireland. Unfortunately, she passed away earlier this year, but she came
to this country I believe several years ago and she still had part of her accent and I could tell and she was a really nice person.
So that's my take on accents.

Hello, this is Julia. I'm not quite sure what type of accent I have. I've heard, someone tell me, I can't believe you've never been to Ireland before. I've heard New York, New Jersey, Boston. I don't know. I have no idea. I've heard everything.
I've even heard people say I don't sound completely American either. So, excuse me. I'm not quite sure what type of accent it is. I've got in my background, I've got Irish, German, Dutch, English, Scottish, Norwegian or something, or something Nordic.
I guess it's just a mixture of all sorts of accents. And my friends like it when I do an English accent. I don't know why they like it, but they think it's cool. But for anyone, English is probably going to kill me. Okay, so I like this forum. This forum is cool. I think accents are fascinating too. Okay, someone...
Reply back to me if you want to. Anyone Irish can say whatever they want, or English, or whatever. Probably budget both accents, but... Is that what this is for? Yeah. So, yeah, that's it.

Excuse me. Yes, this is Ashley about accents. I can't really do any accents except sometimes I will slip into what people refer to here in Texas as redneck mode. I live in East Texas and so there's like a little bit of a twang or thing to our words every now and then.
But what I was going to say is that I have a sighted friend who reads to me sometimes and she's able to make different accents with her voice like British or German or you know just different kind of sounds and it makes the reading quite interesting. So I guess that's all I wanted to say. Alright, well have a good evening.

What I should point out here, in favour of the reader who read the books that I didn't really enjoy, she also read a lot of Catherine Cookson books. Like I say, she writes about sort of up north. And those were really good, because that reader can actually do the northern accent really well. She made those books really enjoyable, because she could put lots of expression into the voices and really make them sound good.
And that's part of the story, I think, and the accents that the reader can do. I just thought I'd point that out, because the reader herself is not a bad reader, she just didn't suit those particular stories, because she couldn't do the accent. But there are plenty of other ones that she can do.

Здравейте всички, това е Алекс от Русия, от Москва. В руския език имам московския акцент, защото съм от Москва. В английски имам руския, странен руския акцент и можете да слушате този акцент сега. Какво, какво, какво?