I can't get enough of Scottish accents. I love them to death. Really, I can listen to some Scottish dude or dudette for hours even if their just talking gibberish! Karen Gillan, Douglas Henshall, Sean Connery even Merida from Brave!
I'm not a fan of Scottish accents; Connery and Craig Ferguson are tolerable but I can't take more than 5 minutes of Billy Connolly. He's like the Scottish Robin Williams.
Assuming you're not talking about the blue chap, the accent is northeast England, somewhere between Newcastle and Sunderland, at a guess. Washington, Tyne and Wear?
Assuming you're not talking about the blue chap, the accent is northeast England, somewhere between Newcastle and Sunderland, at a guess. Washington, Tyne and Wear?
Zowie, that's a good ear you've got, TG.
Can you hear his phone number, and whether he dates older men?
Assuming you're not talking about the blue chap, the accent is northeast England, somewhere between Newcastle and Sunderland, at a guess. Washington, Tyne and Wear?
Zowie, that's a good ear you've got, TG.
Can you hear his phone number, and whether he dates older men?
Was it Washington, then?
My best pal and his wife were brought up barely a mile apart in Newcastle, yet have very different accents. You can almost narrow them down to postcodes (sorry, zipcodes ).
You too can larn yersel Geordie - all it takes is to live amongst them for 18 years.
I found the Scottish tolerable but now I can't stand it. I always hate the Irish accent and hate it now even more. Most of the hate comes from both of them having been presented (especially by the US) as the cute loveable roguish scallywags, and they know they are being considered that. Self awareness equals ugliness in that case.
As for accents who's charm I never understood from the first day: the French accent. Oh and to me US citizens definitely have an accent too, and it's not a pleasant one. That rolling r (or aahwwwr) the way that the a is squeezed out, the gurgling way sentences are ended (especially by Californian girls or wannabes).
I don't like accents in general. To me it's like listening to a really bad quality vinyl pressing. However since the topic of this thread is favourite accents, and I don't want to be blamed for running it of the rails, my favourite (read least annoying): the German accent but not in that terrible "let's go Nazi" as done by none Germans (it's time that shtick gets the full politically incorrect shaming it now deserves) but by genuine Germans. It has a certain disarming quality in the same way the Indian (Ghandi not Sitting Bull) accent has.
When I was studying dialects during my early theater days, one of my favorites was that belonging to Paul Lukas. He was from Budapest and had a most unusual dialect. When I started doing dramatic radio and book readings I would often do WWII stories and I would use Lukas' dialect for "good Germans" or Hungarians.
Not to get overly confrontational, the below post certainly qualifies for 'most utterly illogical' of the year ... let's break it down:
I found the Scottish tolerable but now I can't stand it.
Which Scottish accent wid that be? Highland? Orkney? Glaswegian? Lothian? Ayrshire?
I always hate the Irish accent and hate it now even more.
Which Oirish accent wud that be? Dublin? Waterford? Offaly? Co. Antrim? Belfast? Ballymena? Gaeltacht? You need to get around more.
Bully for you. Why on earth should anyone anywhere dislike any accent ANYWAY, from anywhere at all? It's simply variety. Of course, we all know that DUTCH accents get ribbed quite a bit. Perhaps that is the REAL motivator in this ....
Most of the hate comes from both of them having been presented (especially by the US) as the cute loveable roguish scallywags, and they know they are being considered that. Self awareness equals ugliness in that case.
Cock. If as you claim, these are stereotypes, then why do you choose not to see beyond them? No, the roots lie elsewhere, within yourself. Anyhow, you've clearly never heard the dour Scot, or the Celtic poet, different stereotypes entirely.
As for accents who's charm I never understood from the first day: the French accent.
Mais pourquoi? What first day WAS that? Last week by the look of it. By the way, that should be 'whose'. And which French accent IS that precisely?
Oh and to me US citizens definitely have an accent too, and it's not a pleasant one. That rolling r (or aahwwwr) the way that the a is squeezed out, the gurgling way sentences are ended (especially by Californian girls or wannabes).
What US accent would that be? Louisiana? New York? Bostonian? Deep South? Arkansas? Texas? Noo Joisey? Midwest? The list is endless, and we haven't even looked at Native American accents yet, or the African American whose larynx changes things again. You need to get out more. Oh, and there are no 'rolling r's' in the US anywhere, accept in French Cajun or Hispanic areas! And of course Chinatown! Look up what a rolling 'r' actually is!
I don't like accents in general.
Oooooh boy, that has to be the SINGLE MOST UNSCIENTIFIC, NON-EMPIRICAL, IRRATIONAL, ILLOGICAL , meaningless statement of the decade. Are you going to tell us there's someone somewhere who has NO accent? It's madness. I dare shay that even in the Nederlandsh, thersh nobody with NO accshent. Mind-bogglingly absurd.
To me it's like listening to a really bad quality vinyl pressing.
Yes, that's .... a very clear simile. Yes, that ... makes ... sense? WHAT IS YOUR OWN ACCENT?
However since the topic of this thread is favourite accents, and I don't want to be blamed for running it of the rails, my favourite (read least annoying): the German accent but not in that terrible "let's go Nazi" as done by none Germans (it's time that shtick gets the full politically incorrect shaming it now deserves) but by genuine Germans.
This fella attacks comedy Nazi accents as 'politically incorrect' whilst attacking every accent on the planet except his own. Of course, he doesn't HAVE an accent!!!! He doesn't believe in them!!!!!
It has a certain disarming quality in the same way the Indian (Ghandi not Sitting Bull) accent has
Yes, it certainly disarmed the Dutch in 1940. By the way, what Indian accent IS that? Bengali? Various Gujurati? Anglo-Indian? Do tell. The world needs this aesthetic advice.
To put it mildly, there's an agenda here, though I haven't worked out what it is yet, nor would I care to. It does get the absurditus maximus prize of the century though. This fella clearly thinks that HIS OWN accent is the definer and all else is somehow aberrant. Can we all see the picture? I'm beginning to. I wonder if he was really BORN in the Netherlands?
I know - Dramatic license. And I did put a bit of Hun into the Hungarian!
As long as you get the result, Ray. Don't put the 'bull' in Bulgaria though.
I'm still intrigued by these Californian girls who 'gurgle' that DS mentioned above. I've never been lucky enough to meet Californian girls who do that sort of thing. The Beach Boys may have been onto something.
Anyway is there now a Hollywood accent? It seems to me actors draw out the last word in a sentence, or am I just imagining this? Anyone else ever catch this?
