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I love English accents. People either sound really intelligent or sophisticated(maybe even reasonable) or just stupid. For example English people can be hilarious. I have a friend on BO that lives in the UK so when I play with him we get matched with English people... ANd they're so serious about the game its funny! I mean they rage soooo easily! "f*** yay" instead of YOU. It seriously sounds like that!

[u]Now. I mean NO offense to ANYONE. And I don't speak for EVERYONE.[/u]

Tell me about your experiences with people that have their native accents...
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I don't really have an real experience with native accents, because most people I talk to either have really faint accents or are Australian.
But the thing I really hate is how everyone outside of Australia ASSUME we speak like Steve Irwin;
"G'day mate. C'or, whata booty"
Or whatever.
We don't speak like that. I know I don't. Except by accident or intentional lulz.
Then again, I sound like an American.
So I can't really comment.
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Excluding American accents is silly when not everyone's American.

From my point of view, I dislike most non-english accents, most of them just annoy me. I also can't stand northern-english accents. Weaker American and Aussie accent I'm ok with, though, but if they're strong then I generally dislike them.

Gotta love being shallow when it comes to what people sound like.
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English Accent guy here, I come from the small town of Warrington, but I speak with a 19th century Noble accent O.o I don't where it comes from though......

What pisses me off is that everyone outside of England, Think we speak with a really stong deep accent, and we Apparently don't pronounce our T's properly.....First I've heard of not pronouncing T's, Because I do.
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[quote name='.:Sh@dow King:.' timestamp='1308494506' post='5295050']
English Accent guy here, I come from the small town of Warrington, but I speak with a 19th century Noble accent O.o I don't where it comes from though......

What pisses me off is that everyone outside of England, Think we speak with a really stong deep accent, and we Apparently don't pronounce our T's properly.....First I've heard of not pronouncing T's, Because I do.
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dude, i live in southampton, i can emphasize with you on that one but if foreign women want to think anything we say is s*xy, then we must perserver.
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[quote name='Paint Thinner For Blood' timestamp='1308494898' post='5295063']
dude, i live in southampton, i can emphasize with you on that one but if foreign women want to think anything we say is s*xy, then we must perserver.
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You got that Right, Man. If a chick asks me to say something in my 'Accent', I'll do it. Just for the ladies though....
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[quote name='♪♫ SF-A2★Miki ♫♪' timestamp='1308495371' post='5295082']
My main accent, Singaporean accent. No, really, that accent influences the way we speak. Malaysians... have a different accent.

I can feign numerous accents, its almost like I don't have an accent.
Maybe I don't.
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sorry ♪♫ SF-A2★Miki ♫♪, but everyone's got a accent, because there is no way to know what a person with out a accent sounds like.
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I have no accent that I'm aware of. I live in the south but I REFUSE to say y'all.

My dad has a slight Mexican accent, but it's very small because he learned how to speak spanish when he was able to talk, and learned English around when he was five. And he's spoke both all his life.
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[quote name='Miror B.' timestamp='1308484972' post='5294825']
There is no such thing as an American accent.

There's a North/South Texan accent
Louisiana accent
New Orleans Accent
New Yorker accent
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You can say there's an American accent just as you could say there's a British one. It would simply be a large generalization.

I live in Eastern Massachusetts, one of the only areas in America with non-rhotic speech(Australian accents are very similar to Boston accents because we're both non-rhotic). I live relatively close to Boston, so I've ended up with a half-standard US half-standard Bostonian accent. In regard to Boston dialects that rubbed off on me, most of it is standard, but I have an awkwardly large amount of Brahmin influence that I don't really know how I obtained, since my ancestors were poor and Irish, not rich and English.

Pure Brahmin sounds kind of weird. It's a cross between the quick-witted Bostonian and aristocratic Englishmen:
[url]http://www.gazzaro.it/accents/sound/Boston(UClass2).mp3[/url]
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