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Paulsgirl -> RE: Accent fetish? (2/23/2008 5:07:23 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MissAidan
I was looking through the "whos viewd me" on my front page, and I saw that an Irish male sub had peeked at me. Now, I am not looking for a male, but the thought passed through my mind that I wouldn't mind talking to someone of that persuasion just for the accent. So, I got to thinking...does anyone else have a fetish for accents? Which ones really do it for you? I'm a sucker for Irish, Scottish, Australian and English...in that exact order.
Then i am terribly sorry i would be fourth rate.....
(i did get seriously solicited by a dominant on collarme from the Rockies whose main fetish seemed his need for an English accent......i digress.....)
there's a line in A Fish Called Wander where she says 'speak Italian for me'....isn't there?
I find American (East Coast...New York, nasal), Canadian (yes i can tell the difference) and i totally agree the Irish (certain parts) totally beguiling. I love Scots too because i had a lover who is still Scots (but no longer a lover). Greek is good, Polish is fine, Russian is ~domiant~ i feel by nature and yes maybe i have screwed my way round Europe but it's a good way to travel.....
We Brits have an absolutely CRITICAL awareness of accent by which we really mean social class accent and this is determined by the sounding out of vowel sounds predominantly.....we live in a My fair Lady kind of reality and it is the most insidious and obnoxious form of stereotyping....to me it is worse than ageism, racism and other isms......when i was eleven and went to Grammar School (clever cow) i remember that i consciously made the decision to change my accent as one, no-one could understand me and two, i wanted to conform and sound posh like everyone else....my mother asked who-the-hell-do-you-think-you-are for about fifteen years after that until she got used to it......i should learn signing as this would be useful when gagged but then again hopeless with my hands tied behind my back.....
However, Master has a cockney accent, which means that when i first heard Him on the phone, despite my attempts not to, all i heard was a dirty old man.....actually he's a dirty young man so it all turned out rather spiffingly.........
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