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heartcream -> RE: Accent fetish? (2/23/2008 11:27:27 PM)
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When I was an adolescent I thought it would be ideal to have a child in England so my child could have that lovely accent. Cockney and the way 'th' becomes 'f'. I like the way Princess Diana said 'actually' on an interview on TV back in the day. I went around say it like her for days, atchooly. My folks didnt speak English when they came to this country, but they wouldnt speak their Mother-tongue to us kids, feeling they didnt want us to have accents when we went to school. They did not have the best English, so I was taught broken English. All my life folks would ask me where I was from, which was pretty funny because I was from right here.
I lived in different places in the USA for over a decade. When people would find out I was from Canada they would say, "out and about". I was like, WTF? I didnt know what they were talking about. I ended up in Manhattan for years and I finally heard my accent. It was wild, I heard my own accent after like 7 years in the USA.
I love the Australian accent, some I could barely understand. There is a hilarious sit-com there, called, "Kath and Kim" I might have the spelling wrong, it is a funny, funny show but a lot of the time I couldnt understand. "Luk at muhyee, luk at muhyee." lol.
I love the Southern US accents. New Orleans accent rocks.
I love the Bostonian accent. I was with freinds driving in Cape Cod and we stopped a guy on the street to give us directions. We didnt need any directions. I was aching/dying to hear him say it and he did, "Take the cah and ..." I love the way they say car. I could listen to that all day.
Jamaican is so hot and the way they twist the language is so intelligent and cool I think. Overstand?
I love the New Zealand accent. I could do a decent NZ accent when I was living in Oz but it is gone now.
Oh, the new York accents rock, Manhattan, Long Island, Bronx, Brooklyn is so cool, even New Jersey.
I like the Newfoundland accent.
I had a crap job selling Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedias in order to buy a 35mm camera when I was in school. I used to fake accents to entertain myself. It would be so funny if I was doing a fake English accent and then the person spoke back to me in a Brit accent.
Irish is a hot accent. Italian Canadian accent is so fun to imitate. I am so mada, oh my Goda, dont make me mada. You dont understanda...
I dont like the new youth Canadian accent, Yo pass me the fries yo. Oh son, pass the fries, yo. I know that is not only Canadian, but it is more grating here.
I like Black accents. Philly, "Go ax that guy to..."
I love the way musicians/artsy types use language too.
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