Do you speak with an accent?

[Nepenthe87]

Doesn't everyone have an accent to somebody?

I mean I've grown up in Georgia (USA), but I don't have a typically southern accent, but to an English, German, or French person, or hell, anyone outside of my immediate region I'd still have an accent of some type to them, whether it's generic american or a not so country southern accent, right?.

so yeah, within my region I probably don't a have typical accent, but to someone outside of my region, hell even in other states in the US I probably have some type of accent.

It doesnt matter where you're from or how you speak, you have an accent according to somebody.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I have lived in Australia for all but 2-3 years of my life. Somehow I have developed an English accent. I know not how this came to be but what I do know is that it bugs the crap out of me when people I've known for several years still think I was born in Britain. Apparently it becomes a shining example of everything the English accent stands for when I get angry or passionate about something (though this is according to some Australian friends, half of which have the iconic bogan accent that makes the rest of us cringe, so I don't place much stock in their words).

Any tips on refining this accent would be nice, I find the English accent much nicer than Australian bogan accent.

Heh, I get that too. Lived in Australia my whole life, Australian born parents, and people still think I'm English.

I did watch a lot of BBC stuff when I was young, though.

 

[Shock and Awe]

I have two accents from what I can tell and it depends where I am and who I'm around. If I'm at home or at school I have a fairly flat accent. If I go out camping or shooting, or talk with anyone from south georgia I inadvertently shift to a southern accent.

 

[an annoyed writer]

I naturally speak in a "broadcast voice", which is generally about as clear as you can get of any accents. HOWEVER, because of this I can do dozens of accents, like various British, Scottish, Irish, Australian, Afrikaans, Russian, Canadian, Bostonian, and Brooklyn accents, as well as southern Drawls, and others. Because of this I don't sound like I'm from my hometown, where people speak in this insufferable "WisCANsin" accent, which sounds like a stereotypical "Canadian" accent, but is somehow more annoying.

 

[excalipoor]

I speak the poshest RP English you've ever heard, which is weird because I tend to favor American spelling in writing. And yes, it's out of place, because the norm sounds something like this:
Though to be fair, she's not even that bad compared to some other Finnish public figures.

 

[YingDerpington]

I have lived in Australia for all but 2-3 years of my life. Somehow I have developed an English accent. I know not how this came to be but what I do know is that it bugs the crap out of me when people I've known for several years still think I was born in Britain. Apparently it becomes a shining example of everything the English accent stands for when I get angry or passionate about something (though this is according to some Australian friends, half of which have the iconic bogan accent that makes the rest of us cringe, so I don't place much stock in their words).

Any tips on refining this accent would be nice, I find the English accent much nicer than Australian bogan accent.

Heh, I get that too. Lived in Australia my whole life, Australian born parents, and people still think I'm English.

I did watch a lot of BBC stuff when I was young, though.

If BBC helped you gain an english accent... You know maybe the fact that I watched Monty Python a lot when I was a little ankle biter probably helped with its development... Or would've if it didn't develop randomly when I was 15.

 

[Todstyak]

Whenever i play Company of Heroes as the commonwealth, i always develop a British accent. This is also true for the wehrmacht in the game.........also whenever i get chewed out by somebody i go into a touch of a southern Iowan accent from my childhood.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I'm far too insulated in Saskatchewan to know what a Saskatchewanian accent sounds like. But I'm informed I have it.

 

[Kae]

Aye, a very strange one at that, it's a blend of central and northern México with a a little bit of Spain thrown in, which is odd because i've never been to Spain but I do pronounce the "S" like they do, I've been informed it's quite weird and dopey and I've actually been rejected from certain jobs just because of it, well that and my strange patterns of speech, since I tend to pause a lot when I talk and if I'm really bored it sounds extremely robotic.

 

[SinisterGehe]

I speak the poshest RP English you've ever heard, which is weird because I tend to favor American spelling in writing. And yes, it's out of place, because the norm sounds something like this:
Though to be fair, she's not even that bad compared to some other Finnish public figures.

To defend us Finns. You should have an idea how hard our language is phonetically, like really. We have unique language with no roots to any major language - we are far as you can be from anglo-sax languages. And in schools pre 2000 we had no teaching of speaking English - So anyone above the age of ~25 has really bad pronunciation (unless they been in contact with English systematically).
'teeks tost...

But I speak with Cockney, with a undertone of Finnish on some more complicated phonetics. Also the rhythm of my speaking is slightly Scottish.
Also I am sick of people analyzing it... Never spend years in a gaming group with primarily humanistic sciences University people... Also they were the ones who "contaminated" my plain clean English with their accents....

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Despite Spanish being my first language, I've come to develop a bit of an accent. I can speak Spanish accurately and clearly, but it is easy to hear a slightly higher pitch to my voice compared to when I speak in English.

This is probably due to the many years of schooling in English without needing to speak Spanish, to the point where I almost forgot how to speak it. When I took classes in high school to get reacquainted with Spanish (and for the easy As), the hardest part to learn/remember were the accents, which change the way a word is pronounced and its meaning. This caused me to develop a slightly higher pitch when speaking Spanish, which many will not pickup right away.

 

[Gavmando]

Nope. But everyone else in the world does.

*crickets chirping...*

But seriously folks, I do actually. I grew up next to the beach in Port Macquarie in NSW, and I speak like a surfie. When I moved to Sydney people who didnt have English as a first language found it hard to understand what I was saying due to the lazy way I spoke. It's even more lazy than the usual Australian accent.

 

[Shocksplicer]

Never left Australia in my life, people constantly think I'm English because my accent is almost entirely neutral, which is helpful for accent work when I'm acting.

 

[lacktheknack]

When I speak my very limited Russian, my Canadian accent is positively overwhelming.

In English? Nope. At least, I don't think so. I've had people in Hawai'i immediately peg me as Canadian, though, so maybe I really do.

 

[BrotherRool]

I've lived in Wales all my life, yet somehow I've ended up with a fairly posh southern-English british accent

 

[Fluffythepoo]

Apparently i have mild "british" (which normally means that south london posh kind) which is odd because im canadien and have never been to the UK (tho i did fly over it once xD), and have no irl british friends or family. There was a colombian girl whom i had to convince i was actually canadian at my school (which is in canada >.>) because my english evidently sounds nothing like a canadian's should. Im also now very insecure about my accent D:

my french is good old filthy unkempt québécois that parisians (and most non-canadians) seem to hate with a passion.. but tabernac! i love it!

 

[Launcelot111]

My real accent is American Midwestern, which has been touted as the most accentless accent in the United States.

The accentlessness depends on where you live. In my experience, Ohio and Michigan don't really have accents, but Wisconsin and Illinois definitely do. Not to mention the goofy Fargo-style Minnesota accent, which all my friends from Minnesota insist that it doesn't exist.

I have a bit of a Southern accent, probably a 3 or 4 on a scale of 1 to 10. It definitely gets more Southern when I'm talking to people with hardcore Southern accents. At the same time, I've had Midwestern people who couldn't understand me at all. I like to think it's because they're idiots rather than it being my accent.

 

[Neuromancer]

I have a strong enough "british" accent to make my countrymen think I'm from Britain, but not strong enough for a british person to get fooled by it.

Granted, Greek pronounciation of english words is borderline terrible, so I feel kinda lucky about mine.

 

[mokes310]

News flash...everyone speaks with a unique accent or dialect.

 

[barbzilla]

I have quite the eclectic accent. I grew up in the American South (AKA grab your banjos and y'er chewing tobacco), somehow despite this I speak quite clearly with slight hints of a british accent, a dutch accent, and an irish accent depending on the conversation and the words spoken. This was because of my family growing up. I've been around so many german, irish, and english family members that I learned different words in different ways. It drives people up the walls on occasion.