No, sorry, but your accent sucks.

[gillebro]

My own, because apparently it sounds American, despite the fact that I have even stepped foot on the entire North American continent and I have lived my entire life in Australia.

What's the point in living in Australia if I don't have its accent?

Try mine. It's really thick Australian, sometimes people (from other countries) can't understand me.

The thicker our accent the better, I reckon. Mine's pretty posh, but I've noticed my vowels are pretty flat and I use quite a bit of rising inflection, which made me happy. I was convinced that my accent sounded demonstrably un-Australian a lot of the time.

As for the original question, hmmm... as an accent in general and not one that's being put on, I find the generic southern british accent a bit irritating at times. Nothing against those guys or anything, but it gets on my wick. Might just be because a mate of mine has a pretty thick london accent and her voice pisses me off to an extent where i have to wonder if I'm just the worst friend in the world. General American's really dull, as well. So many people have it, you know?

As for people putting accents on, there was some bird who went on Neighbours as a New Yorker. My God... worst. accent. ever. My British accents are better than that woman, and that's seriously saying something if my British friends are to be believed.

Edit:

Worst accent award goes to fake Australian accents. Even the ones that Australian actors put on for American TV shows. They are fake.

hear hear! Nobody sounds like Steve Irwin.

And another:

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

You are right to assume the reverse is likely; the British hate "aluminum" just as much as you hate aluminium. To me it sounds dopey. I don't have any particular feeling on "garage" though - I've pronounced it both ways, and am still uncertain which is which.

It's aluminium! Can I ask, why do American spellings omit vowels? Such as in colour and honour. They remove the u. Why is that? (genuine question)

Edit: I can't stand the Geordie accent.

Yeah. Anywhere that isn't America/possibly Canada? not sure... pronounces it with the I that is so obviously there.

I can answer your genuine question! Basically at Some Point Long Ago a panel of American scholars decided that they were going to change the spelling of English so that it made more phonetic sense and was easier to spell. So colour became color, axe became ax, encyclopaedia became encyclopedia, etc.If you think about it the American way of spelling it does make more sense with current English phonetics. Doesn't mean I'll be changing my spell-checker from Australian English any time soon, however.

 

[AgentNein]

Stephen Hawking is British yet he talks with that silly fake American accent. What a poseur.

Stop nicking other people's jokes.

I don't nick jokes, this is actually something I've said for years. Mind telling me who you're accusing me of ripping off?

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

I can answer your genuine question! Basically at Some Point Long Ago a panel of American scholars decided that they were going to change the spelling of English so that it made more phonetic sense and was easier to spell. So colour became color, axe became ax, encyclopaedia became encyclopedia, etc.If you think about it the American way of spelling it does make more sense with current English phonetics. Doesn't mean I'll be changing my spell-checker from Australian English any time soon, however.

Yep. The reverse question is why UK English has so many letters that aren't pronounced. I know they're pretty much a legacy of the source languages, but think of how much ink we save.

I guess I have my own irk for this one. Non-rhotic accents. Why do you bother spelling the word with an R you aren't going to say? The worst part is after years in Japan where most of the English speakers are Australian my own Rs are softening.

 

[Ciartan]

Bolo Santosi in Just Cause 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o0XOFrFOVI
god the voice acting in that game was bad.

 

[PatrickXD]

I am going to have to say southern accent. Stop slandering the English language.

As in Southern England? So, Queen's English, barth and parth not a sharp a sound?

What? Ummmm no. I am talking about the deep south in America. Especially Alabama..

Ah, I see what you mean, it's just it coulda been either one. My mum's from Northern England and my Dad from Southern, and they both complain at each others pronunciation of certain words. But yeah I see where you're coming from, movies based in Southern America have many people with grating accents.

 

[Jim Reid]

I think Dublin's pretty diverse too though. The difference between people in Tallaght (poorISH area) and Foxrock (RichISH are) are completely different. I think each point on the compass has it's own typical accent, central's probably the easiest to understand. =P

Have you ever stayed in the really central counties (Westmeath, Offaly, Longford)? It is so goddamn boring. No wonder their accent is plain, nothing for them to ever get excited about or talk about.

Oh christ, don't get me started on those counties, i don't know why they're still populated really. The only guy i know who lives in Longford regularly comes over to Dublin to escape it. I think he likes it though...the freak..

The Morbid Midlands.

Down here in the south-east we get a lot of tourists asking us "what?" over and over again.

Shur, feck't.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

The worst accent I have ever heard was this one


normally I don't hate anyone for their accent but for some reason I just plain hate that girls voice.

Oh god, a white girl trying to act black. That's exactly what I hate.

 

[Snor]

Chinese accents *shivers* mostly because they are not really accents but more half sentences stringed together without using some words and terrible grammar (obviously not the case when they would speak better English)

actually i like accents they spice up things

 

[The Stonker]

The worst accent I have ever heard was this one


normally I don't hate anyone for their accent but for some reason I just plain hate that girls voice. In another case I was somewhat entertained a few years ago when a Frenchman was visiting and made fun of my mother for the accent she sported (Pacific northwest American if you want to know) when she was speaking English. It was one of those "Do you really have the right to make fun of anyone's accent right now Mr. Peppe le Pew?" moments.

I assume you mean the girl right... cause HOLY SHIT that was an annoying voice... "My dreams in life are to drop out of highschool" Way to aim high girl, way to aim high....

That is exactly who I was talking about and I have never had nearly so strong an urge to punch someone based on the sound of their voice. That video was posted a couple of years ago too so the girl is probably in her early twenties realizing how retarded she was while trying and failing to raise a child that has probably done nothing to warrant having such an awful parent. unless she turned out to be infertile in which case that will serve as my proof that there is some kind of benevolent higher power in the universe.

Now that is one annoying accent.
But she is probably lying about having sex with men over 300 times because kids lie all the time

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

I think Dublin's pretty diverse too though. The difference between people in Tallaght (poorISH area) and Foxrock (RichISH are) are completely different.

I agree. The D4/Foxrock people piss me off. Especially because the accent was entirely propagated by a bunch of pampered jobless yuppies watching too much American television, to the point that they start sounding like MTV announcers.

In fact, pretty much any accent that has been produced solely by pop culture annoys me. This includes the over-the-top flaming, lisping, "look at me, I'm such an awful queen" accent cultivated by homosexuals. I have no problem with gays expressing themselves, it just irritates me how shallow it is to be forced to turn yourself into a stereotype just to fit in to the gay community. I mean, they weren't born talking like that. They weren't raised to talk like that. It's completely forced.


Edit: The girl from the video. Her accent's annoying, but the part I don't get is why she wants to have a kid so bad. If she's had that much unprotected sex and never gotten pregnant, she's probably barren. All the sluttiness might be trying to fill a deep-seated emotional trauma caused by the fact that she can't conceive.

 

[gillebro]

I can answer your genuine question! Basically at Some Point Long Ago a panel of American scholars decided that they were going to change the spelling of English so that it made more phonetic sense and was easier to spell. So colour became color, axe became ax, encyclopaedia became encyclopedia, etc.If you think about it the American way of spelling it does make more sense with current English phonetics. Doesn't mean I'll be changing my spell-checker from Australian English any time soon, however.

Yep. The reverse question is why UK English has so many letters that aren't pronounced. I know they're pretty much a legacy of the source languages, but think of how much ink we save.

I guess I have my own irk for this one. Non-rhotic accents. Why do you bother spelling the word with an R you aren't going to say? The worst part is after years in Japan where most of the English speakers are Australian my own Rs are softening.

hehe, that is true. I think you'll find that we're stubborn with our spelling. All of us.

:| dunno what part of Japan you're in, but when i was there I was constantly mistaken for an American and everybody I spoke to was American. Don't lose your rhotic accent! The reason for us writing the R again stems from how all English was rhotic at one point. Funnily enough in the US all accents are becoming rhotic while in England they're all becoming non-rhotic.

 

[ShrooM_DoughKiD]

Evey in V for Vendetta, it's just painful to listen to. Stephen Fry made up for it though.

Cockney English isn't too bad when its pulled off by the right woman, buggered if i can name one but i hope you know what i mean...

 

[anthony87]

I love the fact that nobody, be they actor, average joe or Jesus himself can pull off a decent Irish accent, specifically a Dublin accent.

 

[Private Custard]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

pay attention!

OT: I hate Birmingham accents. I also hate the Liverpool accent, but only on men. Scouse accented women can be cute!

 

[similar.squirrel]

There is something inherently threatening about the Dublin accent. One gets the impression that the speaker is on the verge of removing a lead pipe from his sock and nailing you with it.

 

[Kenko]

Worst accent ever? Leonardio DiCaprio in Blood Diamon, that was just pure goddamn agony to listen to.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Fake Australian accents are just sad, and lack the nessisary amount of "Fuck" to make it sound real.

Yeah, I'm from fuckin''Strayla aye?

 

[StBishop]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Ever seen a Periodic table of the Elements? It's spelt Aluminium.

 

[Your Nightmare]

any brummie (birmingham england) accent

SCREW YOU! ;D

I personally hate the American accent =/

 

[Miumaru]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Ever seen a Periodic table of the Elements? It's spelt Aluminium.

Maybe where you are. Im in the US. And both ways are actually acceptable. I did not say my way is more right, it just is what I prefer and am used to.