No, sorry, but your accent sucks.

[VanityGirl]

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.

It reminds me of people who say A-tha-lete.

My dad does it and I make fun of him.

 

[Pearwood]

Vanille from FF13. UGH! And I have to use her cause spamming her death spell is the fastest way to kill adamantoises.... grrrrrrr.

 

[Randomologist]

I saw a video of an American woman (I think it was on here) explaining how to do a British accent. She spoke as if she was the ultimate authority, but her impressions were wildly inaccurate.
EDIT: Ah, here she is. Bobbeh! I'd like to think there's a mentally different chap called Bobbeh, in a wheelchair. Maybe she can do it, if she says Bobbeh in front of me then I'll sort the wheelchair business out for her.

Spoiler: video

For a native accent, I can't really understand the Geordie (Newcastle, North England) accent, but I'd never be so presumptuous to declare it rubbish on that basis.

 

[Professor Idle]

Probably anyone in any game with an Irish accent, apart from Atlas in Bioshock.

Even that was pretty bad from what I remember.

Well, I only played the game for about 20 minutes but I seem to recall his accent sounding genuine.

Not sure if someone's said this already, but I think Atlas can be excused because

Spoiler

He's actually a villain impersonating an Irish man.

 

[rokkolpo]

most american accents.

actually everything apart form hollywood (modern movies) american is making my ears bleed.

 

[GBlair88]

Fake Irish accents. They fail. Minly because there is no Irish accent.

Really? And how would you know? My best friend, D, is a pureblood American Irish, 3rd generation (his grandparents are Irish immigrants. He is fluent in Gaelic, and he tells me that the Irish have very distinct accents. Have you ever seen the film "Gangs of New York?" Listen to Liam Neeson speaking in the very beginning. The accent sounds a little like that; a lilt, almost sounds sing-songy. Whereas the Scottish accent sounds similar, but spoken in the back of one's throat--almost guttural.

I think the fact he is from Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland makes him more qualified than your American friend with Irish ancestors. Just sayin'.

Back on topic: Fake accents in general because they are rarely done well. A persons own accent doesn't annoy me really. They can be hard to understand if they're unfamiliar but not annoying.

 

[Berserker119]

That guy Salvatore on the latest season of Hell's Kitchen. No. Just... No.

He was actually Italian or whatever...

For me, it's Mario.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

I hate the Dutch accent. No no, hear me out. I just know that any Dutchman/woman can speak English perfectly. It's not so hard compared to Dutch, really. But sometimes you hear that thick accent: 'Hauw ahr yoo doowing.' I just want to grab that person and repeat the line in the correct way. If he/she repeats it in the wrong way, it's slapping time!

There's a book made out of all the wrong sentences made by politicians in The Netherlands. It's called: 'I always get my sin.' (Okay, I'll explain the title *sigh*.) Getting what you want is translated as: 'Je zin krijgen.' So if you want to say: "I always get what I want!" in Dutch, you'll say: 'Ik krijg altijd mijn zin!'

Of course you can make mistakes in a language. But replacing 'zin' with 'sin' because you think it's the same. You are WRONG, good sir/madam.

I like this one: "We have to suck another lid." (We need to find another member.) Being a member of something is translated as: "Lid zijn van iets." And searching is: "Zoeken." But thinking it sounds like 'sucking' and forgetting what 'lid' has to be in English. Yeah, awkward moment.

Could be true for the older generations of Dutchmen, but people around their mid 30's and lower tend to talk English quite good. True when we talk English it's quite clinical or maybe posh (without any specific extra accent, like cockney for example).
A week ago I met an Englishman that didn't know I didn't come from England untill I started to talk fluently Dutch to another Dutchman.

 

[Tossth Esalad]

The absolutely horrid danish accent that, more or less, every primeminister has.

Just sends chills down my spine...

 

[cptn ricardo]

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.

 

[TheZapper]

Little jacob mon. He's nearly impossible to understand.

That accent was the sole reason I started using subtitles for GTA4.

It's fairly accurate though, I've actually known Jamaicans who sound like that.

 

[Something Amyss]

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

I'm so going to Hell for laughing at that.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

I hate it every time actors have to put on horribly fake accents when their "native" language is anything but English and they speak with the grammar of their "native" language (e.g. a Japanese character who constantly misprounounces l's with r's).

Would it be racist to start demanding that foreign characters be able to speak perfect English so as to not torture my ears? I've nothing against the languages, it's the accents that pollute their vocabulary when they try to speak English which at many points confuse me and renders dialogue difficult.

 

[Burningsok]

Little jacob mon. He's nearly impossible to understand.

Jesus you got that right, How the hell does Niko even understand him.

 

[Folio]

I hate the Dutch accent. No no, hear me out. I just know that any Dutchman/woman can speak English perfectly. It's not so hard compared to Dutch, really. But sometimes you hear that thick accent: 'Hauw ahr yoo doowing.' I just want to grab that person and repeat the line in the correct way. If he/she repeats it in the wrong way, it's slapping time!

There's a book made out of all the wrong sentences made by politicians in The Netherlands. It's called: 'I always get my sin.' (Okay, I'll explain the title *sigh*.) Getting what you want is translated as: 'Je zin krijgen.' So if you want to say: "I always get what I want!" in Dutch, you'll say: 'Ik krijg altijd mijn zin!'

Of course you can make mistakes in a language. But replacing 'zin' with 'sin' because you think it's the same. You are WRONG, good sir/madam.

I like this one: "We have to suck another lid." (We need to find another member.) Being a member of something is translated as: "Lid zijn van iets." And searching is: "Zoeken." But thinking it sounds like 'sucking' and forgetting what 'lid' has to be in English. Yeah, awkward moment.

Could be true for the older generations of Dutchmen, but people around their mid 30's and lower tend to talk English quite good. True when we talk English it's quite clinical or maybe posh (without any specific extra accent, like cockney for example).
A week ago I met an Englishman that didn't know I didn't come from England untill I started to talk fluently Dutch to another Dutchman.

Ah yes, the confusion. Below mid 30's, you say? Is it because we watched english shows when we were kids? What do you think about the dubbing of all the cartoons in The Netherlands? Even the real life shows?

It's stupid if you ask me.

 

[TenSecondHero]

American drawl. Don't get me wrong, the American accent from certain parts of America is fine, but the high pitched, drawn out American makes me want to hurt people.

Liverpudlian and Cockney annoy the hell out of me as well, apart from when Michael Caine does it for some peculiar reason...

I'm just glad I live in a central part of England with a middle class English accent, it's neither upper class nor gutter trash, however most people struggle to place my accent.

The 'aluminum' thing bugs me as well, in fact, Chrome is flagging it as a spelling mistake...

 

[reg42]

You shouldn't include native accents, because people will just get pissed at that.

That being said, it's actually embarrassing for me to listen to someone foreign try to do a South African accents; they're all crap.

 

[TenSecondHero]

I'm sure none of us that have mentioned native accents mean to offend people, it's not a 'your accent annoys me, therefore I hate you' thing, I have plenty of American friends who tell me I don't speak 'properly' because I pronounce everything the English way. It's just one of those things where we all dig at each other for kicks. I have a couple of Cockney friends who call me a 'posh spaz' (Peep Show reference) because of my accent.