No, sorry, but your accent sucks.

[General_Cody]

Living in southern Houston many of us down here have avoided that stereotypical Southern American accent, and most people with accents are foreign. The most annoying thing I've heard thus far are fake Mexican accents.

Since Mexico is so close, Hispanics are very common, and Spanish is often the second language here. It's pretty annoying when some high school Spanish student comes around badly rolling every r and stressing every i, trying to emulate the accent.

 

[omega 616]

Does it have to be in game? 'cos there only seems to be like 3 or 4 and 2 or 3 there only in for comedy reasons. Like the stock one is American then you might have like one really thick Irish guy trowing all the generalizations and stereotypes in (drunk etc).

In real life though I can type it and you will know the accent, ready?

"Like, oh my gawd! That is like so totally awesome! It's like so cute and fabulous, I have to have one!". no, it's not. it's a rat in a bag!

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

In short, what is the worst accent you have ever heard? Whether it was actually a native accent or a fake one, whose accent has ticked you off the most in the media?

I hate the lead characters from The Saboteur and Just Cause. They both seem painfully fake and irritate the hell out of me.

Opinions?

The heaviest accent ever is youtube user electricalbeast: http://www.youtube.com/user/electricalbeast
I can't believe how British he is.

 

[Blind Sight]

I think I got a new one...I hate it when movies that are based off of historical facts take the native language and replace it with some English with a completely incorrect accent. The best examples of this are in Enemy at the Gates, where almost every Russian has an English accent, and Valkyrie, which showed how non-nationally biased it was when the evil Germans had German accents, the 'good' Germans had English accents, and the big German hero was American.

 

[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.

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.

I didn't decide on this. I dont know why. Maybe at some point the ium annoyed them as it does me and decided to change it. Plus color looks better like that than with the u.

 

[lacktheknack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4KzClb1C4
wait ..... Wtf

Sadly, that's his real voice.

I'm sorry.

 

[Tinneh]

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 hate every single talk show ever made. The host (especially this guy) always seems like a total dick.

Also, Cockney English accents make me want to eat squirrels.

 

[dlawnro]

Well I'm Canadian and usually cannot tell if an Irish is very poor or spot on. Out of curiosity is the main character in Burn Notice any good at an Irish accent? In the show he does alot of different accents and I think his Southern one is pretty good.

I though it was good when I saw it...but just in reading this I've realized there are so many different English and Irish accents that I really have no idea anymore. But in general, his accents and characters are totally awesome, so I don't think it would be a stretch to say so.
Also, I think the reason so many Americans assume there are only one or two English accents and interchange Irish and Scottish is that for the most part, we think of accents as populating a very large area. For us, accents are usually local to a state, region of several states, or certain parts of various states. For instance, here in California, we tend to think of the South and New England as having their own specific accents. We generally group accents into large geographic accents because learning every single accent in our country would take forever. Therefore, when we see a place like England or Ireland, countries the size of our states, we generally only take the time to identify one or two accents in that region and assume that such a small geographic area must only have a few different accents.
OT: I hate the sort of urban bastardization-of-the-English-language accent

 

[RifkaMarie]

It might not be related, but when I saw Enemy at the Gates... why were all the Russian soldiers from England? The Germans had German accents!! C'MON! Was Russian really that hard for them to fake? Just reverse a v and a w here and there, roll your r's a little, and stress your vowels!

More related, I do hate fake/butchered Irish accents.

 

[Grimlock Fett]

Any common accent! You know who I mean "Lower classes"!

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

i hate when us americans try a britsh accent, since it is terrible. And the worse is we think we're good at it.

 

[Queen Michael]

Swedes trying to speak Swedish. But to be honest their horrible lack of mastery of the language itself is even worse. I'm ashamed of my country. Kudos to the Swedes who don't suck.

 

[Cyanin]

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

Thank you, it's just so true. I'm pretty much convinced they actually got someone irish to do that voice, because no developer seems to get the damn thing right!

 

[quiet_samurai]

German... especially Germans speaking English. They just sound weird..... and creepy. Like the Nihlists on The Big Lebowski. And German is an ugly sounding language anyways.

 

[GrinningManiac]

I hate fake Irish accents in films, it's the most irritating thing in the world, no one talks like that.

Bajaysus, Bagorrah! The craic is mighty, the craic is good!

OT: The archtypical "gay" accent. I don't know what it is, and I know for a fact that there are thousands upon thousands of gay men who are NOT affected by this, but every other gay person I've met or seen on telly or just HEARD, whether they're from Brooklyn, Birmingham, Bejing or Bangkok, adopt this strange "hyper-happy qausi-californian" cadence.

 

[slipknot4]

Do it!
I'd say the Swedish English one, I hate fellow countrymen's dialect : /

 

[hyrulegaybar]

Charlize Theron in Legend of Bagger Vance. Trust me, you will never hear a worse Southern accent.