No, sorry, but your accent sucks.

[Sark]

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

 

[KimberlyGoreHound]

Not sure if it's been mentioned - but Christian Bale in Public Enemies. Absolutely hilariously terrible. Southern U.S. accents bother me, whether genuine or immitation.

 

[EmeraldGreen]

Have you heard any foreign attempts at an Austrailian accent... golly that was funny. And awful.

A few years ago, a leader of some south-east Asian country - Indonesia, maybe? - tried to make fun of the Australian accent by saying, "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain," in a bizarre hybrid of his own accent and stereotypical broad Australian. It was hilarious. Wonder if it's on Youtube?

But fake Australian accents in general sound terrible. Everyone seems to think that the really broad Steve-Irwin-esque accent is typical Australian. Most of us don't sound like that. Really.

 

[lukenhiumur]

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

that was my favorite part of GTA4. He's even funnier with subtitles.

 

[EmeraldGreen]

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

I saw a talk by Jeremy Sims (I think) a while back, discussing Australian accents, and he mentioned this too - that Australian actors often fake their own accent. And it's true, they do. Why?

 

[Sark]

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

I saw a talk by Jeremy Sims (I think) a while back, discussing Australian accents, and he mentioned this too - that Australian actors often fake their own accent. And it's true, they do. Why?

Because our real accents aren't what people expect us to sound like. When you hear a fake Australian accent you immediately recognise that character as Australian. Besides, we have a number of accents, watch Doomsday Arcade, those guys are from Melbourne, and they sound completely different to any accent found further North.

 

[Nifarious]

The worst accent I have ever heard was this one

Thank you. Just, thank you. I almost laughed as much at that as I did the South Park inspired piece.

"Whateva! Whateva! I do what I waaan'!"

 

[Veleste]

I hate the Jamacian way of speaking. There is a self proclamed 'rasta bar' near where I used to live and it always sounded like they were talking in haiku's cause they cut out so many syllables and made their voice slide in tempo and pitch all the time.

I'm also not a massive fan of the fake Australian accent you see in movies. That 'Ah Dengo ate mah bebe' thing is really weird, I've never actually heard an Australian talk in such an uppy downy way (And they don't talk that way in Neighbours )

 

[eggy32]

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

i always thought atlas was supposed to be a Scotsman?

Seriously? I'm pretty sure he sounds more like he's from Dublin in Ireland than anywhere in Scotland.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

i an add for aussie ... worst french accent ever!

 

[Last Valiance]

The American accent. I hate the droning, elongated vowels of most accents in the U.S.

 

[Jim Reid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw

ya...

 

[Claymorez]

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

Hawking has a neuro-muscular dystrophy that is related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition that has progressed over the years and has left him almost completely paralysed.
Hence the necessary use of am artificial vocal aid.

 

[Pikeperch]

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.

Would you care to elaborate on this? Because I'm not sure if you're trying to say certain local dialects aren't "proper swedish", or if you're inferring people in general have a lacking vocabulary.

Some people seem to feel the need to inject english expressions into their language. This is something that irks me quite a lot, and you can even find it on the radio or the tv. Examples are things like "fucka upp", "sanning eller bullshit", etc. Stop raping my ears, damn it!

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Any stereotyped or "wrong" accent. I'm looking at all those phony irish, german and russian accents in particular. Oh, and fake cockney accents, or what people call "british accent". The only person to do that one well that I've heard is Jason Statham.

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

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.

I've fought it out over aluminum before. The American variant is older, the British variant fits the pattern of metals (you know, the one that things like "platinum" break anyway), but who cares?

I hate glacier, pronounced as if it meant "more glassy."

 

[Sikachu]

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's not just over here. The whole world recognises that the scientific term for that element is 'aluminium'.

 

[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?

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

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.

I've fought it out over aluminum before. The American variant is older, the British variant fits the pattern of metals (you know, the one that things like "platinum" break anyway), but who cares?

I hate glacier, pronounced as if it meant "more glassy."

Another who swells the ranks of the fraternity of Lords! I bid you good day sir.