Whats your accent?

[dijital101]

This thread is making my brain hurt and causing me to lose more faith in my fellow Americans and I just have to say...THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN AMERICAN ACCENT.

Ok, I feel a little better. There is no such thing as a plain American accent. Where you are from has a direct impact on what you sound like. Just because you think your voice sounds plain doesn't mean that your accent is the basis of language. You sound different to anyone outside of your region.

I've been all over this country (and excelled at Uni level language/dialect classes) and have developed an impressive ability to determine where someone is from just by having short conversations with them.

My accent is a cross between central midwestern and cumberland mountain. Think of Anderson Cooper and Jeff Foxworthy teaching someone to speak. People around here say it's a Missouran accent but I can guarantee you that if you put someone from Kansas City in the same room as someone from St. Louis you will notice the difference.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

Very british.

Although I am from denmark.

 

[ihatefullmetalalchemist]

many people can't decide and others mock it
I think Trinidadian or whatever because that is were my dad is from

 

[Ionami]

American, I'd guess

I've been told by people from California (who had the typical surfer boy accent going) that a friend and I had New Jersey accents (we live in New Jersey)

Is there even a New Jersey accent?

Do you pronounce Jersey "Joisey"? If so, yes.

 

[new_age_reject]

Leicestershire accent born and bread. Well, with a little of my own unique slur.
That's in the Midlands for you people not in England.

 

[SnowCold]

If I talk normaly, an American accent
If I talk to Israelis, an Israeli accent

 

[blackcherry]

As I'm 'up country' all the time (as the locals call it) my accent fades to a normal middle class English accent. If I spend more than a few weeks home though, my natural Cornish burr comes back.

It could be worse. My mums a brummie and my dad is a scouser. Imagine that horrible combination.

 

[AntiAntagonist]

Non-regional dialect by and large.

Sometimes have a british accent, a southern drawl or asian accent depending who I'm around or subject matter. All too often I'll use a Japanese pronunciation for a Japanese word, or a French pronunciation of a French word that has been adopted into the English language.

 

[P1p3s]

i grew up in surrey UK so i have a 'home counties' accent - thats posh to most people

 

[MindBullets]

I should have a Scottish accent, and I wish I did because they are awesome, but I don't. This was main painfully clear when someone asked me where I lived before I came to Edinburgh. I've lived here basically all my life!

Could be because of the fact that my mum is English (Geordie to be specific). Had both my parents spoken with a Scottish accent this might not have happened.

 

[EeveeElectro]

A very common Bradford accent.

"Are you doin' owt tonight?"
I also can't pronounce "anime" or "shouldn't" I say it as "shunt"
My friend always gets asked where he's from because he speaks so nicely, no one thinks he's from grubby old Bradford.

 

[atv_chic_18]

Can't really place it. My accent is actually much different than my brother, mom and dad's. My cousin sounds more southern than we do. Either way, I'm American however my family hails mostly from England and Ireland.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

In Norwegian I speak the Rogaland dialect (very different from Book/New Norwegian)
In English I speak North American media-English (or it could be New Jearsy. Who knows?)

 

[SSoneill]

I have the lovable Irish accent

 

[Roamin11]

Mild ucrainiun accent i think i spelt my country wrong....

 

[Gahars]

American, I'd guess

I've been told by people from California (who had the typical surfer boy accent going) that a friend and I had New Jersey accents (we live in New Jersey)

Is there even a New Jersey accent?

Do you pronounce Jersey "Joisey"? If so, yes.

Nope

Both of us just say "jersey" as is

 

[orangebandguy]

a southern english accent sort of. although i can mimic lots of other accents

 

[DonkeysAndClipboards]

I don't think I have an accent, I speak Dutch in its purest form (from Belgium btw).

 

[Rhaisington]

Midwesterner!!! Hells yeah Michigan.