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american accent?

hi, i was wondering if any guys (british, irish, scottish--anything BUT american) like an american accent. i was born and raised in new york, and i always hear friends talking about wanting guys wit british accents, so i want to see if its the same the other way around. hahha thanks :)

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HAHA, pretty funny post............but a good point however.
No takers yet I guess.

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Would Ally Sheedy be considered New York? I like her accent but this is a tough one as I find it hard to differentiate with American accents. Apart from the very obvious ones.

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Yes, she is from New York, but there are different New York accents.
I have an aunt from Brooklyn and it's very different from a regular New York accent, probably Queens is different as well, John Mcenroe is from Queens and his is different from a regular New York accent.
Marissa Tomei is from Brooklyn too, I'm sure she's lost some of it, but it was very pronounced in My Cousin Vinny.

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im from long island, and really brooklyn is the only one that is completly different sounding.i live right next to queens but there is so many people from other countries i rarely even hear people who arent indian or asian or spanish or whatnot.

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HA! (Sure no one on Long Island has an accent?)
Accents are in the ear of the beholder.

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Most boys I've come across find the american accent to be tacky and annoying.

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New york accent is cool, has a calm straight to the point tone to it, rest of america sound stupid, annoying and fake

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Generally, only southerners, New Englanders, and New Yorkers have pronounced regional accents. Everyone else sounds kind of bland and generic (I'm a southerner but I spend part of my childhood in California so I don't have a southern accent).
I don't know about girls, but guys seem to find southern accents sexy. They really eat up the whole Southern Belle thing (a result of the popularity of Gone With the Wind?)

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Ive never heard an accent I didnt like, Im mid british and only have to drive 10 miles to hear things change. Its so cool, wherever you are from, to have an accent, and of course brits/americans always seem to love each others accents

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When I travel abroad I often get positive comments on my American accent. I really don’t have a strong dialect though. I have that commercial like telemarketer voice and accent. I could be from anywhere in the US.

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hmmm. I'm australian, and personally I couldn't care less about accents. However, I don't mind the American accent.

It's funny, when I travelled to America a few years ago, I was so used to the accent that I thought my own voice sounded weird. Do people like Aussie accents?

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Do people like Aussie accents?

I looove the Aussie accent

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That's funny that you thought your own accent sounded odd.

And I LOVE Aussie accents. One of my professors back in college was from Sydney and I loved going to his class (and it wasn't because I liked Marketing Management).

Too bad he was significantly older and married...

;-)

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I love Aussie accents, too. When I was in college there was a TA for my general physics class who was Australian. I loved going to his help sessions just to listen to him talk. Unfortunately, I still didn't understand physics! :-(

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Absolutely love the Aussie accent! ;-)

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There is a saying in Britiain - one yank and there off!!

Only those with no valid argument pick holes in people's spelling and grammar.

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Yeah, I think a New York accent could sound pretty happening in London Town.

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American accent is ok, wouldn't say I find it attractive or anything.

The problem with Americans is they expect us English to all sound like Hugh Grant, which the vast majority of the population don't!

If all American women are like your friends then I'm tempted to move out there! lol

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Celtise I adore Irish accents,British,and the rest .Could you be more specific on what type of Irish accent you have?

I an American with what most call a 'general American Accent' or 'California accent' and I hear most people can't stand my accent.

Walked away, heard them say poison hearts will never change, walk away again...

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I don't like the american accent much, the only problem is most of the tv shows over here are american, so you just get used to it...

I really love british accents, and scottish

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Ha ha. It probably wasn't just the accent but the volume. I am American and have lived in the U.S. most of my life, and it still bothers me how LOUDLY so many people talk. I lived in Britain for about 4 years and got accustomed to pindrop quiet on commuter trains and sane, quiet most other places. Unless they were legless in the pub or at a football match, the volume rarely went up too high. It is utter cacaphony on the NY commuter trains, even before everyone had a cell phone to shout into.

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I love British accents but my favorite is the boston accent. i live in western ma, so i dont have one, but i looooove it, whenever i'm in boston, i'm just in heaven. It's like, "yeah, yeah boys, just keep talking." [thats why i can't wait for college IN BOSTON :) ]
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nope i'm british guy but there was once outside the club i spoke to this Canadian gal and it was like listening to an Angel speak she was so soft spoken and all.... but then my aunt told me that Canadians and Americans don't speak the same way

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but then my aunt told me that Canadians and Americans don't speak the same way

There is a difference but its not that big of one.

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Holy cow. I LOVE all accents from the UK!!! I have trouble understanding the Cockney accent, tho. I love Jonathan Rhys Meyer who plays Joe because he has the HOTTEST accent!!! I'm an American from Utah(sort of mid-western) and I definitely don't think my accent is hot. I do like the Brooklyn accent, like Detective Flack on CSI:NY. Mucho hot.

There is a subtle difference between American accents and Canadian accents. What I've picked up is Canadians say "sore-ey", we say "sah-ry"; "about" and "out" have more of an "oo" sound, and that's all I can think of.

OH! One of the hottest accents is Scottish, like Oliver Wood in the first two Harry Potter movies. Holy cow, he was totally the best part of those movies. I'm still so pissed of they didn't put him in the third one.

Anyway, yup. I love accents.

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I think that it is incredible that certain British and Irish actors can fake an American accent so well. So far I think none compare to Colin Farrell. One minute he has this strong Irish accent, but can turn right around and do this perfect Mid-Western American accent. Same for the guy on House (whatever his name is). Unfortunately us Americans suck when it comes to impersonating British accents ie. Austin Powers and so on...

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I think that it is incredible that certain British and Irish actors can fake an American accent so well. So far I think none compare to Colin Farrell.

Really? Next to Jonny Lee Miller I think Collin has the worst American Accent.

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The only one I think does the best impression of the American accent is Hugh Laurie (who plays House). It is so hard to fake any type of British or Irish accents. Trust me I have tried and it isn't pretty. I have a (accentless) California accent, I don't know if its makes it more difficult, but I adore British accents.Not to mention Irish! ;)

Walked away, heard them say poison hearts will never change, walk away again...


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I was refering to his roles in Minority Report and Phone Booth. I guess it's debatable. Hugh Laurie, however, is just flat out amazing.

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It seems I'm the only one on the planet that disagrees.

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Funny. Unless they do it really, really well, I just can't stand to hear actors try to do an American accent (or an American doing a British one). Some actors keep trying over and over and they just can't (I'm talking to you, Michael Caine). And I was just blown away when they cast Jenna Malone and Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice. They just can't hack it, and there are so many great actors who don't have to try that hard. I haven't heard Hugh Laurie do American on House, but I was recently watching A Bit of Fry & Laurie (from the late 80s, early 90s) in which he and Stephen Fry often did bad American accents. He must have been practicing a lot since then!

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I'm American and I can always tell when someone is faking an American accent. I think it's mainly the way we say our words. And I don't mean accent, I mean like how we put the stress on the begining part of our words. I've noticed that with a lot of British actors, when they do an American accent, they will have our accent, but still put the stress on the second part of the word, like the British do.

Example: we would say RE-search as opposed to re-SEARCH. I hope I exaplained that well enough.

House really is amazing, but he's one of the few.

I find a lot of American accents annoying. I have an unaffected accent. The kind that most of the celebreties have. I'm from the east coast.

I like southern accents, excpet when they sound like trailer park accents. It's so annoying. And I hate the way people from Minnesota speak. Also, Alaskans, because I tihnk they sound like Canadians, another accent that I hate. I could never listen to Sarah Palin, because her accent made me want to punch something.

I do love Scottish and Irish accents as well as Australian. But with English it all depends on where the person is from. If they do that thing where they don't pronounce the last letter of the word (like "wha" instead of "what") then I hate it. If it's something like a London accent, then I love it.

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You see, almost all the movies and tv shows that people around the world watch are American. The accents are are American. So people have become so accustomed to it they really don't even notice the American accent anymore. It's not foreign sounding after a while.

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I'm just watching Copycat and I've got another one I've always liked: Holly Hunter's accent. I take it that would go down as quite stereotypical southern?

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Holly Hunter is from Georgia, and her accent is pretty distinctive. A lot of people from urban Georgia now sound like they could come from anywhere in the US. Most American's can't tell the difference between the various Southern accents either. Just listen to Kevin Costner try to do New Orleans in JFK. Ouch!

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I'm American so I guess my vote doesn't count, but I like many of our accents. I've grown up in the south, but I am told that most of the time I just have the general American accent--that is, until I spend some time with relatives and my speech gets flat and slower. The southern American accent is sometimes softer than ordinary American dialect, and from what I've heard from others, may be attractive to others.

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Well,
I'm an English boy, born and raised in Windsor (South)
My accent is considered to be the queens English. I don't use any slang words or the like mainly because I cannot stand them.
My views on the American accent can differ. I've visited many parts of the United states, There were some accents which, (And I don't mean any offence at all) made the person sound a bit dumb or dim-witted, Mainly those from southern states like Texas, Alabama and Oklahoma etc. However, Accents from California and that area I find quite nice, New york'ers accents I think are great. I have to say though as a whole I do like the American accent.

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I always wondered on this same topic. I think accents are attractive...I think all of them are so unique. I happen to live in South Carolina and I don't talk that Southern being raised partly in Arizona. So, basically I talk REALLY fast (like Californians) with a slight southern accent. It's weird.

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A lot of the time I seem to read on various comment boxes and forums etc that a large amount of American men disliked the whle British accent as I guess they felt threatened by its power on the American females ?
I have to admit though it is strange how much an accent can change a persons attractivness to people from another part of the world though.
For example I have friends over in Las vegas who I visit often and who come to visit me. When we are out in bars and the like the attention I recieve out there is massive for the sole reason of me being English And vice versa, the guys when over here in England are swamped for being American.
So I suggest this. Countries should just swap and gender and we'll all be happy :P though the country size might be a problem, I can't see 200,000,000 American girls fitting in England really, and it would be a bit empty in the states with only 35,000,000 women :P
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