Favorite Accent

[webny99]

Believe it or not, I couldn't find any record of this thread having been done before.

My two favorites would have to be Deep South (AL, MS, TN) and Upper Northwest (BC).
Not a fan of the East Coast accent, and Upper Midwest is OK, but rather blah in my opinion.

[Max Rockatansky]

Old Chicago, it makes everyone sound like they are reading news reel headline. 

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Australian, as it's like a twangy variation on a standard London one.

BC has a distinct accent?

[Rothman]

Umlaut

[formulanone]

Handakuten

[1995hoo]

Never driven nor ridden in an Accent. The Sonata looks like a nicer car in my opinion.

[MNHighwayMan]

[Big John]

Accent font 

[webny99]

BC has a distinct accent?

Western Canada in general does, but it just so happens that BC is the only western province I've been to.

All their A's sound like "ahh"... they don't use the "ehh" sound much.

Australian, as it's like a twangy variation on a standard London one.

Maybe I've just heard too much of the Australian accent, but to me it gets real old real quick. More like cartoon characters gone bad or something. 

[Takumi]

Domestic: North Carolina, Arkansas, Upper Midwest.
Foreign: Russian, German, both southern and northern English, South African, Japanese.

[webny99]

Macron. At least he's better than – oh wait, I don't want to get the thread locked.

Count me totally confused. This must be a play on an accent I've never heard (no pun intended there ).

[US 89]

´

[Takumi]

Macron. At least he's better than – oh wait, I don't want to get the thread locked.

Count me totally confused. This must be a play on an accent I've never heard (no pun intended there ).

Yeah, I have no idea what he was talking about either, though he deleted the post now.

[MNHighwayMan]

Macron. At least he's better than – oh wait, I don't want to get the thread locked.

Count me totally confused. This must be a play on an accent I've never heard (no pun intended there ).

Yeah, I have no idea what he was talking about either, though he deleted the post now.

"Accent" is sometimes used to mean any sort of modifying mark (properly, a diacritic) to a letter, and not just for acute accents.

In this case, he was referring to a macron, which is a horizontal line used above a letter (example: ā). He was also making a joke about the French president, Macron.

[oscar]

Macron. At least he's better than – oh wait, I don't want to get the thread locked.

Count me totally confused. This must be a play on an accent I've never heard (no pun intended there ).

Yeah, I have no idea what he was talking about either, though he deleted the post now.

A "macron" is a straight line above an "o" (ō) or some other vowel. In Hawaiian, a macron changes the pronunciation of "o" from "oh" to "oo", most notably in the phrase "Maui nō ka 'oi" (is the best).

[thspfc]

British and Scottish sound best. New York accent and Chinese accent sound hilarious to me. The southern accent sounds really bad, IMO.

[Henry]

Being from Chicago, I can vouch for their accent being my favorite. I still put "da" in front of Bears and Bulls!

[CtrlAltDel]

´

Heresy! ` is better in every way. It even has its own key on the US keyboard (for some reason).

[webny99]

"Accent" is sometimes used to mean any sort of modifying mark (properly, a diacritic) to a letter, and not just for acute accents.

Well thanks - I knew that!

In this case, he was referring to a macron, which is a horizontal line used above a letter (example: ā). He was also making a joke about the French president, Macron.

OK, the accent > macron connection is what I was missing. I never thought to google "macron". Who knew it might have other applications besides someone's last name.

[webny99]

Reading through this thread, you would never know I intended it to be completely serious. 

[kphoger]

Greek circumflex.

[texaskdog]

Never much liked the Indian accent but then I had this passenger last week she had such a beautiful Indian accent. 

[ClassicHasClass]

Maybe I've just heard too much of the Australian accent,

My mother, my wife and my in-laws are all Aussies (and as a dual AU-US citizen technically so am I, though they say I speak funny), so I may have you beat there. I'm not tired of it.

[webny99]

Maybe I've just heard too much of the Australian accent,

My mother, my wife and my in-laws are all Aussies (and as a dual AU-US citizen technically so am I, though they say I speak funny), so I may have you beat there. I'm not tired of it.

I'm sure you do have me beat. I have an aunt and some friends formerly from Australia, but most of their accents are now diminishing. When I hear true Aussies talk it's enjoyable at first but enough for a headache after a while. 

[ghYHZ]

I'm from the Canadian Maritimes and occasionally travel to our office in Wisconsin. Some of my co-workers there had difficulty believing I was from Canada "you talk just like us" . But on the other hand....when I'm in our office in St. John's the Newfoundland accent is quite distinct!