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.
Old Chicago, it makes everyone sound like they are reading news reel headline.
Australian, as it's like a twangy variation on a standard London one.
BC has a distinct accent?
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Never driven nor ridden in an Accent. The Sonata looks like a nicer car in my opinion.
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Accent font :-P
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Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on May 30, 2019, 02:55:44 PM
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.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on May 30, 2019, 02:55:44 PM
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. :-D
Domestic: North Carolina, Arkansas, Upper Midwest.
Foreign: Russian, German, both southern and northern English, South African, Japanese.
Quote from: 1 on May 30, 2019, 10:37:45 PM
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 :)).
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Quote from: webny99 on May 30, 2019, 10:45:46 PM
Quote from: 1 on May 30, 2019, 10:37:45 PM
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.
Quote from: Takumi on May 30, 2019, 11:12:50 PM
Quote from: webny99 on May 30, 2019, 10:45:46 PM
Quote from: 1 on May 30, 2019, 10:37:45 PM
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.
Quote from: Takumi on May 30, 2019, 11:12:50 PM
Quote from: webny99 on May 30, 2019, 10:45:46 PM
Quote from: 1 on May 30, 2019, 10:37:45 PM
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).
British and Scottish sound best. New York accent and Chinese accent sound hilarious to me. The southern accent sounds really bad, IMO.
Being from Chicago, I can vouch for their accent being my favorite. I still put "da" in front of Bears and Bulls!
Quote from: US 89 on May 30, 2019, 10:51:54 PM
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Heresy!
` is better in every way. It even has its own key on the US keyboard (for some reason).
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on May 30, 2019, 11:24:25 PM
"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! :pan:
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on May 30, 2019, 11:24:25 PM
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.
Reading through this thread, you would never know I intended it to be completely serious. :D
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Never much liked the Indian accent but then I had this passenger last week she had such a beautiful Indian accent.
QuoteMaybe 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. :)
Quote from: ClassicHasClass on June 01, 2019, 12:30:17 PM
QuoteMaybe 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. :meh:
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!
Somehow the cajun accent makes me feel right at home. :bigass:
Quote from: webny99 on June 01, 2019, 08:38:11 PM
When I hear true Aussies talk it's enjoyable at first but enough for a headache after a while.
I remember once soaking in an outdoor hot tub at Bryce Canyon National Park, listening to a couple of foreign tourists and wondering what language they were speaking. After trying to figure it out for about 15 minutes, I finally realized they were speaking English. New Zealand.
Similarly, I once made it almost all the way from Harlem/Lake to downtown Chicago on the L before I realized the couple in front of me was speaking Spanish. Asturias, Spain.
Quote from: kphoger on June 03, 2019, 01:59:55 PM
Quote from: webny99 on June 01, 2019, 08:38:11 PM
When I hear true Aussies talk it's enjoyable at first but enough for a headache after a while.
I remember once soaking in an outdoor hot tub at Bryce Canyon National Park, listening to a couple of foreign tourists and wondering what language they were speaking. After trying to figure it out for about 15 minutes, I finally realized they were speaking English. New Zealand.
Oh, you mean Nuh Zulund? :)
When I hear one of the Australasian accents I'm usually expecting it, but if you're not, it can really catch you off guard. When they're talking amongst themselves at full speed it might as well be a different language.
I'm from Michigan and lived there until I was 11 and then moved to Southern California, where they asked me if I was from Texas a lot. From there I went to New Mexico and they asked me if I was from Canada (ditto, Louisiana and Texas (for the first couple of years that I lived there anyway) when I moved there). After a couple of years in Texas, when I would come back to Michigan to visit they would comment that I sounded like a Texan. My ex-girlfriend (no comment) made fun of me because I sounded like a "Yankee-Texan" (whatever the hell that means) and then when I moved to Tennessee I was told not to go to Grainger County, because they would shoot me if they heard my northern accent. When I moved back to Michigan, my accent blended into a Texas-Tennessee-Michigan mashup that sounds like I am from Southern Indiana or Northern Kentucky.
One of my uncles has lived in Michigan his entire life and has a southern accent. One of my aunts has the same accent as Bobby's Mom in Bobby's World.
Quote from: ce929wax on June 03, 2019, 11:45:04 PM
One of my uncles has lived in Michigan his entire life and has a southern accent.
The Detroit, Cleveland, and to a lesser extent Chicago, accents are very southern-sounding.
In fact, I would say any accent originating in the Rust Belt region has (or can have) a Southern twist.
Quote from: ce929wax on June 03, 2019, 11:45:04 PM
From there I went to New Mexico and they asked me if I was from Canada
Despite the following: (1) One of my parents being growing up a mile from the Canadian border and (2) traveling to Canada 20+ times per year my entire life, my accent could never be mistaken for Canadian (at least I don't think). I don't say "eye-ther", "aboot", "soh-ree" or "bee-n" (except when referring to the vegetable).
Accents in Minnesota and North Dakota, on the other hand, are much easier to mistake for Canadian, just from the general sound if not from specific words.