How funny you find accents in certain places?
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posted08/19/2011 01:53 AM (UTC)by
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08/16/2011 03:52 PM (UTC)
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"How funny DO you find accents in certain places?"

I don't really find accents funny, although british accent sometimes makes me giggle. And I'm a guy. That accent is just so awesome.
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08/16/2011 04:02 PM (UTC)
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Zero, I like accents a lot, it's always intriguing to hear how different someone from Germany sounds from someone from America or Iraq, I just don't see it as funny, in any capacity.


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08/16/2011 04:13 PM (UTC)
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Well I as in England with some friends last year and every once in a while one of us would just slip into a English accent and not realize it. I guess that's what happens when you are surrounded by people who speak in a different way than you, it just rubs off.

So I guess I only find accents funny when I unintentionally speak with one.
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08/16/2011 04:37 PM (UTC)
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Funny? No. Sexy? Yes. Even the perpetually angry tone of a German woman is kind of a turn-on.
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08/16/2011 04:41 PM (UTC)
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I don't find accents funny.
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08/16/2011 08:07 PM (UTC)
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I've never found accents funny. Humour based on this idea isn't humourous.

I have on occasion found them frustrating, particularly when I cannot understand what they're trying to say through the accent.

Speaking of incomprehensible, I don't understand this topic question.
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08/16/2011 08:17 PM (UTC)
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I do not find anybody's accents humorous. Everyone has an Accent. That's just the way it goes. You might think someone sounds funny, but that's just how they speak wherever it may be that they are from. To them it might be you that sounds funny. I have an American accent..., but I've always loved the Australian and Irish accents. I wish i could do them, but I cant.
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08/17/2011 03:21 PM (UTC)
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It depends on the situation a lot, Indian accent can be funny if exaggerated.
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08/17/2011 06:59 PM (UTC)
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I love my accent.
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08/17/2011 07:59 PM (UTC)
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Accents and dialects are awesome.
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NoobSaibot5
08/17/2011 11:52 PM (UTC)
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keyara412 Wrote:


I have an American accent..., but I've always loved the Australian and Irish accents. I wish i could do them, but I cant.


Just to clarify, as a native Irishman, there's no such thing as a single Irish accent. Every county has it's own accents, sure Dublin alone has 4-5 different accents that's all divided by the suburbs people are from. Cork would have a different range of accents to Galway, likewise Kerry, Laois, Sligo, Limerick, Waterford, Meath etc would all sound very distinct from one another.

I always find it very humorous when people say they like the "Irish" accent. I do be curious about what accent they do be thinking of! haha! grin
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08/18/2011 03:05 PM (UTC)
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And unless you educated yourself, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between North Midland, North Cities Vowel Shift, North Central, North/Western Canada dialects.

It's a matter of exposure. The subtleties of the language are most prominent to the speaker. Remember, the "American Dialect" is actually a work of fiction to create the least accented of dialects in the US. So yeah, maybe some people roll their R's more in Ireland than in other places. Maybe some get in a cot-caught merger. But unless you're familiar with the nuances, it's all Irish.
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08/18/2011 04:08 PM (UTC)
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ShoeUnited Wrote:
And unless you educated yourself, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between North Midland, North Cities Vowel Shift, North Central, North/Western Canada dialects.

It's a matter of exposure. The subtleties of the language are most prominent to the speaker. Remember, the "American Dialect" is actually a work of fiction to create the least accented of dialects in the US. So yeah, maybe some people roll their R's more in Ireland than in other places. Maybe some get in a cot-caught merger. But unless you're familiar with the nuances, it's all Irish.


Not really the case here. Some accent's in Ireland genuinely do sound much, much different from each other. I have a dublin accent. If I was to say the word "burned", it would most likely sound like "burdind" because I've a strong Dublin accent. Where as in towns like Dalkey, also in Dublin, it would sound more like "bernt". In Cork, it would sound more like "Bornt". lol.

I do just find it a bit humourous when people say they like the Irish accent because I do be genuinely curious what accent they have in mind, is it a Dublin, a Galway, Cork accent etc?
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08/19/2011 01:21 AM (UTC)
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NoobSaibot5 Wrote:
ShoeUnited Wrote:
And unless you educated yourself, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between North Midland, North Cities Vowel Shift, North Central, North/Western Canada dialects.

It's a matter of exposure. The subtleties of the language are most prominent to the speaker. Remember, the "American Dialect" is actually a work of fiction to create the least accented of dialects in the US. So yeah, maybe some people roll their R's more in Ireland than in other places. Maybe some get in a cot-caught merger. But unless you're familiar with the nuances, it's all Irish.


Not really the case here. Some accent's in Ireland genuinely do sound much, much different from each other. I have a dublin accent. If I was to say the word "burned", it would most likely sound like "burdind" because I've a strong Dublin accent. Where as in towns like Dalkey, also in Dublin, it would sound more like "bernt". In Cork, it would sound more like "Bornt". lol.

I do just find it a bit humourous when people say they like the Irish accent because I do be genuinely curious what accent they have in mind, is it a Dublin, a Galway, Cork accent etc?


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08/19/2011 01:53 AM (UTC)
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Touché, my friend.
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