Accents you like on the opposite sex.

Gnevin · October 13, 2009, 11:21:31 AM

Quote from: gawa316 on October 13, 2009, 11:11:50 AM
Quote from: The Iceman on October 12, 2009, 08:49:54 PM
All of a America and Canada or just parts?
Have you heard the American accent across the country?

Thats like saying I don't like the European accent.......

How many American accents are there? All I can think off is New York, Cailfornian, Southern, Tennessee (country) and Texan. Probably haven't spent long enough or visited enough areas to know any more

Depends how tuned your ear is just like here.

There is a difference between New York and New Jeresy just as there is a difference between Dublin and Meath . Also there is a difference between Bronx and Queens just as there is a difference between Finglas and Coolock

gallsman · October 13, 2009, 11:31:25 AM

Derry/Eastern Donegal.

That "naw" instead of "no" gets me all weak at the knees!

Aerlik · October 13, 2009, 11:40:53 AM

I just cannot stand the American accents that I've encountered through my travels but especially the west coast where they talk with a snozz full of snott it would seem.

Forgot about disliking the brummie accent. hartley hare memories come streaming back.

When I lived in Japan, we used to socialise with Peruvians and Argentinians, as well as Brazilians. True, they speak English similarly but I still like it.

I have a soft spot for the East European accents too.

Overthebar! · October 13, 2009, 12:19:33 PM

was thinking about this the other day do you think many other countries have such diverse accents?
for all the size of this place everyone has different accents. you only have to travel 30 minutes up the road and its completely different in most places....

Aerlik · October 13, 2009, 12:54:48 PM

Quote from: Overthebar! on October 13, 2009, 12:19:33 PM
you only have to travel 30 minutes up the road and its completely different in most places....

Aye 30 minutes? Try crossing the Bann and you get a whole new language, Ollstorr Skaats.

After 9 years in Oz, I still cannot tell the difference between the east and west and Adelaide. Mind you the indigenous people have a very different intonation and because English is oft times their 3rd. or 4th. language (cf. Liam Jarra Melbourne Demons AFL player) they cannot actually pronouce the "f" sound. Puck you pucka. The same exists in Papua New Guinea.

From what I have been told (by a Russian) there are no accents in Russia. I find it hard to believe but apparently it was standardised during the commy years.

I can sometimes recognise the difference between Canucks and Septics, but I now know a Nyaw Zulland ukksent. Some Kiwi words are very similar to how we say things in Ireland.

Oh, and Aghagallon is a Belfast accent if ever I heard one. Real Poleglassy if you ken

And the Auzzies are pissed off because there was a report today saying the Kiwi accent was alot more pleasant to the English ear. Wouldn't have anything to do with all the fecking whinging Australia has been doing about cricket?

redhugh · October 13, 2009, 01:16:19 PM

I'm a sucker for a Scottish accent, but not a mad crazy Weegie accent, a nice soft Scottish accent. Also it's hard to beat the French weemin mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Farrandeelin · October 13, 2009, 02:05:43 PM

Quote from: Overthebar! on October 13, 2009, 12:19:33 PM
was thinking about this the other day do you think many other countries have such diverse accents?
for all the size of this place everyone has different accents. you only have to travel 30 minutes up the road and its completely different in most places....

Go 20 minutes out towards Pontoon in Knockmore and there's a different accent out there as well. Hard to pinpoint it, but you'd know they're living on a mountainside...

5 Sams · October 13, 2009, 02:08:50 PM

Quote from: mackers on October 13, 2009, 10:57:54 AM
Can't believe this thread is two pages long and nobody has mentioned Cheryl Cole's Geordie accent........

She doesn't have to be able to talk.......

Denn Forever · October 13, 2009, 03:44:16 PM

Fermanagh .
Soft Donegal accent.

Heaven.

Puckoon · October 13, 2009, 05:25:53 PM

I find the west coast american accent to not even really exist. Its like the american accent from the movies and tv. Its just american. The east and southern parts of the country are full of accents, and I enjoy most of them. Accents I like on women, or women that Ive met

1. South african
2. Welsh
3. West coast american
4. Texan
5. Dundalk $:-\$

down6061689194 · October 13, 2009, 08:21:54 PM

Quote from: gallsman on October 13, 2009, 11:31:25 AM
Derry/Eastern Donegal.

That "naw" instead of "no" gets me all weak at the knees!

Nail on the head. Although long term its not as Hot.

Scouse too

The Iceman · October 13, 2009, 09:30:00 PM

I think if a woman is soft spoken, talks like a lady and has a bit of class - then her accent doesn't really matter that much - unless its an English one of any kind.....

the Southern French accent has a harshness to it that I really like.

It all depends on the girl for me.....

INDIANA · October 13, 2009, 09:46:44 PM

Sucker for female nordie accents I'm afraid. That and the french.

downgirl · October 14, 2009, 01:22:50 AM

Love:
Cork
Derry
Donegal

Hate:
Dublin (esp D4)
Waterford

Canalman · October 14, 2009, 10:31:07 AM

Can diferentiate between the Australian and New Zealand accent...... and indeed most English accents. But for the life of me I can't make out the different accents up North except the posh one ( called "North Down" I believe) only because I am told that the guy Sidney Elliot (I think) who does the TV coverage of the elections up there has it.

There is some amount of people here in Dublin from the country with the plumbest of "D4 accents" ......... bewildering stuff.