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What are your favourite accents?
Favourites just to listen to in conversation?
Which accents do you find sexy?
Are there any accents that make people less attractive to you?
I encourage the naming of celebrities with accents you like or linking to audio or video examples.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
Ah the old soft Celtic lilt. Gets me every time.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
Funny thing, I read the OP and immediately thought of Amy MacDonald thanks to that episode of TG. I was smitten with her for days after I saw that.
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Originally Posted by sek929
Funny thing, I read the OP and immediately thought of Amy MacDonald thanks to that episode of TG. I was smitten with her for days after I saw that.
I'm still smitten, she's adorable. I want to adopt her and buy her more Italian sports cars.
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There are many lovely british isles accents, but Goran Visnjic has such a beautiful accent that even when he plays a bad guy I don't care, I just want to listen. And he's not bad to look at either.
Goran Visnjic- Croatian Hamlet - YouTube
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French turns me on when a woman speaks it softly, and Japanese (when spoken in the polite feminine form) by a young woman.
I find British accents the easiest to understand, in terms of clarity and annunciation, and I admire them the most for speaking. Australian is the least easy to understand (what the hell language are they speaking?).
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osiris, have you heard Liverpool or Geordie or South Wales accents?
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Originally Posted by mattyb
osiris, have you heard Liverpool or Geordie or South Wales accents?
He probably thought it was Australian
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Originally Posted by turtle777
He probably thought it was Australian
Nasty, but funny.
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Pet peeve: when actors who play characters from New Orleans sound like they're from Savannah, Georgia. NOLA residents actually sound like a cross between French Cajun, Louisiana-style Southern accents, and New Jersey. Also: Yat dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My personal favorite accent: Irish.
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Originally Posted by mattyb
osiris, have you heard Liverpool or Geordie or South Wales accents?
Sure I have. I can even translate Scottish into English. I just like picking on Aussies.
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My wife is South African. It's not a pretty accent. Thankfully she's not Afrikaans or it would be even worse!! Man that's an ugly noise! Whiny Jo'berg accent is also highly irritating. Laid back Cape Town dwal is "almost" acceptable.
Geordies, Liverpudlians, Birmingham, also grating.
Highland Scots is lovely. Sing song. When I was young they used to have a children's TV show called Jacanory, where actors read a book out loud (sounds boss no?) The actor who always read the Littlenose stories had the most relaxing highland accent.
What ever accent/intonation Carl Sagan has... bliss
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
You should be banned for that.
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Die Antwoord has improved dramatically, their showmanship has practically taken on a life of its own. Yolandi has evolved into the Lady Gaga of the alternative-rave scene with some very clever marketing.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
Die Antwoord has improved dramatically, their showmanship has practically taken on a life of its own. Yolandi has evolved into the Lady Gaga of the alternative-rave scene with some very clever marketing.
Improved?
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Originally Posted by mattyb
Improved?
Yeah.
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I'm too afraid to click that link
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Do it turtle so I don't have to.
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Actually I Fink U Freeky is more recent than Enter The Ninja.
IFUF was the first I heard of Die Antwoord and my first reaction was also a resounding WTF. If you give it a few listens though, it really starts to grow on you.
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
Actually I Fink U Freeky is more recent than Enter The Ninja.
IFUF was the first I heard of Die Antwoord and my first reaction was also a resounding WTF. If you give it a few listens though, it really starts to grow on you.
That's what I meant, they've improved since Enter the Ninja.
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Exactly. That's why I'm afraid to follow the link.
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Its less ravey than the one I posted.
If you like to discover music which is actually quite original, give it a shot. If you hate rap music, probably best not to bother.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
Die Antwoord has improved dramatically, their showmanship has practically taken on a life of its own. Yolandi has evolved into the Lady Gaga of the alternative-rave scene with some very clever marketing.
That's actually why I prefer Enter the Ninja. Freeky feels like marketing.
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I've been watching this thread, and thinking, "yeah, that's an interesting accent" or "yes, those are so fake" (as in the New Orleans comments - the same was true of the original "Dallas" TV show, except for Larry Hagman who was born in Ft. Worth). But yesterday I came across an accent that really struck me.
I met an elderly couple who moved here from Holland over 50 years ago. Their accent isn't "I'm speaking English with a native in Amsterdam," but something that has evolved over time while still keeping the character and flavor of Dutch. Very charming.
Then there is Irish Gaelic. We have a public radio personality here in San Antonio who is from Ireland, and her accent just grabs my attention every time I hear her. I like Scots English too, but it's too easy for a Scot to lose me when the accent gets too deep.
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The Thistle and Shamrock (Fiona Ritchie)! Yeah, her accent is great!
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
The Thistle and Shamrock (Fiona Ritchie)! Yeah, her accent is great!
Good lord, I always enjoy her commercial for just that reason.
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People are laughing as if they understand.
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I can actually decipher the vast majority of it. Its filmed in Scotland so I assume the audience can understand most of it too.
I guess if you were really interested, I could try to transcribe and translate it for you.
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I shall let you decide if the jokes are that funny.
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They aren't. I was thinking your interest might be more lingual than comedic.
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I have enough of a lingual interest to know both translation and transcription are a huge bitch, and I don't want to wish that upon anyone.
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The accent is very good but like the comments say, a Jammie Dodger is a biscuit. You might call it a cookie.
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That's what I had always known it as, but I inferred in Scotland it's also a jam sandwich.
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This is the American counterpart to the biscuit/cookie:
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Interesting fact: The jam (thats jelly to you lot) in a Jammie Dodger is raspberry flavoured plum jam.
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We most certainly do have jam here, and it's called jam.
Jelly = condiment made with fruit juice
Jam = condiment made with fruit pulp and juice
Veronas, a fav of mine, do in fact have jam, as there is some fruit pulp in them. They are delicious w/ tea.
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Yeah.
Jelly is, well, jelly. It's fundamental component is some form of gelatin.
Jam has shit in it.
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Really? Thats a misconception I've believed for a long time then.
So the jelly in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich has gelatin in it?
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
Really? Thats a misconception I've believed for a long time then.
So the jelly in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich has gelatin in it?
Jelly is juice, sugar, and pectin (a natural gelling agent). It's inferior to jam, which contains pulp. There are also preserves, which have whole fruit with pulp (and generally less sugars).
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
Really? Thats a misconception I've believed for a long time then.
So the jelly in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich has gelatin in it?
It's a bit confusing. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich can have either jam or (american) jelly in it. There are lots of people who use the terms jam and jelly interchangeably (incorrectly). But even if you are the kind of right thinking person that calls jam jam and jelly jelly, you would never eat a peanut butter and jam sandwich. You could have a PB&J with strawberry jam- but it would still be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
American jelly is as shaddim described. What you call jelly in England in america is called gelatin, or more generically, jell-o. I'm not sure what is called jelly in America is called in England. I'll have to look in the shops and see if I can find an equivalent and report back.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
Jelly is juice, sugar, and pectin (a natural gelling agent). It's inferior to jam, which contains pulp. There are also preserves, which have whole fruit with pulp (and generally less sugars).
I think inferiority depends on use.
People put jam on their PB&J because they like to be fancy-schmantzy. IMO, the PB is going to swamp the more delicate jam flavors, and it's not sweet enough to contrast properly.
I posit PB&J is named such because jelly is superior to jam for that purpose.
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Originally Posted by mattyb
You should be banned for that.
That's awesome. Really interesting to see a different take on Afrikaans culture. I guess everything moves on.
Freeky sounds a bit gimmiky but the rest is really interesting.
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