Yeah my brief experiences with foreign people remind me I still have an accent. In America women are insulted by being called ma'am but I guess its endearing everywhere else.
I don't think New Hampshire has an accent. Or rather, they have the accent Americans associate with a lack of an accent. You have to drop a lot of acid to get the same natural cadence as Silverman.
@GunslingerPanda: The way I see it, we won the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812, and kept your entire region of the world from speaking German. By default, I think our accent should be the "normal" version and you all can be the stuffy dicks who speak like you have a dictionary stuffed (sideways) up your ass. Oh, and "football" is soccer, because we said so; deal with it, unless you want have another go at it with us bloody yanks.
Obviously I'm kidding, but your post was a bit overstated...
From what I can tell, the ladies seem to dig the American accent. At least it makes us stand out in some sort of way, much like how guys with an accent are noticeable for girls in America.
I blame Friends for making me think New York women sound like stressed cats, Thank You Rachel Green.
Other than that the American accent is an accent that doesn't bother me. But I'd like to see an American reaction to a Brummie, Scouser or Geordie accent and not pull a straight face. Thank god I only have a small ounce of a brummie accent. Even so, most Brits get that accent wrong too.
actually, forget Rachel, Monica is worse for it...
" I blame Friends for making me think New York women sound like stressed cats, Thank You Rachel Green. Other than that the American accent is an accent that doesn't bother me. But I'd like to see an American reaction to a Brummie, Scouser or Geordie accent and not pull a straight face. Thank god I only have a small ounce of a brummie accent. Even so, most Brits get that accent wrong too. "
Well, that sounds like a challenge. Since Brummie, Scouser, and Geordie are terms I've never heard of, I'm posting a YouTube video of each, and you can tell me if that's how the accent actually sounds.
Brummie.
Sounds like a British accent to me. I thought the way he said "Haus" seemed kind of pleasant. The shop keeper seemed to have the more annoying voice to me.
Scouser.
Not really funny, just jarring and almost incomprehensible. Sounds vaugly Irish or Scottish to me.
Geordie
About as incomprehensible, but a little smother. Less jarring. I can pick out a sentence or two. It actually sounds... Canadian. I didn't know there was another accent with that really hard "aboot". Kind of sounds Scandinavian, and reminds me of the Minnesota accent. Has that same "Min-neh-soo-ta" bounce. Kind of funny, yeah.
I have more a problem with English accents. The standard "BBC English" is A-OK but when you get to Notherners, I can't stand it. Americans are fine, expect tourist who always seem to have the most grating accent. You can have fun with the different American accents, but that Northern English accent, the Peter Key sort of one, just annoys me. Accents always make me think. I come from a, lets say, "shitty" part of Dublin in Ireland but I sound a lot more posh than other people in my area.
" @GunslingerPanda: The way I see it, we won the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812, and kept your entire region of the world from speaking German. By default, I think our accent should be the "normal" version and you all can be the stuffy dicks who speak like you have a dictionary stuffed (sideways) up your ass. Oh, and "football" is soccer, because we said so; deal with it, unless you want have another go at it with us bloody yanks. Obviously I'm kidding, but your post was a bit overstated... "
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