Accents! Git yer accents right here!

[Darth Viscera]

http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

I don't know where they managed to dig up those two Marylanders who exhibit outrageous and overtly backwoods accents. WTF is Smith Island? The standard D.C. Suburbs accent is the same thing as the regular American TV accent.

Out of all these mindless automatons, I'd say that the female from Birmingham, England has the nicest sounding accent. So devilish. She sounds like a James Bond villain.

I must apologize in advance on behalf of my countryman from San Diego. That individual must not hold little things such as literacy in very high regard.

[ReaperFett]

Originally posted by Darth Viscera
don't know where they managed to dig up those two
Out of all these mindless automatons, I'd say that the female from Birmingham, England has the nicest sounding accent.
Doesnt sound very Brummie to me. Nearer my accent than Brummie :)

[Darth Viscera]

Well whatever accent she has, I thoroughly approve of it.

[ReaperFett]

And her big toy frog :)

[Figrin D'an]

Interesting.


The man from Syracuse, NY, had a very curious accent. It was some odd mixture of Upstate New York and Upper Midwest.


I think the most un-accented recording (of the English language ones, of course) was the woman from South Dakota. There were slight inclinations toward an Upper Midwest accent, but it was generally far more plain in comparison to the others. (There was one from California that likely would have been better, had he not slurred half of his words together).

[Charley]

This is the perfect utility for faking accents. Thank you.

(perfects his Polish, Parisian, and Dutch)

[Crystal]

:lol

Five thick slabs of blue cheese ^_^

This is actually pretty neat, I just wish they hadn't made them say something so funny.


Edit: http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/ewe1.html

YEAH :D

[Morgan Evanar]

Rad! I need to submit a South Florida sample.

[Pierce Tondry]

We need to get Fett to give them a sample.

Then we'll have an idea what a moron sounds like. (rimshot!)

Gotcha. :)

[Charley]

I should submit a bunch of samples from somewhere else, and see if it works.

[Dasquian Belargic]

:( No sample from Newcastle

[Kitty McQuade]

<a href=http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/english24.html>Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station ...</a>



... an' if it's nae Scottish it's Crap!!! :D

[ReaperFett]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
:( No sample from Newcastle

So MAKE them a sample! :)

[Mordecai Lória]

Habbout them Newfie accents, eh? Or ennythin from Cannnyder foor that matter?

*smirk*

Yay Canada!

[Droo]

No scousers either and I'm not about to give a sample. >_<

[ReaperFett]

Originally posted by Dru
No scousers either and I'm not about to give a sample. >_<

I'll do one for you! :D

[Garrett Blade]

I'll do one.

'Eee-aah kidda-la! Do us a solid an' give Stella a bell. Ask her to pick us up suttin' from the Inland Revenue - 6 spoons of fresh snow peas, 5 slabs of grotty, 'al' cheese, an' maybe a maaaas baaaaaa for ah kid Bob. We also need a footie an a derelict house for the kids to play with. She can lash 'em into three Marks'n'Sparksl bags, an we'll meet here on Wensdee at Limey. Ta'ra la!

:p

[Darth Viscera]

That was astoundingly hilarious! Kudos to you, good sir!



In the U.S., accents seem to soften through the generations and become more like the American TV accent. Older people seem to have much stronger regional accents than their offspring. Perhaps this is because children are growing up with TV.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

this thing is nifty :)


... and i dont have an accent either!

[Hayes Muirso]

Originally posted by ReaperFett
So MAKE them a sample! :)

I think I will :D

[Darth Viscera]

Originally posted by s'Ilancy
... and i dont have an accent either!

HAH!

I will summarise your accent in emoticon form:
:cool :zzz :smokin :hat
you sound like you've gotten into the Longbottom Leaf. After you've had a night's full of beverages, that is. I don't know what your right speaking voice sounds like.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

i was tired that night - or morning - whichever it was :grumble

[Darth Viscera]

suuuuuure
i think you'd start trailing off by the time you got to blue cheese!

[ReaperFett]

You do have an accent C. I heard it meself! :)

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

psh

do not. ill tell you what. anyone can call me and see that im right.

[ReaperFett]

I have, and Im right :)

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

whatever :rolleyes


the way i talk is fairly bland, no accent whatsoever unless i start copping an attitude or try to be cute

[ReaperFett]

You say god as "ghawd" :)

[Silus Xilarian]

and you say Bulb as "boob" ;)

[ReaperFett]

You can just shut up right now :)

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

light boobs!! *snicker*

[ReaperFett]

Quiet, ya wee rogue ;)

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

:grumble


ima have silus defenestrate you

[spada]

the synthesized one is great. I don't know why, but the voice is funny, and it reminds me of stephen hawkins.

[ReaperFett]

Originally posted by s'Ilancy
:grumble


ima have silus defenestrate you

Or, "Ah kill yeh!" :D

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

thing is, my normal speaking voice is pretty bland, its just i can phase easily into a semblence of some sort of accent

[Darth Viscera]

you may not have an accent, you just talk like you're really, really high ;)

[Darth Viscera]

Catherine Zeta-Jones has the sexiest british accent ever.

[ReaperFett]

Welsh.

[Darth Viscera]

what about him?