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English language accent you like the most, and the one you hate the most.

Thus Spake Mainer

Thus Spake Mainer

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Only English speaking countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Caribbean nations, Canada. (NOT other languages speaking with an accent, for example Frenchies speaking English with their usual accent)

For me it's the Irish accent that I love, and the Scottish accent that I despise. Once I was at a take-away in St. Andrews and could not understand the young man behind the counter taking my order at all. I needed someone to translate what he was saying.
 
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Like the Irish accent the most.
Not that I dislike but just have trouble understanding speakers with India/Pakistan dialects.
 
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Thus Spake Mainer said:
Only English speaking countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Caribbean nations, Canada. (NOT other languages speaking with an accent, for example Frenchies speaking English with their usual accent)

For me it's the Irish accent that I love, and the Scottish accent that I despise. Once I was at a take-away in St. Andrews and could not understand the young man behind the counter taking my order at all. I needed someone to translate what he was saying.
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Irish best, Canadian worst.
 
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PSUFTG

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Thus Spake Mainer said:
Only English speaking countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Caribbean nations, Canada. (NOT other languages speaking with an accent, for example Frenchies speaking English with their usual accent)

For me it's the Irish accent that I love, and the Scottish accent that I despise. Once I was at a take-away in St. Andrews and could not understand the young man behind the counter taking my order at all. I needed someone to translate what he was saying.
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Was "Netflix-ing" a series set in Scotland recently. It had, kid you not, English subtitles.

Scottish is a series of groans, punctuated by the occasional "Aye". :)
 
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Thus Spake Mainer said:
Only English speaking countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Caribbean nations, Canada. (NOT other languages speaking with an accent, for example Frenchies speaking English with their usual accent)

For me it's the Irish accent that I love, and the Scottish accent that I despise. Once I was at a take-away in St. Andrews and could not understand the young man behind the counter taking my order at all. I needed someone to translate what he was saying.
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I did a lot of business in Scotland at one time.

At first they were incredibly hard to understand, but I eventually got it
 
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"International" English-speaking accents? I guess it depends on what regional dialect they have, and I don't know enough about which regions have which dialects. Some "proper" British speaking folks have great sounding accents ... folks from other parts of the country sound unintelligible. Most/all Irish is garbage sounding, but some of it is so bad, they may as well be speaking a foreign language (same with Scottish). Australian may actually be the best.

"Domestic" English-speaking accents? Boston townie accents are just awful, yet probably come in 2nd to a deep southern accent. A person from the South, with any kind of "traditional Southern accent" could be stating the meaning of life and I'd walk away thinking "that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard" just because of the accent. The best? Well, this was "relevant" back in my younger days ... a light suburban Jersey girl accent (not a hardcore northern Jersey or Jersey shore type thing) ... makes them sound cute and "dirty." It wouldn't work now that I'm older, but back in the day ...
 
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Come to think about it some more, the worst of the worst are the fake Texas-ish accents that Asians and Indians are taught to speak on help desks, with an over-emphasized "r" sound that exists in no English accent anywhere.
 
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Favorite is a tie between the Irish and New York accents. Worst for me is that Louisiana Cajun accent.
 
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Irish for me, and only because when i hear a lady speaking with it, I picture a curly red haired, green eyed freckled lass. to me it's a softer scottish.

Australian is a close second

upper-midwest/boston is last for me.
 
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Natives to Lower Slower have some kind of dialect that is incomprehensible.
 
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ODShowtime said:
I'm working with some folks from New Orleans and they have the weirdest accent, it's not what I think cajun would be. It's just weird.
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not only that they usually mix up their tenses, it took me a long time to figure out the question, 'where Jerry went'? which means where did Jerry go.
 
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ODShowtime said:
I'm working with some folks from New Orleans and they have the weirdest accent, it's not what I think cajun would be. It's just weird.
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It’s like half New York, half Appalachian, half French. It’s one a half more times annoying than any other accent!
 
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Thus Spake Mainer said:
Only English speaking countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Caribbean nations, Canada. (NOT other languages speaking with an accent, for example Frenchies speaking English with their usual accent)

For me it's the Irish accent that I love, and the Scottish accent that I despise. Once I was at a take-away in St. Andrews and could not understand the young man behind the counter taking my order at all. I needed someone to translate what he was saying.
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The most liked, in this order: I have to go with Australian, the more proper British, Irish, far West (Idaho, Colorado, Arizona), then Southern U.S., mid-Atlantic U.S., Canadians, and Europeans who speak English.

I do find those from India, Pakistan, and some Middle Easterners difficult to understand though I do 't dislike them.
 
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LB99

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We could simplify it to western PA (Yinz) vs eastern PA (yous)?
 
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PSUFTG said:
Was "Netflix-ing" a series set in Scotland recently. It had, kid you not, English subtitles.

Scottish is a series of groans, punctuated by the occasional "Aye". :)
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The Derry Girls series on Netflix was a hoot. Subtitles were a must however.
 
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Like:
Middle Class British and up
Southern if it's a pretty woman from the South
oddly enough - the accents of the Five Boroughs

Dislike:
Western Pa - everyone speaks as if they have marbles in their mouth
Upper Midwestern - everyone speaks through their nose
Hardcore New England and that includes "my cousin....from Boston"

Not sure if this would be considered - but the "upspeak/vocal fry" popularized by young people
 
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I'm working with an Irish team right now on a project. This one guy pronounces all words ending in "ther" as "ddur". Heard it again today a few times. "Other" comes off as "Udder", "further" as "furdder". Not sure if that is unique to him but I'd never picked up that from other Irish folks I've met.
 
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I have some accents I've learned to hate due to sports and politics but I don't think it's appropriate to say much more.
 
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CF Lion said:
I'm working with an Irish team right now on a project. This one guy pronounces all words ending in "ther" as "ddur". Heard it again today a few times. "Other" comes off as "Udder", "further" as "furdder". Not sure if that is unique to him but I'd never picked up that from other Irish folks I've met.
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Hello Mudder
Hello Fadder
Here I am
at Camp Granadder.....
 
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LB99 said:
Agree. I’ll add that after spending a lot of time at youth summer lacrosse tournaments, I’ve grown to dislike Long Island/NY/Northern NJ accents.
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Yeah, they get on my nerves too.

Why can't everyone speak perfect US television English like we do in Central PA? I'm being mostly sarcastic.
 
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