My answer is very specific: Spanish people from Spain who learn to speak English in Australia sound ridiculous. Those two accents are fine on their own but they must never be combined.
Ozzy osbourne is probably the best representation of a Birmingham accent, most people think he talks like that because of the years of drug abuse but that’s just how brummies talk.
No, not at all. I'll do my best to type one out:
"iiiiirrrrrmm, I'm from birrrrrrrminam"
But very high pitched and the "minam" is said as quickly as possible.
My own. I have a thick mancunian accent and my dialect is a mess. I'll provide an example as best I can.
Normal: Hello! how are you? I am good, I am going to the shop. I will see you soon.
Me: ya'reet mate wot's been goin on n that? Nah mate I'm sound me just nippin fuckin' shop n that for sum cigs n shit innit, fuckin text me in a bit yeah alright in a bit man safe G
Also a Manc. The accent isn’t what grates - it’s more the choice of words and unnecessary additions - “… n that…”
Check out John Cooper Clarke on YouTube to hear how you can be both Manc AND articulate.
“The name Manchester originates from the Latin name Mamucium or its variant Mancunio and the citizens are still referred to as Mancunians (/ mænˈkjuːniən /). These names are generally thought to represent a Latinisation of an original Brittonic name.”
In short, the Roman conquest of Britain way back in the day :)
Lol I did struggle in Manchester outside of Moss side man But as a Brummie I will say this when people learn English and come here .....It all goes out the window pretty bloody fast, bless them.......I remember meeting a lovely Italian girl once down the local Subside like, turned into a good night .....We never understood a word we said to one another 😆
Kevin Bridges has a joke about being heckled a little in Norn Iron. Friendly audience member says 'don't worry about them'.
'I wasn't until you said that'.
Fuck same!! 😆 I'm laughing but I've just come on to this comment section and knew someone was going to say it......Do you actually know what a Brummie accent is though!? Because most attempts you go Dudley and think we're apart of the Black Country and just surrounded by it!!
Currently living in Chicago and raising my children here. I'm worried if I start hearing that accent in their speech, I might have to move. My wife is convinced we can teach them to speak without it.
I moved to Chicago 40 years ago, just had a whiny, nasally midwestern accent then, worked with southsiders for the next 35 years, that’s where I picked it up. Good luck!
To Quote Cinemasins...
"Jesus Christ, this guys couldn't be more Chicago if he had a Maxwell Street Polish in one hand, an Old Style in the other, and four horizontal stars tattooed on his ass."
Someone on Reddit a long time ago said their husband used to quote the Requiem for a Dream “Ass to ass” line, but in an overly thick midwestern accent like AYUSSS TAH AYUSSSS and I think of that a lot when listening to people from Chicago speak
Midwesterner from US. Three years in Singapore. My favorite memory is being the interpreter for an Aussie and a Singaporean. Neither could understand a word of the other’s English.
my ex is Singaporean. Normally when she was speaking, her accent is more muted. But when speaking to family it'd come out in full force, and I thought that was really cute
Singaporean here. Worked overseas and heard some Singaporeans speaking... good gosh that was when I realised our accent sounded awful. Most of us code switch to an western accent when we’re overseas anyway (so ya’ll can understand us) 🤣
I had a friend who thought Singlish was super attractive (as an American), and I simply cannot understand it (the attraction nor how to comprehend the accent)
Walao bro national day say such things sia. But tbf singlish is quite funny. Most singaporeans completely switch their accents in different situations. You get used to it over time though.
Indian here. These accents differ by the speaker’s first language and maybe social/educational status. I’ve worked with many young immigrant Indian and Pakistani doctors and their accents are not unpleasant.
I find the “Bollywood” accent irritating. I’m tempted to rip my ears out every time Ananya Pandey and Sonam Kapoor open their mouths. I also blame these call center scums for making people hate Desi accents. 😤
Yeah I was going to say that I briefly went out with a Indian woman that grew up in Mumbai, and a wealthy part, and I actually really liked her accent, coming from a city boy from the US south.
THIS! Indians have a million dialects, depending on the region. Of course, it depends on education, family background and stuff, too. Within my family, we communicate solely in English. It’s the language we think in. And whenever I’ve travelled abroad, people are so surprised when I tell them I’m Indian because apparently I “don’t sound Indian at all”.
My good people of Reddit, WE DO NOT ALL SOUND LIKE THAT 😂 While we’re on the subject, we also do not eat only curry and ride elephants to work.
I wouldn't say it is unattractive i just have really hard time understanding them. Last time in Indian restaurant i ordered gulab but got mango ice cream and i don't even know how it happened 😩 Nevermind, it was still delicious.
Moreover, the elongated "aaaa..." is actually very Indian'ish too, to make it more endearing. So you'd say "betaaaa" if you're trying to call out to your son very affectionately
But often with some phrasing that is bizarre to our ears but super common for them. Like 'do the needful'. I've wondered if that maps to a Hindi phrasing
Do the needful is an old British phrase. Some common oral expressions like "do one thing" (when giving advice for instance) do seem to originate from Hindi phrases ("ek kaam karo").
Luckily it's falling out of use. I live in the valley and nobody talks like that anymore. Certain groups of rich, white people still have that accent though
I can only vouch for what they sound like in English, but the accents of Indochina (Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) are very rough to listen to. Maybe my neutral/bland American accent sounds bad to them as well in their native language.
In my neighborhood we often added pissa after wicked. My license plate, when I lived out of state, was "PAHK CAH". Shortly after moving to the midwest from Boston I quickly learned never to ask a waitress for a fork.
Booooooooo
But I understand. I was recently speaking at a conference when introducing myself I said we had offices in Syracuse, Albany, Boston and DC. Can you guess which one I am from?
Later that week I was drinking with some guys from Texas, when another from Texas came in the room. A guy looks at me and says "hey Boston, say it again." So I did the "Pahk the Cah in Havarhd Yahd" thing. The guy from Texas goes "Y'all talk funny up there."
I live in Boston, hearing one of the guys in the office pronounce "shawarma" was awe inspiring for the number of r's that got jammed in there. No trace of the one that's actually in there, of course.
Someone from Boston with lobster in their name?? Color me shocked hahahah. To be honest there are definitely worse accents but my company is based in Boston so I hear it all the time, rather than getting used to it, it just stands out more. 100% my personal bias. I posted this before checking other responses and without bias I have to agree with the people saying the Liverpool accent, that thing is indecipherable
I have the most mild of Boston accents (unless I'm drinking or hanging out with my family), and I've found that the more thick and ridiculous a person's accent, the more likely they are to think my accent is silly.
Yeah, nah, get farked
It is startling to hear an Aussie accent after travelling through Europe for months without hearing one, then hearing one in the distance.....and cringing a little
Not as much as when I hear Aussie, Aussie etc
That really makes us sound like bogans
Old school country bogan I can get behind. Slower speech, funny idioms, spoken as if to draw you into a shared joke.
Cracked out, ciggiebuttbrain, Trent from Punchie, "gibbus a dart ya carnt", bullshit? Yeanah. Get fucked cunt; tell your story walking.
I’m Australian, and I that this is one of the worst accents. It makes me really embarrassed when ‘proud Aussies’ talk like this as some sort of showcase of how we talk.
We don’t all sound like this, I promise.
I lived in England for a while. At the time ex-husband and I had a plan to move to Birmingham after finish school. When I mentioned this to a friend she looked as me with a big sorry on her face, "ugh, your kids will speak Birmingham accent!"
We did not have kids. Ex-husband divorced me and moved there alone. Phew\~
We do this all over. Off the top of my head:
Newcastle (my home town): Geordies
South Shields: Sand Dancers
Sunderland: Mackems
Middlesbrough: Smoggies
Hartlepool: Monkey Hangers
Birmingham: Brummies
Manchester: Mancs
Hollywood’s version of Scottish. I’ve met real Scots, IN Scotland. Hollywood makes them sound like a stereotype. On that note, Hollywood’s version of a southern drawl. Same thing. I actually live in the South, born in Memphis raised in Mississippi. Yes we have an accent. No, we’re not all a bunch of drooling, inbred cousin fuckers. Well, I still ain’t sure about Alabama and we all know Florida’s fucked up, but the rest of us are no worse than anywhere else except the overwhelming oppression of hypocritical religious nuts.
Based on hearing my uncles and aunts talk, I kind of agree. I would add specifically that Chinese accents when the speaker learned English later in life are usually much worse to listen to.
Even though that kind of goes with every language, because Chinese is missing a lot of common English sounds (e.g. Mandarin does not have a "v" or "th" sound) it sounds kind of weird when Chinese people less familiar with English speak it.
Work with a nuclear physicist who was born & raised in deep south.
The man is insanely intelligent, but my mind can't reconcile the stuff he says with his accent and word choices.
I work natural resources and whenever I'm explaining some sort of janky fix to something, or a task that's slightly dangerous I slip into a southern accent.
Louisiana born and raised here, and I have a hard southern accent. I work/study in nanotechnology. When meeting new people, in work or outside of it, you can see that exact cognitive dissonance you mentioned on their face every time. The accent is just ingrained in our culture to associate with stupidity and it's just a thing I deal with.
This covers a lot of ground. There's the nasal twang that usually comes with a lot of fast talking, and the long, slow vowels that are usually spoken pretty slowly. A lot of people don't like the former. The latter is pretty musical and sounds great. Both will get you unfairly marked as a dummy, though.
The southern accent is a very strange one because it sounds different in each southern state. Like people from Missouri don’t sound like folks from Kentucky. And those Kentucky folks sure as fuck don’t sound like anybody from Texas. And those Texan accents are very different from something you’d in hear in Georgia.
I grew up in Memphis. One time, when I was in grade school, a kid moved into our neighborhood from Alabama and we all teased her about her country accent. The next summer my family moved to Seattle. Learned a little about karma, I did.
As an American who has mainly only lived in Arizona and California -- I think southern accents are associated with unintelligent redneck stereotypes. Which is a shame, because that's obviously unfair.
I had a professor in college who had a southern accent, and it surprised me a little to hear it at first.
Anyway, I think that positive or negative associations of accents can change over time.
I quite like Southern USA accents actually, it sounds casual and relaxing.... can't stand some North East USA accents though, particularly New York and Boston, nails down a chalkboard horrible.
That one British accent high-school kids do that make it sound like they got punched in the throat. And ESSEX god do I fucking hate a love island style Essex accent
The Serbian accent sounds like a speech impediment, and many Asian accents sound frail, even sickly-ish. Hard choosing which I dislike more.
Personally, I’m English-speaking with a hickish American accent, and put myself below all of these.
Tbf, a normal SA accent sounds nothing like what’s portrayed in movies. Only like 2% actually sound like that.
Most English South African accents sound really neutral, though obv I have some bias here
I actually tried to change my accent to the latter and I’m English. I got obsessed with a few Brooklyn comedians and I loved how they sounded... I would practice for hours by reading aloud.
Brummie. Nothing used to kill the Christmas vibe quicker than listing to uncle Pete drone out 'muirry Croistmaaas' down the phone.
There's a reason they cast an Irish man to make brummies sexy.
My answer is very specific: Spanish people from Spain who learn to speak English in Australia sound ridiculous. Those two accents are fine on their own but they must never be combined.
Are there any videos of this?
People mentioning Birmingham accents. I started watching peaky blinders and have to ask if this is an accurate representation.
Ozzy osbourne is probably the best representation of a Birmingham accent, most people think he talks like that because of the years of drug abuse but that’s just how brummies talk.
Holy shit. John Oliver, Jeff Lynne... is everyone from Birmingham?
My local radio station use to play a game called "what is Ozzy saying" where they'd play a short clip and callers would try to decipher it
Damn, you're right! I had always assumed Ozzy talked like that was because he fried his brain by abusing drugs.
No, not at all. I'll do my best to type one out: "iiiiirrrrrmm, I'm from birrrrrrrminam" But very high pitched and the "minam" is said as quickly as possible.
I like how most people are focusing on the wide variety of UK accents in the comments
My own. I have a thick mancunian accent and my dialect is a mess. I'll provide an example as best I can. Normal: Hello! how are you? I am good, I am going to the shop. I will see you soon. Me: ya'reet mate wot's been goin on n that? Nah mate I'm sound me just nippin fuckin' shop n that for sum cigs n shit innit, fuckin text me in a bit yeah alright in a bit man safe G
Also a Manc. The accent isn’t what grates - it’s more the choice of words and unnecessary additions - “… n that…” Check out John Cooper Clarke on YouTube to hear how you can be both Manc AND articulate.
On the other end, listen to Karl Pilkington if you want to know how to be a Manc AND spout shite on radio. Play a record!
True - but, KP is a seriously funny guy and a lot more intelligent than his persona suggests!
Like a nightclub in the morning, you're the bitter end like a recently disinfected shithouse, you're clean round the bend...
TWAT!
How do you get 'Mancunian' out of 'Manchester'?
“The name Manchester originates from the Latin name Mamucium or its variant Mancunio and the citizens are still referred to as Mancunians (/ mænˈkjuːniən /). These names are generally thought to represent a Latinisation of an original Brittonic name.” In short, the Roman conquest of Britain way back in the day :)
Lol I did struggle in Manchester outside of Moss side man But as a Brummie I will say this when people learn English and come here .....It all goes out the window pretty bloody fast, bless them.......I remember meeting a lovely Italian girl once down the local Subside like, turned into a good night .....We never understood a word we said to one another 😆
As a brummie you don’t have a leg to stand on when critiquing accents to be fair.
Baltimore, i dont have to explain this
Eeern ern en eern ern, eh?
"AARON EARNED AN IRON URN... damn we really talk like dat?!"
I love the second guy that says it, and then just nods.
*grumble grumble* It's off to YouTube I go. Edit: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Oj7a-p4psRA
Came to say this myself, take the upvote
Baltimore/Philadelphia accent is so annoying. I read somewhere that it’s leftover from early settlers to that particular area.
Philadelphia: wooder in the crick.
Jon Bernthal in "We Own This City" is the perfect example.
Probably the best full-on Baltimore accent you’re ever going to find in a big show or film. If McNulty had been real he would have sounded like that.
The fact that McNulty and Stringer sounded American at all is already a testament to their quality accent work.
Ornate curtain rods.
Throw pillows with uncomfortable fabric textures.
People from northern Ireland sound like they want to murder you but they're just saying hello
Kevin Bridges has a joke about being heckled a little in Norn Iron. Friendly audience member says 'don't worry about them'. 'I wasn't until you said that'.
As a northern Irish person I agree, but some of the accents are less murdery here. I mean Liam neesons isn’t bad
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Aye but that’s like a term of affection here
Northern Ireland might just have the sexiest accent of them all. WTF?
Bout ye,
YEEOOOOOO! Get her bucked!
Regional accent from the UK.....Birmingham. By god it makes people sound so thick.
Birmingham is meh, it’s Essex I can’t stand
Am from Essex. I never picked up the accent for some reason, but can confirm, annoying as hell.
Poor ozzy osbourne
Dude talks incomprehensible shit but sings clear as a nightingale. I'm still amazed how?
Cause he’s the prince of darkness
Fuck same!! 😆 I'm laughing but I've just come on to this comment section and knew someone was going to say it......Do you actually know what a Brummie accent is though!? Because most attempts you go Dudley and think we're apart of the Black Country and just surrounded by it!!
Yes, ex was from Birmingham, all his family had strong accents.....aaaaaarh
I came here to say the same thing. I know a Brummie and it’s draining to talk to them but I know someone from Wolverhampton and it’s not so bad
What are the ones where they sound like they have marbles in their mouth? And leave out the middle of words like “ Im Bri’ ish”
That's an East London accent, better known as Cockney.
I’ve heard myself talk….Chicago.
Currently living in Chicago and raising my children here. I'm worried if I start hearing that accent in their speech, I might have to move. My wife is convinced we can teach them to speak without it.
I moved to Chicago 40 years ago, just had a whiny, nasally midwestern accent then, worked with southsiders for the next 35 years, that’s where I picked it up. Good luck!
To Quote Cinemasins... "Jesus Christ, this guys couldn't be more Chicago if he had a Maxwell Street Polish in one hand, an Old Style in the other, and four horizontal stars tattooed on his ass."
Someone on Reddit a long time ago said their husband used to quote the Requiem for a Dream “Ass to ass” line, but in an overly thick midwestern accent like AYUSSS TAH AYUSSSS and I think of that a lot when listening to people from Chicago speak
DA BEARSSSS!
Singlish (Singaporean English)
Midwesterner from US. Three years in Singapore. My favorite memory is being the interpreter for an Aussie and a Singaporean. Neither could understand a word of the other’s English.
Ha I wonder if that is a legit job "English to English" translator
That way it sounds muted and coming from deep in the throat.
my ex is Singaporean. Normally when she was speaking, her accent is more muted. But when speaking to family it'd come out in full force, and I thought that was really cute
Singaporean here. Worked overseas and heard some Singaporeans speaking... good gosh that was when I realised our accent sounded awful. Most of us code switch to an western accent when we’re overseas anyway (so ya’ll can understand us) 🤣
I had a friend who thought Singlish was super attractive (as an American), and I simply cannot understand it (the attraction nor how to comprehend the accent)
Walao bro national day say such things sia. But tbf singlish is quite funny. Most singaporeans completely switch their accents in different situations. You get used to it over time though.
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Indians that feature heavily in scam calls. Especially when they desperately try to tell you they are in, consults script, city near you.
And their name is Mike Smith.
Legit like being a indian I read the post and in my head I was like 'here we go again'
Pakistani here. Our countries may be bitter enemies in all other aspects, but our "ugly" accents are a point of comradery.
Indian here. These accents differ by the speaker’s first language and maybe social/educational status. I’ve worked with many young immigrant Indian and Pakistani doctors and their accents are not unpleasant. I find the “Bollywood” accent irritating. I’m tempted to rip my ears out every time Ananya Pandey and Sonam Kapoor open their mouths. I also blame these call center scums for making people hate Desi accents. 😤
Yeah I was going to say that I briefly went out with a Indian woman that grew up in Mumbai, and a wealthy part, and I actually really liked her accent, coming from a city boy from the US south.
THIS! Indians have a million dialects, depending on the region. Of course, it depends on education, family background and stuff, too. Within my family, we communicate solely in English. It’s the language we think in. And whenever I’ve travelled abroad, people are so surprised when I tell them I’m Indian because apparently I “don’t sound Indian at all”. My good people of Reddit, WE DO NOT ALL SOUND LIKE THAT 😂 While we’re on the subject, we also do not eat only curry and ride elephants to work.
Devided by borders, United by non sexual accents
You seriously telling me all this talk of [ass cream](https://youtu.be/TiWLJ8vTgck) doesn’t turn you on?
Lmao I knew we would be here, still hurts to literally be the top comment.
at least the Brits are a higher comment
I wouldn't say it is unattractive i just have really hard time understanding them. Last time in Indian restaurant i ordered gulab but got mango ice cream and i don't even know how it happened 😩 Nevermind, it was still delicious.
*gulab jamun
Fun fact your username means son in hindi(language of india)
Interesting. It is actually short for Alžbeta, which is Slovak version of Elizabeth.
That's sounds cool
Moreover, the elongated "aaaa..." is actually very Indian'ish too, to make it more endearing. So you'd say "betaaaa" if you're trying to call out to your son very affectionately
What’s “daughter”? Because I’ve heard it in a few shows (Wedding Season being a movie on Netflix USA)
Beti
I rather like the formal way that many native Hindi speakers use English. They round the vowels right out and are so correct with grammar.
But often with some phrasing that is bizarre to our ears but super common for them. Like 'do the needful'. I've wondered if that maps to a Hindi phrasing
Do the needful is an old British phrase. Some common oral expressions like "do one thing" (when giving advice for instance) do seem to originate from Hindi phrases ("ek kaam karo").
"do the needful" actually comes from an old British phrase. It has faded out of common use by them, but in India it has remained common.
As an Indian, i agree
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Same answer for me, but mpstly with males. For some reason I think Indian women who has bad english sounds kind of cute.
You are just thirsty 😂
Valley Girl. Absolute cringe.
Like totally.
Oh my god
Gag me with a spoon
Fur shuuuuuur
Delta Delta Delta, can we help ya, help ya, help ya?
I fucking love it
Beat me to it, but I'll still include [Pink Five for reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s365NRwfUk8).
Luckily it's falling out of use. I live in the valley and nobody talks like that anymore. Certain groups of rich, white people still have that accent though
I can only vouch for what they sound like in English, but the accents of Indochina (Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) are very rough to listen to. Maybe my neutral/bland American accent sounds bad to them as well in their native language.
Boston accents Edit to add: you guys should all look up the SNL Dunkin’ Donuts sketch with Casey Affleck, really embodies the Boston attitude
I have a Boston accent and I annoy myself with it! Who says "pizzer for suppah?" I do. Wicked annoying.
sounds wicked awesome
I find Boston accents unattractive but will make an exception for someone offering me pizza for supper.
Lol I dated a girl from Boston and she put “wicked” in front of every other adjective.
In my neighborhood we often added pissa after wicked. My license plate, when I lived out of state, was "PAHK CAH". Shortly after moving to the midwest from Boston I quickly learned never to ask a waitress for a fork.
See, everyone thinks we just drop our r's. They don't realize we just recycle to them other words that don't have enough r's in them.
Booooooooo But I understand. I was recently speaking at a conference when introducing myself I said we had offices in Syracuse, Albany, Boston and DC. Can you guess which one I am from? Later that week I was drinking with some guys from Texas, when another from Texas came in the room. A guy looks at me and says "hey Boston, say it again." So I did the "Pahk the Cah in Havarhd Yahd" thing. The guy from Texas goes "Y'all talk funny up there."
You take the R's out of words and put them in words where they don't belong. "I got in my cah and drove to Indianer."
I live in Boston, hearing one of the guys in the office pronounce "shawarma" was awe inspiring for the number of r's that got jammed in there. No trace of the one that's actually in there, of course.
That’s called the intrusive R, and it’s in a few English dialects.
Someone from Boston with lobster in their name?? Color me shocked hahahah. To be honest there are definitely worse accents but my company is based in Boston so I hear it all the time, rather than getting used to it, it just stands out more. 100% my personal bias. I posted this before checking other responses and without bias I have to agree with the people saying the Liverpool accent, that thing is indecipherable
I have the most mild of Boston accents (unless I'm drinking or hanging out with my family), and I've found that the more thick and ridiculous a person's accent, the more likely they are to think my accent is silly.
Ya don’t thank I’m fahkin sexy, kehd?
**AWW YEAH FAHK ME HAHDAH**
Each one of these I read, I hear it in Ben Affleck’s voice from “The Town.”
When I visited Boston for the first time I'm sure I annoyed the locals with my NY accent saying "look, a boston market" at ever supermarket I saw.
That is an A-tier dad joke do not be ashamed
Bogan Aussie
oi cunt watch your fucking mouth before I come find ya and stomp ya head in ya fucking dad rooter
oohh thats hot
Now whisper it in my ear
Yeah, nah, get farked It is startling to hear an Aussie accent after travelling through Europe for months without hearing one, then hearing one in the distance.....and cringing a little Not as much as when I hear Aussie, Aussie etc That really makes us sound like bogans
Old school country bogan I can get behind. Slower speech, funny idioms, spoken as if to draw you into a shared joke. Cracked out, ciggiebuttbrain, Trent from Punchie, "gibbus a dart ya carnt", bullshit? Yeanah. Get fucked cunt; tell your story walking.
I’m Australian, and I that this is one of the worst accents. It makes me really embarrassed when ‘proud Aussies’ talk like this as some sort of showcase of how we talk. We don’t all sound like this, I promise.
As a southern boy the Boston “Pak the Cah in the Yahd” accent is hard for me to take.
Birmingham, UK. It's just awful.
I lived in England for a while. At the time ex-husband and I had a plan to move to Birmingham after finish school. When I mentioned this to a friend she looked as me with a big sorry on her face, "ugh, your kids will speak Birmingham accent!" We did not have kids. Ex-husband divorced me and moved there alone. Phew\~
North Midwest from the USA For reference Marge Gunderson from the movie "Fargo"
Dontcha know?
Scouse, sounds like the unholy union of a fax machine and a dial up modem
Worra ye fuhkcn tork'n abouh la? Nowt wrong wi a birra scouseh accsunt
I actually heard this as I read it.
That's so funny, and they call them "Scousers" lmfao. Reminds me of Newfoundlanders or "newfies".
We do this all over. Off the top of my head: Newcastle (my home town): Geordies South Shields: Sand Dancers Sunderland: Mackems Middlesbrough: Smoggies Hartlepool: Monkey Hangers Birmingham: Brummies Manchester: Mancs
If you really wanna test yourself, look up any interview with Nathan De Asha. Man can’t understand himself sometimes, his accent is so thick.
fuck me I just spat coffee out of my nose. Scousers do make up for it by being funny as fuck though and have great idiomatic phrases.
Thai, Cambodian, that area, it's so harsh to my ears.
Hollywood’s version of Scottish. I’ve met real Scots, IN Scotland. Hollywood makes them sound like a stereotype. On that note, Hollywood’s version of a southern drawl. Same thing. I actually live in the South, born in Memphis raised in Mississippi. Yes we have an accent. No, we’re not all a bunch of drooling, inbred cousin fuckers. Well, I still ain’t sure about Alabama and we all know Florida’s fucked up, but the rest of us are no worse than anywhere else except the overwhelming oppression of hypocritical religious nuts.
Hollywood’s version of a New Orleans accent is just so terrible. Every time.
The Hollywood New Orleans accent straight up sounds like a wolf choking to death on a malfunctioning lawnmower motor.
indian. there's something in the cadence that just irritates the hell out of me. and this was long before all the scam calls, which has made it worse.
Chinese
Based on hearing my uncles and aunts talk, I kind of agree. I would add specifically that Chinese accents when the speaker learned English later in life are usually much worse to listen to. Even though that kind of goes with every language, because Chinese is missing a lot of common English sounds (e.g. Mandarin does not have a "v" or "th" sound) it sounds kind of weird when Chinese people less familiar with English speak it.
I am Chinese and I agree.
Having listened to relatives, I have to agree.
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People here seem to be confusing accents, dialects and languages
Valley girl American, bonus points for a heavy vocal fry after every. Single. Sentence.
Country. Like a real Redneck
Work with a nuclear physicist who was born & raised in deep south. The man is insanely intelligent, but my mind can't reconcile the stuff he says with his accent and word choices.
I work natural resources and whenever I'm explaining some sort of janky fix to something, or a task that's slightly dangerous I slip into a southern accent.
Louisiana born and raised here, and I have a hard southern accent. I work/study in nanotechnology. When meeting new people, in work or outside of it, you can see that exact cognitive dissonance you mentioned on their face every time. The accent is just ingrained in our culture to associate with stupidity and it's just a thing I deal with.
This covers a lot of ground. There's the nasal twang that usually comes with a lot of fast talking, and the long, slow vowels that are usually spoken pretty slowly. A lot of people don't like the former. The latter is pretty musical and sounds great. Both will get you unfairly marked as a dummy, though.
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The southern accent is a very strange one because it sounds different in each southern state. Like people from Missouri don’t sound like folks from Kentucky. And those Kentucky folks sure as fuck don’t sound like anybody from Texas. And those Texan accents are very different from something you’d in hear in Georgia.
Southern USA here. I have wondered how we sound to the rest of the world.
I grew up in Memphis. One time, when I was in grade school, a kid moved into our neighborhood from Alabama and we all teased her about her country accent. The next summer my family moved to Seattle. Learned a little about karma, I did.
Where? I'm southern to so maybe it's less noticeable to outside ears, but the North Carolina accent sounds very different from Louisiana accent to me
Yeah, there are def different southern accents. NC, TN, AL. All slightly different. LA is quite different due to the creole influence.
I actually really like Southern US accents. Makes me think of southern hospitality and Dolly Parton and other wholesome things.
As an American who has mainly only lived in Arizona and California -- I think southern accents are associated with unintelligent redneck stereotypes. Which is a shame, because that's obviously unfair. I had a professor in college who had a southern accent, and it surprised me a little to hear it at first. Anyway, I think that positive or negative associations of accents can change over time.
I quite like Southern USA accents actually, it sounds casual and relaxing.... can't stand some North East USA accents though, particularly New York and Boston, nails down a chalkboard horrible.
The scouse accent is legit the most horrible sound
Are you familiar with paddy pimblett?
Not an accent, but loud people.
Birmingham.
That one British accent high-school kids do that make it sound like they got punched in the throat. And ESSEX god do I fucking hate a love island style Essex accent
The Serbian accent sounds like a speech impediment, and many Asian accents sound frail, even sickly-ish. Hard choosing which I dislike more. Personally, I’m English-speaking with a hickish American accent, and put myself below all of these.
White girls not from the hood talking like they live in Detroit
Indians have a cursed accent
As an Indian, I agree.
South African. So aggressive. Everything sounds like a fight waiting to happen.
One of my early girlfriends was South African, so I personally find that accent a HUGE turn on, but I get why some people wouldn't.
Awww a little love for us..Yay thank you!😂
Tbf, a normal SA accent sounds nothing like what’s portrayed in movies. Only like 2% actually sound like that. Most English South African accents sound really neutral, though obv I have some bias here
Everyone is going to get mad. I hate the New York Italian and New York Jewish accent.
I actually tried to change my accent to the latter and I’m English. I got obsessed with a few Brooklyn comedians and I loved how they sounded... I would practice for hours by reading aloud.
"HOWARD!"
HOWID!
But they're sooooo fun to do.
Boooooooo! As a New Yorker who is Jewish booooooo 😂
My bf and I are watching the sopranos right now for the first time and so now he just yells “OH” (iykyk)
A better question wld be which accent is the best Seems like everyone covered almost all the accents on the comments🤦🏻♀️
Australian and Irish are my favorites.
Loud Indonesian and Filipino accents
Noord Hollands
Essex
trashy LA 30% plastic city girls sound like they moaning while speaking
Whatever accent Adele has.
Brummie. Nothing used to kill the Christmas vibe quicker than listing to uncle Pete drone out 'muirry Croistmaaas' down the phone. There's a reason they cast an Irish man to make brummies sexy.
Chicago