August 13, 2010
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Favorite accent.
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It’s a “toss up” between a NW England accent and a Scottish one. I know there are many variations within these two areas, but my ear cannot discern the difference yet between someone from Blackpool vs. Preston, nor can I tell when I’m hearing an Edinburgh accent or a Glasweigan one.
Irish.
Sydney
Scottish, Irish, British, those are my faves.
Buffalo, NY. It’s a mix of Canadian, Fargo, and Maine.
Oh god, Buffalo is a terrible place. Also, being from the Rochester area, I can’t discern it very well.
the one that got me thinking about this is Lucy’s wonderful Irish, but there are some very specific southern ones I love. rural north texas comes to mind. and the accent of the dude that called coyotes and got bigfoot, for instance.
West African, en français. They take what is already a beautiful language and imbue it with thousands of years of the lilting African cadence.
Ronya–yes! I love that sound you describe so well.
I also love a soft Irish accent. Next to that would be Jamaican–although it has been kind of ruined for me by so many bad imitations of it popping up all the time.
Actually, I love Lucy’s. I’ve always loved an Irish accent and Lucy’s is just right.
Oh! I just saw Deron mentioned Lucy too. Have Y’all listened to her album?
Cuban Spanish is something I love.
Michael, are we supposed to mention that yet? I’ve been hoping she would announce it here.
(And I’ve been listening to Lucy’s “Copenhagen” for the past month! Last I heard, the Official CD Release is set for August 22. It’s very exciting.)
Deron, I’ve assumed Lucy will make a Formal Announcement on the Official Release Date.
She should still make the announcement, I think, but she tweeted about it so I didn’t think it was all hush hush.
South African English-speaking, followed closely by New Zealand.
indubitably.
You can hear a sample of Phil’s fabled Bristolian accent at the start of (and throughout) this first of a two-part Filmwasters podcast. The second part may be up later this month, I’m thinking, and will feature much more of Phil.
This one is hard for me. I love accents of all kinds. I particularly like all variations of a Scottish accent. A Scotsman can sound forceful and fanciful in the same breath. And I agree with Ronya–an Ivory Coast accent just leaves me swooning. Jamaica, too.
But, like Deron, I’m most drawn to sounds from the American South, including Texas. The variations are endless.
Sydney would be my first choice, followed by South African, Japanese English and all manner of Caribbean (Barbados, Dominican, Jamaican)
Scottish, Asian Indian, American Indian
Bloomin’ eck. Okay I have to jump around on the front page about my new record now. Cool to hear you all being excited about it, lads! The CD is actually being released on the 10th of September though you can listen and buy it on my site now, basically. I’m still making a bit of noise about the 10th so if anyone fancies buying it it might be worth waiting until then, and from next week I’ll have the album art up there as a pdf which will download with a download-purchase of the album too. There’ll be a bunch of my own photographs in the cover art and India is typesetting the liner notes right now. I’m really excited about how it’s looking and sounding. Andrew did tonnes of work with the website, so Clusterflock has already been a brilliant help with getting this music out into the world. So if it won’t wear ye all out I might mention Copenhagen (the title) a couple of times over the next month here.
You know, I have always thought of my own accent as one of the least interesting variations of the Irish accent, but for a couple of years when I lived in Copenhagen I got this broad gorgeous soft Clare accent that appeared out of the blue like a cool pair of earrings in a thrift store, and I loved it. I think it was a reaction to living amongst wall to wall Danes. As soon as I went to New York, it disappeared.
Listening to Phil’s podcast on filmwasters now, it’s great to put a voice to the words. Making me excited about getting into this lovely Canon camera with a long nose that I was given about a year ago and haven’t gotten around to using yet. Looking forward to the second part, Phil.
I’m quite partial to Swedes speaking Swedish. Norwegians can also make a lovely sound when they get rolling. Griot French is magnificent. Peculiar accents are also very compelling, like Newfoundland, or the many varieties of New Orleans. It’s also about what gets done with the accent. Local slang and jive is a huge part of the appeal of an accent/dialect.
Lucy has just reminded me how my own prejudices are to certain Canadian accents.
Newfoundland English can sound like pure melody to me.
On the other hand, there’s a certain accent that some Anglos in New Brunswick have. NB is bilingual province, just so people know that I’m not here to piss off the francophones.
Anyway, this NB accent, to my ears, makes even smart, smart people like David Adam Richards – one of Canada’s better writers of the last 20 years or so – sound dumber than a sack of hammers. I think some people in Nova Scotia have it too, but it’s kind of hard to pin down, and you may well have to be Canadian to even hear what the hell I’m talking about.
Anyway, sorry people in New Brunswick, I don’t mean to disparage you… I just don’t like the sound of that English accent from there. Feel free to vent at my bigotry.
I never heard the northern mid-western accent until I lived in Arkansas for a couple of years (where folks around would say, “Ah, luuuhv yo-ah acci-yent”.) By now, I’ve probably picked up the southern-northern accent of Kansas City. I tend to pick up the accent of those around me, especially when I’ve been around awhile. And I can flip over into those I’ve had before at the meerest moment. When Mom calls, I’m immediately, “Ha! How y’all doin’?”
Danny does this too, when his family calls from northern Illinois. (Called. Danny’s Mom, when she was living, when she called (from Des Moines), I knew immediately who was on the other end of the line.) Danny: “Oop, yaaah, sure, you betcha!” Danny’s Mom of second generation Danish descent, grew up in southern Minnesota, didn’t learn English until first grade. He also picks up on and demonstrates a northeast Arkansas accent when we’re in Pocahontas. It’s all quite natural and seems appropriate to me, when we’re in places not our own.
Oh, the question was, favorite? I’d be hard-pressed to say. But I did love Alek Baldwin’s mimic in a scene of “The Hunt for Red October,” of Sean Connery’s accent. (Deron? Say, “submarine,” out loud.)
Rick, exactly.
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