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View Poll Results: You talk funny.
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West Texan
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18 |
6.29% |
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Midwestern
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14 |
4.90% |
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East Texan/Arkansas/Mississippi
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23 |
8.04% |
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Dixie
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16 |
5.59% |
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Arab
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12 |
4.20% |
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New Yawker
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21 |
7.34% |
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New England
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16 |
5.59% |
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Minnesota
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9 |
3.15% |
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California, dude!
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18 |
6.29% |
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Western Canadian
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8 |
2.80% |
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French
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15 |
5.24% |
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Cajun
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6 |
2.10% |
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Spanish
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8 |
2.80% |
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Latin American
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6 |
2.10% |
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Cockney
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14 |
4.90% |
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Welsh
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7 |
2.45% |
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Scots/Irish
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5 |
1.75% |
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Finnish
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11 |
3.85% |
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Scandinavian
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9 |
3.15% |
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German
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8 |
2.80% |
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Slavic
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7 |
2.45% |
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Chinese
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14 |
4.90% |
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Japanese
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11 |
3.85% |
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Aussie
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10 |
3.50% |
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August 12, 2002, 19:04
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King
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Yea, I don't understand why, with TV's in every household, people can allow themselves to have any filthy accent. That really reminds me how much I hate northerners.
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August 12, 2002, 20:20
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Deity
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West Texan ? I guess beauty is in the ear of the beholder.
No vote cast by me. 
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August 12, 2002, 20:24
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Deity
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Oh has to be the Brummie accent, damn annoying, no other accent bothers me, even Geordie or Scouse. Except perhaps a hardcore Hull accent 
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August 12, 2002, 20:32
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King
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Californian valley-girl-speak.
*shudders*
No American high school is immune to this... scourge... 
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August 12, 2002, 21:00
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Deity
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I don't like that American accent, probably mid western, where they talk through their nose and all the "ar"s become "er"s. Like a "car becomes a "cer".
I also don't like that whiny Jewish New York accent exemplified by The Nanny.
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August 12, 2002, 21:11
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Settler
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anything northern of london is irriating cause you simply cant understand it (no matter the good intentions from both sides)
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August 12, 2002, 21:50
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Emperor
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Australian, British, Canadian, Texan - basically everyplace I and my family were not born in. 
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August 12, 2002, 22:47
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Chicago accent is pretty bad sometimes, like my old school bus driver: "Der are tree tings you godda know about da bus..." I just like how they pronounce sausage "sassage."
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August 12, 2002, 23:24
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Settler
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German. It's too gutteral sounding for my liking. My grandparents came from Germany and their accents when they spoke English drove me crazy.
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August 13, 2002, 00:41
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I hate the following...
New England (that whole Ah **** is annoying), New Yorker, Midwestern (what's wrong with that accent? Sounds flat as hell), Minnesota, California (it sounds like garbage), and Cockney (sounds mentally ill).
I dont know too many accents but i like the one a lot of puerto rican girls got... That accent sounds real nice...
But what do people here in Philly speak? I've heard older people talk with that Rocky kind of accent (Yo! Give me sum woodder) but most don't.
thanks
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August 13, 2002, 01:03
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Deity
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Let's face it: Yanks can't speak English for sh*t and are basically destroying it.'
Tanks.
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August 13, 2002, 01:52
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King
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i vote british...
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August 13, 2002, 10:02
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Chieftain
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Originally posted by Tiamat
East Texas! I had a roomate from Arkansas once in College. I have to say that's the worst accent. Unless you're from Texas it's really a hard accent to explain. Similar to Ross Parot's but much more twangy
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I'll try.
West Texas is easy to explain. Ever seen "Lonesome Dove?" It's slow, without sounding slow in the head.
East Texas is the result of excessive inbreeding, and poor diet. Any word can have two sylables. What the rest of the world calls "down," they call "DAY-owwn." It's a "VEE-hickle" It's next to impossible to respect anyone who talks like that.
South Texas is basically dominated by mexicans with a western minority. Central (my accent) is a sped-up version of Western with midwestern tendancies. There's also the German-Texans, bu we prefer not to remember them.
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August 13, 2002, 10:10
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King
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Originally posted by Kaak
i vote british...
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There isn't a uniform british accent
Within Britain there are dozens of very different accents some of which border on being dialects
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August 13, 2002, 10:14
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Damnyankee accents
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August 13, 2002, 10:16
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Of Finnish accents (when talking Finnish), Rauma and Turku accents (in fact, any accent apparently affected by Swedish) are annoying, and the 'Stadi Slang' of Helsinkians sounds somehow unbelievably pretentious.
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August 13, 2002, 10:18
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King
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Though it's not really an accent, theres hardly anything more annoying than homies speaking ebonics....
Know wha I'm sayin'? Aiiight!
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August 13, 2002, 10:25
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Chieftain
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Originally posted by drake
ebonics....
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An affecation. They're too cool for grammar.
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August 13, 2002, 10:34
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Deity
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Leave it to Horse to bring up the Nanny. I agree, however. That's something that has made me want to physically harm my TV. Luckily, I have a remote control.
-Arrian
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August 13, 2002, 10:47
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Deity
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Cantonese...euu...sound's like a bandsaw. And the sad thing is, their women look so foxy. 
Maine is similar--like fingernails on a blackboard.
But California  We don't have accents, you do! 
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August 13, 2002, 10:50
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Prince
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Stockholmska can annoy the hell out of me.
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August 13, 2002, 10:52
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King
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I hate **** Van Dykes "Cockney" Accent in Mary Poppins.
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August 13, 2002, 10:54
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King
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I didn't realise i couldn't say ****, maybe i should have said short for richard
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August 13, 2002, 10:57
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Chieftain
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at least you forgot the apostrophe.
Otherwise, you'd have **** Van ****'s
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August 13, 2002, 11:35
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Warlord
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Brummie, it automatically knocks about 40 points off a persons IQ!
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Cities often develop their own accents quite out of touch with the rest of the region. This is an example.
I vote Glaswegian and Brummy (Brummie?).
Pointless trivia: I used to go to school with Gordon Strachan's daughter when he was at Coventry.
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August 13, 2002, 13:45
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North England.
Provost does have a funny accent.
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August 13, 2002, 13:47
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Deity
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Says Ecthelion, who has a very normal accent.
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August 13, 2002, 13:51
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Prince
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for a german
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August 13, 2002, 13:51
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At least I don't find it funny, because it is normal for me.
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August 13, 2002, 13:52
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Deity
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And PH's accent is abnormal for him?
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