Accents and The Escapist!

[Apollo45]

We don't have an accent in Colorado. I'm not joking in the slightest; we'll go somewhere, and people will notice that we speak differently, but no one knows where. The most they can say is that we sound "normal", but they can't really explain it. It's odd, to say the least, but kindof entertaining.

We do get our own variations on the 'normal' accent that we have, of course, but that's mostly borrowed from other areas/accents and depends on the situation. When I go hunting with my dad and buddies, the way I talk changes almost completely without any conscious effort on my part. Same with when I'm just sitting around drinking a few beers, or talking with my parents, or playing a video game.

The closest thing to 'unique' that we have is that we don't pronounce our "T's" unless they're at the beginning of the word. I suppose that would be a form of accent, but at the same time it's not nearly unique enough to distinguish our dialect as something that people would be able to pick out. Even among other Mid-Westerners, where accents are about as un-accenty as you can get, we don't stick out at all.

 

[DanielBrown]

I live in Stockholm, Sweden, so my accent should be "Stockholmska", as already mentioned. I believe it's rather disliked by the other parts of Sweden, mainly because we apparently pronounce "ä" like our "e" and sound a bit more intellectual/snooty. Don't hear it myself though.
Wouldn't know about my English accent, but I at least hope I sound better than the previous generation of Swedes. Their English can be pretty damn awful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholmska

 

[JaceArveduin]

My town is about...10-15 minutes from the Texan border, so everyone here tends to have a bit of a Texan drawl. Nothing like you see on TV/Film, but we do say

"Y'all" (as in, you guys)
"Fixing to" (as in, about to)
and using in' instead of ing
Wantin' oppose to wanting

Now, we put it all together

"What are y'all doin', I'm fixin' to go to the store"

Yeah, that's abit familiar, seeing as I live about 30 from Texas's northern border. I can sound like Big Mac off of ponies without trying too hard.

 

[Screamarie]

I was born and raised in Texas so I have that southern thing down. Ya'll and all that. We're such slow talkers...but hey if you don't have the patience to listen then you're not worth talking to in the first place XD

 

[ChupathingyX]

I live in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia but I honestly have no idea what accent I have.

I don't have a "muzza" accent, or a "bogon" accent, the basic Australian accent (at least, I don't think I do) and I don't sound like Steve Irwin.

 

[dvd_72]

While unable to hear my own (And who really can anyways?) I've been told I have a "typical" american accent, which apparently means a new yorkerish accent. This despite having never lived in the US in my entire life. I guess that comes from having grown up in an international school though.

Throw on the fact that I have a Mediterranean look due to my father being from Israel and people are always surprised when I tell them I'm from Belgium!

 

[Sonicron]

Well, the part of southern Germany I hail from isn't that heavy on the accent; instead it has its own dialect, one many of my fellow Germans find difficult to understand. Especially in the southern parts of Hessen, words may take on heavily altered forms, e.g. "nicht" becomes "net", "morgen" becomes "mosche", "einmal" becomes "emohl" etc. I guess for an outsider the dialect might sound like a tightly controlled drunken drawl.

 

[XandNobody]

Let's see, I have a Midwestern Indiana accent to be sure, but as I've been raised on TV and the internet for the last, twelve years at least, I'd be willing to bet my accent is closer to the neutral 'TV' accent most television personalities have to fake for our boring benefit. Granted, also closer to Canada than Tennessee, that has to have a (positive) effect.

I know this because people from Indiana say crick, but dammit to hell it is creek, two e's you son of a...

So, yea, my accent is American TV, minus Fox News, dear sweet lord, minus Fox News.

Also, to others outside the country, only New York sounds like New York, it's the only state that does, stop talking to me like I am the damned godfather. Thank you.

 

[willofbob]

Strangely, despie the fact that I'm Aussie through and through going back four generations at the least, I tend to have a slight South English accent (posh), occasionally slipping into what I can only describe as a British General accent (i.e. Look lie'ly!, Don' stand around gawking!, etc.)or Irish. It's patently bizzare.
My native Queensland accent (which I don't have)sounds similar to cockney, except we can pronounce H and T, rahter thickly as well.

As a side note, I tend to use longer, more posh words than strictly neccesary. I am also training myself to speak in 1920s slang, but it sin't going very well.

 

[TiloXofXTanto]

I, quite unfortunately, have the "General American Accent" or "Newscaster accent"
So, my vernacular is what one would expect to hear in movies and on TV a good majority of the time.

However, I have a strange knack for learning, copying, and becoming stuck in other accents, so more often than not I'll have a strange broken foreign accent instead of my natural normal one.

This habit has lead several people to initially believe that I come from (List time):
1. Northern England (no specifics on that, accent is really the bastard child of a good number of them)
2. Austria (not sure where)
3. Minnesota
4. Texas
5. Kansas
6. Turkey (still don't know how exactly I managed that)
7. South Africa
8. New England
9. and Australia

 

[Cazza]

A general Australian accent. I don't have a broad accent nor cultivated accent. If I ever go overseas I wonder how many people would recognize my accent as Australian.

 

[octafish]

I have a Geelong accent, well, call it Melbournian. Just what you'd hear on Neighbours, nothing to exaggerated. Maybe the upward lilt at the end of sentences creeps in?

Oh and just an FYI Melbourne isn't pronounced with a long Bourne, it's more like Mel-burn but the burn is really short almost like bun.

 

[MetalBuddhist]

I personally have a typical Southern English RP accent, the amount of formality increasing if I'm talking with strangers and taking on a slight tone of West Country if I'm with friends or family. A lot of people seem to think my accent is "posh" but to me it just sounds normal. Then again people often don't seem to be able to hear their own accent, I've had both a Welsh and American friend be surprised when I tell them they have an accent

Its exactly the same with me, I generally have a RP accent, but the occasional word comes out West Country. From my experience, people are always more sensitive at hearing other people's accents than their own - at Uni, there are lots of people with what sound like strong northern accents to me who insist that they don't have one.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Non-bogan Australian accent, or do all Australians sound like bogans to other countries?

 

[The Bum]

However, I have a strange knack for learning, copying, and becoming stuck in other accents, so more often than not I'll have a strange broken foreign accent instead of my natural normal one.

I often do this too, troublesome, isn't it?

 

[FamoFunk]

I'm Welsh so have a Welsh accent.

You is, "Ewe"
"Mun" is added on to the end of sentences, "Look at ewe mun" so is "like".

Also, we apparently say things like, "Who's coat is that jacket hanging up on the floor?"

 

[Colour Scientist]

Jayzus, I have an Oirish accent. Fiddly-iddely-ee.

Not really but I'm not sure what kind of accent I have. Definitely Irish but I moved around a lot as a kid and I ended up moving from cities to the middle of nowhere and back to cities so I suppose I have some sort of mash-up, combined with watching too much American TV when I was younger.

For Irish people, I definitely do not have a culchie accent. Dem, dat, dese and dose, if you know what I mean.

 

[Stalydan]

A Mancunian accent. Not really strong but it's definitely noticeable.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I have no accent what so ever althought this guy I know thought I had an American accent.

 

[sdfgsdfgdfsg]

Ugh, i have what i call a "russian tourist accent".Mainly it's me saying "f" instead of "th" in some words(somefing, Souf, fing, etc), having problems with the "r" letter in such way that i always overextend it which makes me sound a bit like a retarded pirate, and trying too hard to pronounce every word.I would give anything to get rid of my shitty accent, but, obviously, you can't pickup a good english accent in Russia, so, yeah. :\