I've lost my native accent...

[Kathx]

For me, it seems every a-hole in school had that annoying redneck accent and the dumb ones had the southern accent... so I choose to have no accent... it makes a lot of people think I'm not from Arkansas now that I'm out of high school

 

[Murrah]

My accent is un-loseable(is that a word?) and I enjoy having it as it causes no end of confusion to non-brits.

I have heard your accent and in my opinion its not really impressive.


You know i'm joking please dont punish me

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Not meaning to cause offence but accents do sound different to different people; this for me demonstrated by the few times at an airport (im from UK) when an american person has been in the UK a while and they re-meet their family they get the "Oh you've got a british accent now!" but to me a native Brit they still sound very strongly American. As for my native accent I never really had one; being from hampshire by rights i should sound like a cross between cockney and stereotype farmer (its a horrible one). Having spoken to several people including several foreign students only one of them said I had an accent and I think that was only because I talk to fast.

I do think its possible to change accents though because being in plymouth (UK) now im starting to pick up some accented words which worries me (the plymouth accent example would be "reet mat" for "alright mate").

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I've managed to maintain a cosmopolitan accent for the greater part of my life, but it isn't actualy my "native" accent. As a child I had a prominant english accent, but I decided to ditch it when I moved to Ireland and the kids started to pick on me for being english. When I attempted to adopt an irish accent, they'd mock me for "trying to be irish", so in the end I decided to just ditch accents altogether. Go me!

When i first read this i was going to correct you by saying it is impossible to lose accents as it is the way you speak. But really this is impressive how the hell did you manage that and what does this generic world encompassing "non-accent" sound like.

I'm being sincere here i really want to know.

Are you telling me you've never heard a cosmopolitan accent?
Well, it's kinda difficult to explain. I speak sort of like a robot, but with more human emotion and different pitches. That's entirely wrong, but it's the closest I can get to it.

 

[Xaozano]

I've been gaining an Australian accent myself. Too much Hilltop Hoods for me...

Also, I have an unbreakable habit of saying the word "Innit" at then end of almost all of my sentences. It sounds cool, but that's even for sentences that it doesn't make for, such as "Man, that purple hair is sexy, innit." or "I just busted my ass, innit."

 

[AuntyEthel]

I say 'Dude' way to much for an Englishman with a Southern English accent.

I just say dude too much because I watched too much of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.

 

[mark_n_b]

North Americans have trouble identifying accents that aren't an extreme. I come from Alberta and have a distinctive Prairie Drawl, It is different from The accent in Vancouver or Toronto or Newfoundland (Newfies represent a Canadian extreme, it is kind of a newfie / native combo that you see being used on all those U.S. shows that have a wacky Canadian character)

If you live in Britian it is natural to pick up a bit of a British accent, it's nothing to worry about and totally natural, if you care to lose it you will whenever you return to the homelands. I can assure you that it is likely identifiable as a distinctly NOT british accent by the folks of the U.K., only people who I know who have managed to pull of the reverse (English to American) have elite vocal coach.

If you do not live across the pond, you are a total geek. Don't do that, you'll get beat up.

 

[Cyborg_Incognito]

when Im at school I have an upper englsih accent, but when im at home it's all scottish and "och ayye the noo hen" and if i slip into the scots at school, my friends try to imtate. 'tis funny.

 

[sequio]

Anyone here ever listen to a Canadian New Yorker?

My Indian friend doesn't have an accent but speaks Hindi and Frensh fluently. But he can't say southern drawls like "ya'll."

 

[MurderousToaster]

I'm from Scotland right beside Aberdeen. Most of the people in this region have accents that are somewhat akin to the normal stereotypical accent of Scotland, but I don't, and neither do most people about my age. I blame the media for pushing on us so many different ways of speaking when we were young so we've just stopped using accents and now people say I sound Canadian. Well, one person does. And I don't. Infact, sometimes I find myself sounding a bit Irish, which is strange, considering none of my family I know about are from Ireland. Unfortunately whatever I do it is instantly identifiable as a British accent and some can tell it's Scottish. And if people from the U.S aren't insulting British people, English people are insulting everyone else.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Are you telling me you've never heard a cosmopolitan accent?
Well, it's kinda difficult to explain. I speak sort of like a robot, but with more human emotion and different pitches. That's entirely wrong, but it's the closest I can get to it.

Is that anything like a trans-atlantic accent? (the way they talk in old black and white movies, sorry, I can't really think of how to explain it)

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

I saw my accent sublty change to kiwi when i was in new zealand for a while. all better now.

 

[WhiteHowl]

considering the fact that a light British accent sounds better than any other accent in english speaking world, especially more than the accents spoken in America. I mean what sounds more fantastic, the retarded incoherent Cajun accent, the retarded inappropriate brooklyn accent, the retarded... retarded southern accent, or the retarded mexican accent.

 

[internutt]

I have lived in Scotland for eight years now. I still sound like a New Yorker however. I guess I'm stubborn when it comes to losing my accent. The chicks love it too!

 

[AuntyEthel]

considering the fact that a light British accent sounds better than any other accent in english speaking world, especially more than the accents spoken in America. I mean what sounds more fantastic, the retarded incoherent Cajun accent, the retarded inappropriate brooklyn accent, the retarded... retarded southern accent, or the retarded mexican accent.

You're an absolute badger cock who should be flogged.

 

[Shirahime]

I'm 22 at the end of this year and I've been living in Scotland for the past 16 years, so basically I've been here since I was 7. I'm originally from Oldham and we have a very distinct accent and dialect.

To say I've been living in Scotland most of my life and I've been schooled up here since I was 7 I haven't lost my accent at all. I'm far too proud of it.

 

[The Kind Cannibal]

I havn't lost my distinct Alabamian/Floridian accent, I manage to talk like a New Yorker for 3 seconds before reverting to what people call, "redneck surfer."

I don't think it can be a permanent thing.

 

[kits456]

You pick up the accent from the way you learn to speak not your nationality.

i have no idea what kind of accent i have. im polish, but my pronounciation is good so i dont sound like ivan drago from "rocky 4". my english teachers were both americans and english and i talk to both english (usually irl) and american (usually when online) people.
i think that the language i speak is american with no particular accent.
or is it something else?

You pick up the accent from the way you learn to speak not your nationality. So if at a young age you learned Polish and stuck with it(like me) it'd be some what prominent depending on how you developed. I.e., speaking Polish or English.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Are you telling me you've never heard a cosmopolitan accent?
Well, it's kinda difficult to explain. I speak sort of like a robot, but with more human emotion and different pitches. That's entirely wrong, but it's the closest I can get to it.

Is that anything like a trans-atlantic accent? (the way they talk in old black and white movies, sorry, I can't really think of how to explain it)

No, not really. It's sort of like an english/american cross, but more blank. It actualy gets mistaken frequently for one or the other, but for some reason people seem to be more willing to accept it.
I find this odd because it actualy sounds more posh than both of them, and therefore seems more likely to offend the stupid.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I'm from Western Canada, hence I have a combination Canadian-American Midwest Accent with some british slang thrown in there.