Poll: Do You Think British Accents Are More..."Sophisticated"?

[snagli]

It all depends on the kind of British I guess. I mean, that standard stereotypical British sounds way more intelligent than any other language, but then the kind of British they speak in the suburbs... it sounds a lot more for the common man, not that sophisticated (I still prefer it over American, though).

 

[PatrickXD]

I'm assuming you mean an accent similar to our own Zero Punctuation or Jimquisition. In which case I agree, but there are an awful lot of very different accents packed into a very small space in Britain.

 

[Jazoni89]

What accent are you talking about here.

I assume you are talking about the posh sounding BBC English (Or Queens English as it's called), or the Southern accent, which is the most purest form of English, as it has the least dialects.

Some are pretty bad though, Cockney, Brummy, and Scouse are terrible accents, and being born and bred from Kent, they sound unbearable to a southern fairy like myself.

Westcountry and Yorkshire accents are pretty cool though, even if they all do sound like a bunch of farmers most of the time, "Arrrrse".

 

[albinoterrorist]

"Wa's dis, sweethar', why di' I find you wi' 'nother man?"
"Oh Petah, his no'one, he no' my lovah"
"Then the scum shoulda tyke his dandy fine pack 'n leave.
"Oh Petah, you'r thi only wone for me."

Yeah, real classy.

Glorious.
...
And i'm a Brit!

 

[bojackx]

I'd say so for certain parts, but I honestly don't have a sophisticated accent at all:

It really does depend on where you're from. I'm from Yorkshire (the north) so my voice is nothing likes the Queen's English, if that's what you mean by "British".

 

[MetalDooley]

True, meant Northern Ireland, though I don't know how seperate their accents are from Republic of Ireland.

They're pretty different the further south you go.To be honest Northern Irish accents are probably more similar to Scottish accents than the rest of Ireland which isn't that surprising when you consider that a large portion of the population of NI are of Scottish descent

American here. Sometimes I do get this impression, but it doesn't last. For every David Mitchell or Stephen Fry, there's a Dappy or a Jedward.

Jedward are,unfortunately,Irish not British

 

[RandallJohn]

True, meant Northern Ireland, though I don't know how seperate their accents are from Republic of Ireland.

They're pretty different the further south you go.To be honest Northern Irish accents are probably more similar to Scottish accents than the rest of Ireland which isn't that surprising when you consider that a large portion of the population of NI are of Scottish descent

American here. Sometimes I do get this impression, but it doesn't last. For every David Mitchell or Stephen Fry, there's a Dappy or a Jedward.

Jedward are,unfortunately,Irish not British

Ooo, good catch. Amended.

 

[kickyourass]

Depends on the accent, a Nottingham or Cornwall accent are among the last things you'd ever call 'sophisticated' but accents from Wales, or Eastern parts of England do seem to have a slight sound of intelligence to them.