Poll: Do You Think British Accents Are More..."Sophisticated"?
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Gert lush mate! also very cool having a Wurzels member for your tutor. Had a drink with them a few time at local gigs and such, love the fact as the night gets later the words to various songs change to a much ruder versionTipsy Giant said:
I am British and people seem to trust my voice, mainly Americans but other English speakers too. I would trust a British accent over a cowboy accent any day
Yeah he was a legend, taught me everything I know about deconstructing music, he knows his stuff!Rastien said:Gert lush mate! also very cool having a Wurzels member for your tutor. Had a drink with them a few time at local gigs and such, love the fact as the night gets later the words to various songs change to a much ruder versionTipsy Giant said:
This. When Americans say "British Accent", what they really mean is "Upper-Class, Well-Educated Southern-English Accent".thaluikhain said:
Always annoys me, but hey. I still use the term 'American accent' to refer to any and all accents from the USA. So it's give and take, I guess.
OT: It depends what part of Britain. Stephen Fry for instance sounds like the smartest man on Earth. He probably is, but that's not the point.
IMHO, he sounds like someone who desperately wants to sound like the smartest man on Earth, not quite the same thing. Watching him on QI when he goes off on a tangent not provided by the QI elves and getting everything wrong...painful.Nokshor said:
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).
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".
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".
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 descentthaluikhain said:
Jedward are,unfortunately,Irish not BritishRandallJohn said:
Ooo, good catch. Amended.MetalDooley said: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 descentthaluikhain said:
Jedward are,unfortunately,Irish not BritishRandallJohn said:
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.