Accents & Accent Snobbery

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The Pittsburgh accent is the best and worst accent to have. It’s the best because I can hold a full conversation with another Pittsburgher in front of a non-native English speaker and they will have no idea what we’re talking about. We naturally slur all of our words together into one big filthy mess of a sentence, so someone whose first language is not American English will have a hard time deciphering where the word breaks should be on fist exposure to Pittsburghese.

It’s the worst because it makes you sound like you’re drunk all the time. Also: yinz is not a good sounding word. Y’all is much nicer.

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[quote]orion wrote:

If she can suck a dick half as good as she can speak with an accent, you might be onto something.

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[quote]orion wrote:

Just out of curiosity do you think Landa has a typical German accent?

[/quote]

From a movie perspective yes! Although I do understand what you are getting at.

It is like the Australian V New Zealand accents, which I can tell apart but a lot of people cant! Or when people cant distinguish between a Scottish accent V an Irish accent but it is obvious to me which one is which.

[quote]orion wrote:

Because a typical German accent sounds more like this to me:

This is important to me, because Landa is Austrian and I do not want to sound like Hoppe.

Landa, yes, Hoppe, no.

Germans do not even sound good in German.

[/quote]

Hoppe sounds like he has a computer generated voice with some Germanisms thrown in and would not be the typical German accent I have heard. I have been to Austria a number of times and when the Austrians speak German the tone is much softer and pleasant compared to the harsh precise nature of a German speaking. However I cant tell the difference between an Austrian V German speaking English

Going back to movies accents, Landa has the stereotypical nazi accent that is used all the time by Hollywood and herein lies the problem. People, myself included, use these Hollywood accents as standard but the reality is far from what they depict.

The Hollywood Irish accent is fucking horrible, I dont know anyone that sounds like that!

Example…

Great Actor, shite accent

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[quote]Jack Urboady wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
My mom’s from Scotland, Glasgow to be precise, and people in Winnipeg loved hearing her talk.
It’s entirely possibly that when girls knew my mom was from Scotland and heard her accent it may have possiblt helped me to get laid back when I was younger.[/quote]

THIS

When I stayed in Georgia my accent helped me get much poon! Even though not one person could understand a word I was saying.
[/quote]

There is just something SEXY about both the Scots and Irish accents…OMG…Scotsmen and Irishmen could read the dictionary and it would be HOT!

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[quote]worzel wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

Just out of curiosity do you think Landa has a typical German accent?

[/quote]

From a movie perspective yes! Although I do understand what you are getting at.

It is like the Australian V New Zealand accents, which I can tell apart but a lot of people cant! Or when people cant distinguish between a Scottish accent V an Irish accent but it is obvious to me which one is which.

[quote]orion wrote:

Because a typical German accent sounds more like this to me:

This is important to me, because Landa is Austrian and I do not want to sound like Hoppe.

Landa, yes, Hoppe, no.

Germans do not even sound good in German.

[/quote]

Hoppe sounds like he has a computer generated voice with some Germanisms thrown in and would not be the typical German accent I have heard. I have been to Austria a number of times and when the Austrians speak German the tone is much softer and pleasant compared to the harsh precise nature of a German speaking. However I cant tell the difference between an Austrian V German speaking English

Going back to movies accents, Landa has the stereotypical nazi accent that is used all the time by Hollywood and herein lies the problem. People, myself included, use these Hollywood accents as standard but the reality is far from what they depict.

The Hollywood Irish accent is fucking horrible, I dont know anyone that sounds like that!

Example…

Great Actor, shite accent[/quote]

Diddley-dee potatoes!

I wanted to strangle Gere everytime he opened his mouth in that movie. I think I have hated him ever since. Brad Pitt also did a horrible accent in Devil’s Own IIRC.

I wish they would stick to real accents because the shitty accents are so distracting they take away so much of the movie.

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[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]worzel wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

Just out of curiosity do you think Landa has a typical German accent?

[/quote]

From a movie perspective yes! Although I do understand what you are getting at.

It is like the Australian V New Zealand accents, which I can tell apart but a lot of people cant! Or when people cant distinguish between a Scottish accent V an Irish accent but it is obvious to me which one is which.

[quote]orion wrote:

Because a typical German accent sounds more like this to me:

This is important to me, because Landa is Austrian and I do not want to sound like Hoppe.

Landa, yes, Hoppe, no.

Germans do not even sound good in German.

[/quote]

Hoppe sounds like he has a computer generated voice with some Germanisms thrown in and would not be the typical German accent I have heard. I have been to Austria a number of times and when the Austrians speak German the tone is much softer and pleasant compared to the harsh precise nature of a German speaking. However I cant tell the difference between an Austrian V German speaking English

Going back to movies accents, Landa has the stereotypical nazi accent that is used all the time by Hollywood and herein lies the problem. People, myself included, use these Hollywood accents as standard but the reality is far from what they depict.

The Hollywood Irish accent is fucking horrible, I dont know anyone that sounds like that!

Example…

Great Actor, shite accent[/quote]

Diddley-dee potatoes!

I wanted to strangle Gere everytime he opened his mouth in that movie. I think I have hated him ever since. Brad Pitt also did a horrible accent in Devil’s Own IIRC.

I wish they would stick to real accents because the shitty accents are so distracting they take away so much of the movie. [/quote]

Am I the only one that was rooting for Bruce Willis to kill everyone in that movie?

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

Am I the only one that was rooting for Bruce Willis to kill everyone in that movie?[/quote]

No!

I loved Bruce Willis in that movie.

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Southern Great Lakes region and Central Plains region have the most linguistically neutral accent in the US. Ohio is considered to have the most plain, spoken as it’s written in the dictionary kind of accent, and many actors and newscasters come here to lost a regional accent – as in, you can sign up for the classes at technical schools and colleges. The ‘lack’ of accent also lends us a propensity towards talking very quickly. Because we tend to say things as they are spelled, we say a lot of words the same, and it tends to drive other people nuts – dawn and don, cot and caught, etc. The eastern fringes of Ohio does have a tinge of east coast draw, and the southern US has the barest clip of southern twange.

The voice you hear in movies and on TV are usually a great lakes/central plains accent, though you can catch the regional ‘left-overs’ if you know what you’re listening for. Like someone from Maine letting an ‘ayuh’ slip out.

What is interesting is how much the entirety of US accents are merging together into something similar to what you hear on TV. The northeast seems to be holding out the most again this. Listing to an elderly person from Alabama talk next to a teenager from Alabama is a world difference, for example. Texas draw in some areas has neutralized so much that you can only identify them when they say “videyah”.

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[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]worzel wrote:

The Hollywood Irish accent is fucking horrible, I dont know anyone that sounds like that!

Example…

Great Actor, shite accent[/quote]

Diddley-dee potatoes!

I wanted to strangle Gere everytime he opened his mouth in that movie. I think I have hated him ever since. Brad Pitt also did a horrible accent in Devil’s Own IIRC.

I wish they would stick to real accents because the shitty accents are so distracting they take away so much of the movie. [/quote]

Diddley-dee potatoes and a toppa d marnin to ya…

I was thinking of Brad Pitt in the Devils Own with his ‘RED HAIR’ (sigh) as I posted Dicky Gere with his horrible accent. Didnt Pitt distance himself from that movie? What about Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal, Jayzuz that was bloody awful!

I find myself waiting to see of an actor can get it right, which certainly does take away from the movie.

Although Brad Pitt doin a travellers accent in ‘Snatch’ was good considering how hard it would have been for him to pull it off!

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I totally agree with the Brad Pitt comment, he really pulled that accent off in Snatch!

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[quote]Grneyes wrote:

[quote]Jack Urboady wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
My mom’s from Scotland, Glasgow to be precise, and people in Winnipeg loved hearing her talk.
It’s entirely possibly that when girls knew my mom was from Scotland and heard her accent it may have possiblt helped me to get laid back when I was younger.[/quote]

THIS

When I stayed in Georgia my accent helped me get much poon! Even though not one person could understand a word I was saying.
[/quote]

There is just something SEXY about both the Scots and Irish accents…OMG…Scotsmen and Irishmen could read the dictionary and it would be HOT![/quote]

mmm very interesting… (in a sneaky german accent)

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@ worzel

I hate D4 accents with the whole “loike” etc…

BTW I’m with you on not pronoucing Th’s

i’m from the midlands so you can only guess how bad it is with me :stuck_out_tongue:

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[quote]worzel wrote:

[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]worzel wrote:

The Hollywood Irish accent is fucking horrible, I dont know anyone that sounds like that!

Example…

Great Actor, shite accent[/quote]

Diddley-dee potatoes!

I wanted to strangle Gere everytime he opened his mouth in that movie. I think I have hated him ever since. Brad Pitt also did a horrible accent in Devil’s Own IIRC.

I wish they would stick to real accents because the shitty accents are so distracting they take away so much of the movie. [/quote]

Diddley-dee potatoes and a toppa d marnin to ya…

I was thinking of Brad Pitt in the Devils Own with his ‘RED HAIR’ (sigh) as I posted Dicky Gere with his horrible accent. Didnt Pitt distance himself from that movie? What about Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal, Jayzuz that was bloody awful!

I find myself waiting to see of an actor can get it right, which certainly does take away from the movie.

Although Brad Pitt doin a travellers accent in ‘Snatch’ was good considering how hard it would have been for him to pull it off!

[/quote]

I remember him saying something like he just kind of mumbled shit because he couldn’t do that accent right.

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I grew up in Colorado, which generally has the neutral Great Plains accent. I’ve been told we drop our "t"s. I also spent a lot of time in Minnesota and Oklahoma. I’ve had people guess I’m from MN, and when I’m drinking or with friends, I fall into more of a southern drawl. I intentionally picked up some of the Okie accent because I think it is fun, and it tends to disarm people.

What I found really interesting in Oklahoma was the difference between the accent of a girl from OKC or Tulsa, compared to the accent of a girl from a smaller Oklahoma town. Night and day. Same thing in KS, and the rural/ag parts of Colorado.

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People say I have a Chicago accent. shrug

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I love that song “girl from Oklahoma” by Steel Panther. Hilarious. i love the accents though, especially the southern ones…wow.

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Years back while living in Boston, after talking to a guy for about 5 minutes I asked him was it galway(in the west of Ireland) that he was from?
Turns out no, he was from Nova Scotia and had never even been in Ireland. Ive heard since its a pretty common mistake to make with some people from there but its a bit crazy to think they have accents so similar to a place 3000 miles away across an ocean that even the people there can mistake it

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There are different accents even across New York. On one hand you can have a guy with a thick Brooklyn accent “talkin’ bout how da Bronx bombas did last night (dat modafucka Jeeta’s slumpin’)” and on the other hand some bumpkin from a farm near Buffalo who can’t understand a word of it.

That said, I think that accents in the US tend to align with a substantially larger amount of space than in Britain/Ireland. A guy from the bayou in Louisiana and a someone from Southie in Boston barely speak the same language–but they are separated by thousands of miles as opposed to just a few hundred as in the UK.

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Ottawa Valley twang … Arnprior to Deep River