Posted on 03/21/2007 2:16:26 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
Accidentally included some comments there--that was unintended.
In our own country, I've always thought that folks in much of Kentucky have a pleasent way of speaking, as well as folks from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The standard Mid-Atlantic (Jersey to Baltimore) accent is a little too nasal for my tastes, and has a tendency to corrupt multisyllabic words ("Nork" for Newark, "Bawlmer" for Baltimore, etc.). Seattlites talk like Canadians western Canadians.
I have a slightly nasal downstate New York accent. Not as heavy as Donald Trump, but still noticeable. I say "draw" for drawer and say FAR-est for Forest.
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak.
My vote is for British born actress Jane Seymour.
Interesting .... I find that if you travel to England and put on a slight southern drawl and slow down a bit, act like a gentleman and carry an air of male confidence, the British girls are falling all around you feet.
I can't say I buy the idea that Americans find all British accents appealing. An upperclass-RP accent is fine, but lower class British accents aren't exactly easy on the ear - and I'd bet most Americans find them incomprehensible.
Americans show excellent taste in not falling for Stephen Fry, though. Here's hoping his fame remains confined to the other side of the Atlantic.
I'm counting down until that famous Brit-hater "quidnunc" shows up.
British crooks make good con men in the US. Americans tend to instantly believe someone speaking in a British accent.
American girls love posh British accents. Of course, Americans still do well over in Europe.
You do realize that there is a very fine line between British and gay?
And many of them have erased that line.
(with apologies to Oscar Levant)
I grew up with a very strong Western PA/Pittsburgh accent...When I went to college in Gettysburg, on the eastern side of the Alleghenies, a number of people thought I was an exchange student and asked what country I was from...
"Her English is too good, he said, that proves that she is foreign. Whereas foreigners are taught proper speech, English children aren't."
Few things as sexy as an Indian girl with a posh accent.
Frankly, I like a woman who knows how to keep it zipped.
(ducking!)
I bet dollars to donuts that yunz were misunderstood and dat...Go Stillers! ;-)
I still define "Saaerday" as the day of the week before the Stiller game.
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