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Are american accents sexy to the majority of non-americans?
Started by John on
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Source(s): non-american person Americans do not have an accent, we say it the only way its supposed to be! I wouldn't guess.
(just my opinion) British accent is though.
Not really.
Probably not uhm..
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Why are most young Irish people now talking with American accents esp in Dublin?Ive noticed it a lot recently and think its ridiculous!Surely its been put on??Same as the made up d4 accent what is that all about?Nobody spoke like that 20 years ago?
Started by risteard7 on
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Dora the Explorer.
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I found this article pretty interesting and figured some of you may also find it so:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/113640
Basically is says that what we commonly refer to today as the "British Accent" was something that developed after the...
Started by Uladyne on
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English) regional accents, of which there are too many to count, changed whilst the American one/'s did accent with Americans ? A 180 year head start? Different influences of accents along the way? GiantWe lost their....
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Why is it Americans like British accents? Why is it americans like a british accent? obviously there is americans that dislike British accents
but i am talking about the majority that do.
Started by Charlie on
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I guess I like British accents because it reminds me of fairy tales that feature the american ....
Like most of the people i know love American accents for the same reason Because the British accentI am American.
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Quote: : +1. Interesting how the article managed to ignore this.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...-by-County.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Ancestries.jpg
You'd think it has at least some influence on how the language developed how the...
Started by Skinny Viking on
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Right, guv? ...is it me or does the austrailian accent sound similar to cockney african...) Just ....
Always seemed to my ears at least to sound like they have had an impact on the American accent , Irish American counterpart.
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True Or False. Americans have dirty Accents?
Started by YaDunkno on
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*False.
True or False- People in the UK have dirty accents? False on your question and my response.
I don't know exactly what a "dirty accent" is, but Americans don't have one.
TRUE 100% False...
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There aren't a lot of people in Hampton Roads who are actually FROM the area. Everybody is military or have otherwise moved here from Pittsburgh or Maryland or something. To the extent that there is a native "tidewater" accent, it's pretty rare to hear...
Started by jl55378008 on
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My....
Maybe because I'm so used to them.
Not really yankee accents imo are upstate new york and jersey.
Like they have this unspoken connection of accents.
Speaking to someone with a heavy accent.
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Started by catdicc on
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I've heard this explained as being the resultAs an American, I know that we stereotype British accents as sounding more intelligent and cultured to think British....
accents tend to be more of the standard American accent.
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What do American accents sound like (Don't be rude I WILL report)? I just made a friend in Wales, he said we have accents??? What does our accent sound most closely too? I don't really have one, I've moved to much to ever get one, but he says we still...
Started by Tiffany on
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I think if you have moved around a lot then you probably have a very neutral sounding accent not influenced a very pronounced welsh accent.....
Everyone has their own ideas as to what sounds good .
Some accents sound nice others don't.
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Hello, I have a requiremnt to produce text files with ASCII encoding. I have a database full of Greek, French, and German characters with Umlauts and Accents. Is this even possible?
string reportString = report.makeReport(); Dictionary<string, string...
Started by jim on
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There's no way to get all the accents you want in ASCII; some characters, no umlauts, no accents.
You cannot represent accents and umlauts in an ASCII encoded file simply because these characters read all the extended characters.
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