As the title says, just out of curiosity I would like to know how you monkeys rank the US accents.
Due to my job, I've been dealing with ppl from the whole country. Yet, I'm struggling to understand the accent from countries like Utah, or Arizona.
I mean, I'm EU national living in the UK, but it's interesting to hear different accents and pronunciation Afaik Boston has the closer accent to the London area
I always imagined Utah being like an American Saudi Arabia, except Mormon.
All in all, in the large metro areas primarily in the north and west, it seems like people increasingly talk the same. You'd have to get further into the more rural parts of the country to see things. I like the Texan accent occasionally, but don't care much for the Deep South drawl. The Midwestern accent, especially around Minnesota seems pretty annoying too. Boston's working class accent is great for The Departed impersonations.
I personally like the Southern accent a lot, but rarely get to hear them. Only my hobbies take me to the Southern states and that doesn't happen very often.
Wtf is this video? This chic does NOT have a southern accent of any sort.
all I could find within google and 1 minute, the other videos were worse.
lol Jim Gaffigan on the South
Go Texan accent!
The hardest for me to understand is heavy cajun accents from New Orleans. Its basically like Farmer Fran from the Waterboy to me.
Its funny though, my friend is from New Orleans and I visited him this spring; he can turn on/off the drawl. We went to this real cajun place in the middle of nowhere (http://bntcajuncookin.com/) and he switched on his accent strong to order food and stuff to the waitress.
She looked like a normal 22 year old cute american brunette server, but when she responded in complete cajun talk I couldn't help but burst out laughing. Honestly, that whole drawl is so funny to me. I get that it is normal for locals there, but really that accent probably one of the most indecipherable I have ever encountered in the US.
This reminds me when I was a kid in the Vienna airport one time with my parents and was ordering dessert, the maybe 25 year old attractive Austrian server suggested "strudel" in such an insane guttural tone. Could have implied something else though...
I have a slight southern accent, but I think people with strong southern accents sound uneducated. Like someone above said, most well-educated people with southern accents tend to switch them on when they're drinking with the good ole boys and switch them off when they're at work.
I really love New York jews that have the whiny, Jerry Seinfeld accent too.
Haha yeah I agree. This reminds me of one time when I was in the Registrar's office in college and I saw someone who was a year behind me walk in and was talking to the registrar about how certain courses would pave the path for Honor Grad (Valedictorian). I was thinking, sure buddy (with that slow drawl).
Well, he did get Valedictorian and now is a VP at JPM in IB. We became friends later that year as we both wanted to get on Wall Street. Its just funny how the mind works and how an accent and pace/rhythm of speech is cultivated differently according to region. Major deception at times.
" people with southern accents tend to switch them on when they're drinking with the good ole boys and switch them off when they're at work. "
Agreed. I was born in Savannah Georgia and have almost no discernable accent until I have had quite a few drinks.
Same here, Born in Savannah GA , raised in Atlanta Ga , no accent at all until I get around very distant relatives or heavy drinking
Give me a southern accent on a woman any day. Boston and NY accents are huge boner killers, on the other hand.
Really though American accents don't vary nearly as much as a lot of other countries. Aside from maybe a deep Cajun accent as Isaiah mentioned they're all pretty easy to understand, we don't have any Mancunian or Scottish type accents. Plus most people in the west and midwest have a very neutral American accent. The only regional accents we even really have are southern (of which Cajun is an extreme subset), northeastern (Philly/NYC/Boston aren't identical but are similar), and the quasi-Canadian accent you'll find in places like Minnesota and Maine.
First, I want to say that all heavy accents make people sound uneducated and are generally annoying. With that said.....
Best: A cute chic with a subtle southern twang is always nice (not too much twang tho, that gets old REALLY quickly)
Worst: The Boston southie accent
I gotta give it to the MN hockey moms (outside of the cities). That Fargo-esque accent combined with the most passive-aggressive attitude always gets me
Philadelphia accent is the worst.
I live in the South and while I agree that chicks with Southern accents are nice once it gets past a certain point it is unbearable to listen to
The worst part is being from the south, so I dont even hear the southern accent.
Long Island/Westchester JAP accent is by far the worst
Came in here to say that any northeast accent is by far the worst. Clearly I’m not alone.
the worst is the valley accent or whatever accent where girls have an erratic fairly high pitched voice and talk as if someone sucked all the air out of their lungs. I always lose my mind whenever I heard someone talking like that
The classic vocal fry
propchop American accents: you're all equally as horrible
If you hate America so much, move to NORTH KOREA already
Do you know any nice areas I could start looking at in Pyongnang?
1st best accent - Your cousin from Eastern Kentucky 2nd best accent - Your cousin from Alabama 3rd best accent - Your cousin from Mississippi
Worst accent - The accent of the lawyer prosecuting you for incest
Guineas
I generally feel like a lot of Americans don't have strong accents outside the Northeast/Deep South. The East Coast all sounds the same to me south of VA.
Do you guys notice a Chicago accent when you visit? I'm not even a native English speaker or a long-time Chicago resident and I don't notice anything anywhere I go. A little bit some older people in parts of the South Side with lots of Irish, but that's about it.
Chi-CAH-go?
The modern California/techie/surfer/pseudo-intellectual accent
example: the guest Kyle Thiermann on this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/mixed-mental-arts-podcast/ep-344-ride-hard-kyle
This bother anyone else?
You know who's the worst at that shit? Fucking Marc Maron. I just forgot his name for a minute and googled "most annoying comedians"
hmm that's not even close to what i was getting at, I like how Maron speaks
Worst: Boston Best: Everything but Boston.
Example:
I’m American and from NY and I rate our accent last.
The Texan accent wins in my book.
There is an AZ accent? Don't remember it being super strong compared to a lot of places in the country.
American accents really aren't that distinct given the size of the country compared to say Italy.
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