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Accent reduction.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-05-10 11:04:02 in General
[tɕagɛn]
This is really dumb to me. I can't believe how many people think foreigners should try to get rid of thier accents. I love how people all around the world pronounce things differently--it's so unique and interesting how a German person pronounces English differently from a Italian person, to name an example. Not to mention a lot of accents are really sexy/moë. I hope this is just American closed-mindedness and xenophobia...

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  • KomodinKomodin
    The Sonic Series Wiki Curator of TvTropes
    Eh, bigotry.
  • NyarlyNyarly
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    "Not to mention a lot of accents are really sexy/moë."

    I read that as "möe". That's a funny word to say.
  • ChagenChagen
    edited 2011-05-10 11:14:22
    [tɕagɛn]
    I really wish I knew how to pronounce "ö". It just sounds like "o" to me.
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    edited 2011-05-10 11:20:11
    Tableflipper
    "it's so unique and interesting how a German person pronounces English differently from a Italian person, to name an example."

    Can't them speaking in their native languages already provide this uniqueness to you anyway?

    The only accent i'd really want to keep is Japanese, because the way they speak English when they suck at it is very amusing in hear in anime.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Blargh, accents just make communication hard. I wish I could get rid of mine when speaking English (Although people tell me they can easily understand me when I speak...
  • ChagenChagen
    edited 2011-05-10 11:32:42
    [tɕagɛn]
    They almost certainly can. You're probably overreacting.

    My spanish-speaking friend has a thick accent, and I can understand him just fine.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    I love 'foreign' accents, they make the speaker sexier by virtue of just speaking.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Totally agreed.
  • NyarlyNyarly
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    Depends on the accent. I can't imagine anyone with a Saxon accent sounding sexy. And I'm Saxon (don't have the accent though).
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Can you link to a Saxon accent please?
  • NyarlyNyarly
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    Uh... Not really?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    The hell is a Saxon accent?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Well, Harold Saxon's accent is pretty cool. :P
  • NyarlyNyarly
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    The accent of the people of Saxony. Although there aren't really many who have it. At least, I only met a few.

    It's also used in media as stereotypical accent for East Germans.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Also, @Chagen: I just don't like the way mine sounds, that's all.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Hm.

    Okay. Though I find it odd that a european could hate their accent, but I'm a Europhile, so I'm biased towards European people.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Except I'm not European...


  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Oh.

    Well, you speak an Indo-European language.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Well, yeah, but my accent doesn't translate well to English. Skipping "r"s and "n"s makes it hard for most americans to understand me. At least, that's what I they told me the first time I went there. 
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Huh, I thought Romance languages have heavily rolled r's, but that might be a feature of Italian only.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Accents are mostly a regional thing. There's not a universal "Spanish" accent. The accent around Barranquilla is pretty much defined by being "punched-like" (Its normally described as what it would sound like if you were punched in the face and all your teeth were broken by outsiders.)

     But its not as the Colombian accents outside of the Atlantic Coast area are much better (Everybody sounds stoned out of their minds, slurring the "s" like a snake and accenting the middle words in each sentence)
  • LongfellowLongfellow
    La vie en rose
    I have a Colombian friend who insists on maintaining his accent in both English and French.

    It's an interesting idea; dunno if I have any opinion one way or the other. I sometimes fantasize about speaking French with such a native accent that I can pass as French (or Quebecois, or Cameroonian, etc.), but I do enjoy other people's foreign accents.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Longefellow: Where is he from?
  • LongfellowLongfellow
    La vie en rose
    He's from Bogotá.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    For practical purposes it's not important (and hard to "fix"), but, being stuck with a (foreign) accent means being imperfect at speaking the language, therefore a complete language education should include the ability to speak without one.

    Admittedly, I like hearing other people's foreign accents, too, as well as mine in other languages.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    What about accents from within the US? Like a Northeast accent, or a Southern accent?

    Hell, I'm from the Midwest, and even I consciously reduce my accent when I'm outside of the state.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    I like US accents a lot too.

    Especially those high-pitched ones that Southern girls sometimes have. So adorable~
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    The less Japanese English mangling I have to hear, the happier I'll be.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    I can never understand people with Quebec accents. Their speech is just unintelligible.
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