2006-06-14 13:24:32 · 17 answers · asked by Valkyrie 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
We adore the american accent, the one Arnie has is so great, I love to hear him speak!!!!!
Really, don't think we think it very special, an accent is an accent, when you grow up in a country where there are so many, meeting someone with a different accent everyday kind of loses it charms after 20 years, then there's TV too, it becomes common place, not a novelty.
But for one I think the New York accent is quite strange, almost the Brummies of America...
2006-06-14 17:09:50 · answer #1 · answered by psicatt 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I'm British, and I don't 'love' the American accent ... it's not that I don't like Americans, it's just that British people hear American accents ALL the time!! Most British TV stations prefer to buy cheap (as in, rubbish!) American TV shows rather than spending the time, effort, and money, to create their own shows!! They do make SOME shows of their own - but only because there's legislation about it!!!
If you'd grown up hearing British accents on most of your favourite TV shows, you might not like it so much! In this case familiarity does NOT actually breed contempt - it just breeds complacency!
Because of that I rarely even think about American accents when I hear them, I just absorb them without noticing it, and move on. An American accent is just THERE!! Like any British accent ... in fact, it's more familiar to me than a Liverpool or Birmingham accent!!
; )
2006-06-14 20:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by _ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No such thing as a british accent, also no such thing as an american accent.
Can you be more specific as to the accent you like, is it English, Northern Irish, Scottish or Welsh? and which part of that country? There's a big difference between saying you like a Glaswegian accent, a Brummie accent, a Geordie accent and a Welsh accent (sorry Welsh people I'm tired and no Welsh towns are coming to me) and the ones you're asking if we like?
I've heard Americans from different states and the accents are varied.
2006-06-14 21:17:01 · answer #3 · answered by Mummy of 2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some british loooooooooove the American accent
2006-06-14 21:43:52 · answer #4 · answered by luv ya too 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whether they admit it or not the whole world loves American anything...seriously the accents are a plus.Orientals when they sing western songs try and sing them in an American accent so do other nationalities..Who does`nt talk American slang?at some point or another in their everyday conversation.And being British I know that we have had a long standing love affair with The Yanks..
2006-06-14 20:33:49 · answer #5 · answered by aminuts 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is an American Accent?
2006-06-14 20:30:56 · answer #6 · answered by cj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL I am thinking of that guy in Love Actually who flew to Wisconsin or wherever so American girls would be smitten with his British self...
I don't know. I like accents in general, but am American so hard to say.
2006-06-14 20:30:54 · answer #7 · answered by Simply_Renee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Scottish accent is awesome. Can't make out one word. But it's awesome.
Most British folk sound retarded - or pompous. I heard an Englishman ordering "onion pickles" in an Arby's drive through. He was hanging out the door of a minivan and screaming, "Unyun peck-uwz. Yagotany unyun PECK-uwlz?"
Americans are no better, though. I think it's all the rap music.
What's the Brit's excuse?
2006-06-14 20:28:11 · answer #8 · answered by Benicio Del Costner 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They def. don't. I had a British guy imitate an American accent, and he totally pulled out a southern one. I was slightly offended, LoL. Brits have it better in the accent department.
2006-06-14 20:28:04 · answer #9 · answered by Mel Bo 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Americans don't have accents....unless you are from the South, or New England
2006-06-14 20:29:01 · answer #10 · answered by MentalCaseMaggot 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋