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[The Lunch Legend]

In recent hours, I've fallen in love with Irish born singer / former pop star, Samantha Mumba. But wow, her strong Irish accent comes as a huge turn off for me. Irish accents are particularly rough sounding to my ears for whatever reason. And maybe it also sounds a little bit silly to me because of leprechauns in popular culture.

The accents I like are Russian and German. They have a hard edge that sounds nice to my ears.

Accents have always been unique, in a sense that they can easily allow someone to determine where somebody was born/raised, and generally in some cases give you a sense of their overall background. Which begs the question:

In your opinion, which accents are the best? And which are the worst?

 

[Dacvak]

I feckin luv an Irish accent. This dude doesn’t upload anymore, but I used to watch his videos just because of his addictive drunken Irish accent.

 

[violence]

Best: French on a female.

Worst: New Jersey

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Worst: New Jersey

 

[poodaddy]

French is the most annoying to me, particularly on men, every time I hear someone with a French accent I have this odd urge to pick em up and dunk em in a trashcan upside down.

I like Norwegian, Swedish, and Icelandic accents quite a lot. Something about how they inflect is just very relaxing and peaceful to me.

 

[RJMacready73]

I feckin luv an Irish accent. This dude doesn’t upload anymore, but I used to watch his videos just because of his addictive drunken Irish accent.

 

[HRK69]

The Dutch have an amazing English accent

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[violence]

French is the most annoying to me, particularly on men, every time I hear someone with a French accent I have this odd urge to pick em up and dunk em in a trashcan upside down.

Allow me to assault your ears.

 

[poodaddy]

Allow me to assault your ears.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Allow me to assault your ears.

This is the greatest thing I've ever seen ..

Maybe it's because she's hot, I dunno.

 

[DrFigs]

French is the best.

 

[Great Auk]

French is the best.

Hot woman speaking anything is the best

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Christian Bale doing his raspy Batman voice.

Great movies. Worst Batman voice ever.

 

[violence]

Hot woman speaking anything is the best

This is true but there’s a show called The Nanny that comes the closest to proving this wrong. Although once she starts laughing, it’s a dealbreaker.

 

[Pejo]

New Zealand has the best accent in my opinion. Also Welsh girls.

 

[Great Auk]

This is true but there’s a show called The Nanny that comes the closest to proving this wrong. Once she starts laughing, it’s a dealbreaker though.

Lol yea I know the show. She has a "unique" voice and laugh for sure.

This reminds of the movie "The Man with Two Brains," a great movie from 1983 with Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.

Steve's character tried to add a brain he was in love with with a beautiful voice to a hot hooker with a horrendous voice. The whole gag was that she sounded awful.

It's a great movie, I highly recommend it.

 

[clarky]

I don't have my specs on and thought you said accidents. This is the best one. Just happened today.

 

[clarky]

Hot woman speaking anything is the best

Until they lift an arm and reveal a pubic pit.

 

[diffusionx]

Worst: New Jersey

rude

 

[Putonahappyface]

I love Icelandic, italian, french and german accents.

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

You'd be hard pushed to find anything worse than a geordie accent, although scouse does come close.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I’m all about the British, Irish, Australian accent. Southern USA accent I know is a thing. New York and Boston accents I enjoy. Canadian accent has the same amount of English as northern us states. It’s all English just in a different way.

 

[AJUMP23]

Best Irish redheads. Worst California vocal fry.

 

[GateofD]

Best:
Female - Irish
Male - Australian

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Best:
Female - Irish
Male - Australian

G'day mate.

 

[dsp]

New Zealand has the best accent in my opinion. Also Welsh girls.

Welsh women is a nice choice and I have to agree. There's something very friendly and welcoming in that accent.

Some Southern American accents are nice while some are bleh.

I’m all about the British, Irish, Australian accent. Southern USA accent I know is a thing. New York and Boston accents I enjoy. Canadian accent has the same amount of English as northern us states. It’s all English just in a different way.

British is such a mix of different accents. It'd be like saying American. I like a lot of them but some are nearly as grating as a leopard printed long islander. New York City and Jersey have some rough ones.

Watching old American television, particularly game shows from the 50's up to the 80's, we used to sound a lot better.

 

[IntentionalPun]

All of the NE US accents are horrible.

 

[willothedog]

good: RP
middling: scouse

 

[AJUMP23]

When I was in Seattle the girls there loved my friends southern accent. And I hear Susie women love American accents.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

I enjoy the haughty transatlantic accent on women from older films.
I also like Trinidad and Tobago; sounds very mellow and friendly.

 

[Soodanim]

In recent hours, I've fallen in love with Irish born singer / former pop star, Samantha Mumba.

This is the most unexpected opening to a thread I've ever read. It surprised me more than your most famous stories and I don't want any context.

 

[jufonuk]

rude

Forget about get some gabbagool ooooh

French or Italian women have the best accents


Actually any accent mostly.
It’s cute when a non English speaking female speaks English with a heavy accent and the way they might mispronounce a word or a sound can be great in a kind makes them hot kinda way





Worst hmm
Scouse and brummie are difficult for me
Also vocal fry accents

 

[Peggies]

In recent hours, I've fallen in love with Irish born singer / former pop star, Samantha Mumba. But wow, her strong Irish accent comes as a huge turn off for me. Irish accents are particularly rough sounding to my ears for whatever reason. And maybe it also sounds a little bit silly to me because of leprechauns in popular culture.

The accents I like are Russian and German. They have a hard edge that sounds nice to my ears.

Accents have always been unique, in a sense that they can easily allow someone to determine where somebody was born/raised, and generally in some cases give you a sense of their overall background. Which begs the question:

In your opinion, which accents are the best? And which are the worst?

Wtf?!

Irish is the hottest accent ever. If there's a guy talking Irish English within a mile, lord help me.

 

[drganon]

New England and North Eastern US accents are terrible.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Ach, listening to that video to me was like;

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

This made my day. And I’m not even Greek.

 

[Oberstein]

Australian.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Australian.

Austrian ≠ Australian

 

[EerieArcade]

Worst: Brummie.

 

[Wildebeest]

London and California accents are the worst.
West country accents are good because they sound like pirates and are speaking something more like Shakespearean English.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Austrian ≠ Australian

 

[SimTourist]

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Scottish, Irish and French for me are favourites

 

[Soodanim]

I speak fluent pat-oys

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Irish accents are particularly rough sounding to my ears for whatever reason. And maybe it also sounds a little bit silly to me because of leprechauns in popular culture

Cheeky bastard

 

[Hookshot]

Once spoke to some coworker on the phone who had an amazing Northern Irish accent. No idea what she looked like, but most heavy Scot or Irish accents are horrible.

Scouse is the worst (male or female), annoyingly happy loud American women are second.

 

[AJUMP23]

Austrian ≠ Australian

I was not sure if the poster knew the difference either.

Imagine how cool it would be to have kangaroos on your ski slopes and your secret bank accounts.

 

[lee50_10]

 

[p_xavier]

I imported my guy due to his Cockney accent.