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re: Most annoying US accent?
Posted on 11/29/16 at 8:35 am to PenguinNinja
Posted on 11/29/16 at 8:35 am to PenguinNinja
Vocal fry + starting sentences with "So" + making every sentence sound like a question.
It might be a dialect of "Valley Girl" but it's embraced by a lot of young female announcers.
It might be a dialect of "Valley Girl" but it's embraced by a lot of young female announcers.
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Posted on 11/29/16 at 8:37 am to PenguinNinja
Coach O Gutterspeak, by far
Posted on 11/29/16 at 8:45 am to Tigris
quote:
Vocal fry + starting sentences with "So" + making every sentence sound like a question.
There's a female engineer where I work that does this and we always mock her, "soooooo...." She gave a training presentation and did that thing you described with making the inflection to where a sentence sounds like a question.
Another thing they do, say the word "amazing" for everything. "That lunch was soooo amaaaazing!"
Posted on 11/29/16 at 8:49 am to PairofDucks
1. Rural Kentucky. They use archaic words and expressions from the 1800's. Had a math genius roommate in college from dirt floor home.
Honorable mention:
Western Pa.
Honorable mention:
Western Pa.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 8:50 am to PenguinNinja
The fake southern drawl of bro' country music.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 8:50 am to CelticDog
hands down winner is Maine
Posted on 11/29/16 at 8:59 am to MorbidTheClown
Worst American:
Midwest in general: Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, North and South Dakota, most of Missouri from St. Louis north.
Annoying Foreign Accents:
India Indian & Pakistanis doing English on "help" lines and telemarketing calls
Ebonics
Midwest in general: Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, North and South Dakota, most of Missouri from St. Louis north.
Annoying Foreign Accents:
India Indian & Pakistanis doing English on "help" lines and telemarketing calls
Ebonics
Posted on 11/29/16 at 9:07 am to PenguinNinja
California valley accent
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