We all have an initial gut reaction when we hear someone speaking with an accent. I don't even believe these stereotypes but I always think of them.
What is your reflex upon hearing an accent in your native tongue? In English? How do you react when you hear a Canadian accent?
CANADIAN Newfie = WTF Native = scum West = no accent
ENGLISH English = genius Cockney = scum-genius Irish = it's like music Scottish = primitive Midwest = normal Southerner/Appalachian = uneducated racist! Texan = honest Boston = grating New York = rude Australian = adventurous South African = Australian? Jamaican = easygoing
FOREIGN German = sinister Spanish = romantic French = arrogant/cultured Italian = scum Russian = untrustworthy Chinese = ugh kill me Japanese = gentle/stoic African = nigger East Indian = telemarketer
>No west coast accent That's because everyone else tries to emulate our English.
Robert Morgan
Former leaf here from the maritimes.
West does have an accent. Its the way you say 'an' words.
Examples:
Man would sound like "Mon" Banff sounds like "Bonff"
Its subtle, but there.
Josiah Morris
The Californian surfer dude slash valley girl accent is cool if it's not too strong but sounds immature otherwise.
West Coast American is pretty similar to Canadian.
I thought Midwest American is the standard American/English accent.
It's what I grew up with so it's invisible to me.
Dylan Stewart
>tfw from the south and have some mix of a Midwest with slight southern spin and it makes me better than all of you
Zachary Sanchez
i always think people who don't speak german or have an accent are stupid. i mean..you know what i mean ? As if they are retarded or just to stupid to speak the most advanced white language and therefor they have to be less intelligent..and if you look at it vhances are high that i am right
Dylan Nguyen
For some Dutch accents Holland: Subhuman tokkie Frisian: Subhuman Snowape Brabants: Well-mannered intellectual Limbourgish: Peasants Zeeuws: Inbred peasants Everything from the east: Drunk peasants
Ethan Johnson
It's like how my maritime accent is invisible to me but its recognized out there.
People used to ask me to say "bar" and "car" because of how we say it. Same with "house".
Kevin Hall
Your entire language sounds like me clearing my throat.
Camden Foster
oi cunt wheres australia? aka best country in the world
Liam Gray
German is piss easy to learn but I'd never lose my accent.
The way you guys say Haaaaaaallo makes my skin crawl.
Jace Brown
Whenever i hear british accent and espesially london accent it makes me cringe. It sounds so retarded.
Jayden Parker
You got cucked out of yours
Liam Reyes
Is it because of how they say 'th' words?
Whenever I hear a British person say "I fink dat" I want to slap them.
Charles Lewis
Portuguese: lisboetas. You couldn't sound gayer
Adrian Butler
>tfw not a Paddy.
Try again, kid. I do appreciate stroopwafels though.
Joseph Cruz
Yep, and all these "ou"s and the way the pronounce "o"s in every word.
Jaxon Stewart
I love Southern culture and history now that I've actually learned about it, but I can't help my reaction. I must have gotten the stereotype from (((movies))) I saw as a kid. Same goes for all the foreign accents with negative stereotypes, except African and East Indian, which are legitimately shitty cultures. I have a positive reaction to Jamaican even though I've since learned that Jamaica is garbage.
Samuel Rodriguez
What then? Immigrants are gay remember
Ian Ross
>Hear Swedish accent >user, why are you laughing?
Thanks Sup Forums.
Robert Perry
My reaction to Australian was originally >adventurous (please don't say cunt) but I deleted the second part to make things shorter.
Seriously how can you use that word so liberally?
Ryan Robinson
Non-white immigrants are gay is what you mean to say, Neils. Don't act like you'd hate it if a bunch of other Europeans moved into your country. At least they wouldn't make videos of them dropkicking your women from behind.
What part of Holland are you from? It is a nice county to visit.
Lucas Sanchez
It is painful to listen to. Last time I was in London I heard an old couple at the airport talking.
"Show I puh-shet" was how they said "Shall I push it". Instant anger.
Aaron Sullivan
Thanks, this is informative.
I honestly don't know a Dutch accent in English, and I've known Dutch people. It's probably because it's so easy for Dutchmen to go stealth mode in English.
Nicholas Ortiz
what? cunt is cunt
its like hey guy or hey whats up
hey cunt
Cameron Ramirez
I am italian but I've been told by an american friend that I have the weirdest not-italian sounding accent. He said it sounded like a brutalized british accent.
Jason Flores
Indian = pass the poppadoms
Christian Sanders
>shall
OMG just say "can" or "will"
Englishmen think they're meeting the Queen or something.
Camden Scott
You call me a cunt to my face and you'd better call an ambulance too.
"Cunt" is probably second to "nigger" in worst words in Canada.
Parker Wright
Which accent am I most favorable too?
Ian Lewis
When I hear an Italian accent I think American LCN. Is that a particular Italian accent?
Chase Lee
soft cunts cant stand the word cunt
therefore your country is a soft cunt
Henry Roberts
My contempt for niggers, shitskins and kikes is nothing compared to the hatred I feel for retarded Canadians who post stupid bullshit like this. KYS
Henry Carter
I literally cannot understand what poor Scottish people are saying when they talk to me, it's like someone with brain damage huffed helium.
Stereotypes formed in childhood from watching movies usually aren't logically consistent.
Jayden Morgan
All I know is that I love that filthy Yorkshire lass accent.
Gavin Anderson
No, the Midwestern accent is basically how Sarah Palin speaks, i.e, "Ah-MEER-ican", "HE-ere"
Oliver Jones
Yeah it's a terrone (southerner) accent, english speaking italians have a thick accent but that's not the standard one. You know, intruding vowels at the end of words and shoving in random stops while talking. My accent though doesn't sound italian, it sounds "generic foreigner". I blame learning it through internet communication\videogames as a kid rather than actually studying it, it's a puzzle of accents i've heard.
Midwest master race. Apparently I sound like Dimebag Darrel to anyone outside of the south and midwest.
Levi Allen
Simplified Dutch
Jeremiah Davis
Australian Immigrant accents:
South African= Cocky/machismo Lebanese=gutter thug with superior attitude Chinese=I will own you, you'll have to speak Mandarin soon.
UK Regional accents:
Geordie=dumb but good-natured and honest Welsh=same as above Posh Scottish=patrician, sophisticated with a melodic quality underclass scottish=ill 'ave you cunt Scouser=petty criminal Essex=dumb normie like a reality tv contestant West Country=inbred rural General middle-class southern accent=cuck N. Ireland=high-strung, rough
Levi Richardson
>I thought Midwest American is the standard American/English accent.
It is (read: Ohio, etc.). And supposedly many people from the Midwest moved to the West Coast during the Dust Bowl, which is why California has a similar (but not exactly the same) accent to the Midwest.
Jack Campbell
It's not even simplified, you can't understand it, yet we can understand you
Parker Powell
anyone with a british accent sounds more authoritative and smart to me
Elijah Foster
MAYNE
Evan Thompson
Norn Oirish is probably the most low-class accent I've ever heard, it literally sounds retarded:
Mais, I got a Lower Lafourche Cajun accent, me. Y'all don' even know what.
Dominic Jackson
That's just because you've never actually been there, if you see the people who don't just present the news on BBC or aren't starring in some classically thespian period-piece, they sound like utter retarded morons
Blake Hughes
I can understand it as well as any other Dutch accent
>tfw from Minnesota but everyone else (even others from MN) says I sound like a Canadian.
Gavin White
Southerner: normal Northerner: retarded italian mafia movie Texan: slow and annoying West Coast: faggy Midwest: normal with a hint of something normal Northern Midwest: canucks
South English: make english speakers look like retards North English: tolerable Scottish: ancient and barbaric Irish: incomprehensible savages Australian: they all sound like that one porno i watched in middle school New Zealand: peaceful hobbits
Chinese: aliens Koreans: gaypop Japanese: sound like they're misplaced Any form of Indian: no opinion Farsi: no opinion
Russian: brutish German: aggressive and angry French: sophitsicated aka gay Spanish: my neighbor mando Italian: they all sound like they're making shit up and nothing is true
Nathaniel Martinez
Found the fun person
Connor Harris
Don't know. I just think "trustworthy, earthy, hard-working." Must be cowboy movies.
Daniel Nguyen
>Any form of Indian: no opinion Found the Indian.
Nathan Wood
Let me correct that for you: >US English Pragmatic, but ignorant >UK English Snob, but also u wot m8 >French Gay >Italy Leisurely, easy-going, expressive >Spaniard Spanish Romantic >Latin American non-Argentinan Spanish (i.e. Mexico, Chile) Barely literate, low IQ >Argeninian Spanish Cocky, obnoxious >Brazilian Portuguese Carnaval-tier, can't take seriously >German Stern >Swedish Vikings >Greeks Argentinian >Turks ::clacking noises:: >Jews Ugly, heavy emphasis on 'sh' words >Arabs Bar bar bar bar bar >Hindu (insert obvious quote about India here) >Russian Borked >Japanese Angery >Chinese Generic, ugly
Gabriel Powell
Exactly. Anything short of saying how emasculate, faggy, and utterly hysterical their high-pitched accents sounds betrays Designated-Shitstreet-Americans
Zachary Harris
Northern Americans speak really funny, like that ulililia dude
