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Not particularly. I can't even understand myself, sometimes...
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I could stand a little bit of polishing as far as speaking better.
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something happened to the way we talk. It's become all so....Valley Girl-ish. Even on commercials they will advertise things as being O.M.G. 'Like that is so totally cool, i can't believe it...no way. ' yes, that's how i talk and I can't stand it. I annoy myself. When did this decline happen? I'm not the only one...many many young girls talk like this now.
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yeh, i do:) everyone knows it's me talking to them, even if they don't see me!! scary, but sooo cool:)
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I can't complain. I am used to how I talk and can't really discern a noticeable accent. I know I have one, but I can't hear it so it doesn't bother me.
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Good topic. It's funny because I have a few friends from out of the country: one in Italy, one from Russia, and they prefer my American accent. I've spent some time learning their language, too--but they prefer me to speak with the American. They like it because it's different. I guess we sound as cool to them as foreign people sound to us.
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My voice is fairly deep. Nothing out of the ordinary. When I get mad I sound like Tony Soprano. LOL- Got that from my pops.
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I practice articulation quite frequently. I'm a word junkie and try to learn new words. So, yeah, I'm quite confident on how I talk.
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Very nice. And of those four visits, which country (or city) would you prefer settling in (if the opportunity was avaiable)?
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I don't know...if i'm up in michigan with my mom's side of the family i develope the "michigan accent" that i grew up having...but living in southeastern indiana...kentucky (for a short time) and ohio...i have certain words i pronounce differntly...like bag..and what not...i even had a canadian ask me if i was from canada..they said i had a canadian accent...so i dont know if i like it...
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I don't really have an accent. I think my voice is boring, I'd like to have some kind of distinct sound to my voice.
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I don't have a girly voice , it's sort of husky. I don't talk through my nose like so many do ( drives me nuts) so yes, I like the way I talk.
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hmm not really.
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I don't know about me. But the ones over the air-ways sure seem to........Maybe because its free "SLEEP" Therapy to most people...LOL................M.C.S.
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I do. I don't have an accent at all. Seriously there just isn't a Northern Virginia accent. For those that assume that because Virginia is in he South that we all have Southern accents, I can assure you that is not the case. I hate it when people say that I must not be FROM Virginia when they hear me talk because I don't have one. I'm happy with my non-accent :)
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I have worked for years to eliminate my accent. I have no accent, but I adopt accents of where I have been.
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I tawk fine...
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I just talk. I don't have any sort of accent or dialect or anything. I do love women that do though!! I love women that say y'all!!! So hot!!
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I am OK with it.
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No, I have a small hint of a southern accent and sometimes it's obvious when I say certain words...I hate it!
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? O.O
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Accent in Southern California? I am not sure if the valley girl thing counts as an accent. As for my accent I like it but I have noticed it has faded some since I've been living in CA. When I go back to TX I seem to get it re-newed.
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I think my accent is OK, especially now that I've grown away from my hippy/surfer dialect. ;) What accent do you have, Sara?
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I'm happy with my accent, it's the way my s's hiss and whistle slightly that REALLY bugs me...
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oh yea I've had people say they can hear my Texas accent in my typing
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People laugh at my accent because I am a Kiwi.
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I love my Long Island accent.
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My accent is normal for a Scottish person, but I do have problems with "R" and "vowels" because of the French language. Regards.
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Yep! :)
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I like that it is different. When I live were I am now, everyone thinks I have an accent, but I have lived here half my life (back and forth), so that when I go home everyone there thinks I have an accent also. I guess it is a mix of the two.
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I was born in tje heart of Paris and moved to England when I was 12. So I still have a strong French accent
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Not always...i have a lisp sometimes.
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no i sound common being an english northener
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I've never liked my voice. I've always been a naturally quiet person, so when I go on a long time without speaking it sort of comes out grovelly, but not like a deep, sexy masculine kind of grovelly, because when I do raise my voice it sounds quite gingery. I hate it. Plus my tongue is quite big for my mouth, which makes me pronounce things funny. I've learned to cope with it, because when somebody brings up a subject I can really relate to, then I'll just really get into the conversation not caring what people think of how I sound. Still, if I could change my voice, I would. For myself, not anyone else.
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I don't mind it, but Texans are habitually teased about our accent.
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I don't have an accent. I do have a lisp though, it runs in the family. Friends used to tease me about it and some old friends still do but I'm ok with it. For the most part I like the way I talk in English but only because I don't know Spanish at the same academic level as English. I get irritated with myself when I can't find the right words in Spanish. I do speak Spanish better than most bilinguals though.
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I like the way I talk. I grew up in the Northeastern US, so I don't have much of an accent. Though, in my area, we pronounce "aunt" like "ant" and "God" like "Gahd".
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I'm ok with it...but my New York accent has been affected by Virginia and some In-laws from Lousianna. I guess thats where that "Twang" came from.
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Nothing you could really do to change it, so may as well like it as it is or go around being fuddy all day.
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Yes. And I'm proud of it! Besides, nearly eveyone I know speaks the same (With verious different tones, of course.) Although I have found spending a lot of time with someone with a different accent makes your own accent go a bit funny, e.g. I have a friend from down south and my gf's from australia so my own accent is all mixed up LOL. BTW, I have a northen English accent. Specifficly a Prestonian accent 'cos I'm from Preston.
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i'm scottish... my accent brings me much sex... i love it!
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Not really. I'm an American. With an American accent. I like British accents...*winkwink* lol
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No, since moving to Illinois, I've lost quite a bit of my Texas accent.... very disappointing.
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I hv the northern midwest tv anchor voice. You know. The kind with NO accent. The best part? I live in the south. Where everyone around me says letter I disgustingly drawn out. Nine, crime, I... Honestly. They all sound the same and it drives me nuts. I do say yall... but I think that's the extent of it.
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Yup , Coz it's mine.. :)
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Sure it's fine. I suppose everyone has an accent of some sort. But I'm clearly understood by people and that is what matters most to me.
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Yes I do. You can always change but it depends how the people you mix with talk
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Being born in London I find my accent a bit common and has held me back
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I like mine. I'm Australian but I have a bit of English going on. When I'm in America people think I'm English, and even in parts of Australia people think it too. I learnt English after I learnt to speak Greek so I guess it might come from that. -
would you swap with my french accent & my age!
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Oh curieux! I love your accent! I like mine - although there are aspects of it that the "locals" where I live at the moment find...er.. vaguely comical, so I just avoid using those words
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Yes. I was born in the US and don't have a accent and I'm glad I don't. Some foreigners that has ESL, their heavy accent really bothers me because it is hard to understand them completely.
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One needs only to enunciate. Determine trough research the correct pronunciation and practice. Be mindful of the pitfalls of "lazymouth" Speak with the toung thrust throughly through the teeth, watch the street for rubber baby buggy bumpers being pushed by the likes of Peter Piper after picking a peck of pickled peppers to share with sally at the seashore who sells seashells. As to verbage. Learn about cliche and do what ever you can to avoid saying things like O.M.G. or that is so cool. Avoid, at all costs, the use of the word "totally".
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i have a slight Cockney accent and dont hate it ha!
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My accent's a bit of a hodgepodge of my native accent and the one I acquired when I lived in another town for 4 years. I either flit between the two or merge them. But I'm happy with my accent, it's my voice itself that I don't like.
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I have a definate midlands accent but I am careful not to let it broaden to the local accent where I live. Example of this.. If someone were to say 'Hi my name is Shelly' the word 'Shelly' would be pronounced 'Shell-a' I am forever pulling my daughter up on this lol!
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No my voice is too low and I'm a girl :(
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Yes I like my voice very much. Is there a way to post it here? Thanx for your help on uploading, ZenMonk!
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Hi Sara............an accent other than American? I sometimes wonder how our accents sound to other nationalities.........
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I sometimes wish I had a slight Irish or British sound to my voice, but i'm pretty chill with what i've got. :)
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I like my voice. But I don't always like the way I use it/talk.
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Absolutely!
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Ya I like my Irish accent : )
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I have a southern, texan accent. I do wish it were a little less obvious. I really don't notice it much, but somethimes I record my students, and when I hear myself, I cringe!
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I have a slight french accent and I gave up on trying to lose it. But people seems to love it so...hey! I'm fine with it now!
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I'm British but don't have an accent from any particular part of the country. So here i have no accent, and to the rest of the world i guess it's just British!
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yeah, but... I've got a habit of slipping into different accents now and again. Boston, british, scottish, southern... I don't know why
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i have a strong southern texas accent and everyone likes it. i hate it sometimes cause i pronounce words way differant from everyone else so they make me repeat everything...just to hear me talk.
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Its standard Midwestern with a hint of southern on some words.
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No, my voice is deeper than I would like and I do have a bit of an accent.
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Well, I don't really have a problem with mine except when I am mad or really excited my semi-southern accent comes out, and some words I sound like I am from new york or boston. As for my voice when I am on the phone, people say it is sexy, and it is very discerning when I am on the phone for business.
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I thought the way I spoke was normal and perfectly fine until, I moved to Australia, and nobody sounded like me and my accent got teased, and then I heard my voice on a voice message, and totally cringed, .... but dont we all do that?
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I have an American accent but when I speak to the British they sometimes make fun of me.
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I don't really notice it as I'm used to it, but yes I like the way I talk. I think you should always be proud of your accent as it is a large part of who you are, and I would hate to lose mine if I moved to a new country. I'm Scottish.
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i am what people would call Chicana, born and raised in the US but my parents are from Mexico. growing up my mom made shure i was fluent in Spanish. I am now in the millitary, people i work with tell me they love my accent. i have never been told i had an accent, and i never thougth i did. I now like it when people tell me my accent is cute. i feel very proud of what i am. i am mexican-american. i wish though i had one like penelope cruz or salma. that is sexy to me.
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I love my scottish accent.
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Oh yeahh I love my accent, makes me different (in a good way)
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i think accents are cool. i don't like mine though because its a thick chicago accent and people say i sound like a bum.
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What do you sound like - valleyish? . I think my voice is ok, but I've actually had 2 people in my early 20s and 2 in my 30s compliment me on it. (The ones in my 20s, I answered the phone and transferred it to women I worked with, who laughingly reported back to me that their friends said "Who's that guy who answered the phone? He has a sexy voice!" and "That guy who answered sounded cute!". I don't have a Barry White voice that I *know* of... it's your basic Midwestern non-accent, but I tend to talk too fast and softly. Years ago somebody said "You talk like you're from back East", which my parents were, so maybe I picked up some intonations from them.
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I don't mind it. I sort of avoided the whole MN accent myself.
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I dig it, and most people are cool with it. I was born in Poland, and raised in America, so in my early years I spoke with a really funny (but in a good way) accent, but once I lost it, I spoke/speak like a true Illinoisan. I'm from Springfield, IL. When I go north to Chicago, they think I'm from Alabama lol, when I go south to let's say St. Louis or especially Memphis, they think I'm from Wisconsin ha ha ha. So it's kinda funny. The Canadians think I'm from the deep deep south, but I'm good with the way I talk and my 'accent'. It's part of my image and personality.
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Yes, It is fine, but I do have the ability to pick up an accent fairly easily. I remember just watching the British movie, Billy Elliot, and then talking in an British accent for a few hours after that, without even noticing it until my sister pointed it out to me.
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It's okay. I wish I did have another accent though. Something cool. Maybe I'll just force myself to speak in another accent the rest of my life.
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The first time I lived overseas (in the UK) I was shocked that people made fun of my New Zealand accent, because I hadn't really been aware that I HAD an accent - to me I was talking normally and everyone else wasn't. No-one at my workplace in London ever mentioned it to me but when I went to order food at a lunchbar in London, the shop assistant collapsed with laughter and repeated to everyone within hearing distance "Fush! She wants Fush and Cheeps!" and then the whole line of people behind me also collapsed with laughter. I was so embarrassed, it took me a week or so to eat out in public again. After living there for about six months though, no-one commented on my accent.
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Yes, I like the way I talk. It is one of my better features. I am a Texan, but I don't have a Texas accent. I have an excellent reading aloud voice, and I love to read aloud. I also have a really good customer service voice. :D I tend to pick up accents or alter my accent a little depending on who I am talking with.
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i do. My accent in English... i really enjoy it,especially during lectures, classes, and it's also a pleasure to see that people enjoy your speech...
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I received lots of compliments with my little french accent. So I accepted it now.
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I get a lot of BS about it, complaints, because I don't talk like "real black people" talk. I like sounding articulate and being able to form(and type) full sentences without using slang or memes. It just how I was raised and I'm not ashamed that I speak clearly.
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I have a mixture of accents--it's from being Latina, having lived in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and living in NJ. But yes, I do like my accent...although, I don't think I have one.
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Considering I can't hear my own accent I love it. Hahaha!
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I dont like mine i wish i talked better as in porper
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As a New Yawka(new yorker) I hate the way I talk and have worked at changing it. But it takes work and being around people who speak well. If you work hard and then hang around people who do not speak well, a lot of that work will be wasted. It's a natural human trait to pick up others dialect. I bet it's natural in the Animal world to do that too.
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I don't mind it. I just wish I knew what the difference was! Apparently the Northern American accent isn't the same as the Midwest American accent, and apparently I speak Northern. I just wish someone could tell me what it is I pronounce differently. I haven't got a clue. xD But it would be cool to have a French accent, or a subtle Russian accent. Spanish and Italian is also really pretty.
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I hide it well when necessary.
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I've had no complaints.
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