Sexy Accents?

[hashi]

I found this: http://www.nowpublic.com/style/sexiest-accent-poll-irish-sexiest-thanks-colin-farrell. Do you agree? And what would your list look like?

Mine would be:

1. South African
2. Swedish
3. New Zealand
4. Welsh
5. Texan
6. Russian/Slavic
7. German
8. Japanese (just cause its cute)
9. Irish
10. Scottish

[RedJay]

Eh.... Let me think. 

1. New Zealand
2. Swedish
3. Scottish
4. Greek
5. Icelandic
6. Korean
7. Western Canadian/Pacific Northwest US
8. Italian
9. None at all
10. African Arabic

And the least: Texan/Okie 

[Styxius]

Intressting that you fancy swedish, not something i usually hear =) My top 10... Hmmm

1. Aussie (Think it´s spelled like that)
2. Japanese
3. Spanish
4. Irish
5. Scottish (When you can understand them!)

Have to be top 5 cause that´s the ones i like and i need to go to work!  Bye bye!

[hashi]

Intressting that you fancy swedish, not something i usually hear =) My top 10... Hmmm

1. Aussie (Think it´s spelled like that)
2. Japanese
3. Spanish
4. Irish
5. Scottish (When you can understand them!)

Have to be top 5 cause that´s the ones i like and i need to go to work!  Bye bye!

I hear lots of people find Swedish accents sexy And the fact it's 7th on that list says enough  But Australian first? As a good New Zealander, I'm forbidden to have it on my list

[Riptide]

I think that the accents vary in their level of "sexiness" according to the gender. I'm debating whether or not I should make two lists. Also, I feel that men's accents are cool or awesome, but I cannot classify them as sexy.

[zeme]

I definitely agree on that! Icelandic sounds awesome, but it's not really sexy when spoken by a woman, for example.
Slavic accents sound pretty equally sexy by both sexes.

[Styxius]

Well i deffo agree with you peeps on the gender thingy! And yes i fancy Aussi (On girls it´s really cute, with guys it just sounds great  ) But i think when you people started this thread maybe it was more as a general thingy? And the reason i was suprised is when i talk to people around the globe most of them barely know where sweden is... But hey maybe it depends on where you talk to the people or?

Then again, it´s all about the dialects! Every state or whatnot has their own dialects    Myself is from Gothenburg so i have a rather "rough" dialect while the people from Stockholm has a more "Posh" thing going on

[hashi]

Well i deffo agree with you peeps on the gender thingy! And yes i fancy Aussi (On girls it´s really cute, with guys it just sounds great  ) But i think when you people started this thread maybe it was more as a general thingy? And the reason i was suprised is when i talk to people around the globe most of them barely know where sweden is... But hey maybe it depends on where you talk to the people or?

Then again, it´s all about the dialects! Every state or whatnot has their own dialects    Myself is from Gothenburg so i have a rather "rough" dialect while the people from Stockholm has a more "Posh" thing going on

Göteborgska är det bästa I agree too, however, the original link I posted was actually according to women, so they are male accents..

[Ilayde]

Well i deffo agree with you peeps on the gender thingy! And yes i fancy Aussi (On girls it´s really cute, with guys it just sounds great  ) But i think when you people started this thread maybe it was more as a general thingy? And the reason i was suprised is when i talk to people around the globe most of them barely know where sweden is... But hey maybe it depends on where you talk to the people or?

Then again, it´s all about the dialects! Every state or whatnot has their own dialects    Myself is from Gothenburg so i have a rather "rough" dialect while the people from Stockholm has a more "Posh" thing going on

Göteborgska är det bästa I agree too, however, the original link I posted was actually according to women, so they are male accents..

I couldn't tell apart regional Swedish dialects if my life depended on it  The only difference I'm able to make out is comprehensible / incomprehensible.

Personally, I like Russian and Greek accents, and I find most items on the original list annoying rather than attractive, especially Italian, Spanish and French. I guess I just don't have a thing for the melody of Romance languages... maybe apart from Galician.

[Nagastra]

Mine.
It's like a cross between Scottish and Anglo-Saxon English.
I only like three other accents though errrr

1. Northern Irish
2. Cornish
3. Norwegian

[phaed]

1. German (especially deep-voiced)
2. Scottish (just in general)
3. French
4. Slavic (in general)

Some that I don't like:
* Southern American
* "Valley Girl"
* Australian

[RedJay]

1. German (especially deep-voiced)
2. Scottish (just in general)
3. French
4. Slavic (in general)

Some that I don't like:
* Southern American
* "Valley Girl"
* Australian

Oh no, I forgot that I hate, hate, hate the Southern American accent also. And I live in the deep south. 

[hashi]

1. German (especially deep-voiced)
2. Scottish (just in general)
3. French
4. Slavic (in general)

Some that I don't like:
* Southern American
* "Valley Girl"
* Australian

Oh no, I forgot that I hate, hate, hate the Southern American accent also. And I live in the deep south. 

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy its CUTE! 

[RedJay]

Noooo!!!! People couldn't butcher the English language more with their pronunciation!!!

I guess I'll explain my hatred: My second cousin who was raised here is extremely hard to understand and has failed English classes so many times because of the horrible pronunciation. She can't even spell the words "pen" or "milk" right because of it. So. I. Hate. That. Accent. It. Makes. Americans. Stupid.

[Johanna]

Noooo!!!! People couldn't butcher the English language more with their pronunciation!!!

I guess I'll explain my hatred: My second cousin who was raised here is extremely hard to understand and has failed English classes so many times because of the horrible pronunciation. She can't even spell the words "pen" or "milk" right because of it. So. I. Hate. That. Accent. It. Makes. Americans. Stupid.

Being able to spell has little to do with the accent, when I speak Westrogothian I say "fisk" /fɪs:k/ (fish) like "fesk" /fɛs:k/, "låda" /lo:da/ (drawer, box) like "lôa" /lœ:a/, and I can still spell them correctly. Before I moved here that was my every-day language and I learnt to spell long before I could even adjust my speech so that it would be easier for people not from the area to understand.

And failing English because of the "wrong" native pronunciation?! There's a very special place in Hell for schools that fail students because of that...

And yes, southern accents are cute

[RedJay]

Noooo!!!! People couldn't butcher the English language more with their pronunciation!!!

I guess I'll explain my hatred: My second cousin who was raised here is extremely hard to understand and has failed English classes so many times because of the horrible pronunciation. She can't even spell the words "pen" or "milk" right because of it. So. I. Hate. That. Accent. It. Makes. Americans. Stupid.

Being able to spell has little to do with the accent, when I speak Westrogothian I say "fisk" /fɪs:k/ (fish) like "fesk" /fɛs:k/, "låda" /lo:da/ (drawer, box) like "lôa" /lœ:a/, and I can still spell them correctly. Before I moved here that was my every-day language and I learnt to spell long before I could even adjust my speech so that it would be easier for people not from the area to understand.

And failing English because of the "wrong" native pronunciation?! There's a very special place in Hell for schools that fail students because of that...

And yes, southern accents are cute

You don't get it. So whatever.  And failing wasn't directly because of the spelling, but the problems she had have bad spelling roots, plus other stuff.

[Taydr]

I split all the spelling discussion off into a thread in the IE forum

My favourite accents:

Finnish
Scottish
Icelandic
Swedish
Greenlandic

[邪悪歌]

I don't think that any accent of English is particularly sexy, though I can think of a few that I don't really like much... on the other hand there are certain languages I feel are sexy... I don't really have a particular order for them though and as such I will not be enumerating them...

finnish
estonian
icelandic
japanese
korean
rammstein's german
egyptian
hawaiian
tongan
french

accents I don't like the sound of:
any british-based English accent except maybe irish or scottish (that means british, cockney, australian, nze, etc.)
southern/central US accent
new england accents (new york, new jersey, massachusetts, etc.)
cantonese

accents that sound common, ordinary, or normal to me:
western US (my accent, the kind used in hollywood, etc.)
latin-american (mexico, central and south american accents, puerto rico, cuba, etc.)
canadian accents

[Meera]

indian (I think its more cute though)
Persian
south african
irish
turkish