sexy accents

[English Lady]

I adore accents, for me really it's the tone of voice a man has that is sexy, but certain accents just have to be spoken in a tone that makes me go weak at the knees

American accents work wonders on me. I am not particularly fussy as to which region, though I know there is a massive difference between them, I just love the way the accent is low and laid back and flows so very sensually... *shudder*

Scottish can be sexy. I don't list it in my top sexy accents but it certainly has it's attractions, as does irish. (My husband loves the irish accent on a woman!)

English accents work on me too, anything but brummie, to be blunt. I adore the upper class Scouse accent heard most often on the wirral where I used to live and I adore the yorkshire and lancashire twangs.

Funnily enough, my husband is from the wirral, and so i was expecting this delicious scouse accent when I first talked to him and was horrified to find him speaking with a brum accent! He'd been living in birmingham for so long, he'd picked up the accent. Thankfully, the scouse came out more and more as the conversation progressed and eventually he moved back to the wirral and lost virtually all his brum -hurrah!

Really proper, plummy english works on me too. Dr Bashir from Deep Space nine *phwoah*

Yeah,I'm pretty much an accent whore

 

[simulacre]

I'm going to hijack this thread a moment for Shanglan, everyone else you can just skip over, sorry. Or you can read on if you want to see a clumsy attempt at explaining a language in another language.

I've heard it a number of times from people not thoroughly familiar with the language, and I know that my own ability to speak French is heavily marked by that sort of limitation - either clinging to the infinitive, or choosing a conjugation that is simple rather than the one that is correct. I never really mastered the imparfait, either in its formation or in its grammatical role.

Yes, I can understand your difficulty with our past tenses, we do have a tendency to complicate things just for the fun of it in French. Why make it simple when you can make it complicated?!!! The three main past tenses are imparfait, passé simple and passé composé (there are other past tenses yes!) And as always in French there are exceptions, below are only the general purpose of those tenses.

Imparfait: shows an action which is happening in a portion of the past, but without showing the beginning or the end of that action. It shows the action partly accomplished but not finished. It is convenient for description because it allows to show many actions taking place at the same time or many “states” (of being?) existing simultaneously. Ex: il lisait (he was reading)

Passé simple: takes into consideration an action from its beginning and implies automatically that that action has already ended and is in no way related (either by the action itself or by it’s consequences) to the present. It is convenient in narration because it allows to show the progression of events since the action has already ended. It is rarely used in verbal communication, it is used almost exclusively in the written language. Ex: il lut (I can’t translate this one by anything other than “he read” so I’m thinking you probably don’t have an equivalent for this in English? For example it would be used if you wanted to say what the character did with his afternoon, but not if you wanted to point out that he has now finished reading a book).

Passé composé: it shows an action that has already ended but that we consider related to the present; it could be because the period of time it takes place into is not finished (like if I said “I wrote this morning” but it is still morning at the time that I say it) or it could be because it has a follow up or results in the present (telling someone “I met you last year” implies that you are now talking to that person so you would use passé composé. This one is trickier to explain but just keep in mind that the “now” is somehow implied). Ex: il a lu (“he read” which implies he is now in a situation where whatever he was reading is already read).

Well that was my effort at trying to explain the subtleties of a language in another language! Hope you understood since I can’t seem to explain it very well.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I'm going to hijack this thread a moment for Shanglan, everyone else you can just skip over, sorry. Or you can read on if you want to see a clumsy attempt at explaining a language in another language.

I think I'm in love.

Thank you most sincerely for your explanation. It does help, and it stimulates me to get back into the language. Perhaps what was not clear to me when I was younger will be more clear with a few years of experience to add to my understanding. Many thanks!

As for being complex when one might have been simple - isn't that art itself?

Shanglan

 

[Munachi]

As for the whole issue of typing out accents - I did this with the last story I submitted, and it probably sounds silly. Here is an example: "Long time ago Father of Mountains often visited my people. Father of Mountains is important spirit. Has made mountain here, owner of mountain. Without Father of Mountains, no peace, in mountains. If people good with mountain, mountain good with people."

I tried to mainly use shortened phrases, leave out articles, use a simplified version of the language.

There were a few reasons I did it like that. First thing to keep in mind is that I originally wrote this story in German, where it is easier for me to represent accents, so in English it probably sounds weirder as I am not as sure how a foreigner would speak it (being a foreigner myself).

Another thing was, that this girl for the sake of the story line needed to know the language of the other character, and needed to say a lot in this language, because she was the one that had to give necessary explanations. But at the same time it would have been very illogical if she spoke the language well, even the way I let her speak it stretched it a lot. Maybe never writing down the things she said and rather using indirect speech would have been a more elegant solution, but I think it would have made the story a lot less dynamic.


As for the story I am writing now - in that case none of the characters say more than a few sentences, so I won't actually put the accents in their mouths, I will just refer to him having an accent that seems sexy, and well, I need to decide which one because I don't give them names in that story, they are referred to by their nationality.

Hm... I think I will stick with the scottish one, even though more people here suggested southern american, but somehow it is easier to call him the scot, i decided now... but it was still helpful to get some other ideas...


As for French, I can quite understand your problems with grammar... I studied french for years and never quite learned to speak it...

 

[simulacre]

I think I'm in love.

 

[cloudy]

She gives great feedback, too, Shanglan.

But I saw her first.

 

[BlackShanglan]

She gives great feedback, too, Shanglan.

But I saw her first.

But if you're on my back, we can beat everyone else to her and share her between us.

 

[cloudy]

But if you're on my back, we can beat everyone else to her and share her between us.

ooh! That works perfectly for me!

 

[BlackShanglan]

ooh! That works perfectly for me!

Get out your lariat and your silver halter.

 

[cloudy]

Get out your lariat and your silver halter.

I have a popper crop, too.

As well as leg splints to protect your legs. How 'bout a tie-down? Do we need that too?

 

[impressive]

Not the West Verginia type hillbilly ...

If this West Verginia hillbilly whispered into your ear, I guarantee you'd enjoy it.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I have a popper crop, too.

As well as leg splints to protect your legs. How 'bout a tie-down? Do we need that too?

Ah ... uhhh ...

Sorry, rendered momentarily speechless by the sheer thought of it all.

By all means, bring the tie-down. I'm sure someone will find a use for it.

 

[Stella_Omega]

If this West Verginia hillbilly whispered into your ear, I guarantee you'd enjoy it.

Any accent is sexy, if used right!

 

[simulacre]

Now I’ve got this irresistible image of a sexy woman warrior riding this beautiful mount! I’m spellbound!

Thank you both for the welcome!

 

[Tom Collins]

Be careful trying to give characters accents in a story. If not done correctly it can make the story fery diffacult to read. Trust me, I've tried and failed at this and have the feedback to prove it. I tried to actually type out the accent. Ugly, very ugly.

It seems to work best to describe the characters accent and let the readers impression of the accent fill in the actual pronounciations of the words.

You've hit the nail square on the head with that comment, c_d.
Aussie is very good. Spanish is too. Italian, hot. Some American southern ones on some people.

The furthest thing from sexy? for me? would be Canadian?, eh? I mean, honestly! "I'm gonna fuck you long and hard? Eh?" I don't want him to ask me if he's gonna do it, I want him to tell me! Same goes for the Dakotas. They always sound surprised by everything to me. It's cute, but not sexy. "Oh, yeah? You want me to fuck you then? Well, alrighty." *snicker*

The prime difference I've found in the Scots is high lander/low lander. The high landers roll their tongues more when they speak. Irish is nice too.

An interesting one would be what you find in Maine. Especially near the coast and on the islands.

 

[RogueLurker]

The furthest thing from sexy? for me? would be Canadian?, eh?

Do go on, Tom .... I'm going to be very interested in how your accent sounds when you have your foot firmly planted in your mouth.

 

[Tom Collins]

Do go on, Tom .... I'm going to be very interested in how your accent sounds when you have your foot firmly planted in your mouth.

It'll be a rather muffled Midwestern kind of thing. With the occasional Texan/Northern Louisian creeping in from time to time. Plus anything else I might be hearing at the moment. I have the most horrid habbit of picking up other people's accents.
Just a touch of the ol' CYA, I meant Canadian dudes. I love the way the fems sound! Honest! *vigorusly kissing beloved editor's ass* LOL

 

[BlackShanglan]

There's something about a flat, rough Belfast accent that puts the arch in my back so hard I'm half-helpless. Leaves me wanting nothing more than a saddle slapped down and a long hard ride ahead.

 

[Tom Collins]

There's something about a flat, rough Belfast accent that puts the arch in my back so hard I'm half-helpless. Leaves me wanting nothing more than a saddle slapped down and a long hard ride ahead.

Ah, but would you wanna be put away wet, I wonder. Heh

 

[BlackShanglan]

Ah, but would you wanna be put away wet, I wonder. Heh

There's "put away wet," and there's "ridden into the ground." That particular accent makes me want to still be dimly feeling the crop strike as exhausted and elated consciousness ebbs.

Shanglan

 

[RogueLurker]

I used to work in a call centre where I developed a definite love of accents ... anything to make the job more interesting. The top three accents that I've heard (strangely enough not while I worked in the call centre) that have sent shivers down my back:

A customer who worked for the Embassy of Gabon ...the combination of the soft spoken African dialect and the Parisian Private School french was absolutely to die for.

A lecturer who identified himself as being Persian, but educated abroad ... he had the most interesting combination of European and Eastern accents that I could listen to him all day.

Amanda Burton's Irish accent from a BBC series Silent Witness ... I swear I just about swooned everytime she said "Murder" ...and as a coroner in a TV series, she said it alot.

 

[RogueLurker]

It'll be a rather muffled Midwestern kind of thing. With the occasional Texan/Northern Louisian creeping in from time to time. Plus anything else I might be hearing at the moment. I have the most horrid habbit of picking up other people's accents.
Just a touch of the ol' CYA, I meant Canadian dudes. I love the way the fems sound! Honest! *vigorusly kissing beloved editor's ass* LOL

Just keep digging, Tom ... you'll be in over your head soon enough.

 

[Tom Collins]

Just keep digging, Tom ... you'll be in over your head soon enough.

Glub, glub...goin' under for the third time, I think.

 

[Stella_Omega]

There's something about a flat, rough Belfast accent that puts the arch in my back so hard I'm half-helpless. Leaves me wanting nothing more than a saddle slapped down and a long hard ride ahead.

LIke Shane Mac Gowan, bless the toothless little bastard
"Auh, Danny Bhoy
Tha paips tha paips are callen..."

There's a laughing sound in the Belfast accent, that's the best I can do to describe its charm.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Slavic/Russian

Maybe it's because of all some Polish girls I once knew or the fact that there are a lot of Russians in my neighborhood, but Slavic languages are so rich and juicy and filled with such wonderful mouth sounds that they always turn me on. All those "zh's" and soft j's, the way their mouths work when they speak.

Also, Slavs have a kind of sotto voce way of speaking that I just find terribly sexy. The accent is kind of dark and mysterious and a little dangerous, and there's no langauge that sounds better whispered.

I even find the Cyrillic alphabet sexy.

--Zootski