sexy accents

[Munachi]

I even find the Cyrillic alphabet sexy.

Now, in the linguistics forum I also frequent that might even be seen as more or less normal. There are people there that dedicate themselves to write English in Cyrillics. If they don't make up new writing systems altogehter. Personally though, I find the glagolytic letters have a more mysterious look to them, and are thus sexier.

 

[BlackShanglan]

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.

You evil creature. Now I have that damned song in my head!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Personally though, I find the glagolytic letters have a more mysterious look to them, and are thus sexier.

Come on Munachi! What in the world are "glagolytic letters"?

 

[oggbashan]

I like a soft Welsh accent with the sing song lilt - or the full-bore ranting Welsh revivalist preachers.

I find an educated Parisian accent wonderful in French. My own French accent has strident overtones of Strine (Australian) that usually makes Francophones smile.

Australian can be either enticing or like fingernails on a blackboard. I haven't heard strident raucous Australian women for many years but the memory still makes me shudder. I prefer the smoother tones of Victorian or South Australian to the other states but many people can't tell the difference.

Castilian Spanish works for me but some Spanish regional accents can be harsh - like my own.

Plat-Deutsch - ugh! (Do many people speak it now?) Austrian German is passable. Switzer-Deutsch and Swiss-French jar on my nerves.

I think the smoother elided languages sound better to me but the major impact is not necessarily the language but the person's delivery.

Og

 

[SlickTony]

All accents sound sexy, until things go sour and you're subjected to a lot of puerile verbal abuse in that same accent, and then they're unbearable. To this day I cannot stand to hear my two-syllable real name said with three syllable.

Also, no offense to the people who have them, but there are a couple of accents that irritate me to death, to the extent that I can hardly imagine lusting after anyone who breathes them into my ear:

1. The Boston accent. The reason so many of these people intermarry is, who can hear that accent in bed and keep a straight face?
2. The Philly accent. I work with a woman from Philly who irritates me to the point of being almost as crazy as she is. You'd have to pay me major bucks to live there, and even at that, I'd probably have to go about with my ears plugged up, like Odysseus, to prevent me from ramming icepicks into them.

 

[Stella_Omega]

All accents sound sexy, until things go sour and you're subjected to a lot of puerile verbal abuse in that same accent, and then they're unbearable. ....

That's a very good point.
I spent a year and a half in Tokyo, and when I came back- I could not stand to talk to anyone with a strong Japanese accent, for quite a while. I had become so miserable there, that the nicest, most loving words sounded hateful in my ears.

 

[Weird Harold]

I think the smoother elided languages sound better to me but the major impact is not necessarily the language but the person's delivery.

I think this is an important point.

Sean Connery and Barry White have voices with the kind of range and timber that would make make any accent or language they might use enticing.

Jeff Corwin and Billy Crystal, OTOH, have voices that make every sound they make an irritation to me.

Range and timber are even harder to write convincingly than accents and dialects are, but those are the real factors in what makes "accents" attractive to others.

 

[Munachi]

Come on Munachi! What in the world are "glagolytic letters"?

um... i guess i made it to obvious there that i wanted to brag with knowledge... and i even misspelled it. it's glagolitic in english, as i just found out...

anyway, it was the first slavic alphabet, invented by cyrill and method, monks from somewhere in bulgaria, who later went as missionaries to moravia. they invented it so old church slavonic could take a stronger stance against latin as liturgic language. cyrillic letters (named after cyrill) were developed in the 9th century from a mixture of glagolitic and greek letters by some of their students...

 

[mlady_france]

You can pretty much say anything to me in an English or Irish accent and I melt like an ice cube.

Aussie or Scottish can be lovely, but I deffinitly favor English and Irish. I'm getting all tingly just thinking bout it.

 

[SlickTony]

I think this is an important point.

Sean Connery and Barry White have voices with the kind of range and timber that would make make any accent or language they might use enticing.

Jeff Corwin and Billy Crystal, OTOH, have voices that make every sound they make an irritation to me.

Range and timber are even harder to write convincingly than accents and dialects are, but those are the real factors in what makes "accents" attractive to others.

Barry White, indeed. The guy we take our cars to (we know him from church) has this very low bass voice, and while I've heard some people say he'd be an asset to the choir, I've always kind of wondered whether he's the type who talks in bed, and how very lucky his wife is if he does.