American accents

[WelshBloke]

So what are my search terms?
Three girls, guy from King of the Hill, unintelligible, ridiculous accent...

Anyone remember what university or area they were from?

First fucking search results from that search!

 

[Charmonium]

I might be wrong about this but isn't being mostly unintelligible a rite of passage for a lot of teenage girls.

It's interesting that the program doing the closed captioning seems to have been able to understand them. Of course, since AIs can now lie, we can never really be sure.

Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

 

[MrSquished]

I'm dating someone who grew up in South Africa and has the accent, it's kinda sexy. The chemistry is outrageous anyway though, but it's a bit of a little sexy characteristic.

 

[Charmonium]

I'm dating someone who grew up in South Africa and has the accent, it's kinda sexy. The chemistry is outrageous anyway though, but it's a bit of a little sexy characteristic.

Bed is pronounced beed. That's all I know.

 

[soulcougher73]

The really deep southern accent makes you sound stupid even if you were an award winning physicist. just something about it.

 

[brianmanahan]

there are no accents in ohio

unless you're from southeast ohio, but those hillbillies are more like WV than OH

 

[lxskllr]

I went to East Liverpool once. It was... Something... Not a lot of money there. Whatever they did for money quit happening years earlier, and everything was down and out. Their premier car dealer sold cars that our third tier used dealers sold, and everything that was historically cool store wise, had been repurposed for less illustrious activities. Kind of depressing. Didn't help that it rained the whole time I was there.

 

[repoman0]

My family is from central NY — some of them have accents that sound like Fargo but more extreme. I’m glad we moved away early enough that I didn’t get it, and that I also somehow never got either Philly or Boston which is where I’ve lived since. I can’t imitate Philly if I tried and I grew up there.

 

[mikeymikec]

First fucking search results from that search!

It makes me think of the scene in 'The King's Speech' when the other speech therapist has the prince put marbles in their own mouth and then castigates them for not enunciating properly 🙂

 

[pmv]

Had a lecturer at university who was originally from Sunderland (or maybe Newcastle?) but had spent much of his career in California. Had a mixed-up Geordie/Californian accent. Remains the oddest accent I've ever heard.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Remains the oddest accent I've ever heard.

Hopefully not the most painful. Had to listen to some financial "experts" in multiple workshops for ISO20022 related enhancements. They were probably from some weird European country (Estonia or Hungary maybe?). Every word they spoke needed your brain's full capacity to decipher the pronunciation of. After about 30 minutes, no one was really listening and people in the room were whispering, "Can't understand a thing!".