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If you have one, I suppose.

I dunno, I sound like....well I don't think I have an accent, I guess. Nobody has ever commented on my way of speaking. Guess I sound like your average American.
 
Zugma

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Everyone has an accent. It may not always be worthy of conversation, but we all have them. That being said, mine is an unnoteworthy PNW accent.
 
The Argus

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God knows. I guess American? Born and raised in Los Angeles. Mom has a thick Boston accent where my dad has a slight Southern Drawl, both of which pop up in home videos. Have now been living in NYC for 14 years.

I'm charming AF. That's all I know. That and I use "y'all" a lot.
 
Speevy

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Southern

Parents were from Birmingham, AL, lived in southeast GA my whole life.
 
Bakercat

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Southern/Kentucky accent. I got rid of it for a while, but as I've gotten older its coming back more.

It comes out more if I use certain language,

"I'll tell ya whut"
"Y'all need to hurry it up"
"Git on outta here!"
"Pull up 'dem britches."
 
Barzul

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Well I'm Nigerian but I've lived in the US long enough to where I have a generic American accent but that goes out the window when I'm talking to other Nigerians or even in less formal settings where I'm more comfortable. Codeswitching I guess, at this point I don't know what my default accent is anymore.
 
Smurf

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idk, but Americans used to tell me I had a "sexy accent' all the time back in the day

that stopped a few years ago tho, so not a sexy one anymore I guess
 
Jon Carter

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French, living in L.A.. Having a thick accent bothered me for many years, but eventually I figured it's just a part of who I am and as long as I'm making an effort, it's good enough.
 
defaltoption

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Don't really have one anymore like I used to after moving to Florida and now being here for like 15 years but sometimes when I get mad or super energetic my friends and family say my New Yorker accent comes out
 
Einchy

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I moved from Mexico to the South when I was a kid and ended up growing there. I neither have a Mexican accent nor a Southern one, I guess I just have a generic American accent.
 
Cordy

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Speaking of American accents, what do yall think about this? How accurate is that to you who live in the US?



I was born in South Carolina but I've lived all over the South so idk how mine is. It's also nasally so that's also something else lol.
 
TaySan

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Western American/Utahn? I remember reading something about Utahns pronouncing their T's as D's instead. I was picked on a lot of because of that.
 
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I never formally studied English and learned most of what I know through media. My accent fluctuates from posh British to Bostonian to whatever else depending on the word or phrase I'm saying.

So all of them.
 
Grapezard

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Regular Canadian with a very slight hint of French. What Americans would call general American.
 
Poppy

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Cordy said:
Speaking of American accents, what do yall think about this? How accurate is that to you who live in the US?



I was born in South Carolina but I've lived all over the South so idk how mine is. It's also nasally so that's also something else lol.
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i'm from vermont and i will say sure like shore but only sometimes. however i never knew anyone who called each other bud, maybe they will do that up closer to canada
 
Altazor

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Considering I'm Chilean, I'd be surprised if any of my fellow spanish-speakers can *actually* understand me at all :P
 
Rats

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I have the default American accent. I've always lived in the midwest but we moved a lot when I was a kid so I never stayed in one state long enough for any of its linguisitic quirks to stick (and any that might have I consciously excised). We finally settled in Minnesota, and despite living here for most of my life the telltale traits of the local accent still sound ridiculous to me.

I was basically raised on TV, so I just talk like the people on American TV do.
 
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Apparently Californians have an accent, or some sort of unique flow to our sentences.

I just think its the valley girl accent; "We talk, like, this kindaaa".
 
Rei no Otaku

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I have a thick Rhode Island accent. I'm from Cranston which is where the RI accent is so thick other parts of RI make fun of us. It's basically a cross between a Boston and NY accent. We drop R's like a Boston accent, but our vowels sound different.
 
Kapryov

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Australian with a hint of generic American. It's been mistaken for Canadian a couple of times by other Australians.

I spent some time in the US, that accent is infectious and hard to shake off. It's been gradually fading though that process has taken years.
 
Eila

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When I speak in English I have a mexican accent. It's incredibly hard to get rid of without training. And it's just not worth it, unless your job involves it, like an actor.
 
mhayes86

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Standard American accent, I guess (whatever that means). It's difficult to notice it on your own, especially if you don't have a particular dialect or inflection on some words. It wasn't until I was in another country that someone asked me where I was from due to my accent that I really thought about it.
 
Stinkles

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Eila said:
When I speak in English I have a mexican accent. It's incredibly hard to get rid of without training. And it's just not worth it, unless your job involves it, like an actor.
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Oh you mean Mexican actors like Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz! It's a beautiful accent you should own it!

I know
 
KillLaCam

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I was born in the south but moved all over the US. Everyone says I sound like a surfer who works on computers. I still don't know what that means lol
 
lvl 99 Pixel

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NZ...so I guess Flight of the Conchords or What we do in the Shadows (movie) are mainstream examples, sort of. Not a particularly strong accent compared to the people I met from the South Island. Been presumed to be English or Canadian more often than Australian.
 
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