if you were forced to give up your accent...

[arcane1]

and required to adopt a new one, which would you choose:

-an American regional accent of your choice

or

-a foreign accent chosen for you at random

I've asked this amongst friends, etc, before, and the results were quite interesting

[MindPilot]

1. Does Randomly-chosen foreign accent include

Native American? Thats the one I hope I get...Austrailian is my second choice.

[arcane1]

6. technically yes, despite it being "local"

since it's not english-based

[tjwmason]

2. I don't have an accent

I speak the Queen's English (and she's jolly well not having it back either).

Voted foreign - whilst I might end up with a gorgeous (to my mind) southern accent, I might also end up with some horrible nasal thing from New Jersey or similar :scared:

[supernova]

5. I'll trade ya

I'll swap your UK accent for my southern one. :D

Truthfully, I don't have much of one on the job anyway. It only comes out when I'm with family and friends.

[tjwmason]

18. I can feel a Henry Higgins moment coming on now.

Repeat after me "the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" - it doesn't matter if you can't sing, we can have an obvious dubbing as in the film.

[tjdee]

9. I'm from NJ and sound like any reporter....

according to many Brits/Middle Easterners/etc. I've met/known. So do my friends and family.

I never get this "NJ accent" thing.

The only New Jerseyans who talk strange with the "cawfee" and the Soprano talk are transplants from NY.

[Left Is Write]

3. Well, if I must give up my own -

I'll take the randomly-chosen foreign accent.

[arcane1]

10. that seems to be the consensus wherever I ask this question

[NNadir]

4. I had to surrender my New York accent when I lived in California.

I sneak it back when no one's hearing or looking except my wife.

[Kellanved]

7. I already have the foreign accent

So what do I get?

[arcane1]

11. same choice

you lose what you have, and go w/another foreign one, or choose a U.S. one

good luck :P

[Ready4Change]

8. Picked Random Foreign accent.

I've got a couple I'd LIKE to have, and know there are some for which I would prefer an American regional instead. But I figure I'll take the roll of the dice.

Sooooo, to see if I'd wind up happy, the first person to reply to this message with a foreign accent gives it to me.

(Closing eyes and wincing in advance.)

[Momgonepostal]

12. I'd rather choose my own American accent

That way I could choose something fairly mainstream not much different from what I have now. With foreign accents it's a crap shoot. Some are lovely, some much less so, others difficult to understand.

[AlienGirl]

13. My choice of American accent

[WeRQ4U]

14. I would pick Balky's accent from the Island of Meepos

[Shell Beau]

15. I choose foreign at random and hope it is Australian!

[tjdee]

16. Random foreign. (crossing fingers for Italian or Afrikaan)

I love British accents and Indian accents, but I don't think they'd fit me, LOL!

[sakabatou]

17. I have no accent

[regularguy]

19. I'd keep my NY accent and make it even worse, er, I mean better.

[yvr girl]

20. I don't have an accent

so there.

[arcane1]

21. ah, ok, so in that case...

you have to vote anyway, presuming that you will be forced to be stuck with one, forever :evilgrin:

[CitrusLib]

22. I already pick my accent

I'm from the deep South, but being an Army brat removed any trace of an accent in an effort to fit in.

I am, however, able to turn on the drawl when it suits me and I discovered it was very useful when travelling up north. Apparently northern men will bend over backwards to assist a southern belle, LOL!

[Misunderestimator]

23. I've already given up my original Texas accent...

And, I guess I adopted a Northern one. I don't think I would like a randomly chosen one forced on me, no matter if it's foreign or not. :shrug: