Best Accent (metro, flood, water)

[Rachael84]

Our accents rule

[WestbankNOLA]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

Our accents rule

Yea, they sound like ours with a northern twist .
j.p.

[doctorjef]

This is a silly thread because it's entirely subjective. Actually IME it's not so much the accent per se but the timbre of a person's voice. Some people have pleasant voices and other people not so much. Any accent can sound horrid if the speaker's voice is unpleasant, and just about any accent can be pleasing if the vocal tone and quality are pleasant. I'm not going to try to expand on it here, but I think that particular qualities of the human voice are more to objective measurement and categorisation, and that some combination of these probably largely determines whether a voice is perceived as pleasing or unpleasant; indeed, I'm not sure that some research hasn't been done along these lines.

[loillon892]

I don't think there is any such thing. Of course, I'm a native-born Michigander and easily could be confused with someone born in California or Colorado or Florida, so perhaps that shapes my perception. But I certainly don't think that my "standard" accent is better than anybody else's.

The only two accents that I find to be slightly irritating are extremely deep Southern drawls and the native Maine accent. Interestingly, from polar opposite ends of the country

[Daytonnatian]

Definitely love the northerney/Canadian accent. Didn't like it on Sarah Palin, though.

[graterdaze]

eitheir the no accent, or the nice southern accent.

[Infamous92]

I like the New York/New Jersey/New Orleans accents because they come in many different varieties.

I like the California accent too but only that South Central type not no Valley girl type stuff.

I also like the Southern accent except for when they say oil (it sounds like "all").

I like how people from Fargo say Fargo too.

[LittleMathYou]

New York accent by far.

[michigan83]

Our accents rule

False.

[michigan83]

I don't think there is any such thing. Of course, I'm a native-born Michigander and easily could be confused with someone born in California or Colorado or Florida, so perhaps that shapes my perception. But I certainly don't think that my "standard" accent is better than anybody else's.

I don't think that the majority of native Michiganders would ever be confused with with someone from California when it comes to accent. I think there's a pretty distinct difference. It seems like the Michigan accent disappears somewhat with the highly-educated, though.

Rural Michigan (especially the west side of the state) has a speech pattern that I wouldn't confuse with anywhere else. Here's a good example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8FdM...eature=related