People Who Put the Wrong Accent on Words or Phrases

Remy said:
OMG is that what our accents sound like? Are they considered irritating? Because I think most people in the states like a British accent.
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No of course you don't all sound like that... I was just saying because naturally was generalising about our accents ..I was telling him, that would be like us saying all Americans sounded like they had a Boston accent, which of course you don't..

the difference in the accents in the UK..are enormous from North to South , East to West .. so its quite irritating when we hear Non-Brits try to say we talk a certain way....
 

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Remy said:
I was watching a YouTube video about hair styling. I watched it a number of times because the practitioner had ASMR qualities. Anyway, she said when applying product to the hair with a brush to use a certain pattern. But "pattern" literally sounded like "pa-un"
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Australians do tend to swallow syllables, probably a remnant of cockneys who came to Australia during the first century of colonisation.
 
Remy said:
I can say I hate my given name. However when Spanish speaking people pronounce it, it's almost tolerable.

What I can't stand is when people up speak the end of sentences. I don't know if I'm explaining that right but it's almost like everything is ended as a question.

Other than that, I'm not picky. Pronounce away as you like.
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that up-speak is really annoying. It started in Australia many years ago..as far as I know...


Another annoying tone is the American Valley Accent.... here's an English Actress taking off the valley accent...at around 2 mins 30...

 

A study of Jeopardy game show contestants found that men used Upspeak / Uptalk most often when they were losing. Women on the other hand used Upspeak / Uptalk most often when winning.

Not sure what to make of that except maybe men used the inflection when giving answers they HOPED would be correct "this time". And maybe women used the inflection when winning, so as to mask intelligence with self doubt, and or not appear confident and assertive ... maybe. Dunno
 
@hollydolly Being from the coast of California, we always mocked the valley and the 'valley girl' was a big thing to make fun of back then.

It seemed in the 90's some of these young girls talked like they only spoke in vowels. I don't hear it now. At work once on the phone, I had to tell this woman "I didn't understand a word you said." And I wasn't joking. I'm surprised she didn't get bitchy, but she repeated herself and spoke better so I understood her.
 
Young women, I think mainly from California (not sure), have a strange vocal habit of adding the vowel "a" to the ends of words, especially at the ends of sentences. It's a short a, pronounced more like "uh." So it comes out like: "That class is so boringuh."
 

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