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Topic: Accents
singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Tue 01/12/10 07:23 AM
I work for an international company, so I hear different accents all the time. Some I'm happy to just listen to and others I have to really pay attention to, as they're hard to understand. Which accents do you like the most? Do you dislike any? Are some more difficult for you to understand than others?

carlos2342 Joined Fri 10/09/09 Posts: 277	Tue 01/12/10 07:24 AM
I find asian and arabic accents of origin harder to follow.

STARTRAVELER Joined Thu 02/14/08 Posts: 9691	Tue 01/12/10 07:27 AM
I like Australian mate !

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Tue 01/12/10 07:29 AM
I find asian and arabic accents of origin harder to follow. I used to work with a team in Japan and would have them send me a follow up email after a call, as they were difficult to understand.

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Tue 01/12/10 07:29 AM
Australians have the sexiest accent ever.

carlos2342 Joined Fri 10/09/09 Posts: 277	Tue 01/12/10 07:32 AM
Southern women have nice accents.

lilott Joined Thu 10/12/06 Posts: 2295	Tue 01/12/10 07:36 AM
A Scottish brogue is the best.

redhead44613 Joined Fri 01/18/08 Posts: 12976	Tue 01/12/10 07:39 AM
The English accent always makes me melt or a thick NY accent. Can't stand Asian!!

carlos2342 Joined Fri 10/09/09 Posts: 277	Tue 01/12/10 07:50 AM
The English accent always makes me melt or a thick NY accent. Can't stand Asian!! I grew up not far from NYC sort of get irritated by NY accent although some of my friends have the accent lol.

redhead44613 Joined Fri 01/18/08 Posts: 12976	Tue 01/12/10 07:55 AM
The English accent always makes me melt or a thick NY accent. Can't stand Asian!! I grew up not far from NYC sort of get irritated by NY accent although some of my friends have the accent lol.

carlos2342 Joined Fri 10/09/09 Posts: 277	Tue 01/12/10 07:58 AM
lol

centered Joined Tue 01/09/07 Posts: 364	Tue 01/12/10 08:22 AM
I work for an international company, so I hear different accents all the time. Some I'm happy to just listen to and others I have to really pay attention to, as they're hard to understand. Which accents do you like the most? Do you dislike any? Are some more difficult for you to understand than others? I'm very involved in the sport of surfing, so spend a lot of time watching "Fuel TV" (sports channel dedicated to water sports, snow sports, skateboarding) and love to listen to the Aussie women talk (surfing is a national sport in Australia) ... I simply melt into my couch hearing them!

Quietman_2009 Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7430	Tue 01/12/10 08:37 AM Edited by Quietman_2009 on Tue 01/12/10 08:37 AM
I worked with a bunch of Chinese software engineers and understood them fairly okay and I worked with a couple of Scottish mechanical engineers. I could never understand what they were saying

carlos2342 Joined Fri 10/09/09 Posts: 277	Tue 01/12/10 08:40 AM
I worked with a bunch of Chinese software engineers and understood them fairly okay and I worked with a couple of Scottish mechanical engineers. I could never understand what they were saying They were asking you where your kilt was lol jk

Quietman_2009 Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7430	Tue 01/12/10 08:42 AM
I worked with a bunch of Chinese software engineers and understood them fairly okay and I worked with a couple of Scottish mechanical engineers. I could never understand what they were saying They were asking you where your kilt was lol jk ummm usually they were tallking about thermo expansion coefficients and heat dissipation of hene lasers in a closed loop system

carlos2342 Joined Fri 10/09/09 Posts: 277	Tue 01/12/10 08:49 AM
I worked with a bunch of Chinese software engineers and understood them fairly okay and I worked with a couple of Scottish mechanical engineers. I could never understand what they were saying They were asking you where your kilt was lol jk ummm usually they were tallking about thermo expansion coefficients and heat dissipation of hene lasers in a closed loop system It was a joke lol. Just incase you didn't realize some people might not understand what you are talking about when you talk about hene lasers in a closed loop sytem and thermo expansion coefficients. HeNe lasers are usually used in optics and consist of Helium and Neon, both of which are noble gases, meaning their outer shell contains a full orbital and they are hard to react (I am majoring in chemistry). Thermal (thermo is a quick form for us chemists) just describes how an object expands such as an atom, molecule, substance, etc when heat is applied to the medium.

Cirreh Joined Mon 01/11/10 Posts: 30	Tue 01/12/10 08:51 AM
Scottish, Irish, English.... Anything close to that, and yes, Australian also fits in there. Those make me melt. I have a harder time following thick accents from the Middle East or Asia. I know, horrible, but I have little involvement with people who may have accents from there (usually my friends have a more "Americanized" accent, just by chance).

Tommo Joined Sun 09/02/07 Posts: 571	Tue 01/12/10 08:51 AM
I worked with a bunch of Chinese software engineers and understood them fairly okay and I worked with a couple of Scottish mechanical engineers. I could never understand what they were saying They were asking you where your kilt was lol jk ummm usually they were tallking about thermo expansion coefficients and heat dissipation of hene lasers in a closed loop system OH NO! Not the Stabilization of Single Frequency internal mirror Ne-Ne lasers?!

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Tue 01/12/10 08:52 AM
The English accent always makes me melt or a thick NY accent. Can't stand Asian!! I dated a guy from England. His accent was lovely.

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Tue 01/12/10 08:55 AM
A lot of our training is done by one of our teams in India. Some I can understand well. Others speak too quickly and it's hard to understand them.