Accents. Is there a cranky dialect?
QTMama wrote an entry here about how she likes an Irish accent. Specifically, she likes to hear it out of the mouth of a certain Irish gentleman she’s seeing.
I don’t get it.
Well, not entirely. I admit that I dated a girl from Puerto Rico whose primary language was Spanish – but she didn’t have much of an accent. And it certainly didn’t boil me but, it was charming enough. I guess. Maybe. Honestly, I can’t remember. But in almost all of my relationships, I’ve been the more multi-cultured of the pair and I do not have an accent. Unless a slight Chicago accent counts. And let’s face it, no one is dropping their britches over a Chicago accent.
Plush told me that if she spoke to me in another language or with an accent, it would be completely wasted on me. She knows, however, that I tend to like a little high-maintenance and crabbiness in mah womenz.
She said, “Now, if I speak cranky to you…”
I yelled, “YES!”
I mean, there is seriously something wrong with me.
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May 16th, 2008 at 7:53 am
I have to admit that I lurve accents. British-check! Irish-check! But my favorite accent is South African. Even though Leonardo DiCaprio butchers one in Blood Diamond, I could still listen to it all day long. You definitely have an accent of some sort – dunno if it’s Chicago or midwest, but it’s there
I have been known to speak “cranky” once in awhile – I’m sure Chris would actually classify it as “bitchy.”
May 16th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I wish I could put my finger on it, RE. Really. I think it’s what it represents, at least for me. It’s just … downright SEXY. Kinda like you.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:39 am
My thighs would quiver when my Australian ex would say my name. It came out like “Hay-tha” and it was delectable.
You, my dear, like a challenge.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I have mentioned previously how I cannot stand the British accent. Irish is OK… Australian makes me drool. Someone I dated in college for a couple months is Columbian/Puerto Rican. He would say the simplest things: “move this way” and I would swoon. He and I are still friends and to this day he knows that if he speaks in Spanish I am probably going to jump on him.
As for you, RE, you have more than a SLIGHT Chicago accent. I’m just saying…
May 16th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I used to dig the Australian accent but the general douchbaggery of Russell Crowe has tempered that somewhat.
I lived in Belfast for a while and the fellas there seem to KNOW that the accent ‘does it’ for some of us wimminfolk. Cause they sure do work it. Since my sister in law reads your blog, that’s gonna have to be all I have to say about that.
I don’t know what a Chicago accent even is. My only frame of reference for Chicago involves the Blues Brothers or Ferris Bueller.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I have to agree, I’m VERY auditory, and I love to talk (shocker huh?) and be talked to, and listen to people… and god help me I love me some hunky Euro chatter. Makes me end up in a puddle of lust I tell ya!
And “slight” hehe… you better record yourself and have a good listen
May 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Ok – Anonymous was me. I am silly.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Honestly? I love a Chicago accent!! David Mamet! Oooh!
My Ex is from New Zealand and while his accent never did anything in particular to/for me all my friends would swoon…
May 16th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Different people are turned on by different things I feel. An accent can just be something special for someone. I’ll take any help I can get. Now have to decide whether or not to spoil QT Mama with some more audio blogging
May 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
But what about a smooth, southern accent?…….
May 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Arabic turns me on. I know. Weird. But it does. Especially the sound of an R, from a native Arabic speaker.
As for cranky dialect. I have it, if it’s possible. Do you have an older brother who perhaps would like the crank accent?
May 18th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Ok I think we ALL need to encourage RWG to do another audio blog! COME ON PEOPLE!
May 18th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Mmmmm… I love me some accents. I’m not even super picky
Exotic level FTW!
The only accent that really DOES NOT work for me is a Southern accent. It just doesn’t do anything for me at all. Bleh.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I’m really good at the cranky accent. A lot of people think I kinda sound have a “valley girl white chic” accent, but I TOTALLY don’t hehe. The reason I know I don’t is because I get really annoyed when I hear people who are like, ohmigod, talking like a valley girl! It makes me wanna slap them silly.
I like latin accents on guys, think Antonio Banderes. MMMM. I SOMETIMES like French. I totally had a crush on this one DILF who I helped when he came into my old job. He had a French accent, and THE BEST. COLOGNE. EVERRRRR. I wanted to lick him. Wow. His son was my age and he was married. But still… the cologne, and the accent, together. geez. He came in again like a month later and I just HAD to ask him what the cologne he was wearing the last time I saw him was. They stopped making it like 15 years ago but apparently you can sometimes find it in airports. But I never have. Anyways back to the French accents. Sometimes I like them and sometimes I wanna scream “SHUT UP PEPI LE PEUX” or however the heck you spell that.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Having grown up within a family where everyone had an accent but me and my brothers, I can’t say an accent does much for me because it’s not novel. Perhaps it’s the novelty that turns people on? I’m not turned off by it at all, but there needs to be more to the package I guess.
The times when I’ve been in France and spoken French, a few people would say my American accent was cute. It always surprised me because I would never consider my own accent to be nice in any way. Maybe it was my modesty at speaking so poorly that was cute?