<p>British accents are sexy.
The end. Lol</p>
<p>^
He looks like a young john travolta!
:/</p>
<p>i'm asian and i have a british accent due to living there when i was small. it really throws people off, and i'm known as the "smart british asian girl" around school. lol. </p>
<p>yeah, in england they make fun of american accents. some stereotypes : Yankees, capitalists, rich, uncultured people. </p>
<p>but they mainly just joke about it. its not really taken seriously.</p>
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Most British people I know don't really care for American accents; they immediately assume your uneducated, in a way... sort of like how Southerners are viewed as dumb/ignorant by some people in other parts of the US.
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Have you see "Love Actually"? The bit where the Englishman goes to the US to pick up girls? English men think think this is amazing (and it's always American girls looking for English guys. Never the other way round). English people don't love or hate an American accent. They tend to be indifferent, and can't really tell US accents apart unless it's a real southern drawl (but you all think there are only 2 or 3 British accents. You are soooo wrong! There are dozens, maybe hundreds. Don't offend people by accusing them of not being British. They are). If anything, because US accents are used for selling things so much (in ads) you can sometimes be taken for insincere. English people like the sound of other Europeans speaking English, especially French people.</p>
<p>i want to be british....i'm vaguely obsessed w/ their accent, food (puddings! clotted cream!) My friends find my tendency to burst into bad-faux-British-accent rather funny. There was this girl doing her postgraduate year at my high school. She was witty, eloquent, well-informed, and British. I was pretty adoring of her; i wanted to be her, especially the british part.</p>
<p>yeah. right on with the different british accents. there's yorkshire, liverpool, glasglow ( scottish) and all sorts of accents. sometimes its hard to tell what some of them are saying, and i grew up there! </p>
<p>i find the obsession to rather amusing. whenever i speak in class, people go " i LOOOOVE YOUR ACCENT!!" i just grin sheepishly.</p>
<p>What do you guys think of Indian accents? I really hate mine cause people never are able to understand me despite thee fact that I had a 110% in english class.</p>
<p>they are funny!! :)</p>
<p>in what way?</p>
<p>my friend is indian, and it just sounds really cute. in a good way, don't worry!</p>
<p>my friends just laugh at me</p>
<p>"i'm asian and i have a british accent due to living there when i was small"
Wow, that's really interesting! Your accent didn't fade when you moved here? My friend grew up in Tennessee, had a southern accent, and lost it when she moved up north.</p>
<p>Indian accents suck... I would have had one if I hadn't moved from India earlier :D</p>
<p>But they are funny</p>
<p>wow way to make me feel better.</p>
<p>LesOs: well, I only came to America a couple years ago. I lived in Taiwan before that, and apparently I still retained most of my accent. I don’t sound fully British, as my accent is slightly mixed, but yeah, I still have it. I didn’t even have British friends in Taiwan, they were all American, so it’s a miracle I still have it. But I’m glad I do !</p>
<p>Don’t know how I stumbled on this thread, but… Now, I’m veeerrrryyy excited to go to America.</p>
<p>I only have a faint English accent but this one time when I was in Boston I was told my accent was “attractive.” I am still perplexed as to how someone can find an accent attractive.</p>
<p>Ah, I love the sound of British accents. Well, certain accents, that is, like the ones the HP cast have. I’ve heard certain British accents that didn’t really attract my attention at all.</p>
<p>You guys should check this link out; it’s very cool: [English</a> accents](<a href=“British Library”>British Library)</p>
<p>You can hear all different variations of British accents. I love it. : D</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a British accent! Most Americans consider the British accent to be the accent of the English middle class - and the one I speak in. But a Geordie, Scouce, Cockney, West Country, Low Country Scottish, South Yorkshire etcetera are as much ‘British accents’ as that one.</p>