I'm so terribly British!

[Bahamut2000X]

So have you ever had someone mistake the way you talk for some kind of accent?

I do all the time. Everyday at work I get questions asking me if I'm British or Australian because 'I have an accent'. In actuality I have a speech impediment and most people are just too stupid to realize this. If I tell them I have a speech impediment they talk slower and act like I'm mentally retarded. If I tell them I'm not British/Australian/Brooklyn-ish they seem to want to disbelieve and argue that I don't know what I am. So I've developed the habit of just telling people I'm really British cause it's easier.

So anyone mistake your speech for something it definitely isn't?

[Cookie]

Some guy in Cornwall went "So you're like what, cockney?"

I lol'd.

[Polaris]

lol yeap when i talk english my teachers say I sound german! but I got an A at my oral exam in english so I guess that's not bad!

[Rye]

Nope. Everyone who listens to me knows I have a thick Noo Yoikah Queens accent. xD

[Yamaneko]

It's difficult to pinpoint the Californian accent since we speak a pure form of English.

[demondude]

You can't get a more british accent then me I swear. xD

[Dolentrean]

No, people dont confuse me, though i can assume accents pretty well, I just have trouble switching into another once I have started one.

[Miriel]

I wish I had an accent. Californian doesn't count, cause it's like the default accent.

New Zealand accents put me in a trance. One of my TAs is from NZ and whenever he goes over class related stuff, I like zone out and then I snap out of it and it's like, oh crap, did I just miss the homework assignment? It's just such a pleasant accent. I bet fussy babies can listen to it and go right to sleep.

[Evastio]

Despite my nationality I don't have any sort of accent that others or I am aware of.

[The Unknown Guru]

People think I have an accent because I speak clearly. :yuck:

If I get enough caffeine, I start to sound a bit like Sean Connery, though (So's your mother, Trebek! Ha, ha, ha!).

[~*~Celes~*~]

I have the stereotypical American accent, according to Alan The funny thing about him is he has a half English accent, half American. When he's really pissed, he sounds more English but otherwise, he sounds semi American. Turns out he only sounds like that when he's talking to Americans like me xP he said it's a subconscious thing and that he does it so I can understand him.

[Shauna]

I wish I had an accent. Californian doesn't count, cause it's like the default accent.

You'd sound like you had an accent to anyone else who wasn't Californian, if that makes you feel any better?

Someone once said I had an English accent, which made me cry. xD

[Raebus]

My accent is unique, I wouldn't expect anything less than unique. So unique that it baffles people everywhere until they learn to appreciate how god damn awesome it is.

[Rye]

I wish I had an accent. Californian doesn't count, cause it's like the default accent.

You'd sound like you had an accent to anyone else who wasn't Californian, if that makes you feel any better?

No, Californians have the "American Accent." The one that doesn't have any regional accent, like my voice or someone from the South. It's pretty much pure, so it doesn't sound accented to anyone in America.

[Quindiana Jones]

I whore accents, so a lot of people get confused.