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    What accent do you have? Mine's a fairly 'proper' southern english accent. Not particularly posh, but close to what you'd expect from the average englishman.

    Also, can you impersonate any other accents? I can do Aussie, Russian, and a couple of U.S. accents well, and I can do a fairly good German, French or Dutch accent, too. At least I think so.
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    I can fake a pretty good English.

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    Recieved pronounciation English, but sometimes I lapse, and by lapse I mean go into accents of countries from which I'm not from and have never been too.

    I sometimes swear in German, in a german-esque accent when I'm very angry too.

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    Californians don't have accents.

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    I don't have an accent.

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    People in the Great Lakes States (north Ohio, north Illinois, north Indian, Michigan) don't have accent.s
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    A "noo yoikah" accent. xD


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    Quote Originally Posted by Yamaneko
    Californians don't have accents.
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    I don't have an accent.
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    Yes indeedy, the likes of Bennator and i would make prime candidates for the selectively accent-opposed world of news reporting. Personally, i'm quite excited.

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    The people I grew up around can't hear my accent because they're used to hearing much much thicker. However, when I go to another state, alot of people can instantly peg me as a North Carolinian, especially when I get excited or upset.

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    Some accents make a guy seem ten times sexier than he really is. BUT ONLY SOME.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yamaneko
    Californians don't have accents.
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    Anyone with a voice has an accent. It's the way you speak - even if everyone spoke exactly the same but one single person, we'd still all have an accent in comparison to them, and it would still be an accent. It just means that you talk differently than others, and that they talk differently to you. It's a relative thing.

    I have a New Zealand accent, but I tend to subconsciously change it depending on who I'm talking to. It's a habit I've picked up because I need to be clearer with what I say when I'm talking to people with different accents, such as my Scottish coworkers.

    I can do an American accent better than some Americans can, according to a Californian I was impersonating. I haven't spoken to many Americans for a while now, though, so I might be rusty.

    My favourite accents are Irish, South African, non-nasal Californian and certain English accents (such as Emma's, who lives near Dartford in Kent).
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    I talk how people in western Washington state talk. So I speak like a normal American, I guess.
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