Guest Guest Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 For me it is the Aussie accent, sounds so ugly and harsh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Filipino. They think tgey speak "good" English because of their accent. Creevie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babrarina Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Fake accent. Yo what's up?! Some young people especially girls speak with fake American accent. It's so awful, ya?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topdownunder Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 What about the most sexiest English accent? Without a doubt it's the Southern Irish accent. Add red hair to that and I am in heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 No unpleasant accent to me, but I think the standard British accent or so called the Queen's accent is always the sexiest haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gummibear Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 No unpleasant accent to me, but I think the standard British accent or so called the Queen's accent is always the sexiest hahaI agree!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Although I haven't hear much from my own ear but read some comments that South African accent is the most unpleasant even some say worst than the Aussie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gameofthronesx Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 American accent. Best would be British Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingbitch Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Favourites - Singaporean, Thai, ghetto Black American (hayyy yooou mmm hmmm), French, South English I detest - Filipino, North Indian, Hispanic, those monotonous/nasal accents in the USA (what are those, btw) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 It has to be American. Not only unpleasant, but the way they pronounce certain words can create misunderstanding also. My office got this American colleague and there was once, I think the day after his leg day at gym, he said "my leg feels so heavy", but because he pronounce the "ea" like "ai" as in "hair" instead of "hay-vee" it sounded almost like "my leg feels so hairy" lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingbitch Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 It has to be American. Not only unpleasant, but the way they pronounce certain words can create misunderstanding also.My office got this American colleague and there was once, I think the day after his leg day at gym, he said "my leg feels so heavy", but because he pronounce the "ea" like "ai" as in "hair" instead of "hay-vee" it sounded almost like "my leg feels so hairy" lol. The standard pronunciation of -heavy- in standard English today is "hevvy" not "hayvy". I'm afraid your colleague is correct here, bro. Read this post in our own BW two years ago: http://www.blowingwind.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=37993 mate69 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 The standard pronunciation of -heavy- in standard English today is "hevvy" not "hayvy". I'm afraid your colleague is correct here, bro. Read this post in our own BW two years ago: http://www.blowingwind.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=37993 Sure or not? in my whole 20+ years living in Singapore, I never heard any Singaporeans pronounce it as "hevvy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingbitch Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Sure or not? in my whole 20+ years living in Singapore, I never heard any Singaporeans pronounce it as "hevvy" I've spent 26 years of my life in Singapore and I myself have spent most of them using / pronouncing words wrongly (according to "Standard English"). For example: - Using "stay" incorrectly. eg. "I stay in Pasir Ris."- Mispronouncing tuition and reservoir- Mispronouncing the alphabet "H"- Mispronouncing the "th" sounds Since most Singaporeans make the same "mistakes" above, it doesn't matter during conversations with one another. But make all these mistakes when speaking to a non-Singaporean, and that's how we earn the reputation of "Singaporeans don't speak very good English". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passinthenight Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 As an Aussie, By far the sexiest is the Irish accent. The worst is the Kiwi accent, it really is like running your nails over a blackboard. six = sux and fish & chips = fush & chups biandhorny and Topdownunder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azuchan Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 I feel that many people would prefer a nice Morningside Scottish accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate69 Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 No worst accent for me as long as I understand the other party. But I think the sexiest one to me is the British accent. Clear and crisp, the way English should be spoken, regardless of locality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluerunner Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) Baberella's kind of accent spoken by fellow SPGs is the most unpleasant to me. Edited October 28, 2015 by bluerunner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Singlish spoken by tai tai and aunties who never went to school is atrocious, especially those with money to psuh people around and make poorer people obey them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abang Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 I would like to put it this way... those of us who received our education in "A-list" schools back in the 60s, 70s do more or less have an accent. We owed them to the bishops, nuns and in my case, more than 50% of my teachers were ang-mos, Furthermore at 13-15, we were an impressive lot. We followed our peers and there you have it, a whole bunch of kids speaking accented English... it became trendy in the 80s and 90s... I lost touch with those thereafter. Even at work, it is easy to differentiate whether one was schooled at "A-list" or "neighbourhood" institutions. The vocabulary of some of my colleagues is so limited that they resort to Mandarin, if possible. No, I am not making fun and trying to be condescending, but Singlish mixed with Chinese dialects and peppered with Malay slangs, upsets me. It is time to spruce the standard... upshot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topdownunder Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 No worst accent for me as long as I understand the other party. But I think the sexiest one to me is the British accent. Clear and crisp, the way English should be spoken, regardless of locality.The crisp English accent is only found in a small locality in the UK. English is spoken with plenty of regional accents in the rest of the UK. The Dublin accent is also quite 'crisp', not the BBC sort but sexy enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upshot Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 (edited) Heavy Aussie accent done worst by a screechy woman voice that really irritates me no end as it is hard to know what she is truly say and that punchy tone. heheh This one spoils one of the few boating YouTube video I watch regularly with the volume lower if I can help it. Edited October 29, 2015 by upshot ** Comments are my opinions, same as yours. It's not a 'Be-All-and-End-All' view. Intent's to thought-provoke, validate, reiterate and yes, even correct. Opinion to consider but agree to disagree. I don't enjoy conflicted exchanges, empty bravado or egoistical chest pounding. It's never personal, tribalistic or with malice. Frank by nature, means, I never bend the truth. Views are to broaden understanding - Updated: Nov 2021. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joebottom Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 I have learned to hate Aussie accent because I had to deal with them a lot for work...especially over the phone nin na bu ehh.I think the sexiest is when Dutch people speak English it just sound extra smooth to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gstringuy26 Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 I hate the way philippnoes pronounce the word fact, they always pronounced it as fuck! haha...eg.. manufacture becomes manufuctor! U know they always have this accent sound like fuck fuck sound...very course ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Annoyed Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 I just can't stand Aussie accent, the accent you hear on their television is already hurt your ears, worst when you hear them talking on the street, it's mumbled and nasally annoying especially their high pitch women and sometimes men also, definitely they speak the poorest form of English which is their native language, that's makes Sing-lish and Pinoy-list sounded better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yahhh Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Thai and Fillipino is right up there with the Australian drawl that makes me cringe every time I hear it .So distinct and annoying .Recent news item suggests the Australian drawl could have been a result of their constant inebriated state ( drunken stupor ) from those prisoner days ...Japanese speaking English is also an irritant ... They can't pronounce the R !!!Mainland Chinese English I love !! and can get turn on by it very easily ... My very malaysian English is a good complement I think ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fake Out Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Pretentious accent turns me off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 As Mandarin is not as widely spoken language, only in certain countries such as Singapore and Malaysia compare to English.To me is PRCs Mandarin as in tongue rolling a lot that seems evolves for the worst, it's so different from their Mandarin of the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunkchaser Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 I've spent 26 years of my life in Singapore and I myself have spent most of them using / pronouncing words wrongly (according to "Standard English"). For example: - Using "stay" incorrectly. eg. "I stay in Pasir Ris."- Mispronouncing tuition and reservoir- Mispronouncing the alphabet "H"- Mispronouncing the "th" sounds Since most Singaporeans make the same "mistakes" above, it doesn't matter during conversations with one another. But make all these mistakes when speaking to a non-Singaporean, and that's how we earn the reputation of "Singaporeans don't speak very good English". To add in to the list:-the word 'comment' is being pronounced in two different stresses depending on the use (noun or verb).-mispronouncing the alphabet 'Z'-'bungalow' has a different meaning in the rest of the world-misuse of the articles a/an-the use of /'s/. (e.g. saying 'Peter office', instead of 'Peter's office')** and the list goes on... By the way, I haven't heard a local pronounce 'reservoir'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunkchaser Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Accent doesn't really matter to me, as long as I can understand it. But the American accent is still 'the best' for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 It got to be Australian accent and its similar drawl namely NZ accent. Their accent failure to enunciate and the subsequent confusion.Many different English words that are pronounced differently by non Australians , are pronounced with out any difference by the Australian. For example, the following words sound identical when pronounced by the Australian. Floor = Flaw, Sought = Sort, Ford = Forward. Then we have the difficulty in making the mouth and lips actually do something - the average Aussie would make a great ventriloquist. God knows how anybody can lipread an Aussie. Competitor becomes compedah, Government becomes gaavment, four wheel drive becomes foril drive, Car becomes Kaaah, Year becomes YEEEE etc etc , and this is not confined to the bogan classes. Here is an interesting theory that suggests the whole thing originated due to drunkenness. It is causing concern now because it may mean that Australia is loosing out on making money due to poor communication skills! http://www.medicaldaily.com/australian-accent-did-rampant-alcoholism-australias-early-settlers-shape-continents-359376"]http://www.medicaldaily.com/australian-accent-did-rampant-alcoholism-australias-early-settlers-shape-continents-359376 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gstringuy26 Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Yes, I like the American slang too. example the word stuff and staff, when you hear them say you really can tell the different ! Can't really write it here to tell the difference! It's very phonic! Anyway not important la...we are not angmoh la, no need to speak like them la...people will say walau ke angmoh trying to mimic them. Lol Chinese must know how to speak mandarin if not you dont know who you are, lost identity! Nowadays many Angmoh also learn mandarin, even speaks better than me! dam " lou kui" man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Filipino and Indian accents. Prefer standard American accent the most, easiest to understand, perhaps as a result of regular exposure to American media.Don't understand why some would like the British accent. I find it obnoxious and arrogant-sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwon Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Me tooo. Maybe i have heard the US accent when i saw movies and study english, its really easy to understand.When it comes to saying about UK accent, i feel it has too much accent like german. And sometimes i cannot get it although it is really easy word(like water:sound like ou-taa). Its interesting to know, but sometimes tired to concentrate on thatFilipino and Indian accents. Prefer standard American accent the most, easiest to understand, perhaps as a result of regular exposure to American media.Don't understand why some would like the British accent. I find it obnoxious and arrogant-sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FattChoy88 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Guys. Just press Siri n pronounce the letters of the alphabet and see if Siri understands you. Expecially 'H'. Then tell us about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FattChoy88 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Btw, I don't hate any accents. But there's some which I love. Like the English, Irish, Aussies. My mentor at work was a Vietnamese in Sydney and when he spoke it had a very strong French accent to it. It was beautiful IMO. Then there's another NZ Chinese who spoke like an Aussie and I would be just mesmerised by it. I do have trouble understanding HK English. It's just terrible and in a meeting it's so energy zapping trying to know what they're talking about. My ex bosses (3 of em) were Englishmen and I loved to listen to them speak. It's like Art.Whoever you are, speak politely, clearly and please don't speak in some pretentious accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest macca Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 scottish. really really had to strain my ears much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fab Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 For English mother tongue speaking country, Australian is the toughest to hear. For non English native speakers, India accent is toughest to understand. Pinoy's pronounciation and China's grammar. 鍾意就好，理佢男定女 never argue with the guests. let them bark all they want. 结缘不结怨 解怨不解缘 After I have said what I wanna say, I don't care what you say. 看穿不说穿 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Queen Victoria Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Me tooo. Maybe i have heard the US accent when i saw movies and study english, its really easy to understand.When it comes to saying about UK accent, i feel it has too much accent like german. And sometimes i cannot get it although it is really easy word(like water:sound like ou-taa). Its interesting to know, but sometimes tired to concentrate on that English actually has Germanic roots so I'm not surprised. I know Koreans grew up learning American English, unfortunately only Japan and the Philippines goes by this standard. The rest of the world learnt English the British route in school. English is after all, from England heh.To me, Received Pronunciation is the best English accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 English actually has Germanic roots so I'm not surprised. I know Koreans grew up learning American English, unfortunately only Japan and the Philippines goes by this standard. The rest of the world learnt English the British route in school. English is after all, from England heh.To me, Received Pronunciation is the best English accent. Filipinos has no standards, please. Their "auck-cent" is the worst of them all "auck-tually". And they think that is "good" English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neh Neh Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 When i was travelling in uk many years ago. I had a conversation with a brit and i mentioned he speaks "pure english". He got puzzled and asked me what is "pure english"? Haha... funny we were so used to be demanded in school by teachers to speak "pure english" in singapore. Ever since i realised there is nothing "pure english" exists even amongst the brits. It is really a "pure english" joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunkchaser Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 Filipinos has no standards, please. Their "auck-cent" is the worst of them all "auck-tually". And they think that is "good" English. The Philippines has the biggest Call Center industry in the world. One of the factors that make it 'big' is the 'neutrally accented english'. Do not generalize the population based on what you have met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunkchaser Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 When i was travelling in uk many years ago. I had a conversation with a brit and i mentioned he speaks "pure english". He got puzzled and asked me what is "pure english"? Haha... funny we were so used to be demanded in school by teachers to speak "pure english" in singapore. Ever since i realised there is nothing "pure english" exists even amongst the brits. It is really a "pure english" joke. It's because they have only one language, which is English. Nationalities which are bilingual or polyglot tend to use some interjections from their mother tongue or literally translate their native words to English, which make their English 'not pure'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 The Philippines has the biggest Call Center industry in the world. One of the factors that make it 'big' is the 'neutrally accented english'. Do not generalize the population based on what you have met. There's no such thing as "neutrally accented english". If that's the reason for locating call centers, they would have all the call centers located in the USA. The reason why the Philippines has large call centers, as with India, is "auck-tually" because THEY ARE CHEAP and they use some English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingbitch Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 (edited) There's no such thing as "neutrally accented english". If that's the reason for locating call centers, they would have all the call centers located in the USA. The reason why the Philippines has large call centers, as with India, is "auck-tually" because THEY ARE CHEAP and they use some English. Whilst I have no hate towards Pinoys, I do find it funny that some Pinoys feel their accent is of an objectively "better" standard than the Singaporean one because "they speak American English". Pukez Edited October 31, 2015 by kingbitch mate69 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jo_buddy88 Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 I am from Hk. I noticed Filipino English has been targeted here, I find it ironic that while most members here who I assume are locals are annoyed by Filipino English and that the idea that Filipino English is better, I work for a Singaporean bank and for customer service/call centers they deliberately scout Filipinos to man their customer service team. I find Singaporeans speak good English. So when I finally asked our management, they said they prefer Filipino's enunciation because it's more neutral. That comment came from our singaporean boss. I mean this is just based on feedback. hunkchaser 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 For native English speaker, it goes to Australian accent.For English as Second Language, it goes to Indian as the accent can be quite thick, I say worse than Pinoy's accent. These days they both handling call centres for most English speaking countries because they are not fancy but cheap, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 I am from Hk. I noticed Filipino English has been targeted here, I find it ironic that while most members here who I assume are locals are annoyed by Filipino English and that the idea that Filipino English is better, I work for a Singaporean bank and for customer service/call centers they deliberately scout Filipinos to man their customer service team. I find Singaporeans speak good English. So when I finally asked our management, they said they prefer Filipino's enunciation because it's more neutral. That comment came from our singaporean boss. I mean this is just based on feedback.The real reason is because they are cheaper. You don't expect your boss to tell you that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Curious Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 Singlish. It defies all auditory decency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qedcwc Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 Spellcheck. It's pronunciation, not pronOunciation.... fab 1 "You like who you like lah. Who cares if someone likes the other someone because of their race? It's when they hate them. That's the problem."Orked (acted by Sharifah Amani) in SEPET (2004, directed by Yasmin Ahmad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 Whilst I have no hate towards Pinoys, I do find it funny that some Pinoys feel their accent is of an objectively "better" standard than the Singaporean one because "they speak American English". Pukez But if you are AMERICA, CANADIAN OR someone who is very used to watching a lot american TV or hollywood movie the filipino way of speaking american accented English is easier to comprehend and understand and listen to , right ?? Pleaselah Singlish is only understood by people from this part of the world, Malaysia , Sabah , Sarawak and Singapore. Don't put Singlish on a pedestal and then rank it higher or lower lah, Singlish can be a culture shock for those just arrived to our shores and not everyone in singapore likes or want to be associated with Singlish, those who can think and analyse will realise that Singlish uses Chinese or dialect sentence structure as in where they place the verbs, no distiinguishing between singular or plural, getting the female and male pronouns wrong, to summarise Singlish is just sloppy, for the lower classes who cannot be bothered to be strict with their enunciations, grammar, sentence structure... singlish is like stringing a sentence of english words but the brain is working overdrive, using cantonese or teochew language structure to form a hodge podge of english words to string together , violating all the grammar rules and then hoping that it sounds like somthing neat to english. I do not deny its uselfulness and utility , in its usage as a lingua franca among the many different people of diffenrent language backgrounds.. and educational levels, some hardly went to school, but at least , we must acknowledge and recognise what exactly is the true identity of singlish, a sloppy , way of putting english words together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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