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  • #32
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Originally posted by esy74
    yea, girls might have it easier, but at least you're half Irish and you've lived there for a good portion of your life. I'm going to have to deal with looking completely different from everyone AND being an uncouth American. Does it get any worse? -=o[

    Well I don't look in any way Irish anyway...

    and I did work VERY hard to lose my american accent quickly :)


  • #33
    esy74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭esy74


    hey...what's wrong with an American accent? -=o[

    Which poses the question...
    I'm sure everyone knows that American's think most European accents are attractive because they're different. Therefore, do Europeans think that American accents are attractive as well? I didn't think so because most Europeans don't seem to like Americans, but my friend went to London a few months ago and she told me a lot of the guys there told her she had a "cute accent." So what do Irish people think?


  • #34
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    nothing wrong with it, I just went to school over here, so it was not a good trait to have.

    I do't really notice, but then I'm used to both accents


  • #35
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    Originally posted by esy74
    I'm sure everyone knows that American's think most European accents are attractive because they're different. Therefore, do Europeans think that American accents are attractive as well?
    Most men - European or otherwise - will find any accent attractive if it means it'll get them laid... :rolleyes:


  • #36
    lodgepole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭lodgepole


    Originally posted by esy74
    hey...what's wrong with an American accent? -=o[

    Which poses the question...
    I'm sure everyone knows that American's think most European accents are attractive because they're different. Therefore, do Europeans think that American accents are attractive as well? I didn't think so because most Europeans don't seem to like Americans, but my friend went to London a few months ago and she told me a lot of the guys there told her she had a "cute accent." So what do Irish people think?

    Depends... I have a good friend who grew up in nyc, lived in White Plains and then moved upstate to study and I love her accent. So do the guys over here when she visits... On the other hand, I don't like southern accents at all, I find them off putting.


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  • #37
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,801 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by esy74
    Therefore, do Europeans think that American accents are attractive as well? I didn't think so because most Europeans don't seem to like Americans, but my friend went to London a few months ago and she told me a lot of the guys there told her she had a "cute accent." So what do Irish people think?
    The "college girl" accent is great, the "booming obnoxious middle aged tourist who sould have stopped wearing shorts 20 years ago" accent is a real turn off ;)


  • #38
    esy74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭esy74


    Most men - European or otherwise - will find any accent attractive if it means it'll get them laid...

    Good point...
    Depends... I have a good friend who grew up in nyc, lived in White Plains and then moved upstate to study and I love her accent. So do the guys over here when she visits... On the other hand, I don't like southern accents at all, I find them off putting.

    I've got a similar background as your friend. Grew up in NYC and go to college upstate right now. I have a SLIGHT New York/Queens accent. It's barely noticable and you'd have to be from New York to hear it, but when I get drunk, I start tawking like this. That's haw us New Yawkers tawk. Don't worry, it looks worse than it sounds.
    By the way, ditto on the whole Southern accent thing. I don't know how people could possibly think they're cute.


  • #39
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    Originally posted by esy74
    hey...what's wrong with an American accent? -=o[
    I wouldn't worry about the american accent, most of the americans that visit irleand (sorry if i'm stereotyping) are here to find their 'roots' and all turn up with nothing on their minds except harrassing the locals and telling them how their great, great, great, great grandaddy came over from EYER-LAND and how they are looking to finish off their family tree (eek).

    so as long as (and unless there's a lot of weirdness going on, i can't see how) you don't do something like that you should be fine.:D


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