Does a person's accent make them more/less attractive?

Wibbs · 29-08-2015 10:48AM

Streetwalker wrote: »

Anyone of those D4 wanna be American accents make me sick loike.

Yep that one is grating alright.

A2LUE42 · 29-08-2015 10:51AM

Any accent where asking if you are OK sounds like a threat.

Vomit · 29-08-2015 11:03AM

Can't stand thick Dublin accents. Don't know by what accident of history that particular sound developed.

"Waan, Tiiw, Tree, Fahr, Fuive..."

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"Oi have a saaahr trothe"

HalloweenJack · 29-08-2015 11:51AM

Foreign accents get me every time, especially German or Eastern European ones.

IME, having a relatively strong Irish accent has helped me pull several American birds, pretty much all have commented on how much they liked my accent.

polan · 29-08-2015 11:53AM

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Foreign accents get me every time, especially German or Eastern European ones

polan verry happy yuo like accent

polan will goes to yuor home and fix boiler free of charge

OldMrBrennan83 · 29-08-2015 11:55AM

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Faith+1 · 29-08-2015 11:56AM

Common northside Dublin accents are the worst. Please love shut the f*ck up!

fussyonion · 29-08-2015 12:02PM

Absolutely.
I detest Nordie accents and Cork accents and Liverpool accents.

Barely There · 29-08-2015 12:11PM

Nope, judging people on their accent is the height of ignorance.

OldMrBrennan83 · 29-08-2015 12:13PM

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razorblunt · 29-08-2015 12:26PM

As a Corkman, I hate the strong "northside" accent.

Good accent wise, soft Northern Irish and Edinburgh accents.

Gbear · 29-08-2015 12:30PM

I think a lot of people's preferences for "accents" are really just about whether the person is well spoken or not.

Australia, Liverpool, Scotland, Norn Iron and places like that can have really strong accents, but I find them to be really attractive if the girl speaking them is well spoken, and not attractive if they're not.

The ability to speak obviously gives the impression that the person is intelligent and generally has their **** together. The particular twang is just varying levels of exotic - nice if you're not used to it, but probably not terribly important to how you see them.

OldMrBrennan83 · 29-08-2015 12:34PM

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mg1982 · 29-08-2015 12:36PM

A strong dublin cork or northern ireland accent is a massive turn off.

lertsnim · 29-08-2015 12:39PM

That horrible D4 accent.

kupus · 29-08-2015 12:45PM

Funny thing is, most places I go outside of Ireland I always get complimented on my accent. Most love it, and in my younger days it got me a fair amount of ah attention....considering I'm no oil painting lol.

But as soon as I get to Ireland it's said I've a complete bogman accent.

jonnny68 · 29-08-2015 12:47PM

not necessarily although i draw the line with the nasal junkie drawl or a pretentious D4 accent.

Gbear · 29-08-2015 02:32PM

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I would suspect it would be a relative thing.

A poorly spoken person would find a mediumly well spoken person intimidating, a mediumly well spoken person would find a very well spoken person intimidating and so on.

Then, rather than respecting what they perceived to be an example of intelligence, they'd react as you've described.

OldMrBrennan83 · 29-08-2015 02:34PM

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diograis · 29-08-2015 03:00PM

There's more than one cork accent, just like there's more than one Dublin accent... I imagine most people commenting that they dislike either are trying to say they don't like the rough north side ones, howiya or alri biy ones

ActingDanClark · 29-08-2015 03:52PM

As a child of the 60s who grew up in 70s dun laoghaire, I don't remember either the skobie or dorsh accents. Geldof was the first person I heard with that dorsh accent, which can now be heard well away from baile atha cliath

Son Of A Vidic · 29-08-2015 03:52PM

When I hear a french accent, the first thought that pops into my head is....

French accent on a woman = Hot

French accent on a man = Bollocks

Canard · 29-08-2015 04:50PM

I don't think aaaaaanything will ever be sexier than a French accent. Ever. I would speak English with a French accent if I could (and I'd never shut up

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In general I find any foreign accent appealing, even if I'm not too sure about Spanish ones. German is also a nice one!

I love Donegal accents on women, it's so endearing, and Scottish accents in general are really nice. I wasn't a fan of London accents before but now I quite like them too.

cazzer22 · 29-08-2015 05:13PM

Any man with a Donegal accent is a no go. And some girls LOVE it? I don't understand the appeal at all. I remember being in Coppers years ago (in college) and a group of lads approached me and my friends. They were all fairly good looking and one of them pipes off ''Where yiz all from hai?'' and I just had to walk away. Instant turn off. Their grammar is also very annoying. ''I seen that'' ''I done that''. The inner grammar nazi in me just can't deal with it.

cazzer22 · 29-08-2015 05:14PM

There's also a lot to be said for a neutral accent. My parents are dubs and we've lived in Cork all our lives (down in the sticks), but my accent has stayed totally neutral. So much so, that many people don't believe I'm actually even from Cork. Dublin accents can actually be ok as long as they're not totally over the top.

fleet_admiral · 29-08-2015 05:31PM

There is a girl from crumlin, south Dublin working in centra in harolds cross that has one of the strongest dublin accents ive ever heard. Shes absolutely stunning looking though.

BrokenArrows · 29-08-2015 05:33PM

Yes an accent can be a turn on and off. I don't have a list but definitely a traveler accent is an immediate rejection.

Katgurl · 29-08-2015 05:34PM

I'm a sucker for a man with a dublin accent; inner city or middle class, I don't care once neither are ridiculously extreme. Very boring of me given I'm from dublin, but there you go, I love the homegrown.