Assuming an accent in an attempt to impress?

[Mom]

I am not sure why this happens...

Why is it that some people, mostly women in my experience, feel the need to adopt a very breathy, (read BREEEEEEEEAAAAAAATHY) what they think passes as a very upper crust British accent?

So often the "Ohhh MAAAAAAAAAAHHHAAAAAA" Soaps (stressed out Auckland pricks) attempt to show us country bumpkins how much more superior they are, using their extremely OTT accents.

I worked with a woman called Jan. She was the receptionist for the company. How many times I heard her answer the phone, welcome to "insert name of company" Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhn speaking, no Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhn, no Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhn, yes Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhn. It was painful. Pathetic stuff.

Well I have met a Wwwwwwwhhhhhhheeeeeeeendy, though to be fair she had to be prompted to give me her name. She works for a company that is very well known, and is the voice of the complaints department...

I hope she is VERY well paid, for she turns complaints into idiots calling up about nothing, and tells company lies to boot!

Enough of my ramblings.

Why do people need to adopt that long drawn out, breathy, unnatural, contrived "posh" British accent. I use the word "posh' carefully, for I think what they are using is not "posh" at all :yes:

[AllanB]

One finds most Honda riders have a 'proper' accent, as is only right with a owner of such esteemed machinery.


As for women folk. 46 years and I don't understand them.

Some nice curves though ........... :woohoo:

[specter]

i have been known to bust out an irish accent whilst attempting to pick up females. :innocent:

[FJRider]

One finds most Honda riders have a 'proper' accent, as is only right with a owner of such esteemed machinery.



The "accent" is only because they're talking with their mouth full ... :facepalm:

[ducatilover]

i have been known to bust out an irish accent whilst attempting to pick up females. :innocent:
I went to a cafe in Palmy every day for a year whilst at UCOL in '08 and the delicious babe behind the counter thought I was Irish :innocent: Sadly I broke her heart after that and spoke like the normal grandiloquent twat that I am.

[unstuck]

Sometimes, usually when im around the folks.Strange seeing how we left there 36 yrs ago.:blink:

[specter]

I went to a cafe in Palmy every day for a year whilst at UCOL in '08 and the delicious babe behind the counter thought I was Irish :innocent: Sadly I broke her heart after that and spoke like the normal grandiloquent twat that I am.

typical honduh rider not rolling with it....

[bogan]

does swearing less count? :innocent:

[ducatilover]

typical honduh rider not rolling with it....
I thought she'd like the real me....
I cried so much that day.

[Gremlin]

I'll put on any accent to make someone look twice or get scared :yes:

[specter]

I thought she'd like the real me....
I cried so much that day.

so you wore your repsol jacket eh?

[Big Dave]

I feign an Australian accent to make me appear more cultured.


And shit.

[jaffaonajappa]

Hahaha.

Provincialism is live and well. Good to see.
Auckland - we have Islanders, Maori, Asians, Europeans, and the white kiwi types - all living in the area called Auckland. We range from Mechanics to truck drivers to Lawyers and Academics. A splattering of unemployed too.

But yeah - If I was the big boss of some large company - Id carefully set-up the "type" of customer experience within a complaints departement - guess it depends on what type of business it is. A medical business - itd be first rate. A retail business targeting 18 year old rich consumers - itd have the poncy wank voice that seems to impress those types.

What type of outfit were you dealing with....perhaps without explicitly Naming it.

[specter]

I feign an Australian accent to make me appear more cultured.


And shit.

uhhh..... what?

[FJRider]

I feign an Australian accent to make me appear more cultured.


And shit.

Appearances can be deceiving ... but in your case ... :innocent:

[ducatilover]

so you wore your repsol jacket eh?
:facepalm::angry:

[fuknKIWI]

I've managed to throw the CHRIST'SfuknCOLLEGE accent away.
No worries but...

[jaffaonajappa]

I've managed to throw the CHRIST'SfuknCOLLEGE accent away.
No worries but...

Them Dingos beat it outa you - or you just spat the plum out of ya own choosing?

[scumdog]

I've found a quick gob on the ground followed by "Foooo, are you hot or what eh? - I was thinkin' I might aks you out eh!"

is not the actions nor accent to impress the ladies...:blink:

[unstuck]

I've found a quick gob on the ground followed by "Foooo, are you hot or what eh? - I was thinkin' I might aks you out eh!"

is not the actions nor accent to impress the ladies...:blink:

You may as well do the old kevin bloody wilson on them. "Do ya fuck on first dates".:yes:

[ajturbo]

cause they want to get into your pants.. and they know that if they keep up with the silly voice.. you'll start pulling you hair out , get naked and run around screaming..

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ:facepalm:

[Fatt Max]

Oi, fack orf, what de fack is wrong wiv a bri'ish accent anyway?
Just cos you cnat talk propper like what me and my dad does....
Fack orf you dodgy geezer, no bollokcs on my manor pal....
Facking cow son....

That posh enough...???

I mean, at the end of the day the Aussies and Kiwi's are all English so good on you for trying to talk all nice and lardy da....

[Maha]

Oi, fack orf, what de fack is wrong wiv a bri'ish accent anyway?
Just cos you cnat talk propper like what me and my dad does....
Fack orf you dodgy geezer, no bollokcs on my manor pal....
Facking cow son....

That posh enough...???

I mean, at the end of the day the Aussies and Kiwi's are all English so good on you for trying to talk all nice and lardy da....

Not posh its ....poshe...wha wha...:yes:

[george formby]

Tis thoughtless affectation. They probably cackle like crows after a couple of charvignons.

I'm a Geordie so I have to make an effort to talk proper Englund otherwise everybody I meet acts deaf.

[nighthawk]

[QUOTE=scumdog;1130062105]I've found a quick gob on the ground followed by "Foooo, are you hot or what eh? - I was thinkin' I might aks you out eh!"

AHH the elliquence of the Southern Man.....:gob:

[ducatilover]

Now that I think of it, using a Brit or Irish accent back when I would go to the clubs in Palmy worked really, really well. Snatch from here to breakfast, yet, I can guarantee the same girl won't look at me otherwise (Nor would she sit on my penis) :facepalm: Perhaps ugly faces and these accents go together to form a sexy face?

[ynot slow]

We did a piss trip down south ,we did a chopper ride-jet boat trip,while waiting for the boat to return and passengers (yanks with loud accents)disembark my brother and myself both said in best yank accent"so this is neww zeeland tooourism"another dude from the yank tour goes "wow man what part of the west ya from",told him Taranaki,he looked confused as we cracked up,even jet boat pilot was cracking up.

[Blackshear]

What about accents to throw off a lady/male (if you are so inclined)?
South african is pretty good, not much is funny about it either. Just don't go from SA to Irish...

[Paul in NZ]

I've found a quick gob on the ground followed by "Foooo, are you hot or what eh? - I was thinkin' I might aks you out eh!"

is not the actions nor accent to impress the ladies...:blink:

Hang around in Porirua dude - you might be surprised

[george formby]

Now that I think of it, using a Brit or Irish accent back when I would go to the clubs in Palmy worked really, really well. Snatch from here to breakfast, yet, I can guarantee the same girl won't look at me otherwise (Nor would she sit on my penis) :facepalm: Perhaps ugly faces and these accents go together to form a sexy face?

I think that's just a Palmy thing. I got hammered in a bar down their a few yaers ago & had wimmin chattin me oop all night.
Found out later in the takeaways that I had obliviously been attending a singles night. :facepalm:

[Gremlin]

Oi, fack orf, what de fack is wrong wiv a bri'ish accent anyway?
Just cos you cnat talk propper like what me and my dad does....
Fack orf you dodgy geezer, no bollokcs on my manor pal....
Facking cow son....
You forgot the

"y'know wa I mean?"

[ducatilover]

I think that's just a Palmy thing. I got hammered in a bar down their a few yaers ago & had wimmin chattin me oop all night.
Found out later in the takeaways that I had obliviously been attending a singles night. :facepalm:
Nothing wrong with that :innocent:

[slofox]

I have a habit of adopting accents when exposed to them - not usually on purpose - generally quite unconsciously. I was in Wales for two weeks and by the time I left I was singing me words just like the rest of them...:facepalm:

I love to do the Irish accent too - I even had an Irishman fooled once but he got a bit septic when I dropped back into kaiwai...for some reason he seemed to think I was taking the piss...had to do a quick removal - he was a bit pissed at the time.

South African accent continues to elude me though...some of the vowel sounds I just can't get hold of...:blink:

[Usarka]

I had to change my accent in the uk.

At work on the first day I asked for a desk and a pen. I got given a floppy disk and was told they had no pins. From then I learnt to use an A (like day) vowel.

Can I have a dask? and I'd like some aggs please.

[fuknKIWI]

Them Dingos beat it outa you - or you just spat the plum out of ya own choosing?
Spat it it out on the streets od CHCH in the 70's
Now days I'm pegged as a fuknKIWI here & spotted as an Aussie cunt when I come "home".
Told that joke about what's the new Kiwi national anthem at a party in Leeston one cold night in 04... oh it's I still call Australia home:gob::yes::violin::shutup::facepalm:
It went down like a lead balloon:woohoo: