Do American boys find the english accent atractive?

Well, at least she isn't Paris Hilton, one must remember.

Yes, I will give her that!

Ecchh. Just reading her name makes me want to go to the VD clinic...

Britney is a tacky trailer-trash bitch lol

Kinda funny how this post went from the original topic to Texas to Britney Spears....*ran-dom*!!!! Reminds me of the game "telephone."

Going back to an earlier post by Deborah:

--As I was writing my anecdote, it occurred to me that my attempt to give some idea of the little girl's Texas accent without doing the same to indicate my California accent in the narrative doesn't seem to fit in with my assertion that everyone has an accent.--

I always do find it funny when writers try to emulate "different" speech by changing up spellings as if the standard spelling they were using for their own speech conformed perfectly to the written words :)

Anyway, good story.

Kirk, I suppose authors expect that readers understand that the unaltered spelling, no matter how unphonetic, is supposed to represent the "standard" accent and that everyone knows how that accent sounds, so it's not necessary to change the spelling. And I do appreciate authors' attempts to convey the differences between the standard accent and regional accents. I think Mark Twain's writing would lose considerable flavor without his representations of the different Southern accents.

In fairness to the little girl in Texas, here’s my attempt to render the California accent. But first here’s my revision of the Texan girl’s speech:

Mama, that mayin in th’ next bewth shore duz tawk funneh (funnih?).

California:

Mama, that man in th’ next booth shur duz tok funny.

=>I agree with you Deborah. She is successful and I can't blame her for using the gifts God gave her, but it sure as hell isn't her voice.<=

Is this a matter of speech or do you really believe that there is a god?!

"oci (plural, pronounced o-chi) in Southern Slavic languages. I know "dobro" in Romanian is "good" as is with most slavic languages. I think there are a few Slavic loanwords"

Frances,

dobro is in Bulgarian or Russian. In Ropmanian is "bun" or "buna" for feminin.
Romanian is not a Slavic language, but Romance.

It's an expression, Sander. In addition, unless a discussion of one's religious beliefs or lack thereof has to do with languages, I really wish you'd refrain from posting stuff that is off-topic.

Euro_boy - i know Romanian is a romance language. I was just making a suggestion, and my suggestion was wrong. Apologies.

Frances, wrong about what? No one can deny the fact that there are many words of Slavic origin in the Romanian language. Despite the fact that many words in their language do come from Latin, they pronounce their words with the Slavic palatization which gives their speech the characteristic Slavic feel.

It's nice to know we are so loved by all yall huh? Other states actually have a worse accent than we do in my opinion, especially the northern states.., and other southern states have much heavier accents. I think its hilarious when yall try to imitate us, yall just sound like idiots.

<<I think its hilarious when yall try to imitate us, yall just sound like idiots.>>

Well, Texan, no offense but that's only because that's exactly the way your accent sounds.

I don't want to get into politics here, but I love James Carville's accent. (He is a political commentator from Louisiana, if you didn't know.) One time he was saying to somebody on Crossfire, "Ya cain't oanestleh BLEEVE dat dat is true!" Then another time, he said "Da Republicans and da drug cumpaniz git all the munaggggh!" with a strong guttural element at the end. Then he turned to the audience and repeated "Da MUNAGGGHHHH!"

Well I for one hate the southern accents you truly soud (like ed said) like idiots.