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[cleolinda]

Two follow-ups on the previous entry:


Re: beignets. The problem with dating, rooming with, or being related to someone who writes anything intended to be funny is that you are inevitably going to get the short end of the stick in terms of the way you're portrayed, because... let's face it: it's not funny when things go right. My sister is actually a much better cook than the stories I tell about her would indicate, unfortunately. For example, she has made excellent fajitas (for dinner last night), cherry cheesecake with almond biscotti crust, tons of cakes that disappear in two days, blackberry cobbler with lemon cream, homemade salsa, duck l'orange ("Chef Whoever said my sauce was the best!"), fruit dessert pizza, truckloads of omelettes, napoleons that her boyfriend and I actually fought over, and beignets that did not, in fact, try to conquer the known universe. But things that turn out well aren't funny, so you don't hear much about them.

The thing about cooking and learning to cook--as my aunt, who recently got the same degree at the same college that my sister's getting, will tell you--is that you're bound to mess something up, try something that doesn't work, or have something blow up in your face through no fault of your own. Cooks, unlike writers, don't have the luxury of being able to revise--it either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, they have to start all over. There's no backspace on beergnets, let me tell you what. So please, don't get the wrong impression, because I don't want to die.


Re: accents. I was talking about accents with some folks last night and made some joke about not coming over to my LJ and saying, "So, you guys, which accents do you think are really hot?" But in the course of the conversation, two things kept coming up:

1. Of all accents, everyone loves Scottish.

2. Almost no one finds any American accent, with perhaps an exception or two, to be the least bit attractive.

Since there are a lot of y'all and you're from all over, let's actually take a look at this. So... which accents do you think are really hot, guys?

Comments

[much-reality.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo. Okay: Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, US, Irish, Scots. Standard English doesn't sound like an accent to me, nor australian, because i grew up in England but have lived in Australia. Those are just "normal" voices. I suspect familiarity kills the romance. (Though I find some regional English accents downright ugly- nasal ones.)

I'm an auditory whore.

Southern accents turn me on like a light switch

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I was just speaking with a Scottish bookseller the other day.

And I once passed through a grocery store with southern accented lady cashiers.

I could have stayed there all day. It was wonderful.

[museofswearing.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough: Liberian. LOVE IT.

Also the standards: all of Great Britain (I could listen to Paul Bettany read the dictionary out loud, for gods' sake), Indian, and some Middle Eastern.

[andromeda-77.livejournal.com]

I could listen to Paul Bettany read the dictionary out loud, for gods' sake
*nods head in agreement* Definitely!

[andromeda-77.livejournal.com]

napoleons that her boyfriend and I actually fought over
Oh man, I adoooore those!

Accents:
Hands down, Australian!
And my second choice would be Southern American (as in Jake (Josh Lucas) in Sweet Home Alabama)

*is officially melting now*

[tiye.livejournal.com]

Of accents in the US, I think the Tennessee accent is actually one of the most elegant.

I've also heard some beautiful African accents. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which part of Africa they derive from.

[sunnygirlva20.livejournal.com]

Almost any accent thats not American is good. I LOVE Scottish accents, Indian and Slavic accents are very nice too. I HATE french accents, that make my skin crawl.

Im from VA so I have a light southern accent which I choose to think is hot.

[brigid31.livejournal.com]

Scottish is really hot but I don't discriminate, (almost) the whole of the British Empire is welcome to come. Leave out Canada (that's pretty much how my American Accent sounds anyway.) I'm also partial to Indian accents, I just find the way Indians speak English really neat sounding. I can't think of a better way to say it. Also a genteel sounding southern accent (the type found in movies about the Old South but nowhere else is also nice.

Bad news for Lost fandom

[bishounenhuntrs.livejournal.com]

I just spotted MsA in the mix through a link on lost_tv.

Re: Bad news for Lost fandom

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

MsA? This is bad? What kind of bad? I'm so confused.

[sexion8.livejournal.com]

Scottish and Irish accents are fun to listen to, but sexy? I have to say no. I just can't imagine being intimate with someone who suddenly exclaims, "Bejappers, but yer got some foine diddies on ya, lassie!"

I like the Italian and Spanish flavors. Rowrr.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Uh, I think I'd kind of run screaming from anyone who said that to me regardless of the accent...

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

GOD. I want one of my sisters to go to cooking school. Because I ate an hour ago but after reading all the stuff your sister bakes/cooks? I'm hungry again. Dammit.

Australian and Scottish accents are the hottest. British is okay too, but not in the same way. And while I don't think American accents are attractive, exactly, I don't actively think they're unattractive. I just don't think about it, if a guy has an American accent. But that's probably what you meant anyway.

[cerulgalactus.livejournal.com]

For me, its primarily American and Irish. Then Canadian, Norwegian and German.

[hobbitofkobol.livejournal.com]

Well English is not my first language so I don't always make the difference between accents in English language but I love the Scottish one like... everybody it seems and sometimes English accent but not everytime because it may sounds a bit... posh to me.
But I have to say that people trying to speak French (my language) mmm it's hot. I can speak about the different French accents if you want! lol French Canadian is not beautiful to me, it sounds... vulgar if you know what I mean, and especially with girls. And I don't like the Belgium accent either, it sounds a lot like Northern French accent btw. South France accent is beautiful, it's like people sing when they talk! Eastern France accent is german-ish and not great. The rest of us do not have a specific accent to me.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Cleo, I except the next entry to consist of statistics on your readers' love of accents. Which is most popular? Which is least popular? Which are preferred by 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 percent of your readers?

Or you could get some sleep.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Sleeeeeeeeep.

[somayyouall.livejournal.com]

I totally go for the usual Scottish, English, Irish, Welsh, Australian, New Zealand, South African accents as well. I love French accents whilst French is being spoken, and cannot understand French accents over English (which is pathetic, because I speak French). However, I once heard Eddie Izzard perform both an English and an Indian accent while speaking French, and I just about up and died.

I also have a weakness for accents from African countries that were formally colonized by the French, like Senegal. They just sound so very sophisticed. Also, Oded Fehr's Israeli accent is so really gorgeous.

Oh! Speaking of American accents, I once heard on TV that in British commercials, the announcer has an American accent when advertising something portrayed as classy, just as Americans use a British announcer to make cars sound extra cool. Is that at all true?

[alisaselene.livejournal.com]

British!(David Bowie) British!(Colin Firth) British!(Alan Rickman)

Irish and Scottish are nice...and I even like a Jamaican(sp?) accent..
*hides from tomatoes*

[terrierhead.livejournal.com]

I like a Jamaican accent as well. But British (Alan Rickman!) wins.

[leucocrystal]

I could go for any accent I guess, but I just love British. Call me cliche if you must. ;)

[saguarol.livejournal.com]

You are right the best stories are about the mishaps in life. I took my last vacation with that in mind and looked for the adventures and mishaps to have a story to tell upon my return. Indeed they happened.

I believe it wiser to see the humor in the situation than the stark cruel reality.

I have friended you through Edda to keep up on the adventures of cooking.

Cheers, (with a beergnet)

[gryffindorkz.livejournal.com]

Haha woah I didn't know so many people loved Aussie accents. It's weird cause the only time I can reconize a Aussie accent is when they are among Americans on tv not when I'm talking to everyone here.

Also I do love me some Irish/Scottish, certain American, French etc.

[swirlingchaos.livejournal.com]

Irish rocks. Scottish too. Some variations of british are nice too. I really dont like the american accents.

That is all.

sexy accents

[(Anonymous)]

If you're into the Japanese language, you may have heard the accent from Osaka. It's crazy sounding compared to anyone from Tokyo or anywhere else in Japan, and it's my favorite!

[edda.livejournal.com]

Now I want to have some of Sister Girl's cooking, and be taught by her. Dang. Cherry cheesecake with almond biscotti crust? Can I move in with you? I'll harvest the Carpet Hair, I swear to God.

Sexeh accents, in no particular order:

1.) Scottish. OK, this tops the list, and always will. It's the Official Accent Of Sexystania.

2.) Any other UK accent. For the purposes of this answer, we will include Irish in that.

3.) The right kind of Southern accent. And lo, there are many wrong ones.

4.) A Yankee Jewish accent. Oh dear God, I've been a good girl; please give me a funny Jewish boyfriend from New York. With glasses. Who speaks Yiddish when we're alone together. *knees melt*

5.) A New England accent. Just special in its own way.

6.) A Minnesota or Canadian accent. They're just so Fargo.

7.) An Australian or NZ accent. 'Nuff said.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeee, harvesting the carpet hair. Be warned: it, too, bites back.

The right kind of Southern accent. And lo, there are many wrong ones.

Word, yo.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

Australian accents a la Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, and Ian Thorpe are beaucoup sexy, as are French and Italian accents. Good God. And certain Southern accents as well--like that of a certain island jackhole. They make me wish *I* had an accent, and well, I'm a North Carolinian who reportedly sounds like she's from New York.

And I got a shout-out! I feel strangely honored.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Australian accents a la Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, and Ian Thorpe are beaucoup sexy

Hee. I remember when I first watched Two Hands (early Heath Ledger movie) it was the first time I'd really heard an Australian accent as opposed to dorky-American-TV-show-Australian, and I was like, "Okay, at the moment I have no clue what you're saying but Keep. Talking. lol

I'm a North Carolinian who reportedly sounds like she's from New York.

I read that and laughed... I'm a Kansan who reportedly sounds like she's from New York. :-D

Accents

[ferelwing.livejournal.com]

Scotch, Irish, and Australian. Depending on the British accent that can be sexy too.

Though French accents on men make them sound really stupid.

Re: Accents

[ferelwing.livejournal.com]

Damn forgot to mention the Southern drawl. It has to be a certain way but DAMN is it sexy.

[tania.livejournal.com]

Wow, so many people love Aussie accents. Boo-yah. ^_^ *is Aussie*

I gotta say, I DO really like a nice Southern American drawl. Yum. :3

[cjk1701.livejournal.com]

What's supposed to be sexy about Scottish accents? Those who says that have never been to a Glaswegian pub, sitting across from a good online friend and not being able to understand a single word he's saying. I needed another Glaswegian friend with a marginally softer accent to translate. And on the other side of Scotland they speak Auld Scots, which means YOU think they speak English, but THEY keep dropping in random words in no language known to man outside Aberdeenshire.

Stop thinking about Duncan MacLeod, y'all! He's the polite version of reality.

What's really sexy is a crisp Oxbridge accent. Always sounds a bit James Bond to me. ;)