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cleolindaTwo 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?
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?
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Date: 2005-03-04 09:32 am (UTC)I'm an (east coast) American married to a German. Typically, I drool over [all aforementioned Commonwealth country accents], but I've obviously come to really like a nice German one, as well.
I also wonder about how non-English speakers feel about American accents when the person is speaking their language. I've heard from a few Germans (my husband included, when I speak German) that they just loooove hearing Americans speak German. Seriously, they go all smiley.
It could just be because they're impressed that an American you know, learned something (btw, I'm not busting on Americans, it's just that they all seem to think that we aren't trainable or something. feh), or it could be the accent. I'll ask the man.
-taking my parenthetical asides and shuttin' up now.
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Date: 2005-03-04 01:13 pm (UTC)But in whole wide world? Afrikaans. I couldn't tell you why, but I utterly melt when women from South Africa talk.
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Date: 2005-03-04 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-04 02:42 pm (UTC)http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8597
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Date: 2005-03-04 02:51 pm (UTC)For myself, some Irish and Scottish accents are teh sex (so long as I can understand them, they're fine), especially Scottish. Hee.
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Date: 2005-03-04 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-04 03:57 pm (UTC)Also, this is exciting -- I'm about as WASPy as they come. I have no real ethnicity or claim to one whatsoever. But if you move north, being Southern can pass as an ethnicity. Who knew?
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Date: 2005-03-04 05:07 pm (UTC)Middle Eastern accents, ala Sayid, work for me, as do British isles (Alan Rickman!) as long as they're comprehensible. Spanish accents are delicious. I had a male housemate when I was in college who was from Andalucia, and I could listen to him talk all day.
As far as North American accents go, I like a light Boston accent, or the softer versions of the Southern Accent. The exception is the east Texas and Oklahoma accent, which I don't enjoy at all.
For background, I've lived most of my life in the Midwest. We're the group that telemarketing companies used to try to recruit because we don't have an accent at all. One of my life's dissappointments is that I'll probably never go anywhere where anyone thinks my accent is cute.
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Date: 2005-03-04 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-04 05:48 pm (UTC)I can't believe I'm going all gooey over an accent. You pull me down to new lows!
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Date: 2005-03-04 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-04 07:32 pm (UTC)Yarha, Accentuate the Positive
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Date: 2005-03-04 07:38 pm (UTC)Right after that is Irish (Think Gariel Byrne or Dylan Moran), Northern England (blame Sean Bean and my incessant listening og the FOTR:EE commentary track til I understood what he was saying in my bones.), East London (I think because I associate it with a jovial sort of "I'm picking you up in a pub" tone), Aussie and as a Las Vegan, I can tell you speak a certain way, and that way is wonderful.
Speaking of that, when I was in England, a guy (with a sweet Pakastani accent himself) cornered me and just had me talk because he was so entranced by my accent. So West Coast does it for some people.
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Date: 2005-03-04 08:47 pm (UTC)Also, being in Scotland, and hearing the less romantic variations on the Scots accent all the time, it's not that sexy for me. :)
Lessee, continental accents like French, Italian and such, are verrrry hot. Yep, definitely French, so smooth and, well, French.
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Date: 2005-03-04 09:19 pm (UTC)my favourite, of course, is scottish. like, billy boyd scottish. i love it, it makes me just wanna jump someone. i actually did jump on one scottish boy in the pub one day, after joking with him that his accent was insanely sexy. hey, he dared me to!
in terms of british, i've decided that northern brit is what gets me. wigan, liverpool and manchester are my favourites. (i'm reallyreallyreally in love with the wigan. gah!)
italian and spanish.
bulgarian isn't so much sexy as interesting. but i would not kick a bulgarian man out of bed, either.
german does get me a little. it's not a huge thing, but a little german works for me. it has to be soft enough for me to understand, though.
irish is good, too.
south african.
south american! yum! (i know most people tend to lump this in with spanish, but it's so not. maybe the people i know are just dumb.)
in terms of US accents, none really do it for me. but i have the extremes in my family, so i guess i'm just used to them. i grew up in california, so i think my accent is neutral. my mother is from the south, so she has a bit of southern accent, and my dad is from long island, so he's got a thick new york accent. the fun thing about this is, i can slip into any three of these "accents" at any given time, having grown up with all of this around me. people tend to tell me my accent is "melting pot of america". i never really noticed it, since i'm so obviously used to me, but i do know that i say "tawk" instead of "talk", and other such things. especially now that i live in texas, i get made fun of for my accent all the time. (and i still really don't see where i have an accent at all.)
yeah, done now. sorry about the long ass post. :)
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Date: 2005-03-04 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-03-05 03:47 am (UTC)Since hubby is English, I love the Brit accent. Naturally.
And actually, I find that some Brits do like an American accent. Or they notice one, at least.
I used to get comments all the time when I was in London.
Plus, my nieces are always saying, "Auntie Jaimey, I just love your accent!"
Yeah, I know. Very weird. :S
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Date: 2005-03-05 04:45 am (UTC)I find the sexiest accent to be flat out dutch, or dutch speaking english, or russian. it is a peculiar taste...but also, to listen to someone dutch, swedish, danish, norwegian or icelandic speak english is the most awesome thing ever, and oh so sexy. it is not very heavy and it is just right!
and I don't find scottish accents sexy at all really.
We canna be doin wi' that!
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Date: 2005-03-05 07:28 am (UTC)Passing by from that, I love the Israeli accent. Australian, of course, and British, although I sometimes find it hard to figure out what they're saying. And oooh, the French accent makes me melt. Frenglish, too. Too cute.
I don't really dislike the American accent, it's just sort of random. I do find it very funny when they say 'Gaaad' for 'God.' I like the Southern accent better than the Yankee accent, it's adorable.
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Date: 2005-03-05 09:49 am (UTC)Just a question though, there's a quite a few variations of Scottish...There's the Glasgow accent, which Billy Boyd has - and me. Heh. and the Edinburgh accent, which creates a larger emphasis on the rolling of the r's. Which one is it that's sexy? Or are both of 'em?
Anyway, sexy accents...Irish, definantly. And Australian.
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Date: 2005-03-05 08:08 pm (UTC)but i love manchester and essex accents. guh. not really a big fan of the scots, tho. not a not fan, just not the biggest fan i guess.