Why do other countries like our accent

Explosions in the Sky

Hey fine people of after hours I always wondered why people find the Irish accent attractive, the accent was voted the sexiest in the world this year, it confuses me but I'm not complaining Any ideas or thoughts, cheers

Standard Toaster

Farreller has alot to answer for.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I suppose its kinda hokey, quaint and inoffensive.

Reamer Fanny

Explosions in the Sky wrote: »

Hey fine people of after hours I always wondered why people find the Irish accent attractive, the accent was voted the sexiest in the world this year, it confuses me but I'm not complaining Any ideas or thoughts, cheers

Your right there's nothing like the sultry tones of "alrii love" and "how's your growler??" that's damn sexy!

Sonics2k

I'm not complaining :pac:

keithkk16

Daniel O'Donnell, he's got a lovely accent.

brendansmith

Maybe its something about how people associate different things when they hear an accent.

South African - Racism (bad)
English - Football hooliganism (bad)
Germans speaking Engish - On-screen nazis (bad)
Irish accent - Booze (Good times)

bwatson

brendansmith wrote: »

Maybe its something about how people associate different things when they hear an accent.

South African - Racism (bad)
English - Football hooliganism (bad)
Germans speaking Engish - On-screen nazis (bad)
Irish accent - Booze (Good times)

Yes, as soon as I hear the voice of either David Gower or Nicholas Parsons I immediately think of yobs throwing traffic cones at each other outside of a football ground.

smash

brendansmith wrote: »

Irish accent - Booze (Good times)

Same with Scottish

slapbangwallop

Lets get it right, they love the culchie accent! #JustSayin

bradyle

It's supposed to be charming I think...and lyrical...makes what we say more poetical...or some other load of baloney like that

Altho to be fair my favorite accents are prob northey and Scottish ones which could be considered kinda similar to ours


CNNgo describes it as

Valued slightly more in men than in women, the Irish brogue is a lilting, lyrical articulation that’s charming, if not exotic. Fluid and uplifting, it can swing from vulnerable to threatening over the course of a sentence, restoring your faith in the world again … right before it stabs you with a broken bottle top.

Sounds like: A marauding pixie

Altho we only get 6th sexiest by their pole...disgraceful

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/worlds-sexiest-accents-130333?page=0,1

Explosions in the Sky

Sometimes I think they get mixed up and think we all have that Northern Ireland accent

Dotrel

Ah yes, the Irish accent (singular).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guX8zoJAI0M

Explosions in the Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LJw6PAi5Q8

I have come to the conclusion its because they think we all have bodies like Brad Pitt

Solair

Maybe because some Irish accents are actually quite pleasant.

In general, Americans tend to just find Irish and British accents interesting and exotic because they only ever hear them on the TV and in movies.

The vast majority of US English speakers have incredibly standard accents. Where as Ireland and the UK have accents that change every half mile.

Similar in Australia too, because it was settled so recently and because people are so mobile the accent's very uniform across the whole country.

The only areas of the US that tend to have unusual accents are places like Boston, NYC, Louisiana, Texas etc etc... i.e. the older states.

The majority of US broadcasters have accents that are almost non-geographically definable.

dxhound2005

A Fish called Wanda. Do you speak Italian?

http://youtu.be/qMLYTZNmUmw