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View Poll Results: Which of the American Accents do you find the most appealing?
New York 0 0%
New Jersey 0 0%
New England 1 5.56%
Eastern 1 5.56%
Southern 7 38.89%
Mid-West 3 16.67%
Nothern Mid-West (similiar to Canadian) 3 16.67%
Western 3 16.67%
Other 0 0%
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Old 17th October 2007, 14:38
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I've never understood the US' hatred for France. After all, they got them their independence at Yorkston. But they've never forgiven them for that. Maybe that's why Madame Liberte has been waiting at Ellis Island immigration all these years, and not been let in.
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Old 17th October 2007, 15:30
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Goodness, that's twice in the last day or so that I've found myself in total agreement with you, SR...
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Old 20th October 2007, 12:06
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Oh God, it's turning into a love-fest

Pol and SR, couldn't agree more about the French, with the exception of a number of Parisians - most of whom aren't originally from Paris anyway I suspect. I've only met a very few French folk I disliked. On the other hand, I work with Americans on a regular basis (from all over America) and find a large majority to be ill-informed, loud in their opinions and extremely arrogant. I apologise to the few who don't land in that category, I do have a number of good American friends - but then they too cringe when they encounter this particular type. Unfortunately there are rather a lot of them in the industry I work in...

Tend to agree with the fixed grin a bit too. In other areas of my life I deal with tourist types occasionally, and the fixed grin develops every time some foreigner with a vague 2 centuries old Scottish trace of ancestry tries to tell me about my own history... because they're right and I'm wrong


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Old 20th October 2007, 14:11
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But we'll still be accused of being unwelcoming to foreigners....
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Old 23rd October 2007, 01:00
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Thumbs up from me for "ach, the French are fine" and the other thumb up for "where's none of the above?". I can differentiate between US accents, but I find them all unpleasantly whiny to be honest.
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Old 23rd October 2007, 15:44
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Cajun is the least annoying

Et c'est parce que.....

And 'none of the above' would only have been fair to include. Being offered nothing but 'approval' options denies everyone the chance to state how teeth-gratingly, hackles-raisingly offensive the entire whining register is.
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