21 Accents...(An Experiment)

[mechanicaltears]

The chick in this video does 21 different accents, and does them all pretty well as far as I'm concerned (people's comments on YouTube seem to think so, as well). The funny thing is, she does a Seattle accent, and I don't even hear an accent! It just sounds normal to me. Although I can tell a slight difference between the Seattle accent and the

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[mechanicaltears]

Well, to be honest, unless a Canadian accent is *super* pronounced (or maybe if they're saying "eh?" a heck of a lot), I don't really notice a Canadian accent myself. The Canadian accent she does in the video is very pronounced, and is clearly different from the Seattle accent, but most Canadians that I've met don't really speak that way. Although, most of the ones I've met are from B.C., so I suppose it would make sense if their accent would be similar to a Seattle accent, eh? ;-)

[lindsaycd75]

Her Texas accent is way off but then there are actually at least ten different pure Texas accents.hers sounds more like an oklahoma trying to hard. Mine is a Fort Worth drawl my wife is a east Texas. which is part Texas drawl part Alabama with a little Cajun mixed. big state big variation.

[mechanicaltears]

Yeah, someone else from Texas agreed with you that her Texas accent sounded more like Oklahoma. I think she maybe should've just stuck with it being a Southern accent and not tried to regionize it. (I don't think "regionize" is a word, but oh well.) But it does make sense that there would be different types of Texas accents since Texas *is* so big!

[lydiagrace]

I'll have to watch it later... but funny story... I was getting on the bus to go back to London from my uncle's house and the guy asked if I was from New Zealand. And when I said no he said 'well, it's not america.... australia?"

I got so many people asking if I was Canadian though! They hear just a hint of British in there they say but then my Tennessee throws people off and somehow they think I'm a kiwi because of it!

[mechanicaltears]

That *is* funny! Well, you have a really interesting accent though, since it's like Seattle/Tennessee, plus that bit of British you've picked up from your dad. And now that you're in China, it might be even more different! lol

[i_come_undone]

I hear nothing in the "Seattle accent." Maybe it's just cuz we live here? I imagine that to Southerners we're the ones with the accent...ha!

[mechanicaltears]

I know! I was curious about that, but the only one of my Southern friends who commented on this said that he doesn't hear a Seattle accent either (he's from Texas, but lives in Seattle now).

[return_of_will]

I'm from Texas, and I don't hear a Seattle accent, nor has anyone noticed me having a Texas accent. It's kind of funny when people try to tell me about Texas like I don't know how it is down there.

Her Texas is not Texas, like the previous poster said, it's Oklahoma. Her Carolina sounds like she's trying imitate a bad Georgia accent she saw in a movie once. Most of the rest I'm not really qualified to comment on. Her German sounded unlike anyone I knew in Germany, but I didn't live near Berlin, so that could explain it.

[mechanicaltears]

Well, I'll admit that I'm not qualified to comment on her Southern accents, for sure. Southern accents pretty much all the same to me, and I wouldn't be able to tell one state's accent from another.

I'm glad you commented on this though since you have a rather unique perspective, being from Texas and living in Seattle now. I'm kinda sad that you don't hear a Seattle accent, either. It does kinda seem like Seattle's one of the few regions of the world that doesn't have a specific accent associated with it though.