1. What accent do you speak in when you speak your native language? Don't tell me you don't have one, because everyone has an accent, even if it's the "standard" accent for the language in question.

a fairly indistinct accent, really. I don't have the accent the older people from my hometown has, too coloured by TV and such, I guess... I do however still have a difficulty with saying "r" properly... but not so people really notice...

2. Do you mispronounce words because of your accent? I'm not talking about simple variant pronunciation. I'm talking about the way people in Boston say the word "career" like "Korea" and "Korea" like "career" (or, for example, the way Billy Joel sings about "Brender & Eddie" in "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" ).

mispronounce? Well... as I said, I ahve this r issue, but is it reallya mispronunciation just because I don't talk the same way as stockholm people, or whatever (their accent is horrible, really)

3. Do you speak any other languages fluently enough to have a distinctive local accent in that language? For example, my Moscow accent, my friend's Parisian accent when he speaks French, etc.

I guess not. My english probably has some sort of weird mixture between something english and something american, which might make it sound peculiar... but... and my french, if I have any accent when it comes to frnech it would be parisian...

4. Are any of your accents "looked down" upon? (For example, Cockney or similar accents in England, Algerian accents in French, Caucasus accents in Russian, Long Island accents in American English, etc., etc., etc. )

Not what I have. But any accent in sweden is sort of looked down upon, imitated, and ridiculed... this is fun, since everyone has an accent.

5. As long as we're speaking about accents, are there any foreign accents which, when you hear your native language spoken in, turn you on/sound pretty ?

depends, really, finnish can be cool, and so can norwegian (but don't tell anyone I said that) but as for most others, they just make the language sound violated..

6. Are there any foreign accents which make your language sound awful?

English, above all. But seeing as swedish is a language with many long and short vowel sounds, most europeans make a mess of it. (can't tell the differences)

Okay, that's it. 'Twas a short survey.

But actually an interesting one, surprise, surprise...


~jonathan

I mean you harm.

Please rate this post with the help of Damookster's post rating system.

Who cares what a cow thinks? Seriously. - Elaine