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.

Don't speak with the standard obligatory Southern. In fact people ask me if I'm from Boston or England... its kind of odd as I don't sound like either. My parents are from border states with the South. I speak with a very standard American accent. Like someone from southern Ohio.

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" ).

Nah, I'm pretty good about pronouncing words correctly.

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.

Not fluent at all. I'd love to be though.

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. )

Its looked down upon by good ole boys a little bit, but I only get flak about it from strangers.

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 ?

German, French, Italian... any pretty girl saying it will pretty much all do it for me.

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

Not that I've noticed.
Okay, that's it. 'Twas a short survey.


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