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Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent

Item added by CastleBee. Added on 10/26/2006
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16 Reviews

irishgit
12/20/2008

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 5

Everytime I go to Texas, folks tell me I have an English accent.

If my Irish father heard that, he'd shoot me.

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harlock
09/09/2008

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 4

Well, everytime I had to speak in a foreigner language, I had to pretend to have a foreign accent. It doesn't use to be perfect, but I try to do it as well as I can.

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uncnc08
05/26/2008

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 4

My mom is british,so I can speak with a pretty good english accent if I want. but in public I have done it just as a joke a few times.

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louiethe20th
03/22/2008

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 4

I do a pretty mean Spanish!

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GenghisTheHun
03/22/2008

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 4

A bunch of us were in Scottsdale, Arizona, a number of years ago, and we posed as an Australian golf team! How lame was that?

Of course we picked up the accent on our many dingo hunts, so it was easy.

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James76255
03/22/2008

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 3

While goofing off with friends and such I will. I do pretty good British and Australian accents and one that is kind of a generic Middle Eastern accent.

At my previos job I was in the office one day during off hours. We were doing some cleaning and updating files. One of my co-workers was out checking on some things and I was expecting a call from them. When the phone rang I assumed it was them, so when I answered I used the Middle Eastern accent and said, "Hello there. Can I help you?" Not only was it not them, but the woman on the other end of the line paused before speaking to me with the same accent, only hers wasn't a put on. I dropped mine to answer her questions and have sometimes wondered just how confused she was by the time the call was over. 

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LadyJesusFan77 7
06/13/2007

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 5

I love accents, and do many impressions.

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BlueOrchid
11/21/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 2

I never actually pretended to have one to fool people, I just always liked to read out loud with one while I read Harry Potter.

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CastleBee
11/13/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 3

While I stink at learning foreign languages, I have always had a pretty good ear for accents. As a kid I use to freak out my younger cousins doing lines from Dracula (it seems so dumb that it scared them now). Later I realized I could do fairly decent British, Irish and Scottish accents. I could also immitate my relatives from Bal'imore. Depending on the direction you take out of Indianapolis you will hear the flat midwestern thing going on and it will take on a slower southern sound as you head to KY or tighten up and go into a nasal Chicago as you head north. So, between living in the so-called crossroads of America and having relatives and friends all over the country, I've heard just about everything regional in the US. However, outside of a dramatic competition I did in high school, I have never dared try this very far outside my comfort zone. And, as much of an Anglophile as I am, I would curl up and disolve of embarrassment if an British person ever heard me doing an immitation of them.

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edt4
11/02/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 3

I never thought of myself as having a noticeable regional accent, but when I travel somewhere else in America...California, for instance...they peg me right away as being from the Garbage State...ahem, sorry, I mean Garden State. One young lady at the car rental agency was nice about it. Before I submitted any paperwork at all, she said, "You're from New Jersey!" I replied, "Is it that obvious?" She responded, "Yes, but that's ok...I love the New Jersey accent!" I said, "Thanks, but you're probably the only person in history I've ever heard about who felt that way." I have a friend who married a lady born with the silver spoon embedded firmly in her mouth. Hence, her natural tone is one of snooty upper-class pretension. When drunk (which used to be often), she affected an pseudo-Irish brogue. It was ridiculous, but, in the interests of friendship, I never remarked upon it. I didn't have to. Once, we went to a local tavern-restaurant and proceeded to get lit. "Lovey" Howell quickly transformed into Maureen O'Hara in "The Quiet Man". A few more boiler-makers, and she had morphed (or degenerated) into a female leprechaun. There was a couple sitting at a table nearby, and I guess it got to be too much for the guy. He turned to us and said, "Excuse me...exactly WHAT kind of accent is that?" My friend, looking at his wife, said, "That's a drunk accent."

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Bird808
10/27/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 5

Yeah I did and I got laughed at.

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oscargamblesfr o
10/26/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 2

I have a Boston accent that measures 7.4 on a scale of 1-10 in Indiana, so I guess there's no pretense here.

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kamylienne
10/26/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 5

"Accent"? Hell, I pretended that I don't even speak English! Some people just assume it, anyway, mind as well go with it once in a while.

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trebon1038
10/26/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 5

I myself didn't but a buddy of mine did and I was an accomplice. We were in the boonies in WV and she was from the bronx so she thought she would act like she was from LIverpoole...hey she had the nasel thing down. It was pretty funny. Oh to be 18 again!

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CanadaSucks
10/26/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 1

Everyone in the DC area has some kind of accent. . .

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LastMessenger3
10/26/2006

Pretended to Have a Foreign Accent 5

I have an accent as it is, but I love playing with other accents, British, Hindu, French, and Italian are my favorites. I get a kick out of it.

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