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Does the American accent or British accent sound better? (monyet.cc)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I grew up with a thick Australian accent with a drawl I dislike, and have been consciously trying to change it for a while. The problem is I tried to make it sound more American at first but keep getting drawn to speaking "Britishly". Now it's a Frankenstein of all 3 accents and I don't know what to go with.

Some points for both:

▪︎ American accent sounds "cooler"

▪︎ British accent sounds more "proper and elegant"

Australian accent sounds more "relaxed" (but I dislike this for myself, personally).

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

American accents are like nails on a blackboard, and it doesn't help they are 10x louder than everyone else to the point where if you're in a crowded bar that so loud you can't hear the guy next to you, you can perfectly here the one American on the other side of the room.

And that's not an exaggeration, that's actual experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious, what makes an American accent sound like nails on a chalkboard to you?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

How loud they are and the sort of nasal quality they have to them. Like for American reference, imagine a whole country of people that sound like Janice from Friends.

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