What sort of fake accent do you speak with?

[AlienGirl]

Spun off the other thread...

I speak with a fake Martian accent. (My new character is from Mars.)

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

1. I speak with a fake Italian accent

My new character is from Italy, though it is amazing how many times I slipped into a fake German accent on accident and no-one noticed..

[AlienGirl]

3. I don't believe your character *is* from Italy!

He flubbed way too many questions about his supposed hometown...

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

8. *very Sprawl accent* Quit fraggin pushin me chummer..

Or you're gonna wide up on the wrong side of...

Eh.. uh..

That is.. *fake Italian accent* Bellissima, you must-a not-a say-a such-a things-a!

[AlienGirl]

9. Squee's Theory about Amo

Squee thinks Amo is really from Germany, and that he is faking the Italian identity to get access to the money of the Regolatore family. Plus, since Italy has more of a government than Germany since the Eurowars, he probably wants to hide his actual citizenship so he can be an Italian citizen.

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

11. How do you explain his inability to speak German though?

He just grew up in an English speaking 'hood in Berlin?

[AlienGirl]

12. I think he *can*, he just *doesn't*

[everythingsxen]

13. Oh I see...

Well it would explain why he keeps slipping into a German accent...

:evilgrin:

[AlienGirl]

24. Yeah, it would...

[everythingsxen]

25. Ja ja... uh.. I mean..sì

:evilgrin:

[curlyred]

2. I like pirate myself

Aaarrrrrrr, matey!

[everythingsxen]

4. Remember, September 19 is Talk like a Pirate Day!

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html

[regnaD kciN]

30. How could I forget...?

Last year, we were shooting the most dramatic scene of my film, and all of a sudden, the actors decided to start playing this highly-emotional scene with pirate accents!

I also got the following joke from our lead actress, within a few seconds of finishing a take in which she recounted her character's childhood history of sexual abuse that left half the crew in tears: "A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel stuck in his pants. The bartender says, 'Mr. Pirate, do you know you've got a steering wheel stuck in your pants?' 'Argh,' replies the pirate, 'it's drivin' me nuts!'" She then went back to another take of the same scene...

[everythingsxen]

31. OMG!

That is sooooo funny! LOL!

[bif]

5. Esperanto accent

n/t

[Semi_subversive]

6. Today, my staff said I'm speaking

Assholian!

[TXlib]

7. I can fake a french accent, and a russian accent in english.

I speak french, russian, and german, which helps, although I can't do a german accent without sounding like Colonel Klink.

[ronnykmarshall]

10. Minnesota

Doncha know?

[fudge stripe cookays]

32. Ohhh nyeahhh???

I can do a pretty good Margie when I wanna.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

14. I do a great Zsa Zsa Gabor accent, dahling

and I can very easily fake a Southern accent and English accent.

[Sandpiper]

16. Really?

Most northerners I've heard do a southern accent do it very badly.

Especially northern comedians.

[TXlib]

15. Oh, yeah, and I can do a passable southern drawl.

Which is NOT my normal accent -- I was born and raised in the northeast, mostly southern New England.

But if I try to do a Texas Twang, I sound like Ross Perot with a snootful.

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. Several...

I can passably fake a US Southern accent (several varieties thereof, from Virginia Tidewater plantation aristocrat to brain-damaged redneck); British (also more than one variety; BBC English, a/k/a "Received Pronunciation", and London/Cockney)...and I can fake a Russian accent in English...that's about it, really...

[SmileyBoy]

18. British.

Bugger off you grotty little wanker.

[Bertha Venation]

19. I do an imitation of my mother-in-law....

She sounds like this (in caricature, that is):

"Nah, Kee-yum: Ah won't you t'gow t'Horper's Fairy. Kaythy, you tike 'er." (Now, Kim, I want you to go to Harper's Ferry. Kathy, you take her.)

(She hates cats, which was revealed when we were leaving her house and pilled Richard to keep him calm on the drive home: "You spit that out, honey!" She's just a big softy.)

I also do OK State Trooper Carter, who pulled me over in 2000: "You's makin' 83 mall an air...." (You was making 83 miles an hour.)

It's fun.

Oh -- I love & adore my mother-in-law, and Trooper Carter let me go with a warning.

[grannylib]

20. I do a pretty good British midlands accent; lived there for a while

Can also occasionally pull off an Aussie or NZ accent well enough to crack up my husband (saying 'Rod Laver' in an Aussie accent seems to really hit his funny bone, for some odd reason *lol*)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. Several

Japanese (of course!--although I've never quite managed the Chinese accent, which is completely different), BBC English, Scottish, French, German, Norwegian, Russian, Latvian, East Indian, Thai, Australian, Hawaiian Pidgin, Southern, New York.

[Robb]

22. "Ello. Ow are ou?"

"Enry Iggins... Don't want to live in this 'ell 'ole!" :D

[oxymoron]

23. Hello Dahlink.

Boris, eez Moose and Squirrel you said you keelled in previous episode?

[Gildor Inglorion]

26. "Frahf'ly" Mayfair English Accent

think Prince Charles..."weh so frahf'ly gled you could come." The ultimate snob accent. Instantly renders everyone within earshot into a subservient, obsequious flunky. ;)

[Earth_First]

27. I speak "Hunter S Thompson"

jesus christ man!

[VOX]

28. Am good with dialects. Do a Scotsman (Edinburgh), an Aussie (NSW)...

And a jolly Carribean gent (more Honduras).

On occasion, my wife, having endured so many voices, has said, "Come out, I know YOU'RE in there!"

[Zero Gravitas]

29. I speak with

an outrrrrrrrrrageous French Accent! It is, ow you say? verrrry niiiiice!

[fudge stripe cookays]

33. Between reprehensor and I ....

we have a little Chinese guy, 2 Brits, and several other personas.

People swear we're schizophrenic because we never use our own voices.