Social Experiment - Accent

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So, I've decided to try a social experiment. Basically, I talk all day with a British accent (except when it wouldn't be appropriate, like when I'm talking to my boss). After talking like this so much my regular speech has been slightly affected, and I've already gotten some positive feedback from a few females about how I have a cool accent. lol.If any of you has seen the first season of Nip/Tuck, there is a character named Jude that fakes a British/English accent. Throughout the season you never know it's fake until he's about to leave the show for good. Then he tells someone that it's fake and he just does it to intrigue women.So, what are your thoughts on this social experiment? Good, Cool, Bad, Stupid?

There is no problem with that. It just depends on what you want to get out of it. If one of my mates/colleges started talking in an American accent (I’m British) I would think he was a bit of a merchant banker. If you are meeting new people and trying to pass of as British then that’s fine as long as you get away with it. And do your research i.e. Don't assume all British people speak like the Queen (Received Pronunciation) or speaking like a chimney sweep (brummie).That is one thing I can't stand about the American perception on the British accent. It’s either one or the other.There are a lot of accent and dialects in Britain. If you ever go there you will find out if you travel around the country.What accent are you using?So what are you trying to get out of it? I have heard the chicks dig a British accent in America. That could just be a myth though.Learn some cockney, people will love that. And maybe some of our dialect with some pragmatic features in accordance to your own.E.g. Ask someone if they have a rubber (eraser) because you have been using the same one for about a week and its beginning to wear out!Tell us how you’re getting on.Mr. Nuts

A couple years ago at the rugby sevens tournament I dressed up in all french stuff, put on the accent and everything (I know french so I can pull it off, unlike those fakers out there). It pulled girls left right and centre. My cover story was I was an exchange student and my mate was my host. I even had a convosation with a girl who knew a bit of french, in french. She didn't suspect a thing.

I find drinking alcohol actually increases your ability to put on a french accent. Well for me atleast.

Have fun with that.

I'm not laying out a full British accent. It's more like an American that visited Europe for quite a while and it rubbed off. I feel like if I went all out, then that would be cheating. hahaha. Girls really do dig it though! It's pretty funny and amazing at the same time.

In reply to:Girls really do dig it though! Guess where i'm going on holiday next year!!! I guess i will need to ask for some rubbers after all! Don't know why they go for it, but hey, i'm not complaining on the basis that it gives me a small edge!

In reply to: Ask someone if they have a rubber (eraser) because you have been using the same one for about a week and its beginning to wear out! hahahaha

My dad told me when he was in America with the army that yanklee girls digged his Welsh/English hybrid accent. I intent to put it to the test myself someday

You should! come to canada too....we have plenty of whores! but america has more population soo... go there first and fill up :smile:

piece of cake for me... I just revert to the accent I grew up with before many years of school

wow personally I'd be pretty disappointed to discover that the guy was faking and might question everything else about him and purplestain if you call american or canadian girls whores one more time I am honestly going to show just exactly how these "whores" get treated. You're pissing me off.

Once you live in a diffrent country for 6 years then you can tell whos a whore or not. Get with it!

Oh common, there are girls who are very applicable to the description of "whore" everywhere, in all countries, for better or for worse. It may not be a nice term but the description fits. Its not like Purplestain said all Canadian or American girls were whores. He didnt say YOU were a whore for example, we all know your not, but that doesnt mean other people arent.

Actualy yes I'm more liekly to go to Canada. I know lots of people there through a political organisation i'm a member of and I have some family in Vancouver.I have been toying with the idea of going to Canada (probably Vancouver, sorry buddy) after I have becaome a level 2 hairdresser and spend a year there before progressing to level 3 back in the UK (you have to have spent a year in the industry before going on to study for level 3).

well, if ya come to my part of Canada, you'll be welcome to come drinking with a displaced Geordie

Yay!!! you will just like home here...well since it is your home...damn you and your exploring techonology!

We can do the most canadian thing ever! drink beer yell at the tv and watch hockey, it how the culture was formed. Around 1 sport! Luckly its an awsome sport!

In reply to: wow personally I'd be pretty disappointed to discover that the guy was faking and might question everything else about him She might be disappointed at first to find out that I really don't have an accent, but I can make up for it with a little bit of charm and steering the conversation the way I want it to.

hahahahhaa, this is actually very funny because i am currently part of a social experiment organised by a small group i'm part of. it chose me because of my ability to spontaneously speak with several accents; including the british one. this social experiment is soo funny and very dangerous as well. it's given me a new identity and a story to tell people just so i can slip away with whatever i'm telling them. this accents gets alot of attention and in addition the females get excited for anything u say. personally i think it's cool, but the girl i love to know it's n ot real. in the long run i'm getting hurt because i'm not telling the complete truth about my life and this makes me have a double identity. i also find it very interesting how cool americans will be with you just knowing that you are foreign. A girl seriously fell inlove with me because of this accent, and i'm living a lie because she really likes the british accent, and now i'm inlove with her as well, and i do not know how to tell her she fell inlove with the wrong person. i'm just like.. dammmmm, how long will i continue living in these clouds. for the most part of it; it gets you the attention you want. but mine is an experiment of which i signed a contract, it's all about how American teens reacty to a foreign british accent, but bare with me i'm 22 but look 18 lol, and that's why it's been working so far,, nevertheless some people question it.. but idgaf lol, i just want

@lord.-speedy idk ...if you signed a contract than I suggest reading the fine print and see if your not in breech if you tell her the truth. On the personal side, if you really care about her and she's just not one of your experiment's causality and you seriously what to pursue her, i suggest coming clean and tell her the whole truth and nothing but the truth....