> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > About the only non-European accent (probably really neo-European) > > which has a chance is Jamaican. (Normally I would consider it among > > British accents, but it is distinctive enough to consider by itself. > > Bahamian accents, on the other hand, sound "British enough" to me to > > be grouped with British Isles accents.) And I am thinking mostly of > > woman with Jamaican accents. I personally am no judge of whether men > > with Jamaican accents sound sexy. > From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *I* think they are, anyway. Would I be a decent judge of that? >
Judging by the effect the West Indian cricket team has when visiting Australia, the Jamaican and other carribean accents are pretty damn sexy to a pretty damn lot of females. Actually, it seems to work almost anywhere those guys go. As for the effect of an American accent in, say, Australia - which one? One girl I once worked with had the weirdest accent I've ever heard. I thought it had to be put on - I suspected she was actually pretending to be an American - but it turned out she'd been born and largely raised in West Virginia and then had moved in her early-mid teens to Los Angeles, before shifting further West to Melbourne. She was very nice, but her accent wasn't. It was worse than even the Northern English accents to my ears. The English accent must have some cachet in America - who's the sexiest vampire in Buffy? Spike. Although I'll admit I hated Drusilla's accent - no long lived female vampire would use that East London variant as it has only come to prominence in the last thirty or so years. Drusilla should have been seriously RP (received pronunciation, or BBC English). And Hugh Jackman might just be proving the sexy effect of an Aussie accent!! Brett
