I'm the moment between the striking and the fire
So everyone knows accents are sexy, right? Certainly the sexiness is in the ear of the beholder...some accents are sexier than others, some not sexy at all, but the general consensus...sexy, yeah?
I've been thinking about this, because what is an accent, other than simply the speaker essentially mispronouncing words the way the listener is accustomed to hearing them? Which got me wondering...is American English (I'm talking about the "neutral" "newscaster" American accent) just inherently un-sexy? What is it about American English that mispronouncing it almost always makes it better? And why isn't this a reciprocal sort of thing? Speaking English with an Italian accent = sexy. Speaking Italian with an American accent = not sexy. Maybe that's the way I hear it because I'm an American with a "neutral" accent...but I dunno, I doubt it.
And similarly, does it work for languages and accents other than English? Does speaking German with a French accent sound sexy to Germans? Or is it only English that gets sexier when mispronounced?
On a not-entirely-related note, I don't think I've used the word "sexy" so many times in one sitting ever. ^^;
Anyway...what do you think??
I've been thinking about this, because what is an accent, other than simply the speaker essentially mispronouncing words the way the listener is accustomed to hearing them? Which got me wondering...is American English (I'm talking about the "neutral" "newscaster" American accent) just inherently un-sexy? What is it about American English that mispronouncing it almost always makes it better? And why isn't this a reciprocal sort of thing? Speaking English with an Italian accent = sexy. Speaking Italian with an American accent = not sexy. Maybe that's the way I hear it because I'm an American with a "neutral" accent...but I dunno, I doubt it.
And similarly, does it work for languages and accents other than English? Does speaking German with a French accent sound sexy to Germans? Or is it only English that gets sexier when mispronounced?
On a not-entirely-related note, I don't think I've used the word "sexy" so many times in one sitting ever. ^^;
Anyway...what do you think??