Redditor Likali2 wanted everyone to fess up about accents just don't do it for them?
"What accents do you find least attractive?"
I haven't heard an accent I wasn't intrigued by. So tell me....
SHARONNNN!!!
Oh Burn Ozzy Osbourne GIF by Sky HISTORY UKGiphy"People mentioning Birmingham accents. I started watching peaky blinders and have to ask if this is an accurate representation."
No-Town-4678
"Ozzy Osbourne is probably the best representation of a Birmingham accent, most people think he talks like that because of the years of drug abuse but that’s just how brummies talk."
Chris_M1991
The Lisp
"My answer is very specific: Spanish people from Spain who learn to speak English in Australia sound ridiculous. Those two accents are fine on their own but they must never be combined."
FarmerMKultra
"Visited Modern Languages uni friends doing their six months in Spain and met a scouser there who spoke Spanish with a scouse accent. 'Co-mo estasss...' Unreal."
Johnny_english53
"Honestly, just Spanish from Spain, especially catalan... I cannot stand the lisp!!!"
NeatArtichoke
Too Thick
"My own. I have a thick Mancunian accent and my dialect is a mess. I'll provide an example as best I can."
"Normal: Hello! how are you? I am good, I am going to the shop. I will see you soon."
"Me: Ya'reet mate wot's been goin' on n that? Nah mate I'm sound me just nippin f**kin' shop n that for sum cigs n sh*t innit, f**kin text me in a bit yeah alright in a bit man safe G."
CommunityMountain720
So Aggressive
"People from northern Ireland sound like they want to murder you but they're just saying hello."
Silly-Perception8689
"Kevin Bridges has a joke about being heckled a little in Norn Iron. Friendly audience member says 'don't worry about them.'"
"'I wasn't until you said that.'"
ScottyBoneman
"As a Northern Irish person I agree, but some of the accents are less murdery here. I mean Liam Neeson's isn’t bad."
punkerster101
Geographical
The Wire Roland Brice GIFGiphy"Baltimore, I don't have to explain this."
Hypn0tism
"'AARON EARNED AN IRON URN... damn we really talk like dat?!'"
ChainmailleAddict
I've never heard some of these until now. Research to be done.
That's Me?
renee zellweger chicago GIF by MIRAMAXGiphy"I’ve heard myself talk… Chicago."
Notch99
"Currently living in Chicago and raising my children here. I'm worried if I start hearing that accent in their speech, I might have to move. My wife is convinced we can teach them to speak without it."
jeffsang
Mixture
"Singlish (Singaporean English)."
j0bl0w
"Midwesterner from US. Three years in Singapore. My favorite memory is being the interpreter for an Aussie and a Singaporean. Neither could understand a word of the other’s English."
WG50
"Singaporean here. Worked overseas and heard some Singaporeans speaking... good gosh that was when I realised our accent sounded awful. Most of us code switch to a western accent when we’re overseas anyway (so ya’ll can understand us)."
thepotatolives
Like OMG!!
"Valley Girl. Absolute cringe."
GetABodybag
"Luckily it's falling out of use. I live in the valley and nobody talks like that anymore. Certain groups of rich, white people still have that accent though."
Upnorth4
"I used to mock the valley girl accent and the sksk thing, like, the turtle straw water bottle girls. They had a name, I just don’t recall. But now I unironically say 'like' too much and I can’t stop."
LPOLED
Cringe
"Bogan Aussie."
coolfreeusername
"Yeah, nah, get farked. It is startling to hear an Aussie accent after travelling through Europe for months without hearing one, then hearing one in the distance... and cringing a little. Not as much as when I hear Aussie, Aussie etc That really makes us sound like Bogans."
WokSmith
"I’m Australian, and I that this is one of the worst accents. It makes me really embarrassed when ‘proud Aussies’ talk like this as some sort of showcase of how we talk. We don’t all sound like this, I promise."
jayjayhxc
Interiors
Waking Up Sun GIF by MTV CribsGiphy"Ornate curtain rods."
ByGrabthar
"Throw pillows with uncomfortable fabric textures."
loathenstein
Brummie
"Regional accent from the UK.....Birmingham. By god it makes people sound so thick."
Oatydude
"I'm laughing but I've just come on to this comment section and knew someone was going to say it......Do you actually know what a Brummie accent is though!? Because most attempts you go Dudley and think we're apart of the Black Country and just surrounded by it!"
Jack-Rabbit-002
Boston
"I have a Boston accent and I annoy myself with it! Who says "pizzer for suppah?" I do. Wicked annoying."
hobbiesaremygame
"I was recently speaking at a conference when introducing myself I said we had offices in Syracuse, Albany, Boston and DC. Can you guess which one I am from?"
"Later that week I was drinking with some guys from Texas, when another from Texas came in the room. A guy looks at me and says 'hey Boston, say it again.' So I did the 'Pahk the Cah in Havarhd Yahd' thing. The guy from Texas goes 'Y'all talk funny up there.'"
SnooLobsters4636·
Deep Southern Fried Accent
"The deep southern accent is hard for me to take. I really have trouble understanding it sometimes. I live in Alabama, and have to lie and say I’m hard of hearing, please talk slowly. Words like “Jordan” are pronounced “Jurden”. LafayETTE is pronounced La FAYette. Vienna is pronounced VI-enna. Shrimp is srimp. Lots more, too tired to remember them."
Hollywood Scottish
Hollywood’s version of Scottish. I’ve met real Scots, IN Scotland. Hollywood makes them sound like a stereotype. On that note, Hollywood’s version of a southern drawl. Same thing. I actually live in the South, born in Memphis and raised in Mississippi. Yes, we have an accent."
This_Personality3731
Karma Balanced
"I grew up in Memphis. One time, when I was in grade school, a kid moved into our neighborhood from Alabama and we all teased her about her country accent. The next summer my family moved to Seattle. Learned a little about karma, I did."
nowherehere
No bagels for you
"Everyone is going to get mad. I hate the New York Italian and New York Jewish accent."
Kiwi-Latter
I still love all accents. I guess life is just subjective.
But it turns out I was only scratching the surface.
When Redditor io_42 asked "What do you absolutely f'king hate hearing?", 
I was reminded of the dozens of other sonic assaults that make us run for the hills.
According to strangers of the internet, not all annoying sounds were noises.
The things people say caused equal amount of distress.
Read on to see if any of the following makes you want to cover your ears.
For Future Reference
"while you were one of many qualified applicants, we decided to move forward in the hiring process. We will keep your resume on file for future opportunities."
Change The Batteries
Smoke detector low battery beeps."
– Kiyohara
"Work at a fire department. This happens all the time. People are usually just too lazy to change the batteries. Option #2 is they are elderly and don't even hear it. I would lose my everloving mind after 15 minutes."
No More Eraser
"when you're using a pencil eraser, but the eraser is almost gone and the metal scrapes on the paper."
Ringing
"Tinnitus"
"I hate it more when people mention it. I was sitting here enjoying reading responses, but then you just had to go and say the word and make me start noticing it again."
Ya Don't Say
"Commercials that say 'things have changed' and go on to list how they're fighting covid in a restaurant or business. Yes, we know things have changed. You don't have remind us every 4 seconds."
"Anything rubbing against styrofoam."
Screaming in the distance, unexplained noises in the house when you're the only one home, or even not-so-subtle sounds like an explosion can literally scare us out of our skin.
It is said that an audio track of a bear attack from Werner Herzog's documentary, Grizzly Man, was left out of the film because the director thought it was "the most terrifying thing I've ever heard in my life."
Curious about the scary noises people have heard and can never forget, Redditor mrrightnow666 asked:
[Serious] What's the most horrifying sound you've ever heard?
Some of the responses are graphic in their description and truly horrendous. Hopefully, we will never have to experience what some of these Redditors have heard.Waiting To Exhale
"Breath leaving a dead body that's been sitting there a while. Heard it multiple times always grossed me out."
– wysteeia
Noise From A Corpse
"A friend of mine who works at a hospital told me that sometimes a dead body makes this rattling sound as if they're coughing when air pushes out of their respiratory tract."
Burning Alive
"Human screaming from a burning car after a big crash. The people inside the car didn't make it but it made me buy a fire extinguisher for my vehicles. Better safe than sorry."
Hit With Stones
"I'm an Aboriginal from the top end of Australia, in remote communities it's common place for the women to hit their heads with stones until they bleed.. the 'tock, tock, tock' of them beating their own heads while they wail is a truly terrifying sound.. it makes my skin crawl typing this.."
"I should have also mentioned that that happens when someone passes away.."
– fnbm1987
Shriek Of Terror
"It was the dead of night one summer many years ago. I had the window open and was fast asleep when all of a sudden I heard the worst shriek in the world. It legitimately sounded like a woman was running like her life depended on it. Turns out something was running for its life, but it was a rabbit running away from what I imagine was an owl. I've never heard a sound like it and I hope I never will again."
Oklahoma Bombing
"I was outside on the baseball field in High School when out of the completely clear blue sky came thunder."
"You know when you first hear it you turn around to see where the storm clouds are? No clouds. None."
"A couple minutes later I see some people running between buildings."
"Turns out I had heard the Murrah building in Oklahoma City being blown up."
"I was in a small town fifty miles away (Ripley, OK)."
"My sister turned out to be dating the son of the highway patrolman that caught McVeigh outside of Stillwater on I-35."
– ssshield
Early Morning Phone Call
"My phone ringing at 4am, caller ID displaying my mother."
"She forgot about timezones and was just calling me to let me know she mad it to her holiday destination safely."
The Soldier
"Afghan soldier I was on a patrol with stepped on an IED and lost his leg. He screamed so loud and for so long I thought we would all go crazy from it. It's been six years and I still hear him screaming some nights."
"As far as I know the Afghan Soldier survived his wounds. As far as myself it was not the first or last IED strike I've been part of but the mans screaming made it one of the worst. That was during my third deployment and I'm about to leave on my sixth. I've had my troubles with alcohol, PTSD and TBI but I have a loving family and supportive command. It's helped me to get through most things well. There are just some things that you never forget and honestly shouldn't. After evacuating that guy I shared a cigarette with one of his buddies. Neither of us spoke the others language but it was a very touching moment of shared pain. There were other interesting things about that mission that I've written about in therapy. It was a strange one."
Dementia
"I've cared for a few residents with dementia, and some of them develop immense fears. You try to feed them, they are scared, you try to put them into bed, they are scared. I'm not an emotional person, but hearing someone you once knew very well to be reduced to that, is heartbreaking. Their cries hit me like a brick."
Twin Tower Victims
"There's a film of 9/11 where you can hear these thudding sounds in the background that are people jumping out of Tower 1 hitting pavement."
"It's not something you can un-hear."
A Sobbing Parent
"My Dad crying. I was a kid and don't really know what it was about, but I had never seen or hear him crying before (or since, with the exception of grandparents' funerals) and it was completely terrifying for me.:
Devastating Loss
"The sound of my friend's mother finding out her daughter had been killed in a hit and run. She was wailing, fainting, coming to and wailing again. Will never leave me."
Distress Signal
"Code red. Teachers please complete the safety procedures"
"When you hear that, but there is no scheduled drill. It's even worse when you're the teacher."
Victim
"A crash, a short delay, a thud, and then screams."
"It was a motorcyclist hitting a car, flying into a parking lot, and the people in that parking lot screaming. The guy didn't make it."
The Bum
"A drunken homeless man taking a header on a subway platform in Chicago. Heard his head explode like a melon as he hit the concrete."
"He died."
"A thousand devils!"
GiphySwedish: Many mild curse words (similar to "darn") are just numbers (or old-fashioned ways to say numbers):
- Sjutton också! ("Seventeen also!")
- Tusan! ("A thousand!")
- Attans! ("Eighteen!")
Apparently, this came from expressions like "A thousand devils!", but which were then shortened and mild into just the number. "Sjujävla" (seven-deviled?) is still used as an intensifier. TypingLobster
Tapestry.
In Swahili, only three colors have "direct" words: black (nyeusi), white (nyeupe), and red (nyekundu).
All other colors are comparatives, e.g.:
green - rangi ya kijani: "the color of leaves"
gray - rangi ya kijivu: "the color of ashes"
maroon -rangi ya damu ya wazee: "the color of the blood of old people." mlimame
Traditionally.
The Navajo word for tank is "chidí naaʼnaʼí beeʼeldǫǫh bikááʼ dah naaznilígíí". Traditionally Navajo does not use foreign words and instead forms its own using simpler words, and so the word literally is "a car that crawls with a gun on which people sit".
For those asking, the word car is an onomatopoeia of a ford model T engine and the word gun from the word 'to explode'.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chid%C3%AD_naa%CA%BCna%CA%BC%C3%AD_bee%CA%BCeld%C7%AB%C7%ABh_bik%C3%A1%C3%A1%CA%BC_dah_naaznil%C3%ADg%C3%AD%C3%AD dario606
Explain Celine.
GiphyIn French French the word "gosses" means children, but in Québécois French that word means testicles, so if there's an old guy who's very enthusiastic about showing you a photo of his gosses, better pray he's French. Callalilly45
For the Love of Liver.
Something I find funny about Farsi is the saying "jeegaret-o bokhoram" which is an expression meaning "I love you" but it literally means "I want to eat your liver". Similarly "jeegare mani" means "You are my liver", though this one makes a bit more sense because it's like saying "I love you so much you're a part of me".
Edit: Looks like there are even more liver sayings. "Jeegaret besham" means "I'll be your liver"/"I'll do anything for you". There's also "kheyli jeegari" which means something like "You're such a cool person" but it hilariously translates to "You really are a liver". Apparently all this is because the liver is such an important organ, like the person is important to you. Hotrod20006
Buy a Vowel.
GiphyIn Romanian, you can build a sentence out of vowels only: "Eu iau o oaie" - "I take a sheep"
EDIT: As publicly requested, here's an attempt to pronounce this in English (just not very accurate):
Yeaw yow oh wa-ye. Vladimir-the-Great
Billions.
I learned today that a billion in Spanish isn't the same as a billion in English. sololloro
Edit: For context, I'm American and I was talking to my Colombian coworker. Apparently the "other billion" is more universal than I thought and Americans are just...wrong. Which isn't surprising!
Even in English, you get the traditional British billion (which no one really uses any more) and the American billion. FakeNathanDrake
The King's Speech.
The Korean alphabet was single-handedly invented by the King in the 15th century. He was tired of writing Chinese characters in Korean, so created a completely different writing system that was easier to learn and more adaptive to the Korean language. -__bean__-
"Ó o auê aí, ôu!"
In Portuguese....
"Ó o auê aí, ôu!" can be understood as "Hey, check out this messy situation that's going on over there". It's old slang but quite universal. Another meaning would be something along the lines of "Dude just stop, you're making a fool of yourself".
Edit: Brazilian Portuguese, that is. Enigmagico
Oh Danny Boy.
GiphyIrish people (particularly older generations) have their own version of English where they say sentences in an order that makes no sense grammatically but it makes perfect sense to any other Irish person. This is because the sentences are directly translated and word order is strange in Irish. Also as a result of this we say certain phrases that make no sense to anyone (I'm irish living abroad and I keep forgetting this).
Also just the fact there's 3 different ways to say the number two depending on context
A Dò (a doe) is if you're counting numbers as in one, two, three
Dhá (gaaww) is if you're counting things
Beirt (birch) is if you're counting people
Edit: There's a fourth way to say two
You use the word "dara" to say the second thing. The_Confession_Box
u/_jaysco_ asked:
Deaf people of reddit who used to be able to hear, what sounds do you miss the most?
Here were some of those answers.