So from my sickbed earlier, I was watching Graham Norton (Irish chat show host in the You-Kay) and he had Matt LeBlanc, Seth Rogen and Zac Efron on, who were all in agreement that Brits seem to swear more. Apparently our accents make the words sound harsher so it seems like it means more. (Apparently we also drink more, day-drinking in America isn't a thing? Who knew.)
Anyway, this reminded me of what a wonderfully multicultural community we have here these days and how it's been a couple of years since the last time we rehashed the "post a voiceclip so we can mock/swoon over your accent" thread that crops up every so often.
I've always been a bit defensive over people saying they love/hate/whatever "the English accent" because there's no such thing. But then I couldn't differentiate between any variations of a Canadian accent for instance, or Australian...I have a typical generic accent in my head for you guys and I attribute it to all of you. Americans, you are a tad luckier, I break you into 3 or 4 groups. Where as I could do (poor) impressions of about 8 different English accents that differ hugely, before even taking the rest of the UK into account.
So, pop yourselves over to http://vocaroo.com/, record a quick clip and tell us where you're from so I can improve my auditory geography.
This is me, sounding a lot more well spoken than I actually am - Apologies for the huge amounts of background noise, I can't be bothered to mess around with my mic settings to make it clearer.
(This always ends in me being bullied for sounding very young and posh, I swear recordings make both aspects worse - *waits for Northern types to arrive with mockery*)