Ok I have to write a reply to Pupina regarding accents, but I don't want to make the original thread more off-topic so I will do it here (original thread for reference: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=88829473&sid=1&pageNo=3#57):

Nuh-hu Pupina, I meant British accent and not English - English is just one part! I mean, Scottish accent? It rocks. I have only heard Welsh accent when watching Torchwood, that sounds really funny (in a nice way, don't worry).

I don't have enough knowledge about geography of the rest of the island, but some accents are really really cool :) London accent (as spoken by Billie Piper in Dr Who) is pretty awful I have to say, but charming in it's own way.

My biggest sorrow in life (well, ok, one of them) is that I probably never will get rid of my stupid Swedish ABBA-accent when I speak English :'(

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London accents are seriously hot. Vinnie Jones ftw! Billie Piper is just putting it on though, and sounds like Americans in movies where they pretend to be English hehe.. (think Keanu Reeves in Dracula). I've got a real thing for Yorkshire accents too..

And you can learn any accent you want, if you really want to - English is easy. You just have to get over the fact that you really don't sound gay when you talk like that haha! :)

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Vinnie Jones... Pff.

The most horrible wannabe-posh-British-stiffupperlip-Ineedatoilet-accent I've heard in a long time was by that dude in Desperate Housewives (season 3) who was dating Susan. I almost puked when he talked.

I saw The Queen two days ago by the way (Helen Mirren ftw), talking about posh accents.

And no, I seriously can't learn English accents – you do weird stuff with your r:s. So difficult!

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Ohhh, fine then. You mention English, Scottish and Welsh accents but not Northern Irish? :O I'm shocked and appalled :'(

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I haven't been to Northern Ireland. Dublin accent rocks though, but I can't say that it's a British accent now can I? ;)

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Ommra dear, please don't think Miss Piper represents all us Londoners. The voice she puts on, and the character she played in Dr. Who was what we in britain call a "chav."

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The chavness is very very obvious in that character, but I didn't want to point that out ;)

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Torchwood is so good... cool how that guy can't die, and in one of the episodes the woman was making out with the infected woman.

I will have you know, my London accent is great and will make you go weak at the hoofs.

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Hehe.

Torchwood is good, but nothing beats Dr Who.

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Isn't Aeus Dutch? o.O

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He is, but he has a very nice English accent actually. Not very easy to place though, but I wouldn't say he sounds Dutch I think.

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if u really would like to get rid of ur "ABBA accent" go visit a "språk terapuet(tal pedagog w/e)" (or however its spellt, i suck ;<)
anyway, it really helps :)

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Might do that if I ever move to England - don't wanna try it here in France ;) (Omigosh, the horror)

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Yea the Daleks are all liek

"EXTERMINATE PEWPEWPEW"

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Daleks ftw. I am watching the old shows atm, where it's explained how they came into existence. Have to say I prefer the two newest doctors to Tom Baker (yes, I know, it's blasphemy, but I didn't grow up with Tom Baker like you English people did).

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She will, you know..

I'll absorb all your sex!

By 'absorb' I mean break, and by 'sex' I mean ribs. :)

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Doing other people's bidding now? oO

No' easy bein' green, tell me abou' i'..

You two, seriously get a room and stop trolling all threads :(

;)

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You two, seriously get a room and stop trolling all threads :(

;)

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Looks like someone's jealous ... oO

/hug

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Indeed, it's not nice. Stop it! ... at least until a certain dwarf whos name starts with "V" doesn't notice a cute NE girl's existence ;)

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The V-man has a soft spot for NE girls :-(

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Fine - take him!

*holds Aeus out at arm's length in offering to the NEs*

He was starting to smell anyway..

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From the rubbish you keep pickpocketing and leave lying around in the cave..

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So agree, and if it only was the accent, some dutch minister once called an entrepreneur an "undertaker" Oo..

...Aeus will understand.. /wink

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Fixed. And omg! That's a horrendous mistake to make, for a public figure like that..

This is my favourite thread. Accents AND Dr Who in the same thread! \o/

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This is my favourite thread. Accents AND Dr Who in the same thread! \o/

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AND a cow... Hamburgers FTW!

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P.S. Imagine the fun you could have with Billy Piper and a time loop, I think you need a flux capacitor for that though.

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Billie Piper? No wai. I was talking about the doctor! /swoooooon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/doctor10/800/doctor_tardis1.jpg

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Swedish ROCKS!... totally. especially 'Skånska'

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I prefer småländska.

Why are people reviving old threads btw?

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Billy Piper doesn't represent the whole of London so thanks for the stereotype :<
You obviously haven't heard my sexy accent :/

Lg.

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l2read.

I have a colleague with the most amazing London accent ever. He doesn't speak like Billie Piper (and is much more good looking).

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l2realisethatnoteveryonewillreadthrough10pagesofcrap.

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Aww, grumpy! /tickle

(but you just quoted me in your post... I mentioned one particular type of London accent, not all of them ^^ I am sure yours is lovely)