like whom do you sound?

[creagdhubh]

Interesting question.

My mother-in-law continually says that my mannerisms, voice/accent, and overall look are along the lines of a young Tom Hanks. My mother says the same thing, yet in regards to a young Jim Carrey. Personally I don't see it (perhaps I'm a hybrid of both men?), but I am rather fond of both actors.





Cheers,

[Orionson]

My mother-in-law continually says that my mannerisms, voice/accent, and overall look are along the lines of a young Tom Hanks. My mother says the same thing, yet in regards to a young Jim Carrey. Personally I don't see it (perhaps I'm a hybrid of both men?), but I am rather fond of both actors.

Alrighty then, Wilson.





Cheers,[/QUOTE]

[creagdhubh]

My mother-in-law continually says that my mannerisms, voice/accent, and overall look are along the lines of a young Tom Hanks. My mother says the same thing, yet in regards to a young Jim Carrey. Personally I don't see it (perhaps I'm a hybrid of both men?), but I am rather fond of both actors.

Alrighty then, Wilson.





Cheers,

Hahahaha! Well said, John!

[James Hood]

'Apparently sound like no one famous.

[Elizabeth]

I was raised in So Cal, my mother is from Colorado and my dad from Texas. People tease me that I take on the accent of whoever I am speaking with. It can be quite embarrassing and I don't do it on purpose!

If I was to speak to a famous person I would sound like them!

[mookien]

It will come as a surprise to few that it has been frequently asserted that I sound a lot like Mortimer Snerd. And, proud of it, too. Hyuk, hyuk.

[Andrews Son]

I was raised up in Coventry in the West Midlands im dont know any famous people with our accent. but i found this video but shes a bit more posher than where im from, we use more slang and a bit faster than this girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o012jsFPnLo

My family are all Irish so sometimes that accent shines a bit, my mums side all have Belfast accents but they have been softened a bit from living in England. My grandads is funny he'll pronounce flour like "flur" or he'll use the I in italian like "eye"talian.
But my grandparents on my dads side have proper Irish accents so they pronounce T's a lot like "ooh, i wish you was Cat-lick" or "you want to watch him hes a teeth, that boy."
And a lot of my mates are Glaswegian and so many times i have to interpret for them.
Accents are funny things

[Machaggisnz]

I have a fairly typical Kiwi accent so don't often sound like anyone famous though I do get asked by other kiwis if I'm from Britain occasionally and am fond of dropping a few Jeremy Clarksonisms into my speech, particularly when I'm teaching.

You've built the best pencil case.............................................. .............................................in the world.

[MacCathail]

What a great thread!

My wife was born and raised in Ireland. She has an aunt and uncle immigrated to England many years ago. Her aunt had been there perhaps three months and she sounded like the queen. Her uncle had been there thirty years and he sounded like he'd never left the midlands of Ireland.

My wife has been here in California a good long while and is occasionally told she's losing her accent. I always tell them it's not lost: I've got it. Of course, I don't actually have the accent. What I've picked up are a boatload of phrases and idioms that need occasional translation.

My father once took a course to lose his New York - Bronx, to be precise - accent. But he refused to change the glottal stop in little and bottle. He insisted that's what the double-T indicates. You can argue with him about that if you like, but I don't think it'll do you any good.

Me? Basic southern Californian with a soupçon of South Carolinian and a sprinkling of slightly out-dated Irish idioms. Sounding like nobody famous, and with any luck, nobody infamous either.

Cheers,

-John-

[chemist93]

I've been compared to Charles Kuralt, David Brinkley, and a few others.