[Coxswain]

For a job? To get a date? I have. I worked as a consultant for a while and I noticed that a nice West London accent got instant respect. So I faked it. But I also tried Mackem, Irish, Scottish and Australian. Not to mention French, Spanish and Italian... Mamma mia que bella donna!
But now with speech synthesis and avatars, it's some much easier. I liked Jennifer from SitePal but chose to go with the Brit... because of my nautical theme and all stuff.

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[Synchronicity]

There's only one reason I've ever faked an accent: to see if I can fool someone into thinking it's how I usually speak.

Usually, I can't.

[daydreamer]

in college i took a telemarketing job which i know was evil but also incredibly dull until a friend of mine and i hit upon the idea to do accents and try to crack each other up. LOL we were so obnoxious ! i don't think it helped us make sales but it helped pass the time.

[El Cas]

I don't need to fake my accent, it's all natural.... but when I do feel like goofing around I'll do one or if I am somewhere for a good while I will unintentionally pick it up.

[realitycheque]

When I was at Oxford I found a British accent was better received in the pubs, shops, stations, etc. I suppose there were so many foreign students there that the locals liked hearing something more familiar. What usually came out was a cockney English accent, because where I'm from in the States there's a vestigial brogue (long i pronounced as oi).

[Nemesis]

I took a second job in a call center to get some extra cash prior to a move. I really didn't care for the job or give two shits about using it for future reference, so I used to use a variety of accents during calls for my own amusement. We had calls going to some very rural redneck parts of Alberta, so I would do my over-the-top "gay voice" if a male answered. Another fun thing was to shift accents a few times during a call. My manager hated me, but the supervisors had a blast listening in on the calls. Tonnes-o-fun!

[Samoan Corleone]

I've never faked an accent for anything crucial, but I did when in the US (San Antonio) to see if I could get by. Success was measured by not getting asked where I was from. It worked.

[Elena]

Sadly I have a very strong Derry/donegal/ Northren irish accent mixed up together so I cant fake any thing except down south Irish accent, which is just for the laugh.

[Il Prodigio]

When I would go to Italy, if I had to speak Italian/English mixture....I found it helped if I spoke with an Italian accent. It was easier for my cousins to understand my english if I did it in a broken italian accent.

[Mogura]

Whenever I try to fake a redneck American accent, it always comes out sounding Australian...

[XFire35]

The only accent I can begin to pull off is Irish, even then it is really, really bad. I'm gifted in the voice department.

[Stratego]

I can and do fake an accent almost every chance I get, because I'm very good at it, especially over the phone. I know it's immature, but I like to throw people off now and then and debunk their assumptions about me. This only works with people that don't know me, of course, or have never heard me speak before.

I like the look on their faces when I throw off their first impressions or their immediate assumptions about me, and I like how their eyes seem to take on this gleam like suddenly I'm very exotic because I'm "foreign." I've seen it happen quite a lot. A guy smiles at me and seems mildly, vaguely attracted, and then I fake my English (particularly cockney) or Irish accent (I'm still weak on the Scottish accent, but I've been practicing) and suddenly I'm much more attractive. It's ridiculous how well it works...

Some work better than others in person, of course, because by appearence I'm obviously Caucasian, but on the phone I have convinced people I am Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Latino, Russian or Australian. I'm currently working on my New Zealand accent and still have a way to go till I sound convincing.

I know, it's dishonest and slightly manipulative--but it's fun to do over the phone, so why stop doing it?

[Transmorfer]

Not sure this counts, but: I do a lot of presentation/lecturing stuff, and I sometimes vary my talking by speaking in dialects of my native language. Keeps the audience awake.

I have never faked an accent to "impress" others in any way. Think I am impressive enough as I am
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[reb]

i have had oodles of fun calling up some people i know, pretending to be asian/indian/mexican/engozish. something far from my rl accent will usually work well.

'herro. diss isah doctah wang. i ah wanna you know, we ah getta you test back heah at ah metloporitan genalal hahsapitar. you gotta dee cansah; strange ah case, it issa ina you haid. so sorry. you come in monday, 8 ayah em, we fry haid wit big massine.' (a friend had had a pap smear, i busted her chops; she had tried to get me previously at 2 am on a union matter that supposedly went sour)

having used wide variations, and things like 'we are repossessing your car', and 'your wife is here at the station saying you beat her.', i have laughed my ass off. and come close to having people *kick* me, too lol! some of my acquaintances who had no sense of humor will no longer talk to me...phone id killed my fun.

if you get any ideas, right now might be a poor time to pull this kind of stuff, though. 'we are repossessing your car' might precipitate bad things on both ends of the phone. gotta pick the right victim. best to call from a pay phone or someone else's personal phone.

[Stratego]

Reb, you sound like a blast to hang out with. We'd have many yucks between us, I think...

[NoStoneUnturned]

Sometimes I put on a
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accent without even thinking, but only when I'm mad...
Also, most people can't really tell because I usually keep talking to a minimum of "No."

I heard that it's something of a very serious English accent, though I’m not sure. It is the first voice you hear in the video in the link I provided.



It's funny how I used to wish I could write like he talks without thinking about it, and now I can. Only because I never consciously tried to do so... It just sortof became me...

[EuroCrimeFan]

I get a northern (sounds almost new york) accent when I speak quickly. I picked this up because I worked in sales and had to talk very quickly and enunciate my words very fast in a charismatic way. A bit hard to do if you generally talk in a slow monotone voice.

My regular voice sounds a bit scottish because I was born in the U.K. and grew up with a scottish father.

[spacecase]

i have in my life faked a french or british accent in a bar...it's great fun, but must be careful the train of lies don't catch up with you. especially when drinking. "so, you're from France? what are you doing here?" now, you have to make up a story...see? it's not really worth it. and God help you should you run into an ACTUAL french or british person. or someone who knows you. talk about awk-ward.

[RedIrish]

I don't fake accents. But when I am around brits and scots or irish for any length of time I tend to absorb them, it takes a while to wear off. My dad was also a brit, I have stayed there with family for a while, and had family members stay with me for up to a year here in Canada.

I am also finding that the more time I spend in Italy, the more accent I pick up there as well.

[INTJoe]

If I'm at an eatery with friends sometimes I'll catch them off guard and place my order with an Australian or British accent or something just to make them laugh. Of course the waitor doesn't know why they are laughing. Then later on I'll switch to my normal accent and see if they notice.

[Slacker]

I seriously faked an accent only once. As a child, I was part of an Austrian boys choir, and we'd be on tour a few months each year. Although I was a very average singer, I was the only native English speaker in the choir, so they'd trot me out whenever a local paper requested an interview (a mistake, imo, but one they kept repeating). When we were touring the US, my prefect told me that they wouldn't want to interview an American. Local Austrian charm and cuteness were our main selling points (not that I personally had much of either to offer). So I affected an Austrian accent. It was the most (well, the only) fun interview I ever had. I'd pretend to try to pronounce difficult words once or twice before abandoning them for a simpler phrase, throw a German word in here and there, and I overlaid everything with a distinctly Viennese cadence. My prefect later said that I had laid it on a bit thick, but it remains the only performance during my choir life that I'm actually proud of.