Glasgow accent is tops for Japanese

[Doctor Stop]

(UKPA) – Feb 9, 2011

Glaswegians have the most attractive accent for Japanese speakers of English, a new study has revealed. The Glasgow accent came out on top for social attractiveness to Japanese people learning to speak English, a survey by Northumbria University found. Those questioned listened to speakers of six varieties of English and rated them on a range of personality traits...more...

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Use of the word "fuck" 313 times and "cunt" about 20 times led the British Board of Film Classification to forbid the film [Sweet Sixteen] to viewers under 18. Spain followed this decision, but other countries, like France or Germany (not under 12) had a different rating system. Ken Loach and Paul Laverty protested against the British procedure in the Guardian.

Paul Laverty asserted that this was "censorship" and "class prejudice" because he got a lot of information to write his scenario from people around Scotland, many of whom were not 18, and were thus denied the opportunity to see the film.

[legion]

Billy Explains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q41eoZXDb64

or maybe they just asked Japanese people called Ken

".........dja ken?"

[BigInJapan]

[matsuki]

And this from the Northumbria University web site:

Now, if you're like me and you're thinking WTF? at this point, here's why:




[SIZE="1"]"Non-native" English speakers rated
Glasgow and Alabama speech highly
for social attractiveness[/SIZE]

That's like saying Japanese rate french fries healthiest foreign food...when you find out the other foods they had to choose from were deep fried Twinkies and bacon covered cheesecake.

[American Oyaji]

Bacon covered cheesecake?

I would SO eat that!!

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Bacon covered cheesecake?

I would SO eat that!!

jesus fuck, that is foul. as a joke i ordered maple bacon ice cream in las vegas, thinking it wasn't real. sadly, it was. chunks of bacon in ice cream. i couldn't even swallow the first bite.

[Level3]

So they had 2 colorful native accents, and 2 standard ones, and the Japanese picked the colorful accents as more socially interesting?

Wow
Is there a Nobel Prize for Sociology?
No?
Shocking.

Still, having 2 native speakers probably trying their best to TALK LIKE ROBOTS in a standard accent, you'd think Japanese would LIKE that.

[AML]

Shit, i grew up in Scotland and I still dont understand what Glaswegians say!

As for the JP, I think they like to not understand what people are saying. (that way they can justify spending even moar moneyz on Engrish lessons!)

[Doctor Stop]

Bacon covered cheesecake?
I would SO eat that!!

It's probably even better deep-fried.

[IparryU]

Bacon covered cheesecake?

I would SO eat that!!

dude... hells ya!

[Samurai_Jerk]

It's probably even better deep-fried.

I just rubbed a couple out under my desk thinking about it.

[Mulboyne]

Not a Glasgow accent, Gerard Butler is from Paisley, but this interview contains one of the few examples of Scottish eikaiwa (from 2:46):

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