"All because the lady loves a foreign accent..."

Mills&Boon/Harlequin celebrate 100 years this year and attributes a great deal of its success to books based on female romances with foreign men.

You can read the article about that right here.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7516672.stm

So the question is, why are foreign accents so appealing to women? Is it because they are different from the accents we hear daily? Do they promise something more, something exotic?

Think of your favourite accent.

Two guys approach you in a bar, both great looking. Guy 1 has a local accent and Guy 2 has that accent that you adore...who would most attract you?

probably the guy with the accent.... but personality counts the most....at the end of a day it's not about an accent, right?
;)

well, I am not really into accents myself, because it is difficult to understand them most of the time, so I would say the guy with the local accent.

I def. would go for the accent! But it all depends on what they have to say....

what about guy with strong indian accent appealing?

Of course that accent is appealing to some women.


Though you went for the accent in the first place and the question is...why? :)

an accent is not the same thing as inability to speak a language.
You seem to be thinking about Bell Canada technical support. In this case I would agree. The "accent" actually hurts the ears.

because it's something different from what you hear everyday...? but not every change is good or positive...

Oh, yes just keep talking to me............

In my opinion there is something in women that attracts them to the man that is different. Some where in our genetics, a voice will say - new blood, better breeding. Similar to the male thing of unknowingly looking at hips and boobs, good breeding stock.

We like different on a very animal instinct level.

I spend a fair bit of time in New Zealand business and pleasure - I cannot stay away from the Moari men, especially the ones with ta moko. I find myself looking at blokes here going mmm a good ta moko and he would be attractive, but on the whole been bored with them? It sounds shallow and I dont have an answer to that, some women just like something different, exciting, challenging?

Though I think men find women who are different threatening?

I was curious what ta-moko is, so I Googled it up.
Is ta-moko an all-body tattoo, like this one?

Sorry, Princess, this may work for you, but not for me, thank you! (no offense, Princess). Here is an otherwise good looking girl who, IMO had scared herself with a tattoo of a goat-tee... Why would she do that?

Ta Moko is a very complex issue and I can recommend this link
history-nz.org/maori3.html
(but can not make it a link due to my very bad computer skills) read the mans face and then look at him again - the site shows you an outline of what the ta moko means.

Oh, (going week at the knees) yes ta moko can be on the body too :)

To me she is beautiful, the essential picture of a Moari Woman.

Ta moko rose in interest again during the 60's when black power became active in New Zealand. It became a symbol of the wearers strenght to regain their land, artifacts and human remains taken from them.

The strangest thing is that, when you first meet someone with Ta Moko its all you see when you look at them; yet, I recently painted a picture of my friend who has Ta Moko, and it was my Euopean friend that noticed, I painted him without Ta moko, I had not seen it, I had just seen him. It was the first time I had knowingly seen him without Ta Moko.

I think in Europe we see Ta Moko as tats which hold a whole different meaning here. When my friend comes to Ireland, we find it difficult to eat out, get into a pub and we are always the centre of attention as we are presumed to be up to no good LOL. In new Zealand, no one notices.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread, did I say ta moko is an obsession of mine :)

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I know that and I meant the accent not the luck of ability to speak. Some accents are just too hard for me and I don't want to be bothered.

And all because the lady loves the foreign account

personally going for a accent or otherwise is down to personal choice, it is what makes a person who they are but if entering into a relationship the accent only plays a small part of relationship working or not

oh I love an accent. it makes me all jelly knee-d. not all accents obviously... but o the Polish......and broken English.....yummy yummy yummy

I met a guy the other night, and dear god if he'd said the phrase "you say me" one more time I would have raped him on the spot :D

Actually trying to talk him into ringing me at the moment ;)

:)!
I like English accent, but not the londonish one though.I know that in London they've got four different dialects anyway, but none of them sounds nice to me.

I also like american accent, esp. the one from chicago,but listened to live, if you know what i mean. it sounds different in movies.

Have they? I know the difference between a South London and a North London but its not really dialect, its just the accent and not really that much so a foreigner would notice the difference.

I dont think you can beat the French accent...dreamy...


Crikey I hope the resident nutter on the board doesnt read this!

Which one?

;P

And yes, I've read it.

american accent? i find them they are speaking like women with chewinggums in their mouths. english accent is like a robot voice speaking interruptly, following a step-function. germans speak as if they will laugh soon. frenchs speak like they are vomitting, deep throats. i havent listened polish much yet.. only a few. other than kocham cie which sounds very good, nothing special.