| The Brooklyn accent. Dear God in heaven, what did we ever do to deserve the Brooklyn accent? A close second is Yiddlish. What's Yiddlish? Watch some of the old Coffee Talk sketches on Saturday Night Live during the Mike Myers years. Hispanic accents also rank high on the list of Accents That Make Me Want To Jab Things In My Ears To Make It Stop, Oh Please, Just Make It Stop. I'd have mentioned the mega-redneck accent best illustrated in Deliverance, but years of constant immersion in it have left me pretty numb. |
