Hee! Just made a post a while ago about how I love David Tennant's accent.
Wasn't sure what to answer on the second question since sometimes I do understand and sometimes I don't have any idea what the person is saying. I guess it depends a bit on the person and how strong the accent is.
I know how you feel.....Aberdeen, really? they keep saying fine, or maybe you are getting the better class ones! Tne ones I met all said fine to everythng, so I never knew what they ment!
Well Jim, from Aberdeen, who I meet at univeristy, had one of those voices that I cannot hear unless he is talking directly at me. I had a voice he couldn't hear unless I was talking directly at him. Most of the time ok, unless he decided, with the newpaper directly against his face, to read an article out to me. *scream*
For me, not so much the accent! *sigh*, one irish accent did it for me, Southern, and my husbands....Well defined and well modulated mostly....maybe I am a snob?
My husband did go to a fee paying school, but then so do a couple of my friends, and I find their accent a turn off....still too rough!
I can understand most accents, though really strong inner-city accents (Glasgow, Newcastle etc) take concentration. For me it's the timbre of the voice, not the accent, that makes it sexy.A very few (Brummie, for instance) have to work harder to be sexy, though.
For me, Brummie, I have to work really hard to understand, don't even think about sex at all! I have been exposed to it a lot, but broad, and I still struggle