Alrighty, this thread is like my fourth on the Escapist, yay, and I am making this after watching a scous stand-up comedian (a scouser being a person from Liverpool, England, UK).
Now (as my avatar suggests) I am a fan of Liverpool Football Club, even thou I'm Finnish, but that's another story. //unimportant
Now to the point of the thread.
Many people warned me before I went on my first trip to Liverpool that the accent is strange and whatnot. Well I had watched some interviews with Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher (two LFC players from Liverpool) and I understand them without trouble so I thought "what's this bollocks about scouse beeing a hard to understand accent"
Then I arrived in Liverpool. It struck me like lightning, it's never been this difficult to understand what the person behind the counter, in the coffeeshop, is tryin to ask me. I understand the comedian just perfect, the Gerrard and Carra interviews go just fine, but live, on the spot, the accent is crazy-ass hard to get. Even on my fourth visit to Liverpool in 4 years the accent from locals is still hard to understand.
I hope to meet "The Artificially Prolonged" in real life one day, but please speak slowly and clearly the day we meet!!
So for you Esacpees/Escapists/Escapians/Escapimons
What are the most difficult accents for you? either live, or on TV?
Could be any language you speak, there are also a few Swedish and Norwegian accents diffult to understand, but scousers... oh my God -.-