Greetings.
Herzog's accent is certainly memorable, but I would by no means
characterize it as likeable. On the contrary, I find it annoying to the
point that I will not watch any film he narrates. (I hasten to add that
it's not German accents in general that I don't like, as I've lived
quite happily in German-speaking regions for most of the past 20 years,
and hear German-accented English on a daily basis. It's something about
Herzog's delivery in particular that I can't stand.)
As for other memorable accents, Björk's has to be right up there. I'm
also no stranger to Icelandic accents and find Björk's English diction
to be idiosyncratic. I think it's rather charming.
I never heard Paul Erdős speak but I've heard from others that his
Hungarian accent (when speaking English) was quite distinctive. I think
it was his biography, "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", that related the
story of how he learned English from a textbook, without the help of a
native- or even second-language teacher. With no one to correct him, he
got into the habit of pronouncing English words as though they were
Hungarian ones.
Regards,
Tristan
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Tristan Miller
Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist
https://logological.org/
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