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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 15:26:03 GMT -5
I've thought of this before, but the audiobook thing reminded me. I read all of your posts in basically the same voice. But I know you are from all over... Who should I be reading with a South Boson accent, for instance? I don't have one  |
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Post by Spellbound454 on May 9, 2013 15:28:20 GMT -5
Middle English.....  |
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Post by Chocolate Lover on May 9, 2013 15:29:26 GMT -5
I'm from the south, so yes, I do. Somewhere between Scarlett O'Hara & Larry the Cable Guy  |
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Post by midjd on May 9, 2013 15:30:28 GMT -5
I don't really know - Indiana has a pretty wide range of accents (Chicago area down to the y'alls of Evansville and New Albany). I'm from a county bordering Kentucky and went to college there, so have more of a southern accent than most of my coworkers, but I don't think it's that strong. (Send me camping with ILs for a weekend and it's another story!) |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 15:33:22 GMT -5
I definitely have a Southern accent.
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Post by Queen of Interesting Nuts on May 9, 2013 15:35:08 GMT -5
English accent still, well maybe some American on some things.
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Post by Miss Tequila on May 9, 2013 15:36:05 GMT -5
No accent here
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Post by swamp on May 9, 2013 15:38:18 GMT -5
I dunno. I've been told I sound Canadian.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 9, 2013 15:38:19 GMT -5
None, most midwesterners don't. I have had people ask me if I'm from the south a few times, I don't know where they get that from. When all my co-workers were Chinese I absorbed their accent for awhile. It was weird.  |
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Post by swamp on May 9, 2013 15:38:56 GMT -5
Drama, you order flied lice?
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Post by lexxy703 on May 9, 2013 15:40:14 GMT -5
I don't think I have one. We are a melting pot here & most people don't have one.
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Post by busymom on May 9, 2013 15:46:07 GMT -5
I fit in fine here with my fellow Midwesterners, but I've been told by people in Missouri that I've got a Midwestern accent. Yah, sure, you Betcha! |
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 9, 2013 15:48:53 GMT -5
Drama, you order flied lice
Pretty much.  DH asked me where the hell I picked up that accent from. It's weird because my boss was German but I never absorbed his accent but I absorbed my Chinese co-worker's accent.
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Post by sheilaincali on May 9, 2013 15:50:07 GMT -5
People outside of the midwest don't think I have an accent. I've spent 30 of my 38 years in Minnesota but people here always ask where my accent is from. Usually they accuse me of being Canadian. DS told me yesterday that the kids at school think he has an accent. I don't hear it.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 15:51:12 GMT -5
I've seen it happen with husband, people around him sometimes pick up a 'fake Romanian'... I think I did when we were over there.
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Post by sheilaincali on May 9, 2013 15:51:56 GMT -5
DH is southern and after spending the last 17 years living with me he has lost quite a bit of his accent. Minnesotans think he sounds "Southern" but Southerns think he sounds Midwestern. I know that the longer he spends in the south when we visit the stronger his accent gets. If he talks to his friends from the south his accent gets stronger too.
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Post by Pants on May 9, 2013 15:53:54 GMT -5
Mid - you don't have much of an accent.
I have been told I don't have much of one, but I do detect some unfortnate nasal chicago twangs showing up now and then.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 9, 2013 15:56:55 GMT -5
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Post by mrsdutt on May 9, 2013 15:57:11 GMT -5
I'm from the south, so yes, I do. Somewhere between Scarlett O'Hara & Larry the Cable Guy I'm from the north and live in the south. The other day a lady said she thought I was a 'foreigner' because I had an accent. HUH? I don't see (hear) it that way.  |
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Post by mrsdutt on May 9, 2013 16:00:39 GMT -5
I dunno. I've been told I sound Canadian. You can tell if you pronouce 'out' 'oot'! |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 16:05:55 GMT -5
I came from Korea lived in Midwest and Western part of country. And married to an Irish, Scot. Who knows.... |
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Post by Chocolate Lover on May 9, 2013 16:07:50 GMT -5
I'm from the south, so yes, I do. Somewhere between Scarlett O'Hara & Larry the Cable Guy I'm from the north and live in the south. The other day a lady said she thought I was a 'foreigner' because I had an accent. HUH? I don't see (hear) it that way. I wouldn't have called you a foreigner and would only call you a Yankee if you told me we were doing it wrong and "back home" you did it right. If I ever come across one of them outside of work, I'm going to ask them where they sleep every night if "back home" is still home. And offer to help them pack since they don't like it here.  |
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Post by Bob Ross on May 9, 2013 16:18:34 GMT -5
I don't have an accent, but I like to make fun of accents.  For example, the yooper accent is the worst. If you have that, then you are the worst. |
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Post by tskeeter on May 9, 2013 17:09:38 GMT -5
Yup. I have a Norwegian/Scotts/Irish accent. Unless I'm in the South, then I all y'all.
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Post by mrsdutt on May 9, 2013 17:15:28 GMT -5
I'm from the north and live in the south. The other day a lady said she thought I was a 'foreigner' because I had an accent. HUH? I don't see (hear) it that way. I wouldn't have called you a foreigner and would only call you a Yankee if you told me we were doing it wrong and "back home" you did it right. If I ever come across one of them outside of work, I'm going to ask them where they sleep every night if "back home" is still home. And offer to help them pack since they don't like it here. I absolutely love, love, love it here. So many stressers gone. Vanished. People have manners and move slow. And the men have real nice accents! Oh, I mean the people have real nice accents. I should have been born here. I'm home. |
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Post by Tennesseer on May 9, 2013 17:17:20 GMT -5
No. But everyone around me does.
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Post by mrsdutt on May 9, 2013 17:17:24 GMT -5
I don't have an accent, but I like to make fun of accents. For example, the yooper accent is the worst. If you have that, then you are the worst. What is a 'yooper' accent? |
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Post by Abby Normal on May 9, 2013 17:32:55 GMT -5
I'm from the Northwest. We don't have accents... everyone else does. |
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 9, 2013 18:24:04 GMT -5
It depends on who you ask. But I've been told I have a slight southern accent from living here for so long. I was born in NJ but never raised there. I've lived all over the country and outside of the country so have been told I have a very unusual accent and they can't place it. They hear the southern part a bit but say it's not the normal southern accent. I guess I was slurring at the time. 
I can tell you about people I've talked to on the phone or have met if they want me to tell you about their accents, or lack of one. |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 20:06:18 GMT -5
There are multiple Southern accents. I have heard many a Miss Alabama talk and wince. I don't drawl like that and can't stand it when someone else does.
I can hear some "accent" when Midwesterners talk because they don't talk like us, but it probably is closer to standard English.
By the way, I hate people who make fun of "fixing to." They always ask, "What are you fixing?" But the alternative is "I am going to." Where are they going? Few people use the correct "I am about to."
We've been talking a lot about languages/accents because we've been reading/watching Pygmalion/My Fair Lady. |
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