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Post by steph08 on May 9, 2013 20:12:26 GMT -5
No, I was born and raised in PA, we don't have accents. I don't know what yinz guys are talking about.
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Post by zibazinski on May 9, 2013 20:29:55 GMT -5
I have existed now in the Midwest for almost two years. So now I have the harshness of the Midwest twang. But it takes me about 5 minutes around my southern friends to get right back into it. DF loves my accent.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on May 9, 2013 20:35:03 GMT -5
I was born and raised in CT and now live in VA - I have somewhat of a southern accent with some New England accent overtones thrown in. <br><br>When I go to visit relatives in CT for more than a day or two, I revert back to my CT accent. but when we go visit DH's relatives in GA I tend to develop more of a southern accent. <br><br>What can I say? I pick up accents easily.<br><br>I used to work with a woman who was from France and she was helping me brush up with my French (took it in HS) and she said I really didn't have an American accent, but sounded more like someone from Paris when I spoke French. Go figure!
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Post by mrsdutt on May 9, 2013 20:45:45 GMT -5
No, I was born and raised in PA, we don't have accents. I don't know what yinz guys are talking about. LOL My late DH was from Wilkes Barre. His grandma would say, 'Haint it true?' I cracked up the first time I heard that. I couldn't understand what she was saying.
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Post by chiver78 on May 9, 2013 20:55:25 GMT -5
I also pick up accents around me. after a weekend visiting Memere up in NB, I sound like English wasn't my first language. after my music cruise, I sound like my southern friends. I pick up the most from two ladies in particular (one from NC, the other from AL that now lives in GA). why mostly those two, I haven't been able to figure out. as far as my normal accent, I think I have a bit of a mishmash. certain words and phrases that I've picked up from my travels are generally spoken with whatever accent I first heard 'em. and when I'm pissed off and ranting at someone or something, I'm all Boston.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 9, 2013 20:57:16 GMT -5
I was born and raised in CT and now live in VA - I have somewhat of a southern accent with some New England accent overtones thrown in. When I go to visit relatives in CT for more than a day or two, I revert back to my CT accent. but when we go visit DH's relatives in GA I tend to develop more of a southern accent. What can I say? I pick up accents easily. I used to work with a woman who was from France and she was helping me brush up with my French (took it in HS) and she said I really didn't have an American accent, but sounded more like someone from Paris when I spoke French. Go figure! Not for nuthin' but is it a southern Connecticut accent?
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 21:04:37 GMT -5
Southern. Without the twang, no drawl.
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 9, 2013 21:12:05 GMT -5
Born and raised in the Midwest, where I live now. Spent 35 years in Colorado, where I would get asked where I was from because I talked funny.
I do not have an accent.
I do now say breakfast, lunch and dinner as opposed to my upbringing of breakfast, dinner and supper. That has caused much confusion.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 22:00:41 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. You have an adorable Southern accent!
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Post by moneymaven on May 9, 2013 22:11:57 GMT -5
No accent here, but I do great impressions. Arnold's Austrian is a favorite. DH thinks I should do voice over work.
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Post by irishpad on May 9, 2013 22:17:43 GMT -5
Ya, sure, you betcha
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Post by Apple on May 9, 2013 22:44:40 GMT -5
I'm from the Northwest. We don't have accents... everyone else does. This, exactly. We pronounce all our letters, don't mumble, aren't nasal, etc, just normal However, I do love some terms-- y'all, bloody, arse, things like that.
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Post by Apple on May 9, 2013 22:49:16 GMT -5
Please feel free to ship a nice southern man up my way, I love a southern accent (and an irish or scottish accent). We had some guys from Mississippi working up here for a few weeks and I loved to just sit back and listen to them talk.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 10, 2013 0:47:07 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. You have an adorable Southern accent! Awww thank you! You have a beautiful voice and no accent was detected.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2013 4:33:15 GMT -5
I am from Central Michigan so I never really had an accent until I moved away. I pick up accents of those I hang around quite easily. Apparently when I get stressed or overly excited a southern accent comes out. I didn't realize it until one day in class, one of my classmates was staring at me really weird. I finally asked him if I had something in my teeth or something. He said that he was having the hardest time trying to figure out where I was from. He said that my accent changed all the time and he had never heard anything like it. I had no clue. People from the south immediately know I am a Yankee when the word Pop comes out of my mouth. Then my heart gets blessed a lot. Yoopers definitely have an accent. I was in a bar in Charleston Airport (don't judge me...I have a fear of flying) drinking a huge Bloody Mary, minding my own business when two guys sat beside me. The minute they started talking I turned and said, "You guys are Yoopers!" Then I told them I was a troll, they bought me another Bloody Mary and we joked around until it was time for me to board my plane.
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Post by toomuchreality on May 10, 2013 4:52:38 GMT -5
I don't think I have an accent. No one has ever commented about me having one. I have heard comments about how generally people in Utah don't enunciate well. I know a lot don't pronounce their 't's'. Mountain is said moun-ain for example. I know people who say "crick" instead of creek, and ruff instead of roof, etc. I do use the phrase " just sayin' "and a few others. But mostly in writing.
I find it difficult when I call customer service, and get someone clearly from outside the US. It takes so much effort to understand what they are saying, usually. If/when I'm already unhappy or frustrated, thus the reason for the call, I don't want to have to strain trying to figure out what the person is saying to me. I want to know the answer, or I wouldn't call.
I do enjoy hearing someone call me "Miss Bertha" or whatever (Miss Diane, Miss Julie etc.) I guess that comes from, or is typically done in the south, huh?
I always thought that people from a certain area, would think someone from outside that area, had an accent. No?
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Post by happyscooter on May 10, 2013 6:37:32 GMT -5
Yes, I do. And I hate it. I'm from the south and whenever we go on vacation, people will say 'talk, just talk'. They love to hear it.
Except when we went to Canada. Have you ever heard 'Bonjour' with a southern accent?
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Post by skubikky on May 10, 2013 6:43:33 GMT -5
whaddya mean I have an accent? Come ovah heer an say dat......... NYC born and raised baby.......everyone else in this country tawks too slow.
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Post by alabamagal on May 10, 2013 7:42:21 GMT -5
I grew up in the "geographic south" which is what I call South Florida. It is not southern. I have no accent.
I married a guy from Atlanta and have lived in south Georgia for 27 years. I am quite familiar with a southern accent. My kids have very slight southern accents. I try to keep them from talking redneck though.
On a side note, I have decided I have a redneck laptop computer. It is pretty old and the keyboard is well worn. After some food or drink debris got on the keyboard, the letter "g" is not working so great. I have noticed several posts where I have used the works runnin, movin, so I have to spellcheck everything to stop from being redneck.
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Post by NoNamePerson on May 10, 2013 7:45:02 GMT -5
I'm from the south, so yes, I do. Somewhere between Scarlett O'Hara & Larry the Cable Guy Same here but I did have someone tell me that I sure talked fast for a Southerner. And then someone told me I dropped my vowels when talking - I told them to just bend over and pick them up
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Post by happyhoix on May 10, 2013 7:55:03 GMT -5
Please feel free to ship a nice southern man up my way, I love a southern accent (and an irish or scottish accent). We had some guys from Mississippi working up here for a few weeks and I loved to just sit back and listen to them talk. Well, I live in the South, although originally I'm from PA, and I like some southern accents but not others. There is a velvety smooth, elegant Southern accent (if you watched Ken Burn's documentary about the Civil War and remember listening to Shelby Foote, the historian - he had one of those lovely accents). Then there is the Appalacian, back hills, rednecky, ignorant sounding southern accent. I don't care how smart you are, you come across as dumb with that accent. There are a lot of regional variations, too - New Orleans has it's own accent, for instance. I work for a French company, and our corporate visitors struggle with the southern accent. One of them confessed to me he couldn't even understand the newscasters on our local TV. Bless their hearts, they learned British English, and what we speak down here is almost a different language from that.
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Post by thyme4change on May 10, 2013 7:57:03 GMT -5
None, most midwesterners don't. Ooooooooooo - are you shoooooooooore about that?
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2013 8:10:19 GMT -5
We have a Canadian accent up here in "The 716" . Except we call a Z "Z" instead of "zed" and a 24 pack of beer is called a "case", not a "2-4".
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2013 8:13:07 GMT -5
I once was told I "Tock joost lock thay doooo on tay-vay."
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Post by swamp on May 10, 2013 8:15:00 GMT -5
Im from NNY and I can't understand the southerners. I was in TN once and I ordered ice tea. The waitress then said "Swaaaaid unswaaaaid?" I had absolutely no freaking idea what she meant. She was saying "Sweetened or Unsweetened?" I needed a translator. But it was mutual. The soutnerners complain I talk too fast.
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 10, 2013 8:18:20 GMT -5
I'm also from Michigan. West Michigan to be exact, so no accent here. There are some people in this area that do speak with a slight accent--I think an article I read called in North Central something... It is annoying... There is something with an -egg sound. I only recall noticing it when speaking to less educated people, though I guess anyone could pick that up.
I am bilingual, and I've been told that when I speak Polish, I sound Russian. I have no idea if that's true, but my parents were both from areas of Poland that became part of the USSR. I guess I could have picked up the accent from them. All I know is, that in England, I have a hard time understanding English, and in Poland, I have a hard time understanding Polish.
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Post by happyhoix on May 10, 2013 8:27:12 GMT -5
Im from NNY and I can't understand the southerners. I was in TN once and I ordered ice tea. The waitress then said "Swaaaaid unswaaaaid?" I had absolutely no freaking idea what she meant. She was saying "Sweetened or Unsweetened?" I needed a translator. But it was mutual. The soutnerners complain I talk too fast. HAH! My brother in law, with a very thick north carolina accent, attempted to order a glass of tea in a Chicago restaurant for my little sister's wedding. (He didn't realize most northern restaurants don't offer iced tea). The poor waitress had to ask him three times what he was saying (Sweet tea) - finally my sister from New England had to intervene and translate for him - and then he got a cup of hot tea instead, which, in the South, is practically a hanging crime. (Sweet tea is our house wine down here). This same brother in law was walking through a grocery store in rural Ohio with my sister. They noticed a woman and her young son trailing behind them, eavesdropping. Finally my sister overheard the mom tell the little boy "he's not speaking a different language, he's from the South."
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Post by teen persuasion on May 10, 2013 8:27:53 GMT -5
We have a Canadian accent up here in "The 716" . Except we call a Z "Z" instead of "zed" and a 24 pack of beer is called a "case", not a "2-4". LOL, 716 has it's own accent! Is that why DS2 (in college in 585, aka Rochester) is constantly told he has an accent? Something about how he pronounces "bagel". When I watch Canadian TV, I'm always cringing at how they pronounce certain words: pasta sounds like pass-ta, not pahs-ta, and mazda sounds like mazz-da not mahz-da. Much more nasal "a"s.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2013 8:37:35 GMT -5
You're right, we are pretty nasal over here. Another difference is we say "SORry" (the right way) instead of "Sore-ry". That is how we tell an actor is Canadian!
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Post by teen persuasion on May 10, 2013 8:47:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I agree we sound pretty nasal, but the CA ads are so nasal that they make me cringe!
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