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Post by mrsdutt on May 10, 2013 13:31:32 GMT -5
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. Before I read anything else........ WELCOME HOME!!!! You're the kind of transplant we're happy to have. Thank you. Big Southern hug!!!
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Post by Chocolate Lover on May 10, 2013 13:33:57 GMT -5
Before I read anything else........ WELCOME HOME!!!! You're the kind of transplant we're happy to have. Thank you. Big Southern hug!!! Big hug back! Are you in an area where ALL soft drinks are Coke?
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Post by mrsdutt on May 10, 2013 13:57:43 GMT -5
Thank you. Big Southern hug!!! Big hug back! Are you in an area where ALL soft drinks are Coke? Yes, mam, Miss Chocolatelover. [img]http://images.proboards.com/new/grin.png[/img]
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Post by Chocolate Lover on May 10, 2013 13:59:02 GMT -5
Lol! You really have picked up the language
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Post by Queen of Interesting Nuts on May 11, 2013 10:08:10 GMT -5
I am familiar with American accents because I have been exposed to them. Like yooper (sorry drives me nuts). I am sure an English person could tell an accent from Boston, NY and the south but that is probably it. I happen to think that Seattlians have an accent. Oh and Chicago, I am probably picking up cities more than areas like midwest and such.
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Post by Queen of Interesting Nuts on May 11, 2013 10:10:18 GMT -5
Just put a south African, new Zealand and an Aussie together, those are tough.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on May 11, 2013 10:19:51 GMT -5
I used to live in Massachusetts for a few years, and although I still have my basic upper midwest accent, once in awhile, I get "idears" ( I-dee-errs ) about things. Also, I betray my Canadian heritage with the occasional "eh" in both conversation and print.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on May 11, 2013 10:21:30 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". You don't say, eh ?
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Post by irishpad on May 11, 2013 21:02:54 GMT -5
Ya, sure, you betcha Hey, that's not Irish. You're looking for terms like wee lass, wee lad, brilliant, Da, or bairn, with a Derry accent. You sound more like you can provide a functional definition for uffda. Ah, what you say is true.... but this poor Irishman grew up in a small farming community where just about everyone else was Norwegian, ya know. I can still sing Norwegian Christmas Carols we learned in grade school
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2013 21:15:42 GMT -5
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 I should introduce them to my sister, man she can talk fast! In her defense, in our house if you didn't talk fast you'd get interrupted before you finished. We all just shared thoughts as we had them. Still do When I meet someone that's from around here and they talk fast, I automatically think they probably grew up in a large family lol. What's funny is, the ones that I got to know well enough to find out, they did! It's been years since I started making that assumption and I don't know where it came from. My children's grandmother moved north when she graduated high school and moved back south about 20 years later. She use to call my children her "lil Southern babies" because of the way they talked. Reading this thread and all the comments about how slow Southerners talk, I'm wondering just how slowly I talk. Sounds normal to me! I'm sure it's obvious what part of the country I'm from when I talk, but sheesh I hope I don't sound as horrible as the Southerners some of you are describing.
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Post by kgb18 on May 11, 2013 21:18:54 GMT -5
Steph, Are you from Pittsburgh? Though I live in the Pittsburgh region I managed to avoid the Yinzer accent and vocabulary.
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Post by steph08 on May 12, 2013 5:12:02 GMT -5
Steph, Are you from Pittsburgh? Though I live in the Pittsburgh region I managed to avoid the Yinzer accent and vocabulary. Not from Pittsburgh, just around it - about 60 miles away. I don't really speak Pittsburgh-ese either, though 'yinz' has been said before, and I say "warsh" instead of "wash." I do tend to say "Jeet yet?" or "D'jeet yet?" (Did you eat yet?) just because.
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Post by Ava on May 12, 2013 10:10:06 GMT -5
I have a South American accent.
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Post by Works4me on May 12, 2013 15:32:32 GMT -5
No accent - grew up in Bay Area and have been told often I have a very neutral one.
Funny thing is I love listening to accents and can adapt to listening to them very easily. On the other hand, in no way can I "do" accents.
Anyone else remember Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda and her reaction to accents? Certain ones almost do that to me ... but not quite. lol
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Post by cael on May 12, 2013 16:38:54 GMT -5
I... have somewhat of a Boston accent. I know people way worse than me, but put me down in NJ where my in-laws live and I can stick out like a sore thumb, especially if I'm being emphatic or am drunk. Imagine 'pahhk' and 'shaahp' and stuff like that. Again I know people way worse than me... but at least I acknowledge I have one my SIL always makes fun of me when I say something particularly Boston. I make fun of her when she says 'water' with her NJ accent (becomes 'woot-er') and she denies it to the end.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2013 18:51:44 GMT -5
You know you and I are neighbors Anyway, up here between Syracuse and Buffalo, the way they pronounce these words all sound the same: Mary.....Merry Merry....Merry Marry....Merry Very confusing............ So, how would you pronounce them to make them sound different? I agree. For me, these are homonyms. Is Mary "Mayree"? Is Merry "Meery"? Is marry "Marry"? I honestly can't imagine how to pronounce them differently. They all sound the same. I have heard someone pronounce them like the first two suggestions, but people rolled their eyes. The prevalent accent rules.
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Post by midjd on May 12, 2013 19:09:01 GMT -5
I pronounce Mary and Marry the same, but Merry is more like 'meh-rey'. One of my friends is from Jersey City and pronounces it the exact same way! We all make fun of her
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on May 12, 2013 19:18:31 GMT -5
Maybe Mary will marry a merry man.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2013 19:27:23 GMT -5
I think Mary, merry, and marry is very much like how we try to teach kids the difference between A-ffect and E-ffect. They are both pronounced the same, but we exaggerate the difference. I don't. I tell my kids that they are pronounced absolutely the same, which is why they are so hard to master.
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Post by midjd on May 12, 2013 19:32:51 GMT -5
I thought affect was 'uh-fect' and effect was 'eh-FECT'? Have I been pronouncing it incorrectly all this time? Or maybe midwesterners really don't have accents
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on May 12, 2013 20:25:56 GMT -5
I've always given effect a hard "E" sound: E-ffect (same "E" sound as equal or equator)
.. and I've given affect a soft "a" sound: a-ffect (like the "a" in apple or asparagus).
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Post by Cookies Galore on May 12, 2013 20:35:13 GMT -5
Steph, Are you from Pittsburgh? Though I live in the Pittsburgh region I managed to avoid the Yinzer accent and vocabulary. Not from Pittsburgh, just around it - about 60 miles away. I don't really speak Pittsburgh-ese either, though 'yinz' has been said before, and I say "warsh" instead of "wash." I do tend to say "Jeet yet?" or "D'jeet yet?" (Did you eat yet?) just because. Lol, the state can be divided "yous" vs. "yinz," but somehow we all say "jeet yet?"!
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Post by chiver78 on May 12, 2013 21:32:02 GMT -5
So, how would you pronounce them to make them sound different? I agree. For me, these are homonyms. Is Mary "Mayree"? yep, in the reverse, as far as my fellow trustee is concerned. his DW Mayree passed away quite unexpectedly a few weeks back. :\ any time I've heard him speak her name, I heard it as "Mary" so take that as you will.
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Post by mmhmm on May 12, 2013 21:41:32 GMT -5
I have a mixed accent, I guess. Some of my pronunciations are more British than American. I don't naturally have a southern accent, but can if I feel I need to (as in working with some patients in the hospital). My Okie accent is long gone. When you have to be understood in a bunch of different countries, you learn to speak more clearly and slowly. My late husband was from Queens. He didn't have much of an accent unless he got around someone else from that area. Then, Oh, boy!
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Post by KaraBoo on May 12, 2013 23:30:49 GMT -5
I've been told I have an accent, but one that is hard to place. I was born outside of Chicago. My mom always lived in Chicago until after I was born and has a Polish heritage. My dad was also from Chicago, but spent many years living in Texas where his dad was from and has a German heritage. Right after I was born, they moved to Texas permanently. I've been here ever since (38 years). When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, the teachers sent me to speech therapy because they didn't think I was talking correctly and would have issues. The speech therapist finally told everyone I was fine - I just had an accent! One that she couldn't figure out until she talked to my mom and found out they were from Chicago. I still occasionally get the question, "Where are you from?"
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Post by teen persuasion on May 13, 2013 8:04:41 GMT -5
So, how would you pronounce them to make them sound different? I agree. For me, these are homonyms. Is Mary "Mayree"? Is Merry "Meery"? Is marry "Marry"? I honestly can't imagine how to pronounce them differently. They all sound the same. I have heard someone pronounce them like the first two suggestions, but people rolled their eyes. The prevalent accent rules. I was thinking of them as homophones. Hm, lots of interesting info on wiki. homophones dialect dependent homophones mary-marry-merry merger
The pronunciations didn't help me hear any differences, they used different voices (one female, others male), and one sounded like 'Smarry' to me.
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Post by swamp on May 13, 2013 8:06:15 GMT -5
I thought affect was 'uh-fect' and effect was 'eh-FECT'? Have I been pronouncing it incorrectly all this time? Or maybe midwesterners really don't have accents I pronounce them like you. I hear a difference between affect and effect.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 8:21:55 GMT -5
Not from Pittsburgh, just around it - about 60 miles away. I don't really speak Pittsburgh-ese either, though 'yinz' has been said before, and I say "warsh" instead of "wash." I do tend to say "Jeet yet?" or "D'jeet yet?" (Did you eat yet?) just because. Lol, the state can be divided "yous" vs. "yinz," but somehow we all say "jeet yet?"! LMAO! My mom's and dad's families all say stuff like "warsh" and they drop the "g"s at the end of action verbs. I managed to avoid all that and using the word "yous".
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Post by swamp on May 13, 2013 8:24:06 GMT -5
I'm guilty of "g" dropping. And some middle consonant dropping in words like hunting, mitten, kitten, etc.
People around here go "hun-in' with their mi-ens"
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