chiver78
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Post by chiver78 on May 13, 2013 8:39:41 GMT -5
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". that's a PA thing too? the handful of people I know who do that are all from NYC/Long Island.
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Post by cael on May 13, 2013 8:50:17 GMT -5
That's like my dad. He grew up in Philly and left there when he was maybe 25ish? He really doesn't talk Philly at all.... until you get him on the phone with his mother, then it comes out with a vengeance I'm surprised my mother never developed the wicked Boston accent her mother had, but they moved around so much when she was a kid that she didn't actually settle here until she was 14 and she just never picked it up.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 8:56:59 GMT -5
From dictionary.com:
af·fect1 /v. əˈfɛkt; n. ˈæfɛkt ef-fect ih-fekt
So there is a slight difference, but not nearly as prounced as most people try to create as in a (long a)ffect and e (long e)ffect.
Teachers exaggerate the difference as we try to teach its usage, but it's just not that distinct.
P.S. Actually e (long e)ffect is the verb form of effect, but I tell my students not to worry too much about it.
ETA: I thought dropping the g was a Southern thing. Lol.
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Post by doxieluvr on May 14, 2013 6:27:02 GMT -5
I hate accents. I do not have one at all. I talk like the people on the news, abc morning news. Not some local news station.
Dh has a very southern accent with Canadian phrases and words thrown in. His accent really comes out when he is ordering through a drive thru.
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Post by Cookies Galore on May 14, 2013 6:36:23 GMT -5
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". I thought your family was from SE PA? "Warsh" isn't dialect from this area, but droppin' Gs is!
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doxieluvr
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Post by doxieluvr on May 14, 2013 7:13:36 GMT -5
Warsh is a Baltimore thing.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2013 7:31:12 GMT -5
Do the Newscasters say "warsh"?
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Post by happyhoix on May 14, 2013 7:49:31 GMT -5
I hate accents. I do not have one at all. I talk like the people on the news, abc morning news. Not some local news station. Dh has a very southern accent with Canadian phrases and words thrown in. His accent really comes out when he is ordering through a drive thru. Actually, you do have an accent. You have an American accent. If you were to go to Australia or England, you would not sound at all like the newscasters. If you were to talk to someone who is French or German, they would probably have difficulty understanding your English, because they learned British English at school, and they would have difficulty getting past your American accent and American words, like 'cell phone' instead of 'mobile.' The same is true for every other major language. I speak some French, but it's French-French, and I have difficulty understanding Canadian French or Cajun French. Basically, every human being speaks with an accent.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2013 7:51:55 GMT -5
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Post by doxieluvr on May 14, 2013 8:10:50 GMT -5
Do the Newscasters say "warsh"? No, but neither do I. I do not say "wooder" (water) either.
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