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are you self-conscious about your accent?

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xSauronx

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I was born in, and have lived in eastern North Carolina my entire life. Im 22 years old and since I was at least 16 have made a consious and deliberate effort to speak with very little (or none, if possible) southern accent.

I slip every now and again, pronouncing greenville as greenvll or having a very slight drawl on a couple of words at a time, in addition to occassionally not pronouncing the final "g" with words ending in "ing" most people dont notice the slip when I do fall into the local accent, but i do and hate when it happens

I went dancing at a club the other night and some guy in the bathroom asked me something. when I answered him he asked if I was a northerner; couldnt believe I was from a small town 20 miles away. And a woman I was talking to a few weeks ago, who is originally from Virginia, where, appearently, the accent there isnt even as obnoxious as it is down here, said she noticed that I don't sound like anyone else she's met that is from this area.

Im not sure if I actually *do* sound like Im from somewhere up north, but I damn sure do not sound like Im from North Carolina. Its intentional. I dont like the drawl and most of the country slang used around here, and I have a tendency to annunciate my words....usually.

Anyone else like this at all, or am I being stranger than what I would usually otherwise give myself credit for?
 
I think I recognize that I say things differently from other people, but I don't get too hung up on it. I'm such a Sconnie. Our roommate who's from Illinois thinks that my bf and I say "bag" oddly, among other words.
 
i don't think us Michiganders have an accent, but people from the south sure can tell (i think they're just not used to proper grammar 😉 )

-=bmacd=-
 
Originally posted by: suse920
I dont have a boston accent 🙂
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a lady who does alterations for us at work is from somewhere north of boston, i cant recall where. its damn strange to be in that place: most of the people are from around here, a few have a particularly strong souther accent (strong enough to agitate the bejesus out of me, honestly) and then this woman comes in with this massachusets accent and just sounds so...foreign.

or something.
 
Originally posted by: xSauronx
Originally posted by: Proletariat
Originally posted by: her209
Chicks dig dudes with accents.
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Not sourthern ones.
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some chicks do

theyre not the type id be remotely interested in, however.
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You never seen a hot southern lady drippin with humidity in the middly of july in a white t-shirt. . .

good lawd. . . hahah
 
Originally posted by: episodic
Originally posted by: xSauronx
Originally posted by: episodic
most people don't think I am southern. I enunciate and speak quickly.
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where in the south are you from?
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south of missouri, east of oklahoma, north of louisiana, west of mississippi 🙂
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gotcha

never met anyone from there

a strong georgian accent also bothers me. i get hung up on some accents sometimes....

like a hispanic accent; i just cant stand the sound of it. i used to think maybe it was just the language, but i love to hear italian and theyre similar enough that cant be it. must be the accent, i just cant stand to listen to it. hell, i barely passed high school spanish because of it: the accent bugged the hell out of me.
 
I don't like southern accents. Luckily I seem to have gone through life living in both Massachusetts and New York and have a "TV accent". That is, the generally accepted "vanilla" American accent. Out of all the various accents one finds in the US, I find Boston to be the worst, followed by NYC, followed by southern accents.
 
Originally posted by: bmacd
i don't think us Michiganders have an accent, but people from the south sure can tell (i think they're just not used to proper grammar 😉 )

-=bmacd=-
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Of course we don't.
 
I used to eununciate very clearly. Then people thought I was English. Now I've kind of let my accent take over. It's pretty light, just a vague smattering of Brooklyn and slightly more Louisiana.
 
Originally posted by: episodic
Originally posted by: xSauronx
Originally posted by: Proletariat
Originally posted by: her209
Chicks dig dudes with accents.
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Not sourthern ones.
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some chicks do

theyre not the type id be remotely interested in, however.
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You never seen a hot southern lady drippin with humidity in the middly of july in a white t-shirt. . .

good lawd. . . hahah
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i have

and if i was deaf and we both knew sign language im sure it would have made difference.

my last manager at work had this atrocious southern accent combined with this high-pitched whiny voice and *nobody* in the place could stand to listen to her.
 
I tell you who has a weird accent (at least to me) is people in Maine. I went their once. Tried to order a steak and some sweet tea. I found out after 10 minutes of trying to communicate that they had no idea what sweet tea was and could not understand me no more than I could understand the waitress.


Ayep. . .
 
Originally posted by: kogase
I don't like southern accents. Luckily I seem to have gone through life living in both Massachusetts and New York and have a "TV accent". That is, the generally accepted "vanilla" American accent. Out of all the various accents one finds in the US, I find Boston to be the worst, followed by NYC, followed by southern accents.
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I digress-- I had a professor with a Boston accent once, and it made lecture very enjoyable (but it was already an awesome class to begin with). I think that the only accent that's ever bothered me is the northern Minnesota/UP/northern Wi accent-- it's so irritating.
 
Originally posted by: kogase
I don't like southern accents. Luckily I seem to have gone through life living in both Massachusetts and New York and have a "TV accent". That is, the generally accepted "vanilla" American accent. Out of all the various accents one finds in the US, I find Boston to be the worst, followed by NYC, followed by southern accents.
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i find boston annoying somewhat, but it doesnt bother me terribly.

theres this one little county here in this part of the state, that has its *own* even stronger accent.

even people with what would otherwise be considered a southern drawl make fun of them its so bad.
 
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