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El Guaraguao

El Guaraguao

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Theres a show about wild hogs on discovery channel right now. They need to put subtitles for the local hunters. local hunters as in folks from the south. The accent in those back wood residential area are so thick, they needed to add subtitles. lol.

SHOOT. FUCK. Tell you what! /redneck accent
 
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I work in a call center and regularly take calls from people that sound like Sanford and Boomhauer's love child. I had one yesterday that I couldn't even tell if it was a guy or girl.

I always say that I need a decoder ring to understand them.
 
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Crono

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Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Guess what? Not all people from the south have accents. Shocking! I know.
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Liar. Everyone has an accent, period.
 
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It's not like the northern area of the US does not have accents. I have just as hard a time understanding some people from New York etc as you do understanding someone from the south.
 
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Originally posted by: Narse
It's not like the northern area of the US does not have accents. I have just as hard a time understanding some people from New York etc as you do understanding someone from the south.
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Yous talkin' 'bout me, buddy?!?
 
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Originally posted by: Narse
It's not like the northern area of the US does not have accents. I have just as hard a time understanding some people from New York etc as you do understanding someone from the south.
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What part of New York? Practically every state (or even parts of states like NJ or NY) have completely different accents. We can talk about Boston accents vs. North Jersey accents and never have enough hours in the day to complete it.

People from Dallas, Texas seems to talk a lot like the Northeasteners or Californians.
 
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Originally posted by: EGGO
Originally posted by: Narse
It's not like the northern area of the US does not have accents. I have just as hard a time understanding some people from New York etc as you do understanding someone from the south.
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What part of New York? Practically every state (or even parts of states like NJ or NY) have completely different accents. We can talk about Boston accents vs. North Jersey accents and never have enough hours in the day to complete it.

People from Dallas, Texas seems to talk a lot like the Northeasteners or Californians.
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There are several accents in just NYC alone, almost all fusions of immigrant accents and cultured into local accents over various periods of time.
 
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Midwestern = What the world recognizes as an "American" Accent. It's the most "normal".
 
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Originally posted by: Crono
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Guess what? Not all people from the south have accents. Shocking! I know.
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Liar. Everyone has an accent, period.
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I was born and raised in the south. I does not have no southern accent. well, that's what everyone tells me. Mother, father, some of my friends have it pretty thick. Not I, though.
 
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Originally posted by: Narse
It's not like the northern area of the US does not have accents. I have just as hard a time understanding some people from New York etc as you do understanding someone from the south.
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yeah, Boston accent is waaay worse than Southern, kind of hilarious though.

The most deplorable accent to me is either midwestern or Arkansas (there are varying degrees and types of southern accents, after all)
 
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Originally posted by: venkman
Midwestern = What the world recognizes as an "American" Accent. It's the most "normal".
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no they don't. where the eff did you get that?

 
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Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: Crono
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Guess what? Not all people from the south have accents. Shocking! I know.
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Liar. Everyone has an accent, period.
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I was born and raised in the south. I does not have no southern accent. well, that's what everyone tells me. Mother, father, some of my friends have it pretty thick. Not I, though.
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sure about that? :p
 
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Of all of the things for which southerners can be criticized, the accent is one of the most insignificant. When I first moved to southern georgia, I went through several stages about how people talked. Initially, it was quite pleasant - especially, the southern belles who sound almost erotic with their tendency to elongate vowels in the last word of a thought. Then I started thinking of the slow talkers as stupid. Then I realized some of those slow talkers were very sharp - and some fast or 'normal' talkers weren't. The idioms are sometimes grouped in with the accent, incorrectly. Once attuned, one can pick up differences between a georgia and alabama accent.

As an aside, one of the things I was completely unaware of before moving here is that many are still fighting the civil war.
 
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California is what most international people associate the "american accent" with. For obvious reasons.
 
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