lol. the southern part of america

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Having lived away for so long...I'm sad that my charming Northern-Midwest accent is fading.

"oohh geeeez, you betcha!"

"Oh, for funny!", "Uff da!" etc. etc.

My first week in North Dakota, I was walking around like .

I even started talking like them after five years, but got out in enough time to lose it. Easily the most annoying accent in the country, although less ignorant-sounding than southern.

LOL, it comes out for a day if I watch Fargo.

It's funny how a lot of people think the accents in that movie are exaggerated.

i have some friends from nodak, i think their accent is hilarious. especially while drinking. i thought that was the scandanavian influence of those upper midwest states that caused that accent tho. northern michigan has a funny accent as well, but when i go there they think i sound weird. im from az, born and raised. as far as i know, there is no actual accent here, compared to other places.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Guess what? Not all people from the south have accents. Shocking! I know.

The town I live in is mostly made up of yankee transplants who followed GM from the north.

Spring Hill?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: tasmanian
North east + california has the best accents.

/thread

Fail for including NE on that list. Massachusetts anyone?

I'm going to go look at a new cah tahday.

The thing that pisses me off more than anything with accents, is not people that have accents, it's people that say words wrong. Like my GF's dad. I don't know how many times I've told him he's an idiot for saying worsh instead of wash. WTF did he get an OR to replace the A ???

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Guess what? Not all people from the south have accents. Shocking! I know.

The town I live in is mostly made up of yankee transplants who followed GM from the north.

Spring Hill?

Probably.

I live in Tennessee and hate the extreme southern accents you hear in some places. I don't mind a mild southern accent though. In fact I prefer it over the vast majority of northern/northeastern accents. Keep in mind I'm only referring to the mild cases of southern accent not the kind found in movies (Deliverance) or TV shows (King of the Hill).

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: venkman
Midwestern = What the world recognizes as an "American" Accent. It's the most "normal".

no they don't. where the eff did you get that?

Read and learn. This comprises the largest single-accent group of English speakers in the world...essentially every (American) newscaster, every actor, the whole of the Midwest and up and down the West Coast speak with this accent.

The fact that a Midwestern dialect became the basis of what is General American English is often attributed to the mass immigration of Midwestern farmers to California and the Pacific Northwest from where it spread.

but whenever Americans are mocked, it's usually the Texas version of "southern" accent. Or maybe the Brooklyn accent. Sure, there's a shitload of people in the midwest, but who cares about them? They're so isolated from the rest of the modern world

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
I'm from new jersey but I'm pretty sure I don't have a "jersey" accent. Not sure what that even is. I don't say jowzay.

OK, but do you say "Joizee?"

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Guess what? Not all people from the south have accents. Shocking! I know.

The town I live in is mostly made up of yankee transplants who followed GM from the north.

Spring Hill?

Probably.

I live in Tennessee and hate the extreme southern accents you hear in some places. I don't mind a mild southern accent though. In fact I prefer it over the vast majority of northern/northeastern accents. Keep in mind I'm only referring to the mild cases of southern accent not the kind found in movies (Deliverance) or TV shows (King of the Hill).

You don't really hear an accent in Brentwood or Franklin. Out here in Knoxville...my god, those East TNers have a thick accent.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Scholzpdx

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Guess what? Not all people from the south have accents. Shocking! I know.

Liar. Everyone has an accent, period.

Have you ever been to Oregon\Washington State?

Literally no accents at ALL.

but compared to what? did anyone see Peter O'Toole on Conan several years ago? (I think it was Conan)

Conan asks him something about his fine English accent, and how most people assume English people are smart simply b/c of the accent.

O'Toole: Well, you see, I'm not speaking with an accent. This is how the English language sounds when properly pronounced.
:laugh:

so...which is it? an accent is considered an accent only if there is some accepted standard, no? Which one is standard? I would think that it isn't found in the US. The closest would probably be the (now extinct) northeast upper-class learned accents of Hepburn, Plimpton, the Kennedy's, etc (Jerry Springer used to have it too, way back when he was an extremely successful politician--even before his years as the uber-popular mayor of Cincinnati)

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Guess what? Not all people from the south have accents. Shocking! I know.

The town I live in is mostly made up of yankee transplants who followed GM from the north.

Spring Hill?

Probably.

I live in Tennessee and hate the extreme southern accents you hear in some places. I don't mind a mild southern accent though. In fact I prefer it over the vast majority of northern/northeastern accents. Keep in mind I'm only referring to the mild cases of southern accent not the kind found in movies (Deliverance) or TV shows (King of the Hill).

You don't really hear an accent in Brentwood or Franklin. Out here in Knoxville...my god, those East TNers have a thick accent.

I'm from Knoxville and now live in the Nashville area. You are so right about what you're saying. When I go back home to visit the family I make it a special point to visit "The" Wal-Mart just so I can wade through the local habitat in all its glory.

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: brandonbull

Originally posted by: sao123
as a citizen of the soverine nation of western pennsylvania, i must point out that while we have our own vocabulary, we do not have an accent.

Maybe if you exclude Pittsburgh.

Get aht!

yinz goin* dahntahn ta see donnie iris, n'at?

get my disability check and *bam* dahn pants'n'at.

jagoff


*goin is pronounced as i syllable and rhymes with nothing i can think off. only a pittsburgher will know how to properly pronouce it.

 

[Praxis1452]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
I'm from new jersey but I'm pretty sure I don't have a "jersey" accent. Not sure what that even is. I don't say jowzay.

OK, but do you say "Joizee?"

jer-zee. Jer as in Jerk. I also realized that I do say fahrest.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I hate people who pronounce roof like rook or ruff. It's a ROOOOOOF as in MOOoOOOOOOOO.

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
I'm from new jersey but I'm pretty sure I don't have a "jersey" accent. Not sure what that even is. I don't say jowzay.

Most people from NJ don't talk with the stereotypical "jersey" accent.

I'm from NJ and went to college in Indiana. The biggest difference that most people noticed is the way I pronounce words that contain "or". Words like horrible, forest, Florida, orange - when I say them, the 'o' sounds like it does in 'bottle.' Flahrida, fahrest, hahrrible. In the midwest the 'or' sounds exactly like the word 'or' or 'oar'.

I moved from Philly to south FL when I was 6 but I still pronounce my Os like As.

I was born in Queens, NY, moved to south FL at 11 and I say 'Orange' like "arerange."

I haven't noticed it on any other words though, or on any specific sounds.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: JDub02

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: brandonbull

Originally posted by: sao123
as a citizen of the soverine nation of western pennsylvania, i must point out that while we have our own vocabulary, we do not have an accent.

Maybe if you exclude Pittsburgh.

Get aht!

yinz goin* dahntahn ta see donnie iris, n'at?

get my disability check and *bam* dahn pants'n'at.

jagoff


*goin is pronounced as i syllable and rhymes with nothing i can think off. only a pittsburgher will know how to properly pronouce it.

The local vocabulary is pretty interesting. Nebby, gum band, redd up, 'Sliberty...

Always wanted to go to a butcher shop and order "Two pahnd of grahnd rahnd." "Pahnd" would be singular, of course.

Back on the subject of accents, I know exactly what you mean by "goin" I have no idea how to write it out phonetically. It's almost like someone trying to imitate the sound of a metal spring letting go.

 

[cirthix]

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: JDub02

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: brandonbull

Originally posted by: sao123
as a citizen of the soverine nation of western pennsylvania, i must point out that while we have our own vocabulary, we do not have an accent.

Maybe if you exclude Pittsburgh.

Get aht!

yinz goin* dahntahn ta see donnie iris, n'at?

get my disability check and *bam* dahn pants'n'at.

jagoff


*goin is pronounced as i syllable and rhymes with nothing i can think off. only a pittsburgher will know how to properly pronouce it.

The local vocabulary is pretty interesting. Nebby, gum band, redd up, 'Sliberty...

Always wanted to go to a butcher shop and order "Two pahnd of grahnd rahnd." "Pahnd" would be singular, of course.

Back on the subject of accents, I know exactly what you mean by "goin" I have no idea how to write it out phonetically. It's almost like someone trying to imitate the sound of a metal spring letting go.

lol, the yinzer is strong in this thread

edit: go stillers!

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: JDub02

Originally posted by: sao123
as a citizen of the soverine nation of western pennsylvania, i must point out that while we have our own vocabulary, we do not have an accent.

btw, you might not want to advertise that you live in connellsville or anywhere in fayette-nam ... a place where the men are men and the sheep are scared.

nah dog... thats greene county. but its not only the sheep which are scared...

 

[Tiamat]

I can't stand it when people pronounce milk as melk.

 

[shortylickens]

Based on post and username, I suspect OP is about 8 years old.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
I'm from new jersey but I'm pretty sure I don't have a "jersey" accent. Not sure what that even is. I don't say jowzay.

OK, but do you say "Joizee?"

He lives near thoidy-thoid and thoid streets...near the pickle woiks in Joisey.

As a kid, my dad was in the USAF and we lived LOTS of places. I was never in one place long enough to pick up an accent, except for a few years in Springfield Mass...and yep, it was quatahs and dollahs, play in the pahk, drink dahk beah...but when we moved again, that went away within a couple of months and I was back to no discernable accent. As an adult, I've lived (for more than 1 year) in 8 or 9 different states in the west...and still have no discernable accent.

I have a pretty good ear for accents though and can pick up regional differences, often tell what state the person is from originally. (even though they've lived somewhere else with its own accent)

The one place that's fooled me the most is San Francisco. I've worked with a lot of people who are native to the area, have lived in the general bay area all their lives...yet have a slight NY accent...maybe accent isn't even right, more of a tonal inflection to the voices.

I definitely grok the OP about southrons...
I got sent by the crane company I worked for to a job in Evanston, Wyoming about 30 years ago. The ironworker superintendent I ended up working for was from Alabama. He had such a heavy, thick accent, he was very difficult to understand at best, and because he always had a huge plug of chaw in his mouth...he was most often impossible to understand.

"Spit the shit out of your mouth and speak to me in English motherfucker...or get a gawd-dammed interpreter."

I finally told him to stick it in his ass and quit after a couple of weeks.

 

[djheater]

This is how all my Mom's family talks. Sounds like home to me.

 

[keird]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
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.

I've seen people milk that accent, too. I'm from the NE (sans local accent) and I was being lectured by a judge from Tennessee regarding military law during a class. I immediately became wary of that accent after this. It can be disarming to the uninitiated.

The second time it happened with a guy I met in another course. He was in civilian clothes and told me he was from a certain southern state. I immediately pegged him as Special Forces and called him on it. Not only was he SF, but the fucker had a degree and taught middle school. He kept up the guise the entire time. I swear, acting stupid must be a homework assignment or something for some of these guys. Yeah, I'm not falling for it, twice.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: keird

I've seen people milk that accent, too. I'm from the NE (sans local accent) and I was being lectured by a judge from Tennessee regarding military law during a class. I immediately became wary of that accent after this. It can be disarming to the uninitiated.

The second time it happened with a guy I met in another course. He was in civilian clothes and told me he was from a certain southern state. I immediately pegged him as Special Forces and called him on it. Not only was he SF, but the fucker had a degree and taught middle school. He kept up the guise the entire time. I swear, acting stupid must be a homework assignment or something for some of these guys. Yeah, I'm not falling for it, twice.

Heh-heh...Compliments of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, I spent some time in both Carolinas and JawJa...some of those "dumb-ass country boys" ain't as dumb as they want you to think they are...

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Having lived away for so long...I'm sad that my charming Northern-Midwest accent is fading.

"oohh geeeez, you betcha!"

"Oh, for funny!", "Uff da!" etc. etc.

My first week in North Dakota, I was walking around like .

I even started talking like them after five years, but got out in enough time to lose it. Easily the most annoying accent in the country, although less ignorant-sounding than southern.

LOL, it comes out for a day if I watch Fargo.

It's funny how a lot of people think the accents in that movie are exaggerated.

They had voice coaches specifically to nail the "Minnesota nice" dialect.

 

[foghorn67]

I'm from so. california, and have been working in Louisiana the past few weeks. It's quite different. It's also weird hearing asians and hispanics with draw.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: foghorn67
I'm from so. california, and have been working in Louisiana the past few weeks. It's quite different. It's also weird hearing asians and hispanics with draw.

Are they having withdrawals, or do they speak with a drawl??