soshedances
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Interesting link...cool stuff there.
What American accent do you have? (follow link from beginning of thread)
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Interesting link...cool stuff there.
"Texas--it's a whole 'nother country"--that's what my personalized license plate says!
:cowboy:
Texans are crazy, and I say this with all due affection. Honest to Pete, I have participated in a conversation where one Texas-born girlfriend asked another Texas native, "If you're from Texas, then why do you talk so fast?" :shock: Uhhh. Like it's in the Texas Constitution that one must have a drawl to be a legal Texas resident? Weird. And don't even get me started on the trucks, the long-horns, football-as-religion, the stock yards and Fair Day off from school.
Texas has been enlightening. An understatement, for sure.
And, btw, after eating dinner tonight, I'm "as fat as a tick after a Monday night dog fight." Yes. Yet another Texan-ism. Gotta love Texas ... or get out.lol.
Yeah, I am one of the many in the stream of Californians that have moved on to other states. And, indeed, it was like moving to a different country. But I've enjoyed my time...
danceronice
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It said "Northeast" but not even close. No one would mistake me for someone raised in New York or New England.
And I profoundly disagree on their analysis of Michigan on the PBS site--in the southeast corner (where I grew up) no one would mishear "Ian" as "Ann". I'm not even sure how you'd get that, at least not Downriver. (Detroit is different, most people IN the city speak...well, like inner-city people. Not that anyone cares about Detroit itself.) At least in the little area where I grew up, the southern Detroit 'burbs, you wouldn't say eeahn for "ann". And NO ONE would pronouce "cat" like "keeat." Who the HECK were they researching? Snobs from the Northern burbs trying to sound Northeastern? Cot and caught are similar but not the same, cot and cat don't sound at all alike.
Of course now I live in the southWEST part of the state. Everyone sounds like Indiana, which sounds like Kentucky Lite and gets thicker the farther south you go until you're actually in KY. As for me, between here, moving to CENTRAL Michigan (which sounds midway between mountain south and Yooper) and going to college in southwest Virginia, surrounded by people from the Deep South and Texas, I drawl a bit ('pin' and 'pen' used to be mutually exclusive but are awfully close now) and probably sound more like Indiana than Michigan. With occasionally bits of Boston vocab, though I'm trying to get rid of that (and if I hear anything that sounds like Boston vowels I practice not doing it.)
And I profoundly disagree on their analysis of Michigan on the PBS site--in the southeast corner (where I grew up) no one would mishear "Ian" as "Ann". I'm not even sure how you'd get that, at least not Downriver. (Detroit is different, most people IN the city speak...well, like inner-city people. Not that anyone cares about Detroit itself.) At least in the little area where I grew up, the southern Detroit 'burbs, you wouldn't say eeahn for "ann". And NO ONE would pronouce "cat" like "keeat." Who the HECK were they researching? Snobs from the Northern burbs trying to sound Northeastern? Cot and caught are similar but not the same, cot and cat don't sound at all alike.
Of course now I live in the southWEST part of the state. Everyone sounds like Indiana, which sounds like Kentucky Lite and gets thicker the farther south you go until you're actually in KY. As for me, between here, moving to CENTRAL Michigan (which sounds midway between mountain south and Yooper) and going to college in southwest Virginia, surrounded by people from the Deep South and Texas, I drawl a bit ('pin' and 'pen' used to be mutually exclusive but are awfully close now) and probably sound more like Indiana than Michigan. With occasionally bits of Boston vocab, though I'm trying to get rid of that (and if I hear anything that sounds like Boston vowels I practice not doing it.)
emeralddancer
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emeralddancer
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Joyful Dancer
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The South and would have been shocked to see anything else... I love it; but do get teased quite a bit by my northern friends.
I love the Southern accent--as I just have a boring, "lowest common denominator" (as described by the quiz) California accent...
Seems like everyone else, including the Philadelphia-speakers that just posted, have much more interesting accents than us who originated from the West Coast...
dancemominaz
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Not so much of an accent as words that have regional meaning such as: sneakers, pop, gumband, and hoagie.
Care to guess where I grew up?
Care to guess where I grew up?