October 2011 Moms
amyc216
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GTKY- accents
amyc216
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I spent 10 years working in a call center and I think I am pretty good at picking up accents by different states or Canadian accents. So, sometimes I wonder about some of you... do you have an accent?
Someone from the north would probably say I have one, but I think for Georgia my southern accent is not that strong.
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Re: GTKY- accents
It's funny that most people NOT from the area have no idea that the Philly/S Jersey accent :::gasp::: isn't anything like the Northen Jersey/Long Island/5 Boroughs accent.
ETA: I'm cracking up, I found this YouTube video and it is EXACTLY how people around here speak... well, more pronounced in Philly and parts of Jersey, less extreme down here in DE.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3lZFiyd_0
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I'm with ya on this one!
Like lkm, I am from MS but live in LA (state) now and have been told I have a pretty thick southern accent. I never give it much thought until someone can't understand certain things I say... and she is right. There is a HUGE difference between a southern drawl and that twangy sound others have
I had my accent coached out of me in years of speech classes. Because apparently having a NY/Boston accent when you live in PA is a speech impediment.
However, I do slip back into an accent when I'm super tired. And I do pronounce words differently than most native Californians (like Arrow, Harry, and Tour)
I'm imagining you talk like Heidi Klum.
My entire northern family has a terrible Minnesotan/scandinavian accent. I'm in Iowa, and we're pretty moderate as far as accents. Some people have a little bit of a southern tinge to their accent, which I never understood. I know we're close to Missouri, but we are definitely not the South.
I used to be a directory assistance operator many years ago, and I always had a difficult time with the bayou folk. Their accent was nearly impossible to understand.
It is a buggy! And that thing that goes around your beer is a huggie!
Oh, I like!!!!
Like her ugly, short and fat sister!
Seriously though, I need to find her speaking English. Whenever I see anything of her she speaks German!
Oh, me too! It's gotten pretty Americanized since he's lived here for the past 5+ years so his accent is like a watered down version of what it use to be. It comes back pretty thick when he talks to his family or watches shows like Crocodile Dundee.
That video is funny!
I have a wicked bad accent. Even when I went to school out in Western Mass, they kept telling me to say "pahk the cah in the Hahvahd yahd" ... but yea.. I talk like that.
I think this video sums it up lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEm0t5Wc11U
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I don't have a valley girl accent. hahaha
My Canadian cousin from Mississauga, Canada tells me she likes my accent thought...
Blu- I noticed your accent a little bit, I think its cute!
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OCT 2011 Moms BlogI have a wicked pissah accent.
Actually I had a really bad Boston accent when I was younger, then I lost it when I went to college (I went to college in Western MA but had a lot of friends from out of state, so it just kind of disappeared.)
Well now I work in my hometown at the high school I went to, so it's definitely coming back because I am surrounded all day by people with very strong Boston accents.
Excuse me while I get a drink at the watah bubblah (water bubbler.)
This is me too! I love the Boston guys video too..."I'm still drunk, I need a Dunkins."
Oops! That was supposed to be quoting anasazi!
The shopping cart is definitely a buggy, but the thing that goes around you're beer is a coozie.
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You probably say "ruff" and "malk" though.
Haha! I haven't seen that video yet.
::runs off to search youtube::
I was wondering about your accents. I love it when y'all write 'wicked'! :
Ha ha! It's definitely part of my everyday vocabulary!
Oh and for more accents and Boston shenanigans, this video is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQoTlVgmPK8
Funny! Mahky Mahk's cousin
I never thought I see the word "y'all" and "wicked" in the same sentence haha. Sounds funny!
But yes, I agree with Colleen... definitely part of my everyday vocabulary.
Haha! No offense intended...I live out in the sticks and it's less of a southern accent as it is just a hick accent!!
Hahaha none taken! My mom's family sound SO hick it's ridiculous. I love going home. We give my mom so much hell over it! MH's family gives me crap about my accent (they claim they can still hear it). I bust it out when they're around just to annoy the shiit out of them
I'm a good DIL like that.
I do say "y'all" and "fixin to" and I'll ask you if you want a coke, then ask you which kind.