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re: Southerners talk slow: myth or fact?
Posted on 1/14/15 at 9:04 pm to Paul Allen
Posted on 1/14/15 at 9:04 pm to Paul Allen
Not always, baw.
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Posted on 1/14/15 at 9:11 pm to chinhoyang
quote:
I had a television producer from California
Well if we're doing stereotypes I would say people from California speak slowly too.
Posted on 1/14/15 at 9:11 pm to Paul Allen
nah, it is true...not so much among the cajun and creole accents, but if you check out north la and across the south, the accent is absolutely a notch slower...
Posted on 1/14/15 at 9:13 pm to Paul Allen
Has to do with the climate...
Posted on 1/14/15 at 9:52 pm to Spankum
So you think South Louisianans speak faster than North LA people?
Posted on 1/14/15 at 9:54 pm to Paul Allen
I talk pretty quick but with a drawl at times.
ETA: More like a twang.
ETA: More like a twang.
This post was edited on 1/14/15 at 9:55 pm
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:27 pm to TigerPox
Northerners think we talk slow compared to them. Like someone said, it's about the climate. When you're standing arse deep in snow, you tend to talk fast to get the conversation over with faster. On the other hand, we try not to talk fast so we don't break a sweat.
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:29 pm to TigerPox
I have lived in Alabama for 33 years. I work in a professional environment and go out of my way to make sure I speak correctly and that I do not portray any negative southern stereotypes. ( can't stand white bama trash ) Just had a white collar cajun tell me he could not understand me . 
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: This post was edited on 1/14/15 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:33 pm to Paul Allen
quote:
So you think South Louisianans speak faster than North LA people?
yes
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:36 pm to Paul Allen
Yes. And it takes us a long time to make a point. We're thorough like that.
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:38 pm to Paul Allen
I think that certain dialects of Southern American English are, quite possibly, the slowest spoken forms of communication on Earth.
I am a country frick. I sound like I gargle gravel and whiskey, and speak at the pace of a Yankee with cerebral palsy.
I am a country frick. I sound like I gargle gravel and whiskey, and speak at the pace of a Yankee with cerebral palsy.
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:48 pm to HempHead
Depends on what your definition of "southern" is.
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:50 pm to More beer please
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Depends on what your definition of "southern" is.
Like I said, it is more regional than anything else. The Piedmont (Tidewater? whatever the typical arisotocratic accent that is non-rhotic) and Mid-South (North AL, GA, MS, etc.,) tend to be slower, to my ear.
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:54 pm to HempHead
quote:Doesn't really exist anymore does it
The Piedmont (Tidewater? whatever the typical arisotocratic accent that is non-rhotic)
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:55 pm to genro
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Doesn't really exist anymore does it
I don't know anyone under 50 who sounds like that. Those who come from that area tend to have no accent, nowadays.
Posted on 1/14/15 at 10:57 pm to HempHead
Yeah. My Dad has shades of it and it's out of place. He says dollahs
This post was edited on 1/14/15 at 11:03 pm
Posted on 1/14/15 at 11:01 pm to genro
My aunt always said 'Decatuh'
Posted on 1/14/15 at 11:59 pm to Paul Allen
I'm a fast talking son of a bitch..
Posted on 1/15/15 at 1:35 am to Paul Allen
Posted on 1/15/15 at 5:12 am to SlowFlowPro
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that's how our mouths form the drawl. we open it wider and turn single syllables into multiple syllables
Truth. Actual studies were performed to see why/how Southerners have the drawls that we do. (I know this applies to most of the ppl I know in SC and GA) They said it was because we enhance and elongate the emphasis that we place on vowels when we speak.
You wanna hear some weird arse talk, you should hear how Gullah ppl talk. They live on the coast in SC and GA. Their language is called geechee and it's a weird combination of Creole, English and African languages. I suppose the Gullah are SC and GA versions of Cajuns.
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