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Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:27 pm to GoldenBoy
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Anyone else noticed an overlap between Boston and southern accents?
Boston accents are non-rhotic. Meaning they largely drop their R's. There are a few southern cities where there are a large number of non-rhotic speakers.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:38 pm to OweO
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Boston & New Orleans have a similar dialect and there is a reason why, but I forgot the exact reason.
Both cities have similar accents for the same exact reason: Irish influence.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:40 pm to GoldenBoy
From Louisiana but when I was in the Marines they thought I was from Boston. Never even been to the city.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:41 pm to JoeHackett
Yep… they put their Rs in places that don’t belong…
“Who’d win in a fight, Yodar or Luke Skywalka?”
“Who’d win in a fight, Yodar or Luke Skywalka?”
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:48 pm to GoldenBoy
quote:
Anyone else noticed an overlap between Boston and southern accents?
It’s not.
I’m a linguistics expert.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 2:05 am to greygoose
Worst accent known to the English language!
This
Sucks so bad.
Ruins movies…. Ie the departed
This
Sucks so bad.
Ruins movies…. Ie the departed
Posted on 3/15/24 at 5:17 am to GoldenBoy
Boston accents somehow weirdly sound like certain pockets of the Nola/Metairie area. If I was a tourist and went in Dorignacs I would think they were all from Boston. 
Posted on 3/15/24 at 5:25 am to JoeHackett
What is the third dot on the AL map? I see Mobile and what I assume is Montgomery. I’m aware of no city (and not much civilization) around the third.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 6:17 am to GoldenBoy
People don’t realize how much being around people with heavy accents will influence your own accent.
You could be from Houma and relocate to Boston. After a whole you’ll start sounding like a Boston guy
You could be from Houma and relocate to Boston. After a whole you’ll start sounding like a Boston guy
Posted on 3/15/24 at 6:46 am to dirtsandwich
quote:
What is the third dot on the AL map?
Demopolis
Posted on 3/15/24 at 7:19 am to NYNolaguy1
Well that explains it then. I always thought that people from NOLA sounded like retards.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 7:24 am to GoldenBoy
Similar to Yat accent.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 7:58 am to GoldenBoy
A southern woman sounds like heaven, a Boston woman sounds like nails on a chalkboard.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 8:01 am to GoldenBoy
Only when they say the word family.
I always thought that the people from Chalmette sounded like people from Bayonne, NJ
I always thought that the people from Chalmette sounded like people from Bayonne, NJ
Posted on 3/15/24 at 8:06 am to turnpiketiger
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You could be from Houma and relocate to Boston. After a whole you’ll start sounding like a Boston guy
Hard disagree. I have successfully avoided picking up a Boston accent for 10 years.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 8:11 am to AbitaFan08
New Orleans sounds like a sedated firefighter from Brooklyn.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 8:35 am to Spankum
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I have always thought Boston and new Orleans folks had similar accents.
Most port cities do, especially on the east coast. Boston, Philly, NY, Newark, Baltimore.
This is because of the similar immigrant influxes - Germans, Irish, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, Lebanese etc over the decades.
If you listen to a lot of the Caribbean dialects you will hear a good bit of Irish brogue and slang as well because of the Irish that were sent to the Caribbean as slaves by Cromwell and intermarried.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 8:35 am to GoldenBoy
Boston, New York, New Orleans, all have the same mongrel accent that is like nails on a chalk board to me.
In college I was set up with a New Orleans Yat chick. I suffered through the one date, never called her back. I just couldn't imagine waking up to that shite evert day.
In college I was set up with a New Orleans Yat chick. I suffered through the one date, never called her back. I just couldn't imagine waking up to that shite evert day.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 10:26 am to GoldenBoy
I spent a lot of my summers in Charleston, SC and I worked for a year at a TV station in Boston. There are similarities in the accents.
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