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re: Do people try to guess what Southern state you're from based on your accent
Posted on 1/10/17 at 10:42 pm to Bushmaster
Posted on 1/10/17 at 10:42 pm to Bushmaster
No kidding, had a cousin back down the line married to a Hanson--Oscar, I believe his name was. Cool, man. 
Ancestry dot com on TD. lol.
Ancestry dot com on TD. lol.
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Posted on 1/10/17 at 10:43 pm to Masterag
Kentucky is the easiest to pick up for me. Had a professor from there and it's been easy to identify since.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 10:50 pm to SEClint
Born in Houma and raised in the River Parishes. I get pegged first time every time. Duh!
Posted on 1/10/17 at 10:56 pm to Masterag
Apparently I sound like I'm from the Midwest. My diction is pretty neutral.
Only tells are my elevated usage of "y'all" and "howdy"
Only tells are my elevated usage of "y'all" and "howdy"
Posted on 1/10/17 at 10:59 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Someone asked if I was from Texas yesterday.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:12 pm to madamsquirrel
Lol at all the baws ITT who don't think they have an accent.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:18 pm to TbirdSpur2010
To the best of my recollection I have never had anyone say howdy to me before. I had no idea that was a real thing.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:19 pm to Easy
Howdy.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:21 pm to soccerfüt
Memphis AF is the only accent that I find charming.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:34 pm to CroakaBait
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East Biloxi
interesting... I didn't know y'all had your own regional accent?
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:35 pm to The Torch
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I moved to Texas 25 years ago and still sound like I'm from North La
what's the difference? where i grew up the NLA and ETX accent are pretty much indistinguishable
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:47 pm to Masterag
From Baton Rouge.
I traveled a lot in past jobs, and no one ever guessed I was from Louisiana.
The closest I've ever gotten was a "You don't sound like you're from here" at a trade show in Minneapolis.
I traveled a lot in past jobs, and no one ever guessed I was from Louisiana.
The closest I've ever gotten was a "You don't sound like you're from here" at a trade show in Minneapolis.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 12:28 am to Masterag
People outside the south seem to group everyone from the south into some sort of Texas accent impersonation, unless they are re-enacting scenes from Deliverance.
The real mystery is Louisiana:
There's English with a southern accent but then there's Cajun, creole, French(?), Voodoo and I guess other stuff - I don't know if those things are substantial parts of Louisiana or more like folklore or what. Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras, which I still don't understand.
Finally, what is a Bayou? What is a Parish? What is the basis for the regions like Acadiana or Florida Parishes? Is a Village or a Town the same as a city? How is Louisiana actually divided? Cities I understand of course. But I'll hear people say 'Bayou Manchac' like it's their hometown. You can see it on green and white signs, just like the ones that are put at city/county borders. Same for Iberville Parish. But then you have Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish, and there's a West Baton Rouge Parish without Baton Rouge, but when people talk about issues with Baton Rouge they talk about north v south Baton Rouge.
Louisiana is the most difficult state to understand.
The real mystery is Louisiana:
There's English with a southern accent but then there's Cajun, creole, French(?), Voodoo and I guess other stuff - I don't know if those things are substantial parts of Louisiana or more like folklore or what. Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras, which I still don't understand.
Finally, what is a Bayou? What is a Parish? What is the basis for the regions like Acadiana or Florida Parishes? Is a Village or a Town the same as a city? How is Louisiana actually divided? Cities I understand of course. But I'll hear people say 'Bayou Manchac' like it's their hometown. You can see it on green and white signs, just like the ones that are put at city/county borders. Same for Iberville Parish. But then you have Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish, and there's a West Baton Rouge Parish without Baton Rouge, but when people talk about issues with Baton Rouge they talk about north v south Baton Rouge.
Louisiana is the most difficult state to understand.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 12:34 am to Masterag
I had such a bad Hill Country Texas accent as a kid they made me take two years of speech therapy in elementary school. I wasn't behind either, I was always the youngest in my class.
A lot of people tell me I don't have a NOLA accent, or a Kenner one. I can't tell.
A lot of people tell me I don't have a NOLA accent, or a Kenner one. I can't tell.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 12:40 am to UF
Yeah it is crazy. I tried to explain "Mayor-President" to someone in Texas before.. The mayors of NOLA and EBR are also the parish presidents. NOLA though does not have unincorporated parts of the parish (stupid, IMO) so from the empty marshlands of the far east to the farmlands of English Turn, it's all the City of New Orleans. EBR on the other hand has cities, towns and unincorporated areas, yet the mayor of Baton Rouge is the president of EBR parish.
A bayou is a brackish tidal lake usually.
Parish is a county, just held onto the old system after statehood. (don't know why the rest of Louisiana that was split into other states didn't as well).
Just like anywhere else there are regions and areas.
Down the Bayou = Houma
Da' Parish = St Bernard Parish
A bayou is a brackish tidal lake usually.
Parish is a county, just held onto the old system after statehood. (don't know why the rest of Louisiana that was split into other states didn't as well).
Just like anywhere else there are regions and areas.
Down the Bayou = Houma
Da' Parish = St Bernard Parish
Posted on 1/11/17 at 1:25 am to UF
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There's English with a southern accent but then there's Cajun, creole, French(?), Voodoo and I guess other stuff
Cajun - Short for "Acadian", French speaking people who came from Canada back in the 1700's. e.g. Troy Landry. If you meet someone from quebec or nova scotia and hear them speak french, it's almost the exact same accent as Cajun
Creole - According to the French, it's any person of French descent born on non-french soil. But the definition we're most familiar with is descendants of French and Spanish planters and slaves in LA, SE TX, SW MS, etc. e.g. Beyonce, Bryant Gumbel, etc. Though they can appear to be black, white, or anywhere in between.
Cajun and Creoles in LA both spoke/speak French but with different accents.
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Voodoo is a religion baw, not a language
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Finally, what is a Bayou? What is a Parish? What is the basis for the regions like Acadiana or Florida Parishes? Is a Village or a Town the same as a city? How is Louisiana actually divided?
Bayou... how are you from the South and don't know what the frick a bayou is? You can't drive 5 miles anywhere along the gulf coast without seeing a sign for "Bayou ___"
Parish = County
Fat Tuesday(english) = Mardi Gras(french)... lent baw. lent.
The reason why people who live in the swamp say they're from bayou whatever is probably because they literally live in a houseboat on the bayou.
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Posted on 1/11/17 at 4:00 am to Masterag
They used to, but the military and liVing in Iowa for many years killed my accent. I live in GA now and there are a few different accents here. People seem to move around a lot more now days making accents harder to pick up on.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 4:38 am to lsucoonass
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I always assumed that most port cities had a small population with that accent
A.J. Liebling had a famous quote about the New Orleans accent (which was used in the forward to "A Confederacy of Dunces"). Basically, there is a port city accent. One example is that the old Irish immigrants brought their accents to downtown New Orleans just like they did to New York.
One time in college I was talking to a professor I had known since I was a kid. His accent started to come out and I asked him when he had moved here from New Orleans. I was shocked when he told me he was from Brooklyn originally.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 5:04 am to Easy
Yeah I say howdy all the time
Posted on 1/11/17 at 5:42 am to Masterag
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what's the difference? where i grew up the NLA and ETX accent are pretty much indistinguishable
In NELA you'll find more of a genteel Delta/ Southern accent than the east Texas clip you find around Shreveport. This is true with the more educated whites, for lack of a better term. White trash/ meth head redneck speak is pretty consistent across the south.
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