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re: Europeans rate the American accents
Posted on 3/5/18 at 6:50 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Posted on 3/5/18 at 6:50 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Anyone have any distinct examples of a Midwestern accent?
Depends on the part of the Midwest. Margie in Fargo has the Minnesota/Dakota accent down pretty good.
Bill Swerski's super fans isn't a bad rendition of a ratchet Chicago accent.
Places like Indiana and Ohio are supposedly the most neutral accents in America.
Pittsburgh is kind of like New Orleans - it has this unique, funny-sounding local accent that sounds like nothing else in the country.
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Posted on 3/5/18 at 6:56 pm to AbuTheMonkey
There are people born and raised in Baton Rouge that have a neutral accent and definitely not a southern drawl.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 7:00 pm to Swoopin
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Texas can't be more than another subcategory of the broader southern dialect and there's no way Europeans know the difference.
I wonder if by “Deep South” they mean those antebellum/high cotton accents. Not the less I uppity southern drawl.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 7:09 pm to Bmath
I wonder what they think of the coonasses on Swamp People, etc who talk without moving their mouths.
This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 7:10 pm
Posted on 3/5/18 at 7:36 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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Depends on the part of the Midwest. Margie in Fargo has the Minnesota/Dakota accent down pretty good.
Bill Swerski's super fans isn't a bad rendition of a ratchet Chicago accent.
Places like Indiana and Ohio are supposedly the most neutral accents in America.
Pittsburgh is kind of like New Orleans - it has this unique, funny-sounding local accent that sounds like nothing else in the country.
I should have specified lower Midwest as that's what I was thinking of. As you say, the accents are very neutral. My wife is from Indiana and I can't think of anything that stands out other than the aforementioned "warsh" (which she thankfully doesn't say), and "cleant", pronounced "clint" which she says in place of "cleaned". That one drives me nuts.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 7:43 pm to Guido Merkens
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Did Chalmwtte or Morgan City make the list?
Chalmette accents are gross.
Trashy westbank—Marrero, Harvey, Westwego—are even worse. Just disgusting.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 8:16 pm to northshorebamaman
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I should have specified lower Midwest as that's what I was thinking of. As you say, the accents are very neutral. My wife is from Indiana and I can't think of anything that stands out other than the aforementioned "warsh" (which she thankfully doesn't say), and "cleant", pronounced "clint" which she says in place of "cleaned". That one drives me nuts.
The Ohio River Valley had a huge influx of Catholic Germans in the 19th century (tends to be why it's one of the most Catholic areas in the country), so southern Indiana, southern Ohio, parts of Kentucky, parts of PA, etc. have some German structure to the way they say some things.
I've been told - but never verified - that Cincinnati and Indianapolis have the most neutral accents of any large city in the country. I could believe it.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 8:29 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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I've been told - but never verified - that Cincinnati and Indianapolis have the most neutral accents of any large city in the country. I could believe it.
WA, where I live, is pretty damned neutral. The only thing I really notice is that people hit all their T's hard, so button or matter will sound like butt-ton and matt-ter.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 8:33 pm to Pilot Tiger
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I highly doubt Europeans can tell the difference
I can't understand Texans..
Seriously, this was years ago when I first got my van to drive. It had to go to a place in Dallas to get the equipment installed and I had to spend the whole day getting adjustment right, etc.. There was this one dude who was 100% Texan and I couldn't understand a word he said. He told me "can you turn on the whoopers" I had to asked him twice before I realized that mother fricker was saying whippers.. I thought he was telling me to turn on the candy.
Of course that one example means that is how every Texan talks.
This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 3/5/18 at 8:34 pm to northshorebamaman
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Anyone have any distinct examples of a Midwestern accent? I just know they say "warsh" instead of "wash".
Colaraduh (colarado)
Missurah (Missouri)
Posted on 3/5/18 at 8:56 pm to kingbob
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River Rat (think Lutcher/Gramercy) accent?
When I lived in Vidalia LA, the River Rats actually lived in little islands on the Mississippi. Their appearance, and level of intellect, made me think they did a lot of inbreeding. Are the Lutcher/Gramercy ones like that too?
Posted on 3/5/18 at 9:29 pm to AbuTheMonkey
There are islands off the coast of North Carolina where locals speak with an english dialect similar to that of their ancestors in the 1600s.
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In very rural areas of Appalachia there are dialects and words traced back to Elizabethan English (Shakespeare era).
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In very rural areas of Appalachia there are dialects and words traced back to Elizabethan English (Shakespeare era).
Posted on 3/5/18 at 9:32 pm to TejasHorn
quote:the fact that these arent the bottom two by far completely de legitimizes this
2. New Yorker (18 percent)
3. Bostonian (17 percent)
Posted on 3/5/18 at 9:53 pm to WestCoastAg
I can’t stand NYC or Boston accents. It’s like nails on a chalk board to me.
Posted on 3/6/18 at 3:40 am to John Milner
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I saw a video once that gave examples of how Southern linguistic and phonetic tendencies are more like Old English than any other American regional dialect.
I read an article once that stated this same fact..the Southern accent is closer to what the English population at the time of colonization sounded like than the typical British accent of today.
Posted on 3/6/18 at 5:46 am to Aubie Spr96
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I can’t stand NYC or Boston accents. It’s like nails on a chalk board to me.
Those accents have nothing on the Long Island or a Providence, RI area accent. Those 2 are the absolute worst
Posted on 3/6/18 at 5:47 am to DannyB
quote:this accent is almost nonexistent today accept among the older and upper class people in areas like Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina.
I read an article once that stated this same fact..the Southern accent is closer to what the English population at the time of colonization sounded like than the typical British accent of today.
The deep south accent is absolutely NOT like the older English accent
Posted on 3/6/18 at 5:49 am to Bestbank Tiger
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Agree. I can't tell a Puerto Rican accent from a Spanish accent.
Compare Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem speaking and tell me you can't tell a difference
Posted on 3/6/18 at 5:58 am to Pilot Tiger
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Europeans rate the American accents
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Agree. I can't tell a Puerto Rican accent from a Spanish accent.
Compare Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem speaking and tell me you can't tell a difference
But not really a fair comparison since Rosie Perez speaks a combo of Spanglish and Ebonics. God, I hate hearing that woman talk!!
Posted on 3/6/18 at 6:27 am to Pilot Tiger
Rosie Perez is from the US.
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