How Strong Is Your Accent?

Kind of yatty. I can neutralize it somewhat but when I’m in the NOLA area it comes out pretty strong.

I sound like the TV. That's where I got most of my speech from.

I don't really have an accent

Whenever I go back home people say “You ain’t from round these parts is ya?”

Mineses is skrong

For some reason Baton Rouge people don’t have accents like the rest of the south

If you've heard folks from the River Parishes talk, you can imagine my accent. I was in Tennessee during my Army years and a guy running a marina asked me what part of Louisiana I was from. He knew by my accent that I was a Coon-arse.
Lots of people always ask me, "are you a Cajun?" And once a woman from Boston on a cruise ship told me that she could sit and listen to me talk for hours.
Coon-arse Forever!

Not much of one, when people find out I'm from Texas they are surprised. But I can easily slide into my accent if I'm around good ol' boys.

Everyone has an accent.

Well a southern accent is considered "lazy speech". My mother didn't allow that. Proper grammar and enunciation were requirements in my house growing up. We pronounced our Gs.