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re: How Strong Is Your Accent?
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:18 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:18 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Your mama sounds like a Nazi.
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Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:19 pm to HempHead
Mother.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:20 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I only use 'mother' when I'm upset with her.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:26 pm to HempHead
I have no idea how strong my accent is. I imagine it is pretty southern.
I think I've lost most of my Louisiana accent until I get to drinking. Then I start sounding like I'm from Avoyelles Parish.
Which is weird since I'm from Rapides.
I think I've lost most of my Louisiana accent until I get to drinking. Then I start sounding like I'm from Avoyelles Parish.
Which is weird since I'm from Rapides.
This post was edited on 11/8/17 at 11:34 pm
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:28 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I don’t sound like I’m from Louisiana. At least that’s what I’ve always heard.
This post was edited on 11/8/17 at 11:28 pm
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:28 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
quote:First of all, there are many Southern accents. East Texas people speak differently than Appalachians or those from the Gulf Coast.
Well a southern accent is considered "lazy speech"
quote:Plenty of non-southern accents drop Gs. It's even been an upper-class affectation, as shown by the Lord Wimsey novels of Dorothy Sayers and the Philo Vance mysteries of SS Van Dine
We pronounced our Gs
Your attitude has been seen in England for many years -- the "Oxford" accent is "accentless", and proper. (Think My Fair Lady; "And now for something completely different."). Only in recent years has this mindset been fought at the BBC
You see the same attitude here in the US, where the flat, Midwestern "Ted Baxter" announcer's voice is considered standard, and not even an accent at all
This post was edited on 11/8/17 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:31 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Fairly faint. Traveled the country and the globe to where I largely lost my Southern accent but for some specific words.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:33 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Gone. Lived in too many places. Rarely even say y'all these days.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:35 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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Rarely even say y'all these days.
That one I refuse to part from. Was in San Francisco last month, and I was very surprised to find that they're starting to say y'all due to it not being sexist.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:35 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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Rarely even say y'all these days.
"used to could" and "fixin' to" are what people make fun of me for the most.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:37 pm to HempHead
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Very strong, though I am told I sound 'more articulate' than what someone expects from a rural Southerner.
Most of my peers have either passively or actively abandoned it in their professional pursuits, but I'm a stubborn frick and refuse to make it go away. I feel like it is betraying my home and heritage.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:39 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
it's enough to tell i'm from the south, but it's not heavy. texas has a few regional accents, though. when I'm not in east tx, people think i'm from alabama or georgia. when i'm in east tx, people don't even notice.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:43 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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My mother was a professor at UA who emphasized proper grammar and diction. Maybe that's why.
grammar and diction don't have anything to do with your accent.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:43 pm to Masterag
I suspect that for whatever reason less mid westerners and northerners came to East Texas than the other parts of Texas. It is pretty much Louisiana.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:44 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
To la people, nothing
I go to NYC, people think I'm from the Bronx
Non LA natives, I'm from NYC
I go to NYC, people think I'm from the Bronx
Non LA natives, I'm from NYC
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:48 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Don't really have one, not one that's distinguishable anyway. I was born in NH and lived in 3 different states (one on the west coast) before settling in the south when I was 13. So I never developed an accent as a kid.
Although I do say certain words with a slight southern accent. But I also say other words with a slight northern or west coast accent. I never noticed any of this until I got to UT and people would sometimes randomly point out that I said something funny.
Although I do say certain words with a slight southern accent. But I also say other words with a slight northern or west coast accent. I never noticed any of this until I got to UT and people would sometimes randomly point out that I said something funny.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:48 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
My accent is a mix of Forrest Gump, John F. Kennedy, and Sir Alec Guinness.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:54 pm to Collegedropout
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I suspect that for whatever reason less mid westerners and northerners came to East Texas than the other parts of Texas. It is pretty much Louisiana.
fewer... and yes, there's not really a metropolitan area for them to settle, but more and more are unfortunately discovering Tyler, my hometown.
The person who initiated the push for RELee high school's name change is from up north, and never even went to the school. But they like the weather and the cheaper cost of living and the southern hospitality. I wish they would all frick off, personally.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 11:57 pm to Masterag
quote:I’ll speak for the group when I say that we all yield to an Aggie supporter’s familiarity with all things diction-related.
grammar and diction don't have anything to do with your accent.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 12:24 am to soccerfüt
True small town cracker here. My accent probably is a result of visits with my grandparents and uncle. Lot of time spent visiting in metal rocking chairs in the breezeway.
I was at a kids tournament a couple of months ago and ran into a friend I hadn't seen in many, many years.
He heard me taking to my son before he saw me. He said "I heard your voice and I knew it was you."
I was at a kids tournament a couple of months ago and ran into a friend I hadn't seen in many, many years.
He heard me taking to my son before he saw me. He said "I heard your voice and I knew it was you."
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