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re: How Strong Is Your Accent?
Posted on 11/9/17 at 7:14 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Posted on 11/9/17 at 7:14 am to PurpleandGold Motown
I don't really have a southern accent, I've been asked before where I was from and when I responded Louisiana the person said, "but before that, where were you from?"
Now that I think about it, most of my friends that I grew up with don't really have an accent, which is weird for Vermilion parish where most people have a strong cajun accent.
ETA: also I saw someone say that people from Baton Rouge don't have an accent. My mom grew up in Baton Rouge and has a decently strong country/hick-ish accent, especially when she is around her family.
Now that I think about it, most of my friends that I grew up with don't really have an accent, which is weird for Vermilion parish where most people have a strong cajun accent.
ETA: also I saw someone say that people from Baton Rouge don't have an accent. My mom grew up in Baton Rouge and has a decently strong country/hick-ish accent, especially when she is around her family.
This post was edited on 11/9/17 at 7:17 am
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Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:03 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Mine is thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. Born and raised in South Georgia. I speak proper English, but it just come out like Ward Burton. I never thought it was bad until I was at Love Field in Dallas waiting to fly back to Atlanta, and ordered a sandwich and water. The lady with a Southern Texan ?? accent asked me where I was from because I definitely was not from around there. I had to go Kalamazoo for work one time and I might as well have been speaking Swahili to the people at the mill.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:16 am to PurpleandGold Motown
When I was in school I used to run with a kid down the street. I watched him burn himself up on bourbon and speed. But I was smarter than most and I could choose. I learned to talk like the man on the six o'clock news.
This post was edited on 11/9/17 at 8:35 am
Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:19 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Moderately Connass here. Moved away from The River Parishes area in 1977. When I visit there the accent returns after about a day or so of exposure to dat local dialect. When traveling I have been asked if I may be from New Yawk or Chicago. 
Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:22 am to GulfstreamTiger
Strom Thurmond?
Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:25 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Mine is not that strong. I have a pretty deep vioice, that seems to drown it out. However, if I get a few drinks in me and I am with some good ol' baws, then I sound like Boomhaurr from King of the Hill.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:29 am to 12
When I'm high I sound like Boomhauer too apparently.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:32 am to 12
When I'm out of town, people say I sound like I'm from NOLA. I believe the Katrina diaspora has contributed to their knowing. This has even occurred while I was in Las Vegas.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:50 am to NOLAManBlog
I have what I've always considered an Uptown NOLA accent, very slight southern drawl with certain words that identify me as being from a port city; like "house" (pronounced "howse") and "out" (pronounced "owt"). People from outside LA quite often ask me where I am from and are surprised when I say New Orleans, probably because they expect Southern or Cajun. I just tell them I sound like everyone I grew up with.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 8:58 am to GumboPot
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Kind of yatty. I can neutralize it somewhat but when I’m in the NOLA area it comes out pretty strong.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 9:00 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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Mine's very faint. I travel the country and people don't realize I'm from the south.
I was born and raised here, but never picked up the accent. People say they only hear it when I drink or talk about food.
This is true for me as well. Also, after I get drunk it comes out a little bit. I grew up in Opelousas and Ville Platte, but my mom didn't have much of an accent either. My dad does, though.
This post was edited on 11/9/17 at 9:02 am
Posted on 11/9/17 at 9:02 am to PurpleandGold Motown
When I travel people say
You're from down south
cause when you open your mouth
you always seem to put your foot there.
You're from down south
cause when you open your mouth
you always seem to put your foot there.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 9:07 am to Kafka
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First of all, there are many Southern accents. East Texas people speak differently than Appalachians or those from the Gulf Coast.
Yep.
Last year I was at a water park in Orlando waiting on a slide talking with my daughter.
After a couple minutes the guy in front of me turns around and says, "You're from Tennessee, right?" I said yes and he proceeds to tell me he's from North Alabama and could tell the accent.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 9:14 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Didn't really have one in college.
Has gotten stronger as I have gotten older.
Has gotten stronger as I have gotten older.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 9:15 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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How Strong Is Your Accent?
I had a third grade teacher who went on a rant about certain mannerisms of speech making a person sound uneducated and how enunciation was very important. For whatever reason, that really struck me and I worked at proper enunciation, thereby sounding less Cajun as I grew older. The interesting thing is I can turn it on as I need to and a certain amount of alcohol also seems to trigger it, particularly in the right company.
I've noticed and my wife confirms that I seem to slip into the prominent speech patterns of the group I'm in very quickly.
Oddly enough, as I've gotten older it seems I've started to mumble more
guess I'm just getting lazier as I get older 
Posted on 11/9/17 at 9:19 am to vistajay
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I have what I've always considered an Uptown NOLA accent
I have a friend from Brooklyn. I'm always struck by the similarity in the Brooklyn accent and the general New Orleans area accents. Clear differences in word usages if you listen long enough but the cadences and inflection are strikingly similar.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 10:08 am to PurpleandGold Motown
I have a very strong southern accent.
Posted on 11/9/17 at 10:15 am to PurpleandGold Motown
I have an accent very similar to the man speaking in this video. It's a Williamsburg and Clarendon County drawl.
South Carolina Accent
South Carolina Accent
Posted on 11/9/17 at 10:18 am to PurpleandGold Motown
My accent can beat up everyone else's accent.
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