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re: Who on here has lost their regional accent?
Posted on 10/27/15 at 9:54 am to kingbob
Posted on 10/27/15 at 9:54 am to kingbob
Grew up in the Ville Platte/Mamou area had that flat accent. Moved to Lafayette as a middle schooler and got harassed. Quickly left that prairie Cajun accent behind out of necessity. Moved to Florida 20+ years ago and now people here and in LA tell me my accent is "confusing".
If you are interested in this sort or thing, read American Voices by Ben Ward. I read it about 3 years ago on a long trip. Pretty cool read about regional dialects.
If you are interested in this sort or thing, read American Voices by Ben Ward. I read it about 3 years ago on a long trip. Pretty cool read about regional dialects.
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Posted on 10/27/15 at 9:55 am to ellishughtiger
Me.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 9:56 am to ellishughtiger
Mine comes out really bad when I'm drinking. I'm from the backwoods country Tensas Parish originally and spent a lot of time in NELA growing up. I've been in NOLA for 8 years and it has dissipated on a daily basis but people pick up on it if I am out of town. I can tell if I talk to my family a lot that it will creep back in real fast.
quote:Phhhhhhbt. I get compliments over my country accent.
Anyway, Who else has this happen to? Did you find losing your accent helped in promotions at work. Meaning being able to communicate more thoroughly and not sounding like a complete moron from the "south". (sadly, how many people not from the South feel about southerners)
Posted on 10/27/15 at 10:01 am to WILDTURKEYisgood
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I have another friend that changes his accent/ dialect every time he talks to someone new on the phone.
I do this. I first noticed when communicating with people whose first language is not American English, adjusting the vowels and accents as they do to make myself clearer to them. Then I read somewhere that many of the best communicators adjust their speech patterns in a way that mimics their audience. I now do it unashamedly.
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I am who I am, and Im not changing, bc Im not a mf poser
Really? Do you speak to your grandmother the same way you speak to your best buddies at the bar? Do you speak to clients/customers the same as your children?
Posted on 10/27/15 at 10:08 am to Aux Arc
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Then I read somewhere that many of the best communicators adjust their speech patterns in a way that mimics their audience.
That's a complete 180 from the theory this corporate instructor who came in and gave our sales staff an in-service on group communications. He says he read a study that polled audiences who said they felt they were being pandered to when the speaker switched to their dialect.
I like you seem to drift into the "sound" or tone of the folks I'm talking to. So, I thought the guy giving the talk was off base.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 10:16 am to ellishughtiger
i was born in MS, and have almost no accent. People here (CO) will occasionally say I have an accent but htat is b.c i use yall.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 10:17 am to ellishughtiger
Mine is muted
Posted on 10/27/15 at 10:17 am to Paige
quote:What is "normal?"
But she talks normal
Posted on 10/27/15 at 10:31 am to Tiger inTampa
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He says he read a study that polled audiences who said they felt they were being pandered to when the speaker switched to their dialect.
I think this is true if it sounds forced - particularly with celebrity speakers whose default speech patterns are well known.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:03 am to KG6
I never had much of an accent, and I'm reminded of that whenever I travel and I'm asked where I'm from.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:15 am to wadewilson
My fake southern accent sounds pretty fake to me.
But people from outside the south can usually discern I'm from the south. Relative to other folks I hang out with I don't think I have much of an accent, but apparently it is there.
But people from outside the south can usually discern I'm from the south. Relative to other folks I hang out with I don't think I have much of an accent, but apparently it is there.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:18 am to ellishughtiger
I don't think people from BR have really strong southern accents though.
As for me, I've lived away from the South for 10 years now and the first comment people make when they learn where I'm from is "but you don't even have an accent". I sound more southern when I say certain words, or if I have been drinking heavily or I'm visiting LA but that's about it.
As for me, I've lived away from the South for 10 years now and the first comment people make when they learn where I'm from is "but you don't even have an accent". I sound more southern when I say certain words, or if I have been drinking heavily or I'm visiting LA but that's about it.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:18 am to ellishughtiger
I was born and raised in Central Florida to parents from East Texas...For some reason I've always sounded like a Texan, even having lived in Louisiana for 13+ years.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:27 am to Jim Rockford
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She has lost her accent but drops back into flawlessly it every time she comes home.
I consider that disingenuous
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:29 am to ellishughtiger
I've lived in Washington state ever since I graduated High School in 2003. My family calls me a Yankee and insist I'm Canadian now. When I go home everyone says I have no accent anymore, but people here tell me they know I am from somewhere else.
I grew up in St. Amant.
I grew up in St. Amant.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:33 am to Pettifogger
The y'all is a dead giveaway for me, but I have no twang.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:34 am to ellishughtiger
My experience is that a lot of people in NOLA have no accent. The rest are either old school yats from Saint Banawd, country accents from the rest of LA, or Cajun accents from Vacherie and the like.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:35 am to RileyTime
When I'd leave St. Amant to go north, people would never assume I was from the South unless I told them. I never had that thick of an accent and neither does anyone in my family outside of my mom (she's from Shreveport). My dad's gets thick when he's mad or excited, though. Mine does too when I'm around my old friends, especially if I'm drinking.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:45 am to KG6
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I grew up in South LA Cajun country. Plenty of flat, coonass accents around me. But I never really had it. I've always been told that I don't sound like I'm from South LA. I can do an impression of it that cracks up people like my in laws who aren't familar, but don't do it normally
Same here. Grew up in Vermilion Parish, no discernible accent. I don't have the grandparents thing, though. Both sides are French (one side Cajun one side French). Many of my family members have an accent, but somehow I never picked it up.
Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:51 am to ellishughtiger
I have. Living in the NE for over 10 years will do that.
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