mrboba1
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:06 AM
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People from (insert your home area) are the only ones that are accentless |
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Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 09:09 AM by mrboba1
Everyone has an accent to someone else. No matter what.
Except me, of course! :silly:
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:07 AM
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1. I wish I could say that about Arkansas, |
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but I can't. I don't have an Arkansas accent; I've lived here for 20 years and I still don't know what one sounds like.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:09 AM
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2. one word for ya Clinton |
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Thats what an Arkansas sounds like.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:12 AM
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3. I don't think so. His accent is too "clean." |
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The Arkansans I hear around here have far more guttural accents.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:13 AM
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Thats what he gets for spending time in hell I mean England :P.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:13 AM
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7. but you didn't learn to talk there did you? |
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If you learned to talk with people from the area, then you wouldn't hear their accent...
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:24 AM
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15. I did learn to talk here. |
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I just didn't let the eccentricities of the native pronunciation pollute my mind. :P
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:12 AM
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4. You have the biggest accent of all! |
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It is I who have no accent
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:17 AM
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10. You, sir, are a LIAR! |
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Actually, this is my accent story: I was born in NC but to an upstate NY father and southern Wisconsin mother. Therefore, I had no southern accent as a child. However, I grew into a slight southern accent as I was exposed to more southerners, but it is a very waek one.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:13 AM
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although we do talk fast.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:13 AM
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6. People From Michigan Don't Have An Accent |
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Well, the people in the U.P. do. But not us "normal" people.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:15 AM
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:18 AM
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Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 09:19 AM by GiovanniC
That I hear people doing "Southern Accents", "California Surfer-Dude Accents", "Baawwwston Accents", "Brooklyn Accents". I never hear of anyone doing a "Lower-Penninsula Michigan Accent".
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:20 AM
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14. yes but maybe a southerner/brooklyner/etc. would say |
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man - he sure pronounces some words strangely. What kind of accent was that?
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:34 AM
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"That person speaks clearly and without any trace of accent! Magnificent!"
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:27 AM
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Baby you can drive my c~aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:44 AM
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19. That would be a Troll accent... |
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No, not that kind of troll... I'm talking about what we yoopers used to call people that lived below the bridge. :evilgrin:
Anyway, being born in Oklahoma City, I had quite the southern accent when my family moved to the UP. It didn't take long and I was tawkin wit dat goodol yooper aaccen tuh wit doze loooong draaaawn ou tuh words and ending each word dat had a "t" at da end with "tuh" and all, eh?
All I can say is that whenever I "do" the yooper accent, people here in Ohio where I now live say, "Hey, do that accent again, it's so cool" (or more typically they say, "Where you from ? Canada?") Yet, if I do the southern accent I had as an Okie, people think I'm just trying to act like a redneck.
Accentless speech to me is kind of bland. Kind of like the way I talk now.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:49 AM
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21. ha! I thought you were calling me a troll! |
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Tue Aug-24-04 10:18 AM
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Just moved to da Yoop and I can't pronounce anything da right way.
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Tue Aug-24-04 10:58 AM
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26. oh, I wouldn't worry aboot it, eh? |
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You'll get it soon enough!
Hey, do they still say "Holy Wah" up there? and "side-by-each"?
As in, "Holy wah, youse gise, didja see all dem whitetails standin dere side-by-each on da side of da road? Musta bin a tousand of em, at leest, eh?"
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:47 AM
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has a pretty thick accent.
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Tue Aug-24-04 10:41 AM
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And that includes northern Ohio and Indiana.
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:14 AM
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:18 AM
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12. Us people from Washington DC (the proud, the few, the accentless) n/t |
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Tue Aug-24-04 09:33 AM
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17. "mouth full of cow shit accent" |
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No exageration......Zel Miller
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Tue Aug-24-04 10:34 AM
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23. I'd have to say No, that's not true. And the "O" in "no" is very long |
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Ya sure, you bethca we have accents. Gotta problem with that?
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Tue Aug-24-04 10:38 AM
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24. Pittsburgh, no accent? Sheah right! We know and love our accent |
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But most people these days can put the accent on and off like a coat
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