Do you have an accent?

[mmmmm...beer 691]

they dont talk the same as you

So... this got me to thinking. Worms post above.. I grew up in "Indian Country" and had a really thick reservation accent.

 

First week Freshman year of colludge a few of us went to the Freshman mixer dance.. our accent was think enough these girls thought we were from Ireland.

 

As I was going to class I became very self conscious of it because I thought it made me sound stupid compared to everyone else.

 

So.. every night for about three months I would watch the nightly news and repeat everything Dan Rather would say. I would really listen and repeat... over and over. That's how I was able to get rid of it.

 

Now.. don't get me wrong.. when I go back home around my cousins and old friends I fall back into it pretty easily, but in professional situations I'm all about some Dan Rather...

 

Do you have a regional accent? Do you talk differently in different situations?

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Here in china the other expats say I have an American accent. Not real sure what that means.

 

When I speak Chinese, I have a bit of a northern accent, as thats where I learned it.

 

If I spend much time around certain family, a slight southern accent will creep back in.

[dain11279 927]

Nope, an Elantra actually

[Vikings4ever 496]

Not a huge accent. The biggest thing is probably the use of "dontcha".

[mmmmm...beer 691]

Not a huge accent. The biggest thing is probably the use of "dontcha".

Followed with "Ya Know?" Suuuuper...

[IGotWorms 3,311]

I talk real slow and deliberately.

 

Now most places Ive lived, so do most people.

 

But when I go somewhere busy or encounter people from a place like that, I immediately become aware of how impatient they are with me. Like I get three words into the sentence and they already know what Im gonna say and shouldve had their own response out by now

[IGotWorms 3,311]

Not a huge accent. The biggest thing is probably the use of "dontcha".

Do you ask people what do you know?

 

Used to drive me focking crazy in the Midwest.

 

What do I know? Jesus thats a lot of stuff. Want me to tell you all of it right now??!

[TommyGavin 788]

Blurry vision. Cabot rad

[fandandy 3,311]

I don't think I do but as a kid when we moved from Indiana to Michigan the kids would tease me a bit saying I had one. My mom is from the South (West Virginia) and has lots of family in North Carolina and when she visits it seems a matter of minutes before she picks up an accent. I'll talk to her on the phone the same day she left and she already has an accent.

 

 

Do you ask people what do you know?

Used to drive me focking crazy in the Midwest.

What do I know? Jesus thats a lot of stuff. Want me to tell you all of it right now??!

Another one around here is How's (insert name here) doing? referring to me. Like How's fandandy doing? I find that so odd.

[MTSkiBum 1,594]

Not really, I have lived in most regions of the country. I occasionally have a soft g at the end of -ing based word like is common in the Pacific Northwest, but not for all words and most Americans would not consider it an accent.

[frank 2,144]

Everybody has an accent.

[Mookz 1,287]

Everybody else has an accent.

 

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I tend to use yall a lot. If I spend a lot of time back home things like bout to and fixin ta will creep in, along with just generally slurring words together as southerners do. Mother focker becomes mufuka, etc.

 

I generally try, especially here abroad, to speak very clean, well enunciated English, as I am often speaking to people who are second language, and people from all over the English speaking world. Plus I am an English teacher, and am supposed to model proper English.

 

One day another American teacher came to my school, and we got to chatting. Even the Chinese teachers who speak very good English were saying they couldnt follow, that we speak very differently and much faster amongst ourselves.

 

I said tell me about it, so do you guys.

 

I also annoyingly pick up lots of Brit and Aussie slang. Calling people mate and sh!t like that. And since we are generally supposed to teach British English, my computer is always calling me out for misspelling things like colour, rumour, etc.

[Cdub100 3,380]

[Bier Meister 1,513]

Fairly neutral.

 

Both of my parents are from New York. Moved to SF when I was 2. Mother still has the accent. Father does not.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,631]

Yup. And I curse more than I want to.

[kilroy69 994]

I assume I do. I grew up in Georgia and man my accent was thick. I mean real thick. After moving to Michigan and trying to buy some oil I had a hard time explaining what I wanted. I pronounced oil as ole. I said light as lot. I have up and both sped up my speech pattern and spoke clearly.

 

Now when I go back I'm told I speak through my nose.

[NorthernVike 2,080]

No. Everyone else dose.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Mid Atlantic people got nothing.

[TommyGavin 788]

Everybody has an accent.

I don't. Everyone else does

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

Not a huge accent. The biggest thing is probably the use of "dontcha".

No way. People from Minn always have those silly accents

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

I was actually surprised to hear my gf, from Baltimore, say i didfnt have much of an accent, especially that most of the people she could hear in the background of my conversations had thicker Chicago accents. She sasid my mom's is a lot thicker.

 

Oh, and get this, when people would fvck with me about my accent when I was in MD, they would mock me to have some kind of Minnesota accent. That's when I really felt shltty about it. That's an accent I would never wish on anyone.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I was actually surprised to hear my gf, from Baltimore, say i didfnt have much of an accent, especially that most of the people she could hear in the background of my conversations had thicker Chicago accents. She sasid my mom's is a lot thicker.

 

Oh, and get this, when people would fvck with me about my accent when I was in MD, they would mock me to have some kind of Minnesota accent. That's when I really felt shltty about it. That's an accent I would never wish on anyone.

Minnesota, Boston, and the really red neck southern (as opposed to the sexy scarlet OHara upper class version) are the three worst American accents.

[kutulu 1,545]

No way. People from Minn always have those silly accents

ya darn tootin!

[KSB2424 3,083]

I have a fairly deep voice with a thick southern accent. I shoulda been a Country music singer.

[IMMensaMind 459]

Nope, an Elantra actually

[IMMensaMind 459]

My daughter tweeted a while back that when people from Wisconsin bump into someone, they always say "ope"...instead of oops.

[Mookz 1,287]

I have a thick, thick Australian accent, which is strange because I've never been there and neither has anyone I know, mate.

[kutulu 1,545]

Crikey!

[Drizzay 645]

I used to have a more heavy MN/Scandinavian accent, then I moved to Denver and it mostly disappeared. Since moving back, I'm more aware of how I sound, so i try to not go back to it.

 

It still slips in, though. Or maybe it is totally back, and I just don't notice it because everyone else sounds the same.

[frank 2,144]

Take off, hoser.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

My daughter tweeted a while back that when people from Wisconsin bump into someone, they always say "ope"...instead of oops.

We say it too homie

[Brad GLuckman 518]

I have a thick, thick Australian accent, which is strange because I've never been there and neither has anyone I know, mate.

[BunnysBastatrds 1,914]

Lived in the Deep South my entire life and am told I have a New York accent.

[Voltaire 4,558]

Here's a dialect map:

 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/dialect-map-of-the-us-region-aschmann_n_3245496.html

 

Inland North it is then.

[mobb_deep 917]

No accent. But SUX would always get really turned on by my deep voice, when we used to play COD together.

[jerryskids 5,198]

Here's a dialect map:

 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/dialect-map-of-the-us-region-aschmann_n_3245496.html

 

Inland North it is then.

 

Great link, thanks for sharing. Apparently I am Inland North as well; my part of NE PA just slips in. And as per a video of a typical speaker, I talk like some New Yorker with things like "I told yas dis link is filled wit good stuff."

[wiffleball 4,639]

No, that's one of the upsides of the Rocky Mtn Region - No accents.

 

Some would say that Gulliforions (ala Shwarzeneggger) have no accent, but listening to chicks from Brentwood - and that horrible upSPEAK? Tells me otherwise.

 

So, yesterDAY? I was going to the superMARKET? - Kill them all.

 

Can't really think of any accent that's 'native' to Amurica that annoys me too much.

The one that drives me nuts is wimmen and PR accents.

 

 

There's that hispanic biitch from CNN that's constantly pissed off - God, she is nails on a chalkboard. - Anna Navarro. It's that whole PR/Miami/Latina crap.

 

But still not as bad as Fox's Judge P chiick. God, she's annoying. Judge Jenine Piro?

 

 

[Strike 3,968]

No accent. But SUX would always get really turned on by my deep voice, when we used to play COD together.

Some pieces of information are best kept to oneself.....

[mobb_deep 917]

Some pieces of information are best kept to oneself.....

You should remind yourself of this, every time you think about posting. Youre horrible at it.