mmmmm...beer 691 Posted December 17, 2017 they dont talk the same as youSo... 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dain11279 928 Posted December 17, 2017 Nope, an Elantra actually 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vikings4ever 496 Posted December 17, 2017 Not a huge accent. The biggest thing is probably the use of "dontcha". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mmmmm...beer 691 Posted December 17, 2017 Not a huge accent. The biggest thing is probably the use of "dontcha". Followed with "Ya Know?" Suuuuper... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IGotWorms 3,325 Posted December 17, 2017 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IGotWorms 3,325 Posted December 17, 2017 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??! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TommyGavin 790 Posted December 17, 2017 Blurry vision. Cabot rad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fandandy 3,311 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MTSkiBum 1,596 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frank 2,152 Posted December 17, 2017 Everybody has an accent. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mookz 1,287 Posted December 17, 2017 Everybody else has an accent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bier Meister 1,517 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 12,714 Posted December 17, 2017 Yup. And I curse more than I want to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kilroy69 1,002 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NorthernVike 2,080 Posted December 17, 2017 No. Everyone else dose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimmySmith 2,782 Posted December 17, 2017 Mid Atlantic people got nothing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TommyGavin 790 Posted December 17, 2017 Everybody has an accent. I don't. Everyone else does Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frozenbeernuts 1,652 Posted December 17, 2017 Not a huge accent. The biggest thing is probably the use of "dontcha". No way. People from Minn always have those silly accents Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frozenbeernuts 1,652 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kutulu 1,552 Posted December 17, 2017 No way. People from Minn always have those silly accents ya darn tootin! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KSB2424 3,085 Posted December 17, 2017 I have a fairly deep voice with a thick southern accent. I shoulda been a Country music singer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IMMensaMind 460 Posted December 17, 2017 Nope, an Elantra actually Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IMMensaMind 460 Posted December 17, 2017 My daughter tweeted a while back that when people from Wisconsin bump into someone, they always say "ope"...instead of oops. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mookz 1,287 Posted December 17, 2017 I have a thick, thick Australian accent, which is strange because I've never been there and neither has anyone I know, mate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drizzay 647 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frank 2,152 Posted December 17, 2017 Take off, hoser. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frozenbeernuts 1,652 Posted December 17, 2017 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brad GLuckman 518 Posted December 17, 2017 I have a thick, thick Australian accent, which is strange because I've never been there and neither has anyone I know, mate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BunnysBastatrds 1,927 Posted December 17, 2017 Lived in the Deep South my entire life and am told I have a New York accent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 4,567 Posted December 17, 2017 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mobb_deep 917 Posted December 17, 2017 No accent. But SUX would always get really turned on by my deep voice, when we used to play COD together. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryskids 5,215 Posted December 17, 2017 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." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wiffleball 4,649 Posted December 17, 2017 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 3,999 Posted December 17, 2017 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..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mobb_deep 917 Posted December 17, 2017 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites