04-03-2009, 08:41 PM | #42 (permalink) |
But You'll Never Prove It.
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That would be me. Pretty common at our house.
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04-04-2009, 02:49 AM | #43 (permalink) |
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I was tongue-tied as a child and my speak coach spoke Ebonics, so I've always to be concious of the way I talk. When I worked at a hotel, people would come up with all kinds of guesses to where I was from. I grew up on the coast of northeast Florida.
Here is a link to a site where you can listen to speech accents from around North America and the world. <http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/namerica.php> |
04-04-2009, 03:07 AM | #44 (permalink) |
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This is fascinating...I wish I could hear the differences.
I am in the 'I have an accent' category. Though I have no idea which...I sound like a mix between an american of some sort and an english person, mixed with a very faint, off-in-the-distance, 'I'm really portuguese' twang.
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04-04-2009, 03:52 AM | #45 (permalink) |
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Same here. Now excuse me while I go warsh my truck.
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04-06-2009, 06:33 AM | #47 (permalink) |
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Location: Indiana
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I live in Indiana and have heard that Indiana and Arizona have the most normal speaking dialects (rednecks and ebonics don't count). People actually train to speak this way if they are going to be on national news.
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04-06-2009, 08:07 AM | #48 (permalink) |
You had me at hello
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I live in the Warshington that is ofter referred as, "those POLITISHUNS down there in WARSHINGTON....."
I used to hear those ads quite a bit when my family lived in CO.
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04-09-2009, 06:13 AM | #50 (permalink) | |
change is hard.
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04-11-2009, 06:31 PM | #52 (permalink) | |
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04-11-2009, 07:10 PM | #53 (permalink) |
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Location: Oregon
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Last week I was out at the local pub when I was approached by an older gentleman who correctly guessed where I was from based on my accent. I guess I must still sound like a Northwest Washingtonian after all these years (read: British Columbian-lite).
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07-06-2009, 12:42 PM | #54 (permalink) |
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You made a Canadian reference. totally flying in the face of the thread title! Good on you eh?
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07-06-2009, 03:32 PM | #55 (permalink) | |
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07-06-2009, 05:29 PM | #56 (permalink) | |
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Location: Kansas City, yo.
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07-07-2009, 05:36 AM | #57 (permalink) |
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Location: New England
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I'm from Massachusetts, parents from northern Jersey and central Pennsylvania. I don't have a Boston or New England accent. I have a tendency to put a 'k' sound at the end of works ending in "-ing", which is kind of German.
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07-07-2009, 07:09 AM | #58 (permalink) |
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Location: low-velocity Earth orbit
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I grew up in Houston but both sides of the family immigrated from Europe so I do not sound like I have the Gulf Southern dialect.
My vocabulary however is southern. I use "fixin" as an adverb i.e. "I am fixin' to post on this thread." I say "yes ma'am" to all females most of the time. I say CE-ment instead of cement, etc. |
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