I like East Coast accent, especially if you're from Long GIsland.
Would have thought you spelled it Long Guy-Land.
Five or six years into the show and it amazes me every time I see an episode.
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Would have thought you spelled it Long Guy-Land.
Five or six years into the show and it amazes me every time I see an episode.
Would have thought you spelled it Long Guy-Land.
Sometimes you worry me, rdowns. Maybe that's simply the way you want it spelled.
I have to add that there are many "southern" accents. Someone from Texas sounds different than someone from Georgia and someone from Louisiana sounds different than someone from Mississippi etc..
I have the really bad habit of changing accents to match were I am.... Right now, I live in the St. Louis area and around my friends I have the typical midwestern accent with a tiny bit of southern mixed in. When I go visit my folks down in the bootheel, my accent goes right back to the redneck hillbilly drawl that I grew up with. The only bad part about that is if I get around people from different countries, I typically start to match their accent, and don't usually realize it until they're already pissed off from them thinking I'm trying to insult them.
Given my recent but admittedly limited experience of Americans attempting British accents, probably no region that exists on earth at all.
What do people think of Hugh Laurie's American accent in House (M.D.)? Not sure what accent he's using there...
The so-called "Midwestern U.S." or "General American" accent, which is widely spoken in many American films, TV series, national news, commercial ads, and American radio broadcasts. The General American accent is most closely related to a generalized Midwestern accent and is spoken particularly by many newscasters. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
My cousin does the exact same thing, so annoying. When I go visit she will take on my Texas accent. When her friends from Mexico are there she will take on their accents. It's really funny at Christmas when people are there from all over to see what role she will take on as her main voice.
Is there any therapy I can take to gain a British accent? I have the general american (lack of) accent at the moment. I think that it would be awesome if I had a British one though. British like the kind Richard Dawkins has, as apparently there are many varieties.
People from Louisiana (well, southern Louisiana) sound different from EVERYBODY else!
But you are right. The South Carolina accent is way different from Alabama or Texas. I'm not sure how, but despite living in the South my entire life, I managed to not develop a very strong accent. I've often had people around here ask me where I'm REALLY from, since they often don't believe I'm a native.
People may or may not think the Boston accent sounds stupid, but it is one the most distinct and maybe most mocked around. I've read about people trying to get rid of it because it is so distinctive. I seem to remember Matt Damon and a few other actors training to get rid of it.
It seems to me that southern accents seem to be met with more disdain than even New York or other northeastern accents, but perhaps it's because I live in Texas.
Yes, there are some really unintelligent people with thick southern accents, but there are also some genuinely brilliant people with the same accent. Many people can be very prejudicial about accents, I won't deny that.
Curiously, the accent that annoys me most is the fake southern/Texas accents I hear in movies and on TV. The ONLY natural-sounding Texas accent I can remember hearing in a movie was from Matthew McConaughey, and he's a Texan.
I don't know about American accents but I am still trying to polish up my Irish accent. Love a good Irish accent.
many people are racist to accents ... sometimes it is not skin color at all ... just the way people sound that irks some folks.
I say Fugetabout it
I say Fugetabout it
Ya'll is a real word. Welcome to Texas.
I know most people think any accent is consider uneducated. The educated accent so to speak is fairly neutral.
I do not have much of an accent. Only on certain words can someone here a very slight Texan accent but for the most part it is pretty neutral. I may of grown up in Texas my entire life but both my parents are from the midwest, college educated and then suburbs of a major city.
Those factors kind of kill an accent from forming.
Not a word? O RLY?
Webster's dictionary disagrees with you.
As does the Oxford dictionary.
And, just for fun, learn some history of the word at Wikipedia.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
Y'all keep 'em straight up there!
Wow old thread! New Yorkers always sound super mad. I usually find accents fairly interesting. I remember being in Germany and meeting a group of heavy British accent speakers at a bar and we (Americans) told them how awesome they sounded. Lol. Southern accents are fun - initially it was difficult but after working with people with that accent for some time now, it’s a comforting accent. My wife and I watch Acorn TV and it’s pretty amazing how different some American accents are from English accents.
I watch some British programs too, and it is not so much the accent as must as the different words and slang they use. We lived in Toronto for 12 years and got used to the "Eh?". It took us a while to get used to a friend calling a sofa a "chesterfield"!. She would refer to Detroit as Deetroyet. I grew up in New Joisy, went to university in Bahston for a couple of years. One day a food truck was out in front, I asked for a milkshake and got a beaten glass of milk, when I asked where the ice cream was, he said oh you want a frappe. I transferred to RIT is Rahchasta NY. Again it wasn't so much the accent as much as their unique pronunciations. There was an area Chili, but they they pronounced it Cheyeleye. When my sister-in-law moved to Florida, she sent us tongue in cheek book on understanding the southern accent. Like "my ahms are tarred" or there is "all" like "you all" or "all" that you put in your car. I guess living in so many different places, my accent has remained neutral, never had a Jersey accent because we were from a suburban area, not an industrial area like Newark or Perth Amboy.
I'm from Upstate New York In Finger Lakes region! Ate least the brewmaster and Wine Makers have fun in the Summer and Fall! The UpState Brewers Fest is still the best vestibule I've ever been at! The last time I was at one (about 5 years ago) and in was $30 dollars and one glass with water fountain to wash out before the next booth! The best time when judges give put first, second and third prizes out! You just have to have a designated driver with you!