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#4466655 - 03/20/19 02:48 PM Accents  
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I guess I'm mostly referring to different and distinct accents within the English speaking world but please feel free to discuss accents from other languages. smile

Where I work we recently hired a guy from Boston, Massachusetts and yes, he has the very strong stereotypical Bostonian accent and I had recently made a comment to him that I immediately knew where he was from because of his "accent". He then replied to me that I was the one with the "accent" and not him! He said it jokingly though and it was quite apparent that he wasn't offended or anything.


His reply made me think though. I've always considered myself to have a "neutral" American accent. By that I mean it's neither Southern, New Yorker, New Englander, Cajun, Mid-Westerner or any other distinct accent that I can think of.


So my question is, do you consider yourself to have a distinct accent or would you say it's a standard non-descript accent?

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#4466658 - 03/20/19 02:57 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Distinct South Jersey.

Thing is I am aware of it and consciously 'correct' what I say.

Examples....

In south jersey, water is pronounced wood-er. I say what-er in mixed company biggrin

Creek is crick

Hundred is hunnert. Like "a hunnert gallons of crick wooder."

It all became apparent to me when I went off to college.

Classic south jersey. Instead of "did you eat yet", we say jeetyet.

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#4466662 - 03/20/19 03:07 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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My accent adapts to whomever I'm around. My parents were both from the north and the south, so I can speak neutral, with a southern, or a northern accent with ease, and will depending on who I'm talking to. I can also speak in Irish, English, Russian, Spanish, French and more accents--drives my daughter nuts!

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#4466664 - 03/20/19 03:19 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Here in Ohio a lot of folks think I'm from Boston,,Close ,,,CT. and R.I. heck it's even for me they talk funny to me with a kind of southern Slant,and they almost end a phone conversation with UMM Bye !! Seems anyone who lived else ware sounds funny to them,Overall folks are a lot friendlier and laid back a bit. but New Concord is a real small town


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#4466699 - 03/20/19 05:26 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I have always thought I had a neutral accent just from being from Michigan. Everywhere I would go I always loved hearing the different accents. I would always be surprised to hear someone say that I have an accent too. My favorite is the Western Pennsylvania accent. I have sometimes heard it referred to as "Dutch", but I am not too sure about that. Of course, a southern girls accent is very nice.

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#4466709 - 03/20/19 06:10 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Mine is fairly typical West Coast with a bit of Italian influence since I grew up with a lot of Italian immigrants.

You wanna talk accents though, most of the women I've dated over the years have had cartoonishly stereotypical accents of some kind. The current example is like totally Cali from the Valley urr whatevuurrr.

#4466712 - 03/20/19 06:38 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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My assents west London, not as strong as yer stereotypical cockney but definitely not neutral south east England either.
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#4466720 - 03/20/19 08:02 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#4466725 - 03/20/19 08:24 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I'm a South Carolina native, I have no accent.



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#4466740 - 03/20/19 10:32 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#4466758 - 03/21/19 12:42 AM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I have a pleasant Northern Alabama Southern drawl (and yes, a Southern can tell where one is from by their drawl), but it can wax and wane depending on company and mood.

Part of that is being a long time soldier - one had to learn to strip out accents for radio work and talking to people from all over. It pretty much goes to zero if I'm talking to a non-native English speaker.

My troops used to get very quiet and watchful when it evaporated and I stopped swearing, as that was never a good thing.

But if I'm happy, with other Southerners, or perhaps have had an adult beverage or two it's in full form.


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#4466763 - 03/21/19 12:58 AM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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i'm carioca da gema (rio de janeiro municipe), so people claim i/we have a natural hiss on the Sssssss, and a draged ARRRrrrr also that we whistle too much while speaking. truth be told the only folks i ever heard speaking portuguese as it should in brazil are the folks in the south and central west, everywhere else people pronounce vogals and nouns differently.

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#4466797 - 03/21/19 10:33 AM Re: Accents [Re: Dart]  
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Originally Posted by Dart
I have a pleasant Northern Alabama Southern drawl (and yes, a Southern can tell where one is from by their drawl), but it can wax and wane depending on company and mood.




Yes, there is indeed a very wide range of Southern accents that I've come across. I've met people who have just the slightest hint of a drawl and thus they sound like Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter.


I've also met Southerners who sound like Foghorn Leghorn..... biggrin


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#4466812 - 03/21/19 12:39 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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More or less distinct (SW) Germish, with a random mix of British and American English, spoken as well as written, I guess.
With SW Germish much less "pronounced" than for instance people speaking Bavarian or Saxon Germish duck

#4466813 - 03/21/19 12:43 PM Re: Accents [Re: WhoCares]  
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Originally Posted by WhoCares
More or less distinct (SW) Germish, with a random mix of British and American English, spoken as well as written, I guess.



The Swabia region perhaps? German is not my native language so the German I learned in high school and college is the standard textbook Hochdeutsch. smile


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#4466821 - 03/21/19 01:42 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer

The Swabia region perhaps? German is not my native language so the German I learned in high school and college is the standard textbook Hochdeutsch. smile

Nope, not Swabia either, but close to the French and Luxemburg border (Saarland). Though I am 20 years in "exile" in Munich, which I most only consider geographically as Bavaria, but less so w.r.t. todays culture or "street language" - I guess with "true" Bavarian (more precise Nieder- or esp.Oberbayrisch dialects) someone might have a harder time getting around town than with English dizzy
W.r.t. German dialects or mine in particular, I would have loved to post some more information and link(s) to Wikipedia, but today Wikipedia is down as kind of protest against some iminent decisions to information rights laws in Europe frown
Simply put, considering the fairly small size of Germany (compared to the USA) there is quite some diverse and sometimes very pronounced dialects, also sometimes along fairly sharp "borders" (usually rivers). And that's also true for the Saarland region (just about ~70km across), as it is a kind of artificial creation after WW1 with eastern parts actually belonging to Bavaria (Pfalz) before. Not to the extend that one can't talk to the other, but not unusual to have significantly different pronounciations and sometimes simply different words for the same item.

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#4466824 - 03/21/19 01:51 PM Re: Accents [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Thanks for that post WC. It really was very informative!


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In Canada there is Newfie which is also a different language.


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With respect to my English (or Germish), it obviously started with textbook English, but in the last 20 years it has "evolved" under significant influence (spoken and written) from maaany colleagues, mostly German, but also Indian, Chinese, Singaporian, Italian, Spanish, Portugiese, French, Bulgarian, Polish, ... It's all just technical talk/texts, mostly from engineers for engineers, so there is clear priority of content over form.
I usually feel comfortable, esp. when I read/hear some other colleagues, but boy is it a revelation reading chapters/documents written by English colleagues...

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The stereotypical "Newfie" accent really does not exist. It's a mixture of Nfld dialects mashed together by local comedians. Similar to what was posted about American southerners ; a native Newf can tell what part of the island you are from by your accent. The reason that a lot of 'mainlanders" can't understand us is that we tend to speak very quickly and throw in a lot of local slang.

The southern Avalon area was settled by Waterford Irish and was quite isolated for years. The dialect there is almost pure Waterford Irish. The Irish Tourist authority actually hired young folks from the area to work at Irish tourist attractions smile

The more northern areas were settled by West Country English ( mostly from Devon and Dorset ) and the local accent reflects that . This area was less isolated so the accent has become more diluted than the Irish areas. The capital St.John's is where the Irish and English accents mixed together and this resulted in ,what we call, a "townie" accent ( That's me smile ) On the west coast there was a lot of french influence and some of the locals accent is very similar to to Louisiana Cajuns

Sadly IMO accents are quickly disappearing because of the world's advanced media and communications. Teens from St.John's now sound pretty much the same as teens from Toronto of from Ohio or Vancouver.

The accent used in the musical "Come From Away" is purely fictitious and sounds weird to us biggrin

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