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Over the years I’ve had a few friends and family do the six-month Antipodean backpack tour and they all came back with a twang to their voice. So I think it’s likely your voice has changed to some degree even though it doesn’t seem that way and it still stands out in comparison to the locals.
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Rliyen wrote: Born and raised in Louisiana my entire life and never had an accent, and it's funny to me when, after people find out where I'm from, say, "You don't have an accent."
Of course not, New Orleans, Slidell, Metairie, Baton Rouge don't have any accents at all. Everybody seems to think that Randy Quaid's accent in the Big Easy is how everyone talks down here. Um, no. I tell people, "The only way you can tell that I'm from the South is I say 'Y'all' (which isn't a marker so much anymore) and I lurve my sweet tea."
Same! Grew up in the NOLA 'burbs, no accent. My only indicators are "y'all" and "lagniappe", along with a few other regional terms.
However, the year that I went to school in Lafayette I somehow picked up a thick Cajun accent. Had no idea, it freaked even me out when I went back home to New Orleans and heard myself. It didn't last.
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That one I will *not* concede. Now any time I hear someone do that I just think of the Californians SNL skit.Not Sure wrote: You should have avoided the inevitability of "hella" and gotten straight to the real issues dividing California, namely is there a "the" in front of freeway numbers!
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Rliyen wrote: Born and raised in Louisiana my entire life and never had an accent, and it's funny to me when, after people find out where I'm from, say, "You don't have an accent."
Of course not, New Orleans, Slidell, Metairie, Baton Rouge don't have any accents at all. Everybody seems to think that Randy Quaid's accent in the Big Easy is how everyone talks down here. Um, no. I tell people, "The only way you can tell that I'm from the South is I say 'Y'all' (which isn't a marker so much anymore) and I lurve my sweet tea."
Same! Grew up in the NOLA 'burbs, no accent. My only indicators are "y'all" and "lagniappe", along with a few other regional terms.
However, the year that I went to school in Lafayette I somehow picked up a thick Cajun accent. Had no idea, it freaked even me out when I went back home to New Orleans and heard myself. It didn't last.
Makin' groceries. Up front. Suck the heads. The pronunciation of Burgundy and Calliope. HOW THE F DO YOU PRONOUNCE Tchoupitoulas (wife and tourists that stop me in the CBD)?? Maringouin.
The last one was for my wife. She is not native and when I brought her home from CA, we drove all the way back. When going through western LA, she saw a exit marker for the town of Maringouin. She asked me how to pronounce it. I told her "Marin-Gwen". She asked me what it meant, I told her, "It's Acadian for mosquito."
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Yep. "coke" is what they called a "pop" in Houston. My roommates in the Army were all from NY or eastern PA, so I picked up "soda". That didn't stick.jason10mm wrote: Growing up a major city in the south but with Yankee parents my accent is all over the place.
But good grief it's not "soda" and definitely ain't "pop", it's "a coke", the actual brand is inferred ,
Just like it is "a slice of pizza", not just "a slice" and pie is what you eat later!
Maybe they don't call it this in southern WV now, but down there the playground slide is called a "slicky slide." I was in the middle of a conversation with my coworkers, "<something something> slicky slide <something something>", and my coworkers were like, "WHAT? Slicky slide? What are you, five?"
My wife's from the northern part of WV. It's "you-uns" instead of "y'all," and you "leave the dog out," instead of letting the dog out.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html
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That NY quiz is fun. From memory it thinks I am from the North East. There's an English one too I think, which probably unsurprisingly makes me a Londoner (I think there's a school of thought that the Aus accent is like a half Irish half cockney kind of thing. Kiwi of course has much more of a Scottish influence).
Edit: Just did the quiz and it thinks I'm from Jersey, NO or NY
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southernman wrote: Kiwi. Enough said (don't think a couple of decades in the UK has changed it much).
In case most of you can't tell the difference between Kiwis and Aussies they speak funny .
North or South though? (Or Auckland v the rest maybe?) Is there like a cultivated NZ accent too?
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I've only ever received one compliment on my accent. Again, in Ireland, this time by a girl who liked how I said "ass."
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What is the cutest accent? For me it's gotta be irish on a wee lass. If my daughter had that accent she'd be riding a pony around the house already
Most amusing has got to be a norwegian/swedish accent on an otherwise burly guy. Watching "The Norsemen" comedy show is hilarious because all these viking raiders have that rather high pitched fluting scandinavian accent that makes it real hard to take them seriously.
I admit that I have been brainwashed into thinking that the posh brit clipped accent is the default for all historical/fantasy shows, to include ones set in italy, greece, south america, japan, or space
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So no matter where I am, people think I talk funny. Even my own daughter mocks the way I say certain things.
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As for me, I'm Southern California born and bred, so I totally don't have an accent, dude.
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Carbonated beverages are soda, a group of people are "you guys" (though I've tried to eliminate this a bit), and I definitely used "hella" in high school, which was more of a northern-specific thing at the time. All my Rs are hard Rs, rhotic all the way.
As an aside, I lived in England from the time I was 1-5-years-old and came back with a British accent. It's all gone now, of course, but sometimes crops up with my inclination to say things like "butt-tin" instead of "butt-uhn".
Also, I've never heard anyone from California call it "Cali". That seems to be a thing non-Californians do.
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It's the same for the nicknames for San Fransisco. No one from the area ever called it anything but "San Fransisco" or "the city," and it was immediately obvious when a person said something ridiculous like "Frisco."ecargo wrote: Also, I've never heard anyone from California call it "Cali". That seems to be a thing non-Californians do.
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