All areas have regional accent. In the same way you learn language, you learn accent.
The short answer: Because their parents did.
A whole article and he never answered his question.
A friend from Madrid remarked that Mexican spanish is not like the mother tongue. When we visited “New Yawk” last year, he recognized the accent of a spanish speaking tourist as being his own. Confirmation when they spoke together.
They’ll hate it and deny it, but it is from the huge influx of African slaves and a southern drawl is simply African English of the 1800s.
Southerners have a drawl because they don’t want to sound like stupid Northerners.
Maybe an African influence?
” intricacies of the Piraha’s tongue “
Maybe they’re just joking. Everytime a stranger comes up, they pretend to communicate this way to pull their leg, because they’re not actually interested in conversing w/strangers.
Could be the funniest folks on the planet.
Because they don’t want to be mistaken for yankees!
It’s hot and muggy down there - totally saps your energy most of the year and it takes more energy to enunciate every word.
I see the title of this as a bait and switch.
Didn’t deliver. Not even close.
That’s so Yankees think you’re dumb while you stealing their shoes and shorts.
I have a Lithuanian friend fluent in Russian.
He told me Muscovites have a ‘whining’ accent.
I’ve lost much of my Texas accent. But when I speak to my family it comes back without my realizing it. Same goes for my wife and her Philly accent. When we first met I had to act as an interpreter when they spoke to one another.
there is a Dictionary of American Slang which gives information about slang words and terms and how they vary by region.
For example, a large sandwich may be called a hoagie or a hero, or a submarine, depending on the section of the country.
Somehow I got on a list to provide information to the editors on slang from Texas and gave them a few examples they used. It was a neat experience.
A Brazilian acquaintance of mine told me that the differences between Brazilian and Lusitanian Portuguese are greater than those between British and American English, and that he could barely understand people from Portugal.
Freepers are often as usual..,, stupid
People anywhere have accents based on where they come from compounded by who comes later
The white south is very homogenous and reflects a strong Scots Irish English dialect of the 1600s thru early 1800s
The black south adopted that slower spoken English as well as their own and added their pronunciation characteristics
And there are tons of sub sets all over the south as well as class affectations
But south haters here rejoice
White trash will talk and be black here soon enough
And whites further up the food chain are losing their accents quick or being overrun by job hungry or culture hungry yankees
So rejoice
The south will die and Texas will go blue and all will be right with the new brown monotone world
I don’t have an accent, ya’ll do!!
We don’t havean accent down South.
Y’all do...
We don’t have an accent down South.
Y’all do...