the increase of foreign nationals from all over the world will surely modify newyawkese....
most of the purveyors of various ‘traditional’ NY dialects have moved to the ‘suboibs’ and much of them have morphed into a more correct usage over the past few generations....
Me? I put my accent on or take it off as needed....mostly for my own amusement.
but I have to be careful kidding around with turlit and earl for the car....at least outside the house....so as not to sound like a total guido.
BTW....ever notice how a segment of the folks from NawOrlins have that NY twang???
My favorite NY accent was Daniel Day Lewis in ‘Gangs of NY’ with his ancient NewYawkeze....
that made me laugh out loud!!
Interesting subject. I have a book here on the history of 5 Points. The book describes how there is no such thing as a "New York" accent - the so called accent is just the evolution (and variation)of a speaking and pronunciation style that came into vogue with the street denizens and early gangs that populated the Bowery circa late 1830's and 40's
The New York accent phenomena is residual from a manner of dress and behavior that we today might equate with "punk rockers" -
As I have pointed out a few times on this forum, Daniel Day Lewis learned the accent by listening to recordings of Walt Whitman.