Posted on 06/05/2013 3:10:55 PM PDT by SMGFan
People just don't get that Baltimore, for whatever reason has a very distinct accent, unlike anywhere else in the country.
And it is damn near impossible to imitate.
Don't know why.
Sure it's fun to talk like a New Yawker and ask for a "cheeseboiger".
But I challenge anyone to imitate a Baltimorean and pull it off well.
I never even knew we Californians had an accent.
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Really?
“The milk is way creamy and is way too grodie to drink.”
“Duh! Why would you get grodie whole milk? What-ever, that is the worst milk ever.”
“You want me to like go to the store and like buy some milk? As if!”
“OK,” “you know
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That’s a smart woman!
;-)
I've noticed that my accent does the same thing when I'm around 'twangers' or 'drawlers' for any length of time.
I'm originally a SoCal Army brat, but my parents and grandparents are from Memphis and Northern Louisiana. My parents lost their Southern accents after moving to SoCal as kids, but I can still hear that easy sounding, comfortable accent of my grandparents in my ears.
I sort of slide into some sort of harmonic of that when I'm around true Southerners.
She said: "What accent? He just talks normal."
I have a lot of relatives in Nordurn Minnusohda, where they play ice hawkey, so Sarah Palin sounds quite normal to me: "if yuh hurt da back ah yur foot, your hill will not fill good."
I don't know of a distinctive Alaskan accent, but since she was born and raised there I guess that's it.
Dang....you really think so? I'll have to ask the relatives back in Cali next time I get on the phone with them. You might be right :-)
A constant source of amusement/bickering is the arguments between my wife and myself over word pronunciations. Despite much preferring life in the U.S. over life in England (she especially loves to travel out west), my wife is still quick to defend English habits, food, and word pronunciations. We usually end these discussions with a laugh. But like all women, she loves to get in the last word.
Speaking of being overseas, when I lived in England, I got so I could darn near pinpoint what part of the country a Brit was from, by their accent. They were that distinct.
Well, I can definitely tell Posh from non-Posh ;)
‘Valley-speak’ is a newish thing, and really isn’t an accent.
Being from Cali, it’s kinda hard for me to hear the accent well enough to make examples, but if I had to describe it, I’d say that it’s a flattened Midwestern sound. You could even describe it as Texan without the twang.
teasing!
Ever talk to a true Cockney? I have. I usually understood about every third word.
I knew you were, but you're about half right. When we first moved to Texas, the country accent used to really sound country to me. As the years have gone by, I'm finding that I have to actually listen to hear it.
One of my closest friends here spoke it... he told great jokes... made it even funnier that I could barely understand half of what he said, lol!
Sadly, about 6 years ago, he went to the UK for Christmas with his wife.. they never came back.. Said he had enough of the bureaucratic crappola here (and high expenses)..
I lived in SE Colorado in the Arkansas Valley...pronounce just like the state.
Po’Boys !
In New Hampshire, my favorite was:
‘Howayupawents?’
which translates to
‘How are your parents?’
Po’Boys ! ...?
They sell auto parts.
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