Posted on 12/31/2009 11:04:42 AM PST by don-o
For some examples, tune in to Hannity's show in the afternoon and hear young (I assume) females who speak in some sort of Valley Girl / Munchkin combination of vocabulary and inflection.
In the interest of equal treatment, many young males also exhibit poor communication skills; but poor in a different way. Many sound like remarkable apes who have learned rudimentary human speech.
What is the cause of this loss of standard speech?
This has been troubling me for quite some time. The last day of the year is a good time to get it out of my head and out there for discussion.
Thank you for letting me share!
(Slaps forehead). Here we go AGAIN!
The "Jersey Goombah" accent you speak of is usually only found around Italian Americans whose family roots are in the outer boroughs of New York City, but who relocated to suburban New Jersey. In other words, it is a "Noo Yawk" accent transplanted to New Jersey.
While it is true that northeast New Jersey in heavily influenced by NY speech, the accent is still mild compared to Lawn Guyland (especially Nassau and western Suffolk counties). See Anthony Bourdain for the real North Jersey accent.
People in southern New Jersey speak similarly to folks in SE PA ("werter" for water, "drew-er" from drawer). In central and NW New Jersey, the accent is rather generic mid-Atlantic, simlar to what is spoken from the Lehigh Valley through central Connecticut.
In other words there is no such thing as a "Jersey accent." NOBODY says "joisey" unless they moved from a Leo Gorcey film from the 1930s. :)
I for one can’t stand “any-hoo.”
Blame it on New York all you want, but you're stuck with it, lol.
20 years ago, it was called the "Brooklyn accent." Since the hipster douchebags have taken over said borough, it has become the "Jersey accent."
BTW: I hail from Lawn Guyland, where we REALLY speak with accents (see Jerry Seinfeld and Fran Drescher, to say nothing of Islip's own Edie "Carmella Soprano" Falco). My parents are from NJ, and I spent a few years living in the Princeton area. I know of what I speak, even if the Hollywood/Manhattan axis of evil doesn't.
Besides, if you really want to sound mentally challenged, go to South Boston and try to imitate the locals.
LOL! I have a friend from “The Island.” We tease her about it all the time. Then there is the Island Folklore. . .
It’s kinda like the base—something that’s always here and you don’t really pay any attention to it until somebody brings it up in conversation! I probably know your friend! LOL
The folklore is something else! Ever heard Rodney Kemp or some of the older crowd really get going? I could listen to them forever.
same here :(
Oh yeah. Me too.
My maternal gma lived with us and I was her shadow. She taught me a lot about seeds and plants and growing things. She also taught me how to fish and to always carry a walking stick. :)
Looking for the original robot joke and found this old vanity of mine. Bumping it up because I want to.
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