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New Yawkas have the most confident sounding US accents, study finds
Nypost ^ | 05/31/2025 | Gabrielle Fahmy

Posted on 05/31/2025 8:41:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Do I amuse you?

The Big Apple boasts the most confident sounding accents in the US, a recent study found.

The unique tone, marked by dropped “R”s, shifted vowels (like coffee becoming “caw-fee”) and tough talk — often thought of as a specific Brooklyn or Bronx sound, is particularly associated with working-class, multi-generational New Yawkas.

Think Joe Pesci’s “Funny how” in “Goodfellas” and Chazz Palminteri’s iconic “Now youse can’t leave” in “A Bronx Tale” — or anything Fran Drescher.

“There’s a rhythm to it that cuts through small talk and its placement and resonance tends to sit further forward giving it a brighter sound — which tends to resonate louder in most spaces,” voice coach Molly Parker told The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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I was at a hotel in Atlanta. I was talking to this gentleman from Alabama. He asked me politely if I could slow down talking because he couldn't understand what I was saying. 😂
1 posted on 05/31/2025 8:41:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would rather listen to 1,000 cats’ throats being slit than Joe Pesci and Ann Drescher greeting one another.


2 posted on 05/31/2025 8:44:56 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m from Alabama with family in Texas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and New Brunswick. The few times we’re all together we laugh at each other’s accents.


3 posted on 05/31/2025 8:45:20 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: tumblindice

Fran, whatevah! ( braying like a donkey)


4 posted on 05/31/2025 8:46:37 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A bit selfserving, considering it is from the New York Post.

Not unlike the article the other day saying intelligent people are more liberal.


5 posted on 05/31/2025 8:51:12 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Yankees are coming! Cover your ears, child!


6 posted on 05/31/2025 8:53:25 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Tell It Right

When I fly into NY I shift gears.

When I’m with my family and in-laws, cousins, forget it. I have to be so quick with a story, a point, an idea, a joke, or I’m shut out. There’s no “um, honey what year was that? How old was little Steviewhen this happened? We were in Italy, no no I think we were in Germany…”

Get to the freaking point.


7 posted on 05/31/2025 8:54:37 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Trumbull Crime Watch / Police Blotter
8 posted on 05/31/2025 8:56:29 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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“Not unlike the article the other day saying intelligent people are more liberal.”

I didn’t see that. I know a lot of intelligent people who are liberal. If They lack common sense, morality, logic, it doesn’t matter if they’re intelligent, who cares? they suck at running a country

They’ve never been left alone with my kids


9 posted on 05/31/2025 8:58:11 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Responsibility2nd

I heard a story years ago of a soldier from Boston on base one day looking for his khakis. He kept saying he couldn’t find his khakis.

Another soldier said; “Look. You are wearing your khakis.”

Boston fellow said; No, my khah keys. I’ve got to go into town and I can’t find the keys to my khah.


10 posted on 05/31/2025 9:01:08 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: stanne

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4320020/posts


11 posted on 05/31/2025 9:01:52 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Responsibility2nd

Such a masterpiece in culture clash. Marisa Romeo got the Oscar

Fred Gwynne was born in NY. His people were New Yorkers. .


12 posted on 05/31/2025 9:02:50 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thought it was Joisey.


13 posted on 05/31/2025 9:06:49 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: kosciusko51

Thanks for sharing. I might read the rest later. Here’s where I lost interest

“cognitive ability and a tendency toward socially liberal, less authoritarian beliefs”

The only authoritarians in my world are liberal family and telling me I have to get a shot and what I’m not allowed to listen to news wise


14 posted on 05/31/2025 9:08:47 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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I know a lot of intelligent people who are liberal. If They lack common sense, morality, logic, it doesn’t matter if they’re intelligent, who cares? they suck at running a country

These are not examples of "intelligence."

15 posted on 05/31/2025 9:09:46 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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They’re independent of it. I’m tests don’t test for morality, common sense. Understanding what’s going to happen if you let 20 million people in. Caring whether they’re intelligent presidential race is rigged

Honesty.


16 posted on 05/31/2025 9:19:18 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: tumblindice

“I would rather listen to 1,000 cats’ throats being slit than Joe Pesci and Ann Drescher greeting one another.”
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I am fine with Pesci - but listening to Fran’s voice is akin to having construction nails driven into your head (and I used to work closely with one of her uncles, and met her father on one occasion, so it isn’t because I dislike the family at all).


17 posted on 05/31/2025 9:31:52 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; lightman

We Arizonans have a great accent, too! But it’s an acquired taste!


18 posted on 05/31/2025 9:43:23 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is this true just for New Yawk City or does it apply to Lawn Guy Land too?


19 posted on 05/31/2025 9:47:09 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: Ancesthntr

I amuse you? I make you laugh, like I’m a clown ... I’m here to f***ing amuse you?
What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?


20 posted on 05/31/2025 9:51:18 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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