Posted on 10/01/2008 11:38:12 AM PDT by T-Bird45
Since Sarah Palin was selected as the Republican candidate for vice president, many people have made comments about her unusual speech, comparing it to accents heard in the movie Fargo, in the states of Wisconsin and Idaho, and in Canada. Some have even attributed her manner of speaking to her supposed stupidity. But Palin actually has an Alaskan accent, one from the Matnuska and Susitna Valley region, where Palin's hometown, Wasilla, is located.
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LOL! With the first, I LOVE Italian water ice (and I pretty much it the way you rendered it) during the summer. However, due to national chains like Subway, “hoagie” and “sub” were interchangable, at least in northern Delaware where I grew up.
I gathered you were being light, but I know there are people out there who think we’re all liberals out here on the East Coast.
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I was born and raised in Southern California and live in Orange County. I don't get this "Midland" stuff. However, I always understood that a California accent was a mix of all American accents, because of the Gold Rush (and probably of what happened after World War II when every one wanted to move here)
I'm still wondering were "like, oh my god!" comes from. I also wonder why Californians say "THE 405" or "THE I-5" instead of simply "I-5" like us normal people do.
I'm still wondering were "like, oh my god!" comes from. I also wonder why Californians say "THE 405" or "THE I-5" instead of simply "I-5" like us normal people do.
From Michelle's manner of speaking, I can tell that she is lower middle class black from the urban midwest. The NYC "black accent" is heavily influenced by the Caribbean as well as from white New Yorkers (listen to Charlie Rangel speak sometime to see the influence of the latter). During the whole ebonics controversy, Bill Cosby pointed out that he was wondering if the educators would use Philly ebonics or Houston ebonics.
Northern and eastern Ohio speak very similarly to western Pennsylvanians. Said accent seems to stop at the Indiana line.
ha! just kidding people. but i can tell she has consciously been keeping her tone down as to not remind us all of the hitlery cackle.
Yep. And I'm 11 years her junior.
Probably, but that was then, this is now.
I'm proud of my "shanty" heritage, they kept going against the odds.
The “Hillary cackle” is unique to Ms. Clinton, and is not common among other folks from the Chicago suburbs.
I thought she spoke just fine. Now ol’ Barney Frank, now he has a funny accent.
First of all it is “The 5”, not “The I5”. Actually “The 5” was called either “The Santa Ana freeway” or “The Golden State Freeway” before the Imnn nomenclature was even thought of by Washington. We even had the first freeway called the Pasadena Freeway, built before WWII, so we can call freeways whatever we want.
“To my ear, she sounds remarkably like the character Pickles in the animated Cartoon Network show “Metalocalypse”.”
Now I realize why I like her so much. That is the funniest show I have seen in a long time.
Ha, could make a joke, but I won’t. :)
The Central Valley is a different case, with the "Okie" influence being highly prevalent in places like Oildale and Taft.
To my ear, when Obama is making a stump speech, he uses a southern drawl. Where would a guy who grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, and who lives in Chicago - get a SOUTHERN accent?
It would make sense that the Central Valley would have an Okie influence. However, I am only familiar with the Central Coast and Southern California.
Parkways were originally intended for “sunday driving”, providing scenery for a nice drive with the family. This is why the original parkways in the northeast banned both trucks and billboards. “Turnpikes” are synonomous with toll roads in my part of the country, although the Garden State Parkway charges tolls but is not called a turnpike! Confusing, but we’re used to it.
Ah. I thought it was something like that. Now they seem exactly the same. (But I didn’t stay around long enough to tell the difference or care.)
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