To: Devil_Anse; slane; vikingcelt; dasboot; AnAmericanMother; A. Pole; afraidfortherepublic
Anyone see the lady talk? She had an accent I haven't heard before.
121 posted on
09/23/2002 10:41:09 AM PDT by
Shermy
To: Shermy
I don't know, must pay attention next time they show her. I listened for a minute or so as she spoke, and to me her accent sort of sounded like an accent they have in New Orleans, it's called a "yat" accent. Yats could be called "low-class," but it is also considered kind of cool to be one, b/c it generally means a person is a native New Orleanian. (But of course not all native New Orleanians are yats!)
To: Shermy
Anyone see the lady talk? She had an accent I haven't heard before.I caught that too. Some of the words sounded almost Canadian, and some had a bit of an Irish intonation. She definitely DID NOT have a Texan or South Carolinian accent. And she didn't sound Indianan either.
To: Shermy
BTW, she surely spoke some of the worst English I have ever heard. I doubt that she spent much time in school when she was growing up.
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