One of my bros is from Boston, and he NEVER heard of bowling, as we have it here, until he came down here. They have candlestick bowling, with a smaller ball, and pins that are skinny and straight. I asked him once if he pahked his cah in the yahd, and he called me retahded http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

well 1102 already got to this one (jerkass), but i'll drop something in here too -

Not everyone has the new england accent, but enough do to call it prevalent. It's just like that SW airlines commercial - sometimes, guys w/out the accent will just break out w/ it, a la:

*normally* Well, I am quite excited about the prospect of this evening's ventures. The mixer with DG should be a hoot, and I am more than ready to trip the light fantastic, seeing as my statistics test was not all that wicked HAAAAH-AAAAH-AAAH-AAAHD . . . NOOOO!

Sometimes certain words just come out with the accent, from supposedly normal new englanders. It's great (Morick - think jericksen! hahaha)

It's quite a funny accent - especially when it's coming from a construction worker who's swearing up a storm at a yuppie who double-parked his BMW in front of a tow zone, and they're both coming back w/ "Goda hell you hahd-on!" or "keep diggin ya hole there, pahdner" - new englanders are a freakin riot.

I can relate to the Boston thing. I worked at a job where the HR director was from Boston, and had a thing with the a sound, ie, "pahking lot" and "apahtment".

On another note, I am dating a woman from Kentucky. She swears up and down that she does not have a Southern accent, but it comes out in certain words, and to me it sound kinda sexy. Examples:

Footbawl, or any other type of bawl (ball)
Hot dawg
Daydee (read: Daddy)
Her favorite sentence: "Come own nowl" (read: come on now)

I dunno, I have a thing for Southern dialects.

More later
RM

Girl, I'm just like you! I have friends from the South and they say "yall"--so now that word is permanently in my vocab...I also say "Hella" and then I get mad at myself for saying it!

Ya all have accents! the only pace with NO ACCENTS is MO. KS! TTFN

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

Hi everybody -
what a great topic - very entertaining. I love accents. One of my favorites is the one from "Longguyland"

Has anybody of you guys heard a Scottish woman speak - man that is sexy!!!

Oh My Gawd! Like, They were totally bitchin' as ALWAYS!

LOL AKA Monet you are such a trip!

I didn't know that "hella" was a NorCal thingey...but just for the record, my friends and I say it all the time!

Thanks guys for the heads-up on the Boston thing!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

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LOL, this also proves that we talk differently from region to region, too http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif...we Nor Cal ppl would say, "The mixer with DG should be a blast, and I'm sooo ready to hella party my ass off!!"

Which city are you from? I went to high school in VA Beach!

When i was in Ann Arbor they would have said. "I'm so geeked for the mixer with DG. I'm co ready to party my ass off, yo!!"

And that was not a typo.. they really said "co". I still say "geeked", to my Ohioan friends amusement.



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SilverTurtle

Phi Beta Fraternity: National Professional Association for the Creative & Performing Arts

LOL Silverturtle!! So do they always say "co" in place of "so"??

If those Ann Arbor ppl would come here to CA, I would have no idea of what they were saying!!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

LOL, just remembering from reading the thread "Movie Quotes,"...I have a few good friends that talk like the girls from "Clueless" (the movie). They don't exactly use the words "betty, sporadic," etc., but they do use the same tone, LOL.

I don't talk like the girls of "Clueless," but since these friends of mine are pretty good friends, I wouldn't doubt it that I have a small, minor inflection after them, LOL.

Farmville. You probably haven't heard of it, it's a small town.

About half of my graduating class went to Longwood! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif Ten bucks you know somebody who went to Salem High in VA Beach. I've got a LW shirt w/ the Dead Bears, my Oozeball/Spring Weekend tshirt, LW shotglass, LW clock/coffemug, and my best friend was a Chi. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Did you actually grow up in Farmville? I figured you only went to school there!