Accents!!!!
 

Has anyone besides me noticed the varing accents of the GC ers?

I know there are some that claim to be from the Mid-West but have accents! They are from the NW! Mich, ETC.

I listen to posts, from the Southern States, Canada, New England, SW, Calfornia!
All of you HAVE DIFFERTENT ACCENTS on the GC!

THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT DO NOT HAVE ACCENTS ARE FROM THE MIDDLE PART OF THE COUNTRY!!!!!!
Here are a list of non takling different people!!

Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado!!!!!!

God you all talk with a twang or a drawl!

When are we as a country learn to talk like US?? We are the Middle Part of the Country!!!!:D

We are NORMAL!!!!!!!

ok, unless i'm mising something, i don't "listen" to GC; i read the posts... Tom, explain to me wat youe talking about?

::Warning, Linguist Stepping In::

Technically, having an "accent" is being able to recognize that a speaker is not from your current area. It's all relative, yankee twang, southern drawl or russian palatalization is all relative to where you call home. Anything NOT home is an accent.

So technically Tom, "we're" normal, it just depends on who "we" are.

Freak :)

I don't have an accent!
 

Hey, even though I live in the South (Tennessee), I don't have an accent, because I've only lived here for three years. I was born in Florida, moved to California, and then to Northern West Virginia (like an hour from Pittsburgh, PA). So I really have I guess the "common American accent" that you see in movies and such. I do NOT say y'all or "coke" for every drink. I say "you guys" and "soda pop". I guess when I'm hyper I talk like a valley girl (after all I was a baby/toddler in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara). Oh, well. :) :) :)

well I'm from Wisconsin, but from what I hear, I sound like a canadian? Dolly told me that :)

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Hey Damasa!!!! I think that Dolly character is whack....how can you be from Wisconsin but sound Canadian???? Anyone else confused here??? Plus...there isn't a Dolly that posts on this board. Are you tripping again?

Allison

lol...well, that's what "Dolly" told me, "Dolly" being an alias to protect the guilty party involved.........

d

I've lived in three places in my lifetime- born & lived in Georgia, then in Hawaii, back to Georgia, my freshman year in Cleveland, OH, then back to Georgia.

When I came back to Georgia after living in Hawaii for 3 years, I definately had an accent.

IN Cleveland, I DID pick up a midwestern accent. Can't describe it, but can pick it out when I hear it.

Back in Ga now, my friends from freshman year say I've gotten a southern drawl. Trust me, it's very slight!

dood...i told you to lay off from watching alf high, didn't I?
I'm from ontario, I do not have an accent like gay stereotypes from the simpsons. I heard your ppl talk, it's nothing like me. And btw, because I may use certain words or phrases that seem uncommon does not mean anyone else from gc from ontario speaks (types) this way.

Geez, that was kinda mean

If I may interject, Canada has a lot of different accents too, Canadians do not sound homogeneous across Canada. A person from Vancouver will sound COMPLETELY different from someone from Newfoundland....trust me!

(Kind of like, Europeans saying to an American, "You sound American". There is no homogeneous American accent:
think of the Texan vs. South Carolinian vs. the New York from the Bronx and how they all sound. They're all totally different! Well, Canada is the same way.)

I have an accent. A good ole southern one! At least yankees would say so.

I understand this...it's just a generalization..something to "haha" about....

No kidding, c'mon allison here on gc we don't make fun of drug addictions - that ain't cool.

Ah! ok! I understand.
I just get a bit defensive sometimes...

When the 3,000th person comes up to me and says "You Canadians say eh and oot and a-boot" (for out and about), my defense mechanism is triggered quite easily about the accents topic. ;) :o

The word ABOUT......
My "about" sounds more like "a-boat" anyway... ;)
Newfoundlanders seem to pronounce it more like "a-boot".

NOW THIS..is very, very true. I know a few guys that live in Newfoundland and that's exactly how they pronounce it..hahaha...crazy.

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Yeah people base it off of the south park movie, seriously. :cool: In the movie, they have the canadiens say aboot all of the time.

Can anyone understand what the Newfies are saying??? :p

Hey hey hey, easy with the newfie jokes...i picked up a hottie newfie over the summer and she didn't sound like that....don't perpetuate stereotypes guys, you might sound hypocritical

some may sound different but the newfies still rule!

The Newfoundlanders that I met had quite a strong brogue accent. However, if you listen extra carefully, you can usually make out what they're saying. You might not catch every word but from the context, you can usually get it.
And nicer people in Canada, would be hard to find! (Actually Saskatchewan people were totally nice and helpful to me on my business trip there)

ugghhh those girls didn't look that good-looking, especially not for pagent winners. Is that site some kind of a joke?

i would have to strongly agree with Lil_G on that one!

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Bwhahahahaah, I know this is mean but I have to agree with you on this one.

I was born in Northern Iowa. Trust me, they have accents.

where about in Iowa are you from man? I spend quite a bit of time down there...well all over the midwest actually. i have family that lives everywhere around here...

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I attended college 2 hours from home - both in Georgia. After I had been away for just a few weeks, I was talking to my dad on the phone and he wanted to know if "I had been hanging around a bunch of Yankees"! Guess he never realized that I didn't have a "strong" Southern accent like he thought I had living at home!

Years later when I was working in California, a co-worker started kidding me by saying "y'all"...then he couldn't stop, lol!!:) :)

WOW!!!!!
 

Does not anyone ever travel anymore?

Living in Mo/Ks, I would go to SD and they loved to hear me talk as a Southerner, To Texas they loved to hear my Northern accent!

I lived with a lady from Tenn. and would go there to visit her family and there was a Diff. in accents.

I am fortunate that I can be some where and talk like a native in two days! Minn, SD, Wis, Mich all have different inflections in a boot eh!:D

Is it pOtato or PaTOTO?

All of you or Yall?

KSig R C wish I could draw a Grape Vineyard!!!!!!!:D :D

I was born near Fayette, but now live in Virginia.

I have lots of friends from Newfoundland too :). But hey, like you easterners never make fun of us Westcoasters... ;)

yeah well we wouldn't make fun of you guys if you did something other than sit around and smoke weed all day....
one being my roommate from victoria - he's in for quite an awakening once winter is in full force

i also don't consider myself being from the east...i'd say central canada...because this is where all the action is

i don't really think I have an accent. Does anyone else think I do?? Hmm I was born in Colorado and I've lived in Michigan and New York*for like less than a year:( * I loved New York but it was so expensive to live there. Anyways and now I live in Tennessee. Alot of people say I have a northern accent maybe thats because Im not like them and I dont say yall or coke I say you guys and pop!! But I guess I do have an accent!***IT'S A NICHOLE ACCENT!!*** LOL Its an accent all my own and nobody else can have it! believe me I will say the wierdest things and people are always like "huh??" But ohwell its me! <---- I dont think this matters to anyone but as you already know I blab alot! :)

Nichole

Sparll, damn you have already picked up the Tenn. HillBilly accent!!!!!

You Chatters do not understand!!! Cannot you see when OTW talks, she has that hip swaying , litting hip mpve movement of hers from the Islands!

Danm you people dont understand!!!!

CANNOT YOU understand KSig RC Mass Accent?

Hootie does have just a slight,
being in The Big O, but it is really slight!!!!!!

Ya all have accents so look deep in your HEARTS and ADMIT IT!!!!!!:D

Well actually Dallas doesnt and I am trying to figure that out!!!!

Ah Ha he is a mutant transplant!!!!!

Hate to say it life but ya al Texicans have your own!!!!!
:D
Soory, Life, well heck your almost a diff country anyway:)

Well dinner is burnig, dont fret, I take it it off stove when sm0ke alarm goes off!!!!!!!:D

Tom,
I feel you on the written accent. Sparklii dear, you've been infected with the Tenn-speaks. Perhaps I might not quite venture to say hillbilly, but it's there, if only in traces. Most speak how they write, which makes written word fairly indicative of region in which you live, but I do have to ask, not that I think I'm a particular exception (how pompous would I be for that?), but Tom, rather than knowing from incident where I am from, what region would you otherwise guess strictly from my written voice? I'm curious to see if my written accent might be thought to follow closely the verbal accent that I've been mistaken, you might say, to have. thank-you.

Yes I am from Texas and say coke for everything (in fact I was in Colorado 2 weeks ago and it seems they have never heard of coke-pepsi everywhere-yuk!) and I have to remind mysef not to put ya'll in the posts(though it is much easier to type than you guys). I definitely do not have the east Texas accent (very thick up there-I am sure you would pick it up in the posts). I think my accent is very slight.

K

ATlantic Canada
 

Just to clear up for my fellow Canadians....there are plenty of accents out on the east. In Nova Scotia alone! I was travelling around the province over the summer and three hours out of Halifax I couldn't understand what people were saying because of their accents! And if you ever watch Sportsdesk or something, when they are interviewing hockey players, listen, cuz as soon as Al MacInnis talks, you know he is from Cape Breton. An island much like NEwfoundland with people who like their parties and drinks, as they talk with their funny, funny accents!

Not to be offensive to any of my fellow pats, but i gotta say that the new brunswick accent is the absolute worst...i feel like offering them a glass of water so there words wouldn't come out so hoarse..

HMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
 

SCCard, I will start paying a little closer attention, but first guess NE or E coast area!!!!!

What think ye Captin Jack, am I in the right country??:D

Your Greek Bud!

Ya dang sure dont have a KEEEENNNTUUUCY accent!!!!!!:D

Tom,
there have been efforts at convincing me I'm from NE region, none of which succeeded in convincing me that all of which I've ever known to be wrong...as they say, I was "born & raised in the Heart of Kentucky." I assure you, however, your analysis played perfectly into what I'd suspected you might say, and not because of my expectations. Keep an eye on me though, reprimand me should I slip.
Cory