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Old 04-01-2008, 06:44 PM
epchick epchick is offline
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Originally Posted by Thetagirl218 View Post
I love dialects and differences in speech! I grew up in South/Central Florida and most people here speak in what some consider a Northern accent. Once I moved away to school in the "true" South, I started to get a Southern accent!
This reminds me of the time that I went to Dallas and seriously felt like I had culture shock. I mean I was borned and raised in Texas, but being from El Paso you rarely (like less than 1% of the time) meet anyone w/ a southern accent. So when I was in Dallas, I was just ...according to my dad (who's originally from New Jersey) El Pasoans have more of a "midwestern accent" than anything southern.
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