Accents!!!!

Tom Earp · #1 10-05-2001, 05:44 PM

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!!!!

We are NORMAL!!!!!!!

IowaHawkeye · #2 10-05-2001, 06:11 PM

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

GmuTeke · #3 10-05-2001, 07:08 PM

::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

ZetaLuvBunny · #4 10-05-2001, 07:34 PM

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.

damasa · #5 10-05-2001, 08:14 PM

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

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TigerGirl52 · #6 10-05-2001, 08:39 PM

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

damasa · #7 10-05-2001, 08:44 PM

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

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AlphaGam1019 · #8 10-05-2001, 09:08 PM

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!

Lil_G · #9 10-05-2001, 09:33 PM

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Originally posted by damasa
well I'm from Wisconsin, but from what I hear, I sound like a canadian? Dolly told me that

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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.

Thrillhouse · #10 10-05-2001, 09:46 PM

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Originally posted by TigerGirl52
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

Geez, that was kinda mean

CutiePie2000 · #11 10-05-2001, 09:58 PM

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Originally posted by damasa
well I'm from Wisconsin, but from what I hear, I sound like a canadian?

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.)

The1calledTKE · #12 10-05-2001, 09:58 PM

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

damasa · #13 10-05-2001, 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by CutiePie2000

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

Lil_G · #14 10-05-2001, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by Ex greek

Geez, that was kinda mean

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

CutiePie2000 · #15 10-06-2001, 02:34 AM

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Originally posted by damasa
I understand this...it's just a generalization..something to "haha" about....

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.

The word ABOUT......
My "about" sounds more like "a-boat" anyway...

Newfoundlanders seem to pronounce it more like "a-boot".