Accents? - Page 5

Corbin Dallas · #61 06-19-2001, 10:31 AM

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Originally posted by KSig1102:
3.) Boston is the most annoying one. Who in the hell calls a water fountain a bubbler? or calls soda "tonic"? They are all weird.

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

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KSig RC · #62 06-19-2001, 03:31 PM

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Originally posted by newbie:
Is it true that the Boston accent is like "pahk the cah"....?

That's what my sister says. Sorry, not to offend any Bostonians on here! Just wondering

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.

Rain Man · #63 06-19-2001, 04:48 PM

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

Sugar_N_Spice · #64 06-19-2001, 06:24 PM

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Originally posted by SoCalGirl:
Apparently I pick up other peoples accents very quickly. I can talk to someone for 20 minutes, next thing I know I sound just like them.

As a Navy brat I've lived in Virginia and Maryland as well as my home town (SD Baby!). You can just imagine what I sound like.

I have the full Valley accent w/ ya'lls thrown in here and there. Plus I had a bunch of roommates from North Cali. So "hella" drops into my vocab just as often.

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!

Tom Earp · #65 06-19-2001, 06:56 PM

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

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matthewg · #66 06-19-2001, 08:37 PM

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!!!

SoCalGirl · #67 06-19-2001, 09:27 PM

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Originally posted by AKA_Monet:

Which makes it the Cali, the greatest place in the Sand and The Sun. Eh, SoCalGirl--did you check out the waves today? They were great!!! How was the water?

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

newbie · #68 06-19-2001, 09:30 PM

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!!

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newbie · #69 06-19-2001, 09:36 PM

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Originally posted by KSig RC:
The mixer with DG should be a hoot, and I am more than ready to trip the light fantastic,

LOL, this also proves that we talk differently from region to region, too

...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!!"

SoCalGirl · #70 06-19-2001, 09:44 PM

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Originally posted by SSS1365:
I live in southern Virginia (I grew up here) and I do not have an accent! Even people from New York have said I don't have one. Weird, huh?

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

SilverTurtle · #71 06-20-2001, 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by newbie:
LOL, this also proves that we talk differently from region to region, too ...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!!"

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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newbie · #72 06-20-2001, 03:06 PM

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!!!

newbie · #73 06-20-2001, 03:56 PM

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.

SSS1365 · #74 06-20-2001, 04:22 PM

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Originally posted by SoCalGirl:
Which city are you from? I went to high school in VA Beach!

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

SoCalGirl · #75 06-21-2001, 02:01 AM

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Originally posted by SSS1365:
Farmville. You probably haven't heard of it, it's a small town.

About half of my graduating class went to Longwood!

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.

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