Discussion»Questions»Language» Do you know of anyone who was born and raised in a particular area and has lived there predominantly for his or her entire life, yet does
Plenty, but if you talk to any one of them long enough certain words and phrases they use tell you where they are from. It does not always have to be an accent that gives it away. Anyone saying "y'all" has spent time in the Southeast U.S. "You guys", Northeast and etc.
This post was edited by O-uknow at March 15, 2017 7:21 AM MDT
It would probably be up to other people to give their impressions of whether or not someone speaks with an accent. We ourselves are poor judges of how we sound to other people. ~
This post was edited by Randy D at March 15, 2017 7:46 PM MDT
That's Valley and beach talk. You are a bit removed but also it seems words and phrases ARE relevant to accents.
This post was edited by O-uknow at March 15, 2017 9:33 PM MDT
I have had numerous black students that lived here all their lives and never use what we call a "black" accent. They are generally rejected by the rest of the black community. Pity.
As a little kid my siblings and I use to watch The Lawrence Welk Show with our Nana on Saturday nights....I always thought he was from Poland because of the Polka dance/accordion segments!! lol I remember our Irish immigrant Nana not liking Cissy though!!!
My husband grew up near Denver but part of the reason he said he moved here (South Dakota) was because he thought he had a midwestern accent. When he told people he was from Colorado they said he wasn't and he got really annoyed by that but now when he tells people he's from South Dakota and they don't argue with him so now he's happy.
I honestly don't know what my accent sounds like to other people but when I go to other parts of the country they usually ask me if I'm from Minnesota or Fargo. I can't recognize Colorado's accent either.
My younger sister lost our home town thick Boston accent while living away at University... and then while studying abroad in London for 6 months she came home with a British accent lol!! She's the only one I know who was born, raised and predominately living their entire life up here in New England who doesn't have a Boston accent anymore. My sisters and I would tease her that she sounded like a weird mixture of Margaret Thatcher and Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's Island....while we all talked like JFK not able to pronounce our R's while saying simple words like car and park lol!!!
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