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I found I have what I call a Great Lakes accent. I'm from Erie, Pa., and they sound kinda Canadian/Great Lakes region. Same here, and then I moved to Minnesota where eveyone talks like an Amish man. We have Amish and Mennonites here who have been here for several generations, but their kids still have that accent that they brought with them. As for me, I speak Western Kentucky/redneck/Southern. A girl from Canada once told me that she found my voice sexy, and I told her that hers was too, especially when she said "eh" and "you betcha". She responded by telling me off and saying that Canadians didn't say that. Well, she did, but her voice was still sexy.
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Lived here my whole life, but have been told I have an accent. It must be from traveling in the south, and Appalachian/hillbilly family. Modern transportation and communication are causing us to lose our local flavor, it is a shame. It seems wherever I go, the biggest influence on accent is urban vs rural. In the cities the accent is less pronounced, the more rural, the heavier. Unless,of course, your looking for Ebonics or Spanish.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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If you move far enough away from where you grew up someone is going to think you talk funny. Yes I do have an accent, but it is different than other parts of Virginia. I remember the first time I was in Maryland and heard a "Baltimore" accent and I thought, "Where are they from?"
In my job I work with so many people with different accents that I usually don't pay much attention to it. The two hardest accents for me have been an older Greek man and young guy from Quebec which I deal with a couple of times a year. I have to listen to them for a few minutes before my ear tunes them in. I don't think it is so much the accent, but their enunciation.
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My college buddies tell me I have a terrible American accent. Can't be, you guys are telling me people from the PNW don't have accents.... ...Except for Pocatello. There is a Pocatello accent.
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I like listening to those Carolina girls.
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Not now. I've had British people describe my accent as "the softest American accent I've ever heard", pretty much neutral Californian.
Now when I was a kid I lived in the deep South and had the most deep fried Southern drawl you can imagine. I moved to California when I was in middle school. My Southern accent was gone inside a month. The funny thing is that while I don't speak with one anymore, I can still understand it as well as ever. Once I was in a restaurant with my wife and daughter and a woman with an overpowering twangy accent asked directions to a local ice cream joint. They looked at her like she was speaking Klingon. I just calmly gave her directions.
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My wife is also neutral Cali to my ears but sometimes she talks too fast for me to understand.
Poor hearing and I have trouble distinguishing words.
She says I talk like a Swedish Indian.
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My college buddies tell me I have a terrible American accent. Can't be, you guys are telling me people from the PNW don't have accents.... ...Except for Pocatello. There is a Pocatello accent. You are quite right. Most of South-Estern Idaho was settled through the Mormon migration originating in and around Missouri. Linguistically, that still shows, and this region has distinct Missouri influences in it's accent.
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The worst accent is that damned east coast Boston drawl. Those folks really need to learn how to talk.
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Long ago when I was in the Army, people would guess me from Mississippi. That is Where my people moved from after the civil war, although my Great Grandfather was living in South Arkansas when the war started. miles
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The worst accent is that damned east coast Boston drawl. Those folks really need to learn how to talk. My wife is from Saugus, Mass, north of Boston. She never had a super strong accent, but her parents were nearly unintelligible. We went to a class reunion for her, I think 30 years, and she was amazed at the accent. Said they sounded uneducated. I just said SEE?
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Fairly nuetral. Can get a bit southern when I spend time with old buddies.
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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My wife is also neutral Cali to my ears but sometimes she talks too fast for me to understand.
Poor hearing and I have trouble distinguishing words.
She says I talk like a Swedish Indian.
Been hitting the Aquavit?
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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When I'm in Canada, people ask if I'm from Australia (no sheit, been asked that several times)
That's because of how you look, Scott, not how you talk....
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