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#25re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:04amElphaba: I say mi-rer, which I guess is a combination of the two.
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#26re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:08am
My "accent" has a whole damn site to go along with it. And yes, I talk just like this without realizing it...
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#27re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:11am
I'm in Eastern PA, so I don't "think" I have an accent. However, I can slip into a good Pennsylvania Dutch one when needed, say now. Chust a minute!
I'm currently in a production of Nine and people have been dealing with Italian, French and German accents. Our Guido decided that to make the show a little more comfortable for the older crowd who come to the show, one night we should do the show entirely in a Pennsylvania Dutch accent! Needless to say, his three lines of dialogue to show us how this would work had us all on the floor! We're sticking with the original accents for now!
#28re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:12amat least stagy, you use the r........
#29re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:14amsingingwendy: Are you Amish, by any chance?
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#30re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:16am
Here's a quiz that pins me as pretty strongly southern (66 precent)...but as Elphaba said, it's based on words, not accent so much.
Yankee or Dixie?
#31re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:18am
The "up" thing is something that has fascinated me for a while now.
So many "kids" speak as if everything they say is a question. (?)
This is not an accent, but a (strange) speech "fad." I hear it everywhere, and have for about 5-10 years now.
I believe (and you can correct me if I'm wrong) that it started in the Latin (English speaking) communities. The English-as-a-second-language kids. I'm guessing that (in many ways) they WERE asking a question with everything they said (subconsciously), as if to say "did I say that right?"
What I think happened, though, is that it caught on with ALL kids (in the L.A. area particularly), as a "cool" way to talk. It became a big trend. Then, because it was in L.A., it filtered into TV shows, commercials, and movies. That spread the "cool speech style" nationally.
This is not a "researched" theory, but I can say that I have observed the trend spreading EXACTLY that way. First in the classrooms of L.A., then in the media, and finally on a national level.
...And I find it weird and a bit annoying, truth be told. It takes away any IMPACT from what they're saying. Everything comes out "falsely hesitant," as if to imply "is this right?" Hopefully, they will learn that as they get older. It's better to sound "definite" as opposed to "questioning" when making a statement about anything.
I wouldn't characterize it as any accent though. It's a "kid fad"... kinda like... saying "like."
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#32re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:18am
Nope.....but the area around me had lots of Mennonites and Quakers (my grandmother lives right outside of Quakertown). These are less strict than the Amish, but still Pennsylvania German. And there are lots of Pennyslvania Germans who aren't any of those "strict orders"....that would have been my family!
My great grandmother actually spoke full out Pennsylvania Dutch....which is a variant of German. She was in the hospital once and the nurses all remarked how they didn't know she was bi-lingual!
mateo
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#33re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:20am
Elphaba are you a california native?
Interesting read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_English
They explain things a little more technically.
They have planty of regional accent pages on Wiki.
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#34re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:21amCalvin: According to your quiz, I'm barely into the Dixie category, 52% (Dixie). I'm from Massachusetts, for God's sake!
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#35re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:25amI think it's flawed in that Dixie is just it's way of saying not northeastern. Most of my answers fall into the "most of the country" category. I don't say those regional things like bubbler or anything like that, but since there really isn't a true "southern" answer for those, they just group it in with the southern answers.
#36re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:34amYeah, that quiz is a bit inacurate...lol.
#37re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:37am
That quiz said I was only 42% Yankee...and I've never lived anywhere other than the Northeast!
And they didn't even have my response for the Night before Halloween. Around here it was Tic Tac Night!
And...frosting and icing are two different things!
#38re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:45amIt gave me 58% dixie which annoyed me so I went back and put all "yankee" answers and I still got 51% dixie.
#39re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:49amIt's a conspiracy to make us all think that we're red-staters.
#40re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:55amI got 53% Dixie, and me and my parents have lived on Long Island all our lives.
#41re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:57am
I still managed a 35% Yankee with that quiz. Frankly, it's more diction that accent...
I sound like such a New Yorker, although a few individuals have arguably said that I have a bit of Bostonian in there. (It must be the nasal vowels or something...)
Updated On: 10/2/06 at 11:57 AM
BroomstickBoy
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#42re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 12:16pm
I'm 64% Dixie according to that quiz.
Naturally I'm quite the country talking Southerner, but most of the time I'm more well-spoken and my friends call it a "city Southern" accent.
#43re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 12:20pm
I have GOT to hear that. :)
#44re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 12:23pm
I, like JailyardGuy, spent most of my formidable years in West Virginia; so I grew up saying Tahlk, Wahlk, Cah-fee, Muse-am. West Virginia's funny in that they don't have a strong southern twang, just a slight, fairly pleasant twang and they don't say "Y'all," which is always the first thing people ask me when I tell them where I grew up. We called soda "Pop" and shopping carts "Buggys."
Fast-foward seven or eight years to Longuyland, NY. So I now I have a mix of a NY (bee-ag, mee-att, etc) and a WVA accent.
I tend to slip into other accents when I'm in a different area for whatever reason, so people tend to think I'm from that area.
Aside: When my little sister started calling birds boy-dies, (from my Brooklyn born mother), they put her in speech class for all of elementary school.
#45re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 12:24pmAccording to that quiz, I am 60% Dixie
#46re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 12:26pm50% Yankee...that's surprising, as my voice teacher told me that I have the worst Michigan accent she's ever heard.
#47re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 12:27pm
The only accent-related queries I've ever gotten, oddly, were people asking me if I were born British and moved to the states at a young age.
"No, dear, I'm just a snotty queen who cares about consonants. Toodle!"
#48re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 12:29pm44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category...well according to that quiz.
Dollypop
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#49re: Your Accent
Posted: 10/2/06 at 3:44pm
I'm a New Yorker by birth. However, I realized I had to drop my Brooklyn accent in college when I heard a rehearsal tape of the Hamlet I was rehearsing.
Nowadays I don't have the typical New York accent, but still say "wadder" for "water" and have a few other regionalisms in my speech.
Oddly enough, many times when I'm in Europe, I've been told I have a London accent and that puzzeled me until last summer. A group of girls from Nottingham explained that my speech pattern lacks the musicality of certain British regions, like Nottingham and the North Country. My speech (not my pronunciation) remains like a straight line. That's the London speech pattern.
So be it.
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