Do you have an accent?

[sutra1]

I was on a conference call yesterday, and one of the attendees blurted out "wow!, you (referring to me) a real NY accent". I've lived out of the country for years in my younger days and went to college in L.A. I guess you never leave your accent behind. What about you, do you have regional speech accent?

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

everyone has a accent... literally you just dont know it cause you live around people with the same accent...

 

[budbasket]

I heard many broadcasters head to Oklahoma/midwest and go to school because the accents developed there work no matter where they go. Just a bland mix of everything. Not sure if that's true though....

 

[OrganicOzarks]

I heard many broadcasters head to Oklahoma/midwest and go to school because the accents developed there work no matter where they go. Just a bland mix of everything. Not sure if that's true though....

It's Iowa, and Nebraska, and it is true. There are a ton of telemarketers there because they don't have a regional accent. The irony is that is their regional accent.

Southern accents are the best. They work exceptionally well when you are doing business on a national level.

"You guys are so polite, and nice."

 

[SeaMaiden]

Interesting. Given my background I think it's odd that folks tell me I have an American newscaster accent. I call it soda, not pop, but spent many years in the deep South and never once set foot in a place called Iowa. Or Nebraska.

My favorite southern Accent is Tennessee. It's one of the thangs ah loo-oove about Huell Howser.

 

[frito bandito]

si seenoooor

 

[frito bandito]

seamaiden if you were a real southerner you would call it a soft drink or cold drink! or better yet, coke! haha

alabama ftmfw

 

[SeaMaiden]

That's just it, Don Frito. I'm not a 'real' southerner. I'm an odd mix of stuff. Half-Puerto Rican, and my father and his people are from New Orleans from long ago. That's why I think I use certain midwestern or northern terminology, and some southern terminology.

Y'all ever watch that show How the States Got Their Shapes? I love that show.

 

[toughmudderdave]

I was at a tech show in Minneapolis many moons ago. After the show, a bunch of us went out to a bar I was the only Californian in a bunch of folks from Texas and thereabouts. We were all chatting with a group from the East Coast when one of the girls pointed to the folks from Texas and said "From your accents, you're from Texas." They agreed. She pointed to me and said "And you're from California."...I was surprised and asked "How did you know?". She replied "It's the way you talk." to which I immediately replied "No way!" She then said "See! You just did it! It's the WAY you talk! It's how you say things!". LOL! I was "hella" surprised **grin**

 

[DTFuqua]

Well, I'm a true southerner and I can can ya, we ain't got no accents. It's the rest of ya'll that talk funny. Family history is northwest Florida and I was raised here in Pensacola and am still here.

 

[frito bandito]

yeah texans have a unique twang and socal folks do have their own accent as well. every different southern state and even different tiers of society in our states have their own accents too. course yall californians typically have no clue about any of this because you know nothing about us other than what youve seen in the movies or read in your warped history books. rarely in the movies do you ever see a true southerner being cast in the role of southern people. all you see is yankees and west coasters and (bleh) english and australians trying to pretend like theyre southern. we definitely can tell the difference and it sounds awful to us.

 

[BlueBlazer]

I was an Air Force brat and we moved around all over. Lived in Wyoming, Texas (twice), New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania growing up. My brothers, sisters, and me would all somehow pick up the local accents really easily. Helped to fit in quicker. When I started school in New Jersey, fresh from Texas, girls used to come up to me and ask me to talk for them. Then they'd giggle at my Southern accent. Within a couple of months, I was talking Jersey.

Trouble is, we picked up all kinds of different regional vocabulary and mixed the wrong words with the wrong accent sometimes.

To this day I refer to the faucet as a faucet sometimes and then tap other times. I say soda, pop, and Coke at different times. Dallas Texans say Dr Pepper

. Also I can't hang around with someone with a real strong accent too much or I just start picking it up. It's weird.

 

[SeaMaiden]

My father does that. Picks up or mimics accents. My best impersonation is a Hindi woman, best when my nose was pierced. I'm dark enough to be taken for Hindi, so it's actually kind of fun. In fact, I love doing my own little social experiments, like dressing as though I'm Muslim, and seeing how people react to me.

We have people in this tiny little California county who have never once left, not even to Sacramento. That just boggles my head to pieces.

 

[idoreallytry]

poopy and all my pals here in michigan say i have an accent and after awhile i picked up on it i am from ohio but moved to michigan its a's and y's that are the major differences,,,they saw grandpa i say grandpaw,,,lil things but a lot of words lol,,,everytime i call someone on hte ohone they ask where i am from so its very noticable to everyone up here,,,i always tried to not talk like the people where i cpme from but the slight differences are still there no matter how hard i tried,,,i tell poopy and them u should hear people where i come from talk i have a light accent lol,,,peace

 

[watts]

southern accent here but not the twangy kind

 

[unspoken]

I have been told numerous times all around the USA that I have a very neutral accent or a California accent. I've only been to California a few times. The french waiter at my hotel in Amsterdam nailed it, but I think he was just going off of my companion's accent, which was very thick and twangy.
When I lived in Germany by myself it was just "american" I don't know.

 

[Drift13]

When I came back home(Chicago) from being stationed in the UK for 3 years & 9 months with USAF I had picked up a bit of an English accent. Freaked out my parents and old High School buddys. But with in the year I sounded like I had never left Chicago.

 

[resinryder]

Yup. And a dark red neck to go with it!!

 

[diggdugg]

Aw haw haw haw. It's a Texas thang ya'll! Every time I go somewhere out of state I get pegged from Texas constantly. Try recording yourself and listen to yourself speak. Sounds totally different than in your head.

 

[Fly by Night]

Maybe a little Jackie mason...

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