Why do you talk like that?

[peachhead]

Am I just getting old and crotchety or is this becoming more and more real? Maybe I'm just getting deafer. Lol
I live in the South but increasingly I cannot understand younger people who are also supposedly from the South.

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

100 % Gen X dude. Master of sarcasm...And totally immune to insults.

 

[xTopGun]

100 % Gen X dude. Master of sarcasm...And totally immune to insults.

so, like, why you posting like that, dude .....

 

[GSP7]

I had to google it vocalfry girls

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[Neon Vernon]

Loudermilk was a great show.

 

[Kevin]

I saw something else about how the Southern accent is being lost. The internet is partly to blame. But for some reason, the younger generation is growing up without much of a Southern Accent.

I don’t remember the particulars but I would imagine the same could be said for say a Brooklyn accent.

 

[GSP7]

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[Johnnu2]

Kevin, one cannot mitigate a BROOKLYN accent..........

J.

 

[Fox Mike]

While in Charlotte NC, I was on a tour of various NASCAR teams and the girl guide didn't know the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all". She said she was a local when I asked her.

 

[peachhead]

While in Charlotte NC, I was on a tour of various NASCAR teams and the girl guide didn't know the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all". She said she was a local when I asked her.

I didn't think thre were too many locals left in Charlotte. Like Atlanta, it has been overrun by imports.

 

[Mike J]

All the different accents & regionalism are going away. It is because of television, radio, & the internet. My oldest girl when she first started talking talked like the weather girl on T.V. I also believe this is why there isn't much real country music anymore. Country & bluegrass were a product of isolated areas that developed their own culture. The internet & media has changed everything & I'm not so sure it is for the better.

 

[GSP7]

Kevin, one cannot mitigate a BROOKLYN accent..........

J.

new yuk ..... YUK !!

 

[Kevin]

new yuk ..... YUK !!

I bet that guy is so fun to go drinking beers with. You could sit around and talk about what other people say. He looks like a good guy too.

 

[Kevin]

Am I just getting old and crotchety or is this becoming more and more real? Maybe I'm just getting deafer. Lol
I live in the South but increasingly I cannot understand younger people who are also supposedly from the South.

Now to be fair though, Loudermilk is set in Seattle I think? The Pacific Northwest anyway. And you're asking about understanding how people in the South talk?

 

[GSP7]

Lets hear a pacific northwest accent

 

[gnappi]

Kevin, one cannot mitigate a BROOKLYN accent..........

J.

I was raised between Brooklyn and the Catskill mountains, and my accent was somewhere between Brooklyn New Yawk and Hillbilly.

I moved to Florida 50 years ago and the first week on the job (3m photo copier service technician) my manager told me I would not last in Florida with THAT accent so over time and effort my speech / lack of accent became very much a neutral midwest (think Walter Cronkite and Johnny Carson) and that was the best advice I ever got.

 

[el caminero]

I was raised between Brooklyn and the Catskill mountains, and my accent was somewhere between Brooklyn New Yawk and Hillbilly.

I moved to Florida 50 years ago and the first week on the job (3m photo copier service technician) my manager told me I would not last in Florida with THAT accent so over time and effort my speech / lack of accent became very much a neutral midwest (think Walter Cronkite and Johnny Carson) and that was the best advice I ever got.

Acquiring a reasonably believeable new accent is as difficult for many, as a whole nother language. They can eventually knock off a lot of their original points and disguise it with a new, acquired, overlay, but wont be mistaken for a native by a native.

 

[gonepostal]

I saw something else about how the Southern accent is being lost. The internet is partly to blame. But for some reason, the younger generation is growing up without much of a Southern Accent.

I don’t remember the particulars but I would imagine the same could be said for say a Brooklyn accent.

I moved to South Florida 22 years ago (before it became fashionable). I noticed little by little I'm losing my Brooklyn accent and using y'all more often.

 

[vito]

I left Brooklyn permanently 60 years ago this month. My young wife and I were both born and raised in Brooklyn. Within a year my wife's voice had changed into an indistinguishable middle America accent, while my Brooklyn accent never disappeared. Even now, 60 years later, people here in the Midwest will say to me "you're not from around here, right?" or will ask me where I am from. Now at 83 I doubt I will change how I speak.

 

[Fox Mike]

One thing that I will never be accused of is coming from the New York and north region. My grand mom was from Tinnesse and I managed to pick up a lot of her speech and accents.

 

[41Dude]

I was raised between Brooklyn and the Catskill mountains, and my accent was somewhere between Brooklyn New Yawk and Hillbilly.

I moved to Florida 50 years ago and the first week on the job (3m photo copier service technician) my manager told me I would not last in Florida with THAT accent so over time and effort my speech / lack of accent became very much a neutral midwest (think Walter Cronkite and Johnny Carson) and that was the best advice I ever got.

I left NYC in 1972. Was told I had a thick accent when traveling around the west. I worked very hard to get rid of accent and mostly succeeded.
But when I used to smoke things that were not cigarettes my NY accent came back 100%
Not sure what part of the brain runs things lol.

 

[turd]

I've been accused of having a Minnesnowta accent.

 

[Kevin]

I've been accused of having a Minnesnowta accent.

Now you people do talk funny!

My daughter's best friend has grandparents from ND. Not sure where exactly. But I've met them a few times. Nice people, but holy cow, thick, thick accents.

 

[turd]

Kinda like the movie 'Fargo', right? I did live in MPLS for 6 years, and northern SD for a few years. I used to wear cowboy boots, too!

 

[GHollan]

Lets hear a pacific northwest accent

I'm told we don't have an accent so you can't hear a PNW accent.

 

[el caminero]

Lets hear a pacific northwest accent

Sounds like the broad californian i grew up with, but not tha sarfer and sanfran varieties.

 

[GSP7]

I'm told we don't have an accent so you can't hear a PNW accent.

I heard we dont sat "t's" . Like Mountain , is Moun'in

 

[41Dude]

I heard we dont sat "t's" . Like Mountain , is Moun'in

Bless yor heart. (You can say that in about a million ways)
My wife will say it to me depending on what I have screwed up.

 

[GSP7]

Bless yor heart. (You can say that in about a million ways)
My wife will say it to me depending on what I have screwed up.

You're a daisy

 

[el caminero]

I heard we dont sat "t's" . Like Mountain , is Moun'in

Heck, i learned ta talk like that growin up in cali. The east bay cities are where them dustbowl okies landet when they found out theres no room left in sanfrancisco. Its where credence is from, and the beau brummels, and cap'n beefheart, and half a dozen others.