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Joseph Randall
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- posted December 01, 2015 06:19 PM      Profile for Joseph Randall     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Is it me or are different strong American accents disappearing?
I met someone from Georgia over the weekend and I could detect absolutely no southern accent. I've worked with people from North Carolina and most only had a hint of an accent.

[ December 01, 2015, 07:31 PM: Message edited by: Joseph Randall ]

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Steve Klare
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- posted December 01, 2015 08:23 PM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
We live in such a mobile society that it's really hard to keep a regional accent anymore. Among the friends I grew up with at least half are living someplace else today.

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving isn't the busiest travel day of the year for nothing!

-maybe the next day a lot of us are where our accents belong!

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Pasquale DAlessio
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- posted December 01, 2015 08:36 PM      Profile for Pasquale DAlessio     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
What amazes me here on the forum is that everybody sounds the same!

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Janice Glesser
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- posted December 01, 2015 09:13 PM      Profile for Janice Glesser     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
OMG!!!! It's Pat! I'd know that accent anywhere [Smile]

Happy Holidays..IGOR!

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Bill Phelps
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Hello Pat! Nice to see you.

Bill [Smile]

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Mike Newell
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- posted December 02, 2015 07:29 AM      Profile for Mike Newell   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Think carefully if you really want different regional accents LOL

see below. This believe it or not is mild.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913347/You-wouldn-t-long-getting-frostbit-Irish-schoolboy-global-sensation-strong-accent-TV-interview-weather.html

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Osi Osgood
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- posted December 02, 2015 10:35 AM      Profile for Osi Osgood   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hey! Good to hear from ya, Passquale! [Smile]

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Joe Caruso
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- posted December 02, 2015 10:42 AM      Profile for Joe Caruso     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I disguise myself (actors do that), so no one can discern my origins (make all the jokes you want, but I WAS born, not hatched)

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Graham Ritchie
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[Big Grin]

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Joseph Randall
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- posted December 02, 2015 04:15 PM      Profile for Joseph Randall     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I live in Joisy, so I don't have an accent.

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Ken Finch
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- posted December 05, 2015 06:15 AM      Profile for Ken Finch   Email Ken Finch   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
In my experience we adopt the accent of the area we live in over time irrespective of origins. Accents also vary even within short distances. I have also found it difficult to understand the dialogue of quite a lot of more recent american movies. They sound very "nasal" and mumbly to me even with my hearing aids. I have no problems with older films. Ken Finch.

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Steve Klare
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- posted December 05, 2015 07:13 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
What's interesting is I had an old friend from this forum from East Anglia (passed away 8 years now) who I became as close as E-mail can allow for about 3 years.

Naturally after all this typing we became kind of curious:

"What do you sound like?"

So we recorded audio greetings and sent them by e-mail.

We were kind of amazed how accentless we both sounded! His wife said there are neighbors on their street that are much harder to understand than me!

A couple of years later I was reading a book about the English language in America and the author said that a large percentage of early Colonists of what is now the US Northeast came from East Anglia and they are still a strong influence on how we speak.

-so it wasn't that we didn't have accents, it's just my accent is his accent!

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Mitchell Dvoskin
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- posted December 08, 2015 02:19 PM      Profile for Mitchell Dvoskin   Email Mitchell Dvoskin   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
What I find more interesting than accents is terminology. For example, a "truck" in the "USA" is a "Lory" in England, the cover over a car's engine is the "hood" in the USA, and a "bonnet" in England.

Even within the USA, there are differences in terminology. I went to college in southern Ohio many years ago, and discovered that what was called "soda" here in New Jersey was called "pop" in Ohio, grocery "bags" were called "sacks".

I suppose with people being more mobile, and the dominance of the mass media, these accent and terminology differences are slowly disappearing.

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Graham Ritchie
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- posted December 11, 2015 12:57 PM      Profile for Graham Ritchie   Email Graham Ritchie   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Yesterday I was in town, went into a store and the girl behind the counter had a very loud American accent I am not sure if she was laying it on for a reason, but it was painful to listen to, even from a distance [Wink]

To top things off.. her supervisor came up to her then he opened his mouth with a loud English accent, also painful to hear [Frown]

Right I thought I am going to write to the immigration department and complain... [Big Grin]

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Trevor Adams
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- posted December 11, 2015 02:58 PM      Profile for Trevor Adams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Graham,I think NZers tend to travel,also,most of the stuff they watch comes from the USA and UK....so we end up using Yank and Pom terminology in an interchangable way.Like "lift" and "elevator"-f'rinstance. Streuth,it can do your head in! [Wink]

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Janice Glesser
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Let's hope that our language differences don't lead to what happens in this video [Smile]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvWoQplqXQ

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Graham Ritchie
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Nice to hear from you Trevor [Smile]

Good one Janice [Big Grin]

I do remember when I first arrived in New Zealand along with my Scottish accent, it was the middle of winter and cold, being a big softy I went to buy a hot water bottle. Anyway [Roll Eyes] I went to a nearby chemist. I asked the girl behind the counter if they had any hot water bottles. She went away and came back handing me a condom [Eek!] I looked at this thing, looked at her and said that I needed something a lot bigger than that.... [Big Grin] ...its a funny old world. [Smile]

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Guy Taylor, Jr.
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- posted December 12, 2015 05:56 PM      Profile for Guy Taylor, Jr.     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Driving from Texas up North to Wildwood,New Jersey or Syracuse, New York, I noticed strong regional accents in smaller cities or towns when stopping for gas or food. In the bigger cities, people tend to sound the same.

I think that it is kind of a shame that those differences are going away. It is sort of a loss of regional culture.

The time will come, in a few generations, where all of us in the English speaking world will probably sound the same.

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Tommy Woods
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- posted December 14, 2015 10:35 AM      Profile for Tommy Woods   Email Tommy Woods   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Being a Scoucer (someone from Liverpool),when I was a kid in the '60's I only had to drift 2 miles from the city boundary t encounter a race of people I could not understand!!
Interestingly enough if Dick Turpin came back from the dead he would understand American English more than ours,eg,boot/trunk,bonnet/hood,pavement/sidewalk etc,etc

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Andrew Woodcock
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Tommy, I didn't understand a word of that! Now calm down La and cum ed. [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin]

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Tommy Woods
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"ar ay la "

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Andrew Woodcock
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[Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Wink]

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Steven J Kirk
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- posted December 17, 2015 06:29 AM      Profile for Steven J Kirk   Email Steven J Kirk   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
A completely different meaning in the UK:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Learn-To-Shag-The-Carolina-Way-VHS-/141844009870?hash=item21068fd38e:g:LscAAOSwu4BVl11j

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William Olson
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- posted January 23, 2016 10:39 AM      Profile for William Olson   Email William Olson   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I moved from New York to a suburb of Atlanta,Georgia 9 months ago. I'm surprised that very few people here have southern accents.

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Andrew Woodcock
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Must have changed a lot then William since 99 when I was there. Majority of the people I met there back then spoke with a southern drawl. A stark contrast from the accents I experienced in New York and Philadelphia.

I was staying in Albany GA at the time.
Admittedly the accent wasn't as strong on my visits to Atlanta.

One busy airport that one, I sure won't forget that experience!

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