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Posted by Joseph Randall (Member # 4906) on December 01, 2015, 06:19 PM:
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 ]
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 01, 2015, 08:23 PM:
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!
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on December 01, 2015, 08:36 PM:
What amazes me here on the forum is that everybody sounds the same!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 01, 2015, 09:13 PM:
OMG!!!! It's Pat! I'd know that accent anywhere ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Happy Holidays..IGOR!
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on December 01, 2015, 10:00 PM:
Hello Pat! Nice to see you.
Bill
Posted by Mike Newell (Member # 23) on December 02, 2015, 07:29 AM:
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
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 02, 2015, 10:35 AM:
Hey! Good to hear from ya, Passquale!
Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on December 02, 2015, 10:42 AM:
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)
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 02, 2015, 11:26 AM:
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Joseph Randall (Member # 4906) on December 02, 2015, 04:15 PM:
I live in Joisy, so I don't have an accent.
Posted by Ken Finch (Member # 2768) on December 05, 2015, 06:15 AM:
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.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 05, 2015, 07:13 AM:
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!
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 1183) on December 08, 2015, 02:19 PM:
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.
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 11, 2015, 12:57 PM:
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]](wink.gif)
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]](frown.gif)
Right I thought I am going to write to the immigration department and complain...
Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on December 11, 2015, 02:58 PM:
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!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 11, 2015, 06:10 PM:
Let's hope that our language differences don't lead to what happens in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvWoQplqXQ
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 11, 2015, 10:31 PM:
Nice to hear from you Trevor
Good one Janice
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]](rolleyes.gif)
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!]](eek.gif)
I looked at this thing, looked at her and said that I needed something a lot bigger than that.... ...its a funny old world.
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on December 12, 2015, 05:56 PM:
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.
Posted by Tommy Woods (Member # 2437) on December 14, 2015, 10:35 AM:
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
Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on December 14, 2015, 05:06 PM:
Tommy, I didn't understand a word of that! Now calm down La and cum ed.
Posted by Tommy Woods (Member # 2437) on December 15, 2015, 11:54 AM:
"ar ay la "
Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on December 15, 2015, 01:00 PM:
Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on December 17, 2015, 06:29 AM:
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
Posted by William Olson (Member # 2083) on January 23, 2016, 10:39 AM:
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.
Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on January 23, 2016, 11:07 AM:
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!
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on April 24, 2016, 04:39 PM:
Came across this, and its really good typical West Coast Glasgow Scottish accent and humour
https://youtu.be/iR23_8cuPG8
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on April 25, 2016, 06:44 AM:
Strangely I knew a Scot with a heavy accent who was easier to understand the more drunk he got.
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on April 25, 2016, 07:04 AM:
Probably because his speech was s l o w e d down!
Bill
Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 25, 2016, 07:14 AM:
Have you ever seen a sober one Brian?
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on April 25, 2016, 02:39 PM:
now now "Andrew" be nice....
Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 25, 2016, 02:49 PM:
Very true though Graham, in many cases.
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on April 26, 2016, 11:38 AM:
I like Passquale's answer! We all sound the same on here!!
Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on April 28, 2016, 06:23 AM:
I don't have an accent. But I find anyone born more than 100 miles away, does... Or is it just me?
Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 28, 2016, 06:52 AM:
Same for us all Steven! Ha Ha.
Except to say, 35 miles in our case here.
There are no similarities whatsoever I'd say, between a Liverpudlian accent and a Mancunian one!
"Ar Ay La" Tommy
In fact, i only have to travel to relatively close traditional mill towns that lie on the periphery of our city, and it is like another different language to my ears...sithee.
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