don't they have their own flag too, ? lol
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I think Southern Californians do indeed have an accent. Since so many movies and TV shows, etc are produced in SoCal, the accent is predominant in American media. Because of that I think some regard the SoCal accent as the standard American accent, and not a distinctive one like say, a New Yorker, Minnesotan or Texan accent.
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I'm from cali(born&raised) but currently live in Louisiana. I've been to new York, Boston, Texas, Florida, Canada, Mexico. I've workday in call centers that made calls all over the country. Speaking objectivly, California is almost devoid if an accent. When I hear people try to eliminate their accent, they end up sounding like a californian. It might be because I'm from California, but I argue that I have had a lot of experience with accents, as well as imitating accents(to sound friendly to people I'm callg for collections purposes). I also try to judge by local news anchors. It's not foolproof, but news anchors usually tidy up their speech, and they always end up sounding californian. Take your typical new yorker vs. A new York news anchor...that mess be cleaned up...same in Louisiana. However...the typical news anchor in cali, sounds exacly like the typical californian(black-speak/ebonics and Hispanic accents aside...is there a betterbword for ebonics than ebonics...I really don't like "urban"). Actually the Hispanic accent brings a whole new aspect to it....some of these Hispanic anchors speak so "west coastian?" that when they say something like "enchiladas" it actually does sound like an SNL skit | |
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It's definitely regional and each Southern state has it's own accent. I'm in Mississippi and right next to us is Louisiana and a lot of them sound completely different than us. I've also noticed that when a movie or television show is made about Mississippi, they never have actors with true Mississippi accents. They end up sounding Georgian like "Designing Women".
Accents also vary from generation to generation. For instance, the word "aunt". I pronounce it as "ant" like the bug and a lot of people from my mother's generation pronounce it as "ain't" like "I ain't got no more money". Perfect example is listen to Opie on the Andy Griffith Show saying "Ain't Bee". OMG ME TOO! Most Texas say "Ant" but I say "Ain't" I have this one friend who says "Auntie" but she's originally from Arkansas. I only say "Aunt" when I'm trying to talk proper. | |
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Well, I guess I'm proper all the time because I pronouce it "Ont." Both my parents were from the South; Daddy was from Atlanta, GA and Mom was from Tuskegee, AL. Both of them pronounced it "ont," too. That's where I got it from. | |
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Me, too! Hey, homey! | |
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This thread is a joke. There was no office argument. I made it up because I loved Purplejedi's British thread. Please don't post here anymore.
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I was going to say something about Obama, but ok | |
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People can still post in this thread if they want. Just know the original anecdote was a farce.
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The best American accent:
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Ok, Obama is as American as apple pie. Aloha | |
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I've noticed that their posts are hateful as well and this most certainly not is the first time they've come in here slinging insults against entire groups of people. Seems to be sport for them show up on prince.org specifically for the purpose of baiting & taunting with their obsessive anti-American tirades. I would be tempted to say Fuck-a-New-Zealand-and go suck-a-kiwi if it weren't for the fact that even I understand you can't judge a whole barrel apples simply by one rotten one. It must be either a newbie or a troll, otherwise they'd know to take their rabid discourses on nationalism, world history, and foreign policy disguised as GD topics to the P&R forum where that shit belongs | |
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Speak for yourself LOL. Us kiwis plus ESPECIALLY Aussies have far more nasally voices by nature than Americans do. And I've experimented quite a bit with voices, being a voice over audio engineer.
All you have to do is try different accents while blocking your nose and you can tell which ones use alot of nasal character and which don't.
Americans and Italians naturally have very non-nasally tones which make them naturally better singers because part of the technique is ingrained.
And "annoying on lower ranking of the evolutionary scale"??? WTF. That's just a straight weird thing to say, bro! Although the USA may be far behind most of the world as a progressive nation when it comes to things like abortion, capital punishment and gun proliferation, judging an accent in the same way is a real strange thing to do LOL!
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'Chu talkin' 'bout Willis??! Music, sweet music, I wish I could caress and...kiss, kiss... | |
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a whore in sheep's clothing | |
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Damn, you got me! Not bad. not bad at all. But you know I'm not talkin' 'bout 'chu | |
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Oops she answered already!
. [Edited 4/13/12 5:17am] ~~~~~ Oh that voice...incredible....there should be a musical instrument called George Michael... ~~~~~ | |
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Just keepin' you in check, youngster!
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All states in the U.S. have their own flag, Joe. | |
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And keep it non-political.
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Interesting....Anyway if you do come to Hawaii stop stealing Coral from the ocean floor, your destroying the enviroment. Also Stop stealing sand. When your at the beach and you see sea turtles don't go over to them and start touching them, it's against the law. Lastly do not take Lava rocks out of Hawaii, they are cursed (you be surprised how many tourist over the years have mailed back lava rocks). | |
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