How do you talk?

[Khadijah]

^^My 2nd grade teacher always tried to take away our jerseyness by correctin any kid who said "Chruck" or "Chruth" or "chrust". She said it in a unpronouncabble way, like british or somethin. T-ruck. I cant even make the sound or actually say it, but it was weird, I think that is somethin similar becuz I dont see nothing wrong with the way u said monster, thats how its said aint it? Monz-sthurr or wtfever. I wish this thread was like a audio chat room and we could hear eachother talk instead of try n spell out sounds that is impossible to explain with letters.

 

[Khadijah]

LMAO @ jeetyet...that sounds like some redneck shit right there Lacey. Now you better not tell me there's a difference between a "jersey jeetyet" and a "southern jeetyet"

There is 100% lol. Southern version would be like Haayyy, jew-eetyet? Jersey version, fast and hard like 'djaeetyet? just imagine tony soprano sayin it. Its totally different yo:D Im bein serious tho

 

[China Rider]

I talk like all other people born and raised in eastern PA. We pretty much talk the same as people do on common national television programs, accentless.

 

[MyDoorsAreOpen]

^^My 2nd grade teacher always tried to take away our jerseyness by correctin any kid who said "Chruck" or "Chruth" or "chrust". She said it in a unpronouncabble way, like british or somethin. T-ruck. I cant even make the sound or actually say it, but it was weird, I think that is somethin similar becuz I dont see nothing wrong with the way u said monster, thats how its said aint it?

Hehe. It only took one year living back in Jersey before I was saying "Howboutchoo?" It just rolls off the tongue, I dunno. Several times people from other places have looked at me funny or asked me to repeat myself when I've said this.

Jamshyd and rachamim, does Arabic even have a 'ch' sound like in English? Whenever I've seen any Semetic language romanized, 'ch' represents a guttural, raspy consonant, as in 'Achmed'.

 

[jspun]

California burnout surfer accent which is intersting when I'm discusing pathophysiology at work. Greek is my first language (born in US and spoke it exclusively until 3 or 4 but now I have a heavy American accent and I speak it it at the level of a 12 year old. Hard to get sophisticated concepts across but it helps at work when I pronounce hard to pronounce medical terminology derived from greek, and I have the advantage in that medical syndromes but more often anotomy come from words that are still used in the modern as opposed to ancient greek so it makes it easier for me to remember medical terminology. Thank God Greek never became a dead language.

 

[rangrz]

I swear a lot and spit things out unpolished, however sometimes there is highly technical information in between the obscene barrage.

 

[Volundr]

I was born in the NE of England, and grew up with a teesside accent until I was about 8. Similar to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKccHfvK0UA&feature=related lol. Moved to the south, and, in terms of English accents, I'm rather accentless. I have a very formal well spoken accent when speaking with strangers or deliberately speaking properly and when I'm speaking casually the only major difference is that my t's become a LOT less pronounced, so didn't would become didn' kinda.. But idk, I have a much more formal accent in comparison to my friends so dunno really.

Fortunately I can still easily understand most NE accents, to my friends it's like theyre speaking another language

 

[halycyondaze]

me too least favorite accent. Altho i will make an exception for my favorite aussies on BL , such as SLM and raverchik

The only word i notice myself pronouncing differently than how we do here in Asia is Clothes (pronounced "clodes") I hear americans pronounce it as "clowz" . Lol.
Hey you bought your clowz yet?

Irish people would say Clowz too so the Americans possibly got that from us. The english have hard Ts so they say CLOTHES. Whereas in Gaelic, T is soft and not pronounced. So when we were forced to use English, we adopt our own soft T. I reckon alot of Americans have that too cos of Irish ancestry. Is it the same with Aussies?

On another note...whats people FAVOURITE ACCENT? Im undecided between Scottish and Italian.

 

[GenericMind]

Cool thread.

I've actually been asked if I had a British accent by someone a couple months ago which I thought was hilarious. They must have been high.

I've been told my use of more "educated" vocabulary combined with my extreme and frequent use of profanity all topped off with a hint of ghetto Niagara Falls is hilariously weird.

I also apparently say the word "Car" very northern-like according to some southern Bluelighters.

 

[n3ophy7e]

I swear a lot

I've recently just started swearing a whoooooole lot more. I have no idea why...it's fun and more expressive at times, but I think sometimes I also go a bit overboard...for a lady

 

[rant*N*rave]

I swear like a fucking sailor. Don't feel bad about it It actually gets me in trouble online a lot because people think I'm angry or something, but it's really just how I talk... :D

for the most part, i don't think i have an accent. my roommate (he is from denmark) said i was easy to understand because i spoke like the people on the news.

tho i just use steroetypical midwest words like pop instead of soda.

In WI it's soda, not pop. We also call water fountains "bubblers" in the southeast part of the state (and that's highly localized - I don't know anyone from outside of Milwaukee that says it).

Since starting my new job (where there are lots of people from out of state), I have gotten entirely fucking sick of "did you grow up in the midwest? cuz you sound just a little bit like you did..." YES FUCKER, I'M FROM HERE! lol As if no one in the company is actually from anywhere near it... :D

Since I went ahead and paid ridiculous attention to it cuz I couldn't figure it out for the life of me (I don't hear an accent in most of them, so it makes no sense to me that they hear one in me!), I can tell what they're talking about I think. People in southern WI have tinges of the sound you hear in northern WI/MN, where they really do the whole "don'tcha know!" and "ya der hey" and "uff da" shit; "water" almost sounds like "watter" and "lutefisk" is "loooootefisk" - the minister in King of the Hill is a good example. The letter "o" in particular has the distinctly different sound, almost turning into a "u" a little bit. Other vowels are treated a little differently as well, and many are a little drawn out. Short "i's" are really tight and quick and almost sound like they have half a "y" in front of them - almost "fyish" instead of "fish" etc. Apparently there are a select few words that I say where it's noticeable, but most of the time it isn't.

The informal midwest dialect has a lot of the same stuff as the northeast as well: chruck, i'mma go, ja'eetyet, howboutchu, etc. That's how I normally talk, but I can definitely turn it off in more "proper" situations. What I think is really great is inner city Milwaukee speak. It's this awesome ghetto-riffic patois of southern, midwestern, and northeastern. It's got a sexy swang to it, and I think, if you could say this and make sense, it's one of the more "proper" forms of ebonics.

I just really wonder what people from outside of the US think of US accents, since here we tend to think that a lot of foreign accents are sexy. I just can't see US English being considered sexy... lol

 

[n3ophy7e]

I swear like a fucking sailor. Don't feel bad about it

Yet another reason why you're fucking awesome

 

[ebola?]

To reiterate: I talk like I type on here--it's scary.

ebola

 

[n3ophy7e]

^^ That is actually the way I've always imagined that you'd talk IRL

 

[EbowTheLetter]

I have a very slight Boston accent but it seems to come out more when I'm abroad and/or drunk. Generally I don't hear that I have too much of an accent. I grew up (till I was 13) in a part of Massachusetts that was pretty isolated and whitebread. I went to a catholic school that was run my srs old school nuns. It wasn't till I actually moved a bit further west and south in the state that I picked up the 'Boston/Massachusetts/New England' accent. When I moved to Boston itself, it came out a bit more.

I've always been really fascinated with the way people talk and have ended up accidentally permanently assimilating a few things from friends/coworkers. I now say 'Canada' and 'Toronto' like my friend who lives in T-dot and an ex from Vermont. I now generally say 'Yeah' like someone from South Jersey/Philly. I say 'whoa' a lot more than I ever used to because of my friend out here that is from St. Louis. He says it all the time in a particular way. I pick up pronunciations and lilts that come from working for a few years in a hospital side by side with coworkers from Haiti, Brazil, Portugal, India, Dominican Republic.

And my own personal lexicon is forever evolving and changing because I like to play with the written word, which then ends up in my conversations IRL.

Blah, blah, blah

wicked tl;dr, guy

 

[rant*N*rave]

The Boston accent is great! I have cousins that live in Boston, and when one of them was little, we'd play this "game" that we thought was just hilarious:

Us: Say Pete!
Him: Pete!
Us: Say urr!
Him: Urr!
Us: Say Peter!
Him: Petah!



My uncle (blood relative) grew up in Milwaukee, but my aunt is born and bred Bostonian (pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd!), and they've lived there since before the kids were born. I love picking up words like "wicked" from them and other friends out on the coast. :D

 

[ebola?]

I recently said "motherfucker" in front of a full class of undergrads; it was moderately embarrassing.

 

[poopie]

*dude: way too much. This is probably the most used word in my vocab. It's so expressive.
*bro: annoying, and no, I'm not from Jersey (usually not used in a nice way, anyway)
*omg: valley girl stylee
*fuck: oh-so expressive
*yeah: (like, from the islands- "we're going to the beach, yeah?". Not in the Scandinavian sense)
*guys: I have been called out by elderly Southern women for referring to a mixed group as "guys", when I was waiting tables, so I now use...
*y'all: ugh

I grew up in upstate NY, and have now lived in FL for a long time. Not too heavy of an accent in either region.


I use swear words often, but try to limit them to adult situations. I call out my friends for cursing in front of little kids, but using the word "cunt" loudly in a bar, is kosher.

 

[Keaton]

I sound like I've been living in southern california for most of my life

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

It's not an accent thing but recently my boyfriend and some friends made me realize I am weird because I say "AA batteries" or "AAA batteries" like, "A-A" vs. "Double A". Everyone else but me says double A but that sounds so weird to me! lol