How do you talk?

[mymindisgoo]

i have a nnj accent..

 

[attempt4]

I swear far too fucking much, need to stop that shit.

I have a half-Orkney accent (a fucked up accent that sounds like a cross between irish/welsh/scottish/norwegian and half-Edinburgh accent (typical scottish accent, I suppose)

When I get drunk, my Orcadian accent comes out in full swing and nobody down here can understand a word im saying

 

[Fawkes]

i've noticed recently that people from eastern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey sometimes follow a sentence with, "that [enter noun]." for instance:

"she's crazy, that girl."
"it was delcious, that place."

i try to enunciate my words properly so i really don't know that i have a regional accent - apart from a North American accent. though if i'm talking very casually (like to my boyfriend or sister) and even more so when speaking to family in Texas, i start to sound a bit southern belle-ish.

 

[rangrz]

I notice I often throw in 10 codes and obscure military slang out of my mouth that makes people look at me like "lolwut" if they're not familiar.

 

[socko]

I have a Canadian accent. Sometimes, my gf makes fun of it and tries to "correct" my pronunciation.

 

[Khadijah]

i've noticed recently that people from eastern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey sometimes follow a sentence with, "that [enter noun]." for instance:

"she's crazy, that girl."
"it was delcious, that place."

hahah yea thats true. we do say that shit alot over here. I never noticed it before but you are 100% right on that, haha thanks for pointing it out :D

 

[Too many doses]

I don't have a strong southern accent but I say y'all so.... It's obvious to most people. I vist my family in NYC at least once a year and people always ask me where I'm from like I am a medical oddity because of this. Also I say sir and ma'am out of respect, I've never been cursed out so much over saying these out of habit. Most people take it like I'm being sarcastic.

 

[rant*N*rave]

*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

ROFL! We just had an all-staff meeting at work, and one of the agenda points was how our southern customers were getting offended when we would use the word "guys" - we were instructed to use "y'all" if we had to use a synonym. I've always just replaced it with "everyone", as in "How are you guys doing tonight" = "How is everyone doing tonight".

We were also told that "y'all" is acceptable for singular "you" as well, which I have actually never heard, even though I know lots of people from down south... I'll be sticking with "you", lol.

 

[kong]

Midwest or "news" english is actually closer to what was spoken in the U.K. late 1700s than current brit speak. The east coast accents are actually "newer" forms of english as the trends from the U.K. didn't make never made it far enough into the U.S. to stick anywhere but the east cost and south. Brit speak has evolved and stopped crossing over as population density in the U.S. increased.

A similar phenomenal exists with french in Quebec.

 

[calmAnimal]

interesting^

i prob have a jersey accent but the only thing i can think of is when i say :

going down the shore. (sh-aw-oar)

 

[User Name Here]

I grew up in England, and I live in the American South now, so I have a really weird speaking voice. I've noticed that I'll say the same word once in an English accent and then in an American accent within the same sentence.

Yes. I love when "can't" becomes "cahnt."

"I cahnt hang out until later. I cahnt finish this whole sketch book tonight!"

I personally think I don't have much of an accent anymore. I had a southern accent until I lived in Vermont for a year as I was surrounded by people from NYC, Boston, NJ, Chicago, etc. Being around them basically washed away my accent and now I only sound really southern if I'm around others speaking with a strong southern accent and/or drunk.

 

[Fawkes]

i prob have a jersey accent but the only thing i can think of is when i say :

going down the shore. (sh-aw-oar)

do you do this, too?

i've noticed recently that people from eastern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey sometimes follow a sentence with, "that [enter noun]." for instance:

"she's crazy, that girl."
"it was delcious, that place."

 

[Khadijah]

and people say we aint courteous out here.....maybe sub consciously we just like to make sure everybodys 100% sure wat we are talkin about. Thats mad polite! :D

"A&P? Thats way too expensive, that store"......i keep thinkin of more examples from shit that ive said recently...You crackin me up becuz now i always notice when i do this or other people say it....

 

[Fawkes]

^ i think i first heard it on The Jersey Shore and then i've been noticing Howard Stern do it. thanks for confirming my suspicions. :D i actually think it's cute; it seems to emphasize passion for or extreme objection to something.

 

[MyDoorsAreOpen]

I think that North Jersey speech habit you're all talking about came from Yiddish speakers, originally.

 

[User Name Here]

NJ accents =

Of course, people can say the same for any accent... It seems like most people universally agree that the NJ accent is especially abrasive though.

 

[calmAnimal]

yeah fawkes i didnt even really think that was unusual untill you said something lol.

and another one is "going" actually get pronounced closer to "gone(gawn)" even though it is still the future tense.


wow saying words over and over again in my head makes them sound so weird and almost foreign.

 

[silvercrimson]

i talk very good english, however i cannot for the fucking life of me say masschchutteus yet alone spell it.

 

[rant*N*rave]

I think that North Jersey speech habit you're all talking about came from Yiddish speakers, originally.

I always hear Italian and Jewish people using it, especially those from the east coast, which is pretty unsurprising from what I understand.

 

[Perpetual Indulgence]

I talk with proper english peppered with curse words.
The Canadian accent is noted with out and about in a boat.