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Do you have an accent?
If so, do you realize that you have an accent?
I think I have a benign "TV reporter" voice, but whenever I find myself around Midwesterners, they swear I have a noticeable Southern accent.
Do you imagine Nesties talking with an accent when you read what they write?
This is my siggy.
Re: Do you have an accent?
People usually can't guess where I am from by my accent.
I like that. I also like being able to whip out an accent when I feel the need.
I don't give people accents. Perhaps I should, though.
I have 2 (apparently). People in TX can always tell that I'm from "up north" and my family back home tells me I'm starting to sound southern.
I don't really know how this works out, but I think I'm supposed to move to like Kansas or somewhere in between.
I've been told I have no accent at all. I was raised in Washington DC.
But I live in Nashville now, so when I get drunk, I slur and drawl because it's funny.
Updated September 2012.
I have always been bummed by the fact that I have no accent. Though when I went to grad school in the Midwest, they all loved to laugh when I said "wicked"...I don't think I actually have any sort of accent.
I do a pretty terrible Southern drawl-Cockney hybrid that will make your skin crawl though! It's a little Eliza Doolittle (before she gets fancied up) mixed with Scarlett O'Hara (after Rhett slaps her). Maybe I'll get drunk and do it at the gtg!
It depends who I'm talking to. I sound like I'm from Wisconsin/Midwest. I have that nasal, Midwestern sound. Although, I think it's pretty generic and how actors sound in shows or movies where they aren't trying to sound like they are from a specific region in the US.
My FI is from central Illinois and he has a little bit of a southern twang to his voice. His voice sticks out like a sore thumb when he's among people from my part of Wisconsin. You can definitely tell he's not from around here. It's funny how 500 or so miles makes that much of a difference...especially since he's still technically from the Midwest.
I picture some people on this board with accents. Only if they've told where they're from.
I always imagine Interro with a Boston accent. I think it's precisely because of her use of the word "wicked."
Are you sure that's Southern and not Country you are hearing?
What's funny is that even though I know you aren't from the South, in my head you are from the South. You seem like you should be with your sundresses and love of cooking. I know that's a bad stereotype, but in my head that's how I picture you! I picture you sitting on a white porch swing, in a yellow floral sundress sipping sweet tea.
Not sure but to me it sounds a little Southern (he doesn't sound like a hick! LOL). I know a few other people from a little bit further down in IL and they sound like that too...and they aren't from farm country!
Awww I pretty much love this. Please carry on with this mental picture of me! I prefer it to the reality, which is more likely that I'm a little Yankee bratface.
I imagine BBE being Southern-ish too. If you cross her, she'll be all sweet-as-pie to your face and bless your heart a lot, but behind closed doors she's baking you a shiit pie.
I also imagine her to talk a million miles an hour when she gets excited.
Hmmm this is all true.
Also I am extremely loud. I have a loud voice and a loud laugh and I have a hard time controlling those things. I'm sure it's super annoying.
I do a little. It depends on what I'm saying, but sometimes I'll get "New England vowels".
Also, if I get mad I start to sound like I'm from south Philly. I swear I'm not, I think it's more in the expressions than the actual accent.
Yep. H likes to point it out. I don't hear it... but everyone where we live speaks like I do.
Slightly Philly, mixed with some Pittsburgh and a little country thrown in for good measure.
This is what happens when you live in a country area between two big cities with distinctive accents.
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Yes I do, and sometimes I get embarrassed by it.
I have a really hardcore Staten Island accent. Very VERY New York a la "Noo Yawk", more noticeable than a Brooklyn accent. When I travel, I usually get "Oof! you're from New York, huh?" (ugh. LOL)
So, most times when speaking I try to slow it down and concentrate on pronouncing my R's so as to avoid having to hear about how strong my accent is. It takes me like 5-6 tries to record work/personal voicemails so there's no trace of it, and I generally do like 2 takes when I leave a vm for people. (non friends)
lol
Maybe someone can explain this to me:
I was raised in PA. Father is from NY. Mother is from WV. I live currently in OH. And on more than one occasion I've been told I sound like I am from Europe (however vast the possibilities that includes). I would have to say I do not have an accent. There seems no possible way. You'd think I would have no clue how to even speak English with all of that dialect being involved in my upbringing!