Your Accent..........
04-29-2012, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Ditter43
Your accent is a giveaway to where you're from. Take this quiz. It will tell you! It's a fun site, too!!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/amer...cent-quiz.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/amer...cent-quiz.html
04-29-2012, 07:41 PM
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It said mine was Inland North and it is so wrong. I have lived in Florida since before I turned 2 years old. I was born in Ohio but I never lived there very long. Have only been back to visit it one time in my life.
04-29-2012, 07:45 PM
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It was right on - I grew up in CA, and it said 'The West which most people agree isn't really an accent.' I guess you'll have to tell that to my cousins. When I visited relatives in the Dakotas years ago, one of my young cousins said, " Say something else, Joanne. I just LOVE your accent.' Okay, maybe I didn't have an accent, maybe it was because I didn't have HER accent. They really do talk like that, you know - the movie 'Fargo', I mean. Now don't all of you Dakotans start dumping on me. You know it's true!
04-29-2012, 09:56 PM
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I tested as "Midland", too. I was born in Germany, raised in Kansas by a German mother and a father from Nebraska. I have lived most of my adult life in Southeast Texas. Of course I don't have an accent! 
One time a friend from my hometown (Leavenworth) came to see me after many years, and she claimed I had developed a Southern drawl. I'm sure all the native Texans around me would have laughed at that. However, when I go back to Kansas now I do notice a few words that sound a little wrong to me. Can't quite pinpoint what's different.
The most interesting thing I've read on the subject of regional dialects in this country was a statement that at the time of the Civil War, there was no southern accent, or it was, at least, very different from what developed by the time we arrived. I wish I could remember where I read that. I would like to see some documentation. Surely speech couldn't evolve that drastically is such a short time. On the other hand, I think the whole country now sounds more like Southern California than it did when I was a kid, just because of the influence of TV and movies.
One time a friend from my hometown (Leavenworth) came to see me after many years, and she claimed I had developed a Southern drawl. I'm sure all the native Texans around me would have laughed at that. However, when I go back to Kansas now I do notice a few words that sound a little wrong to me. Can't quite pinpoint what's different.
The most interesting thing I've read on the subject of regional dialects in this country was a statement that at the time of the Civil War, there was no southern accent, or it was, at least, very different from what developed by the time we arrived. I wish I could remember where I read that. I would like to see some documentation. Surely speech couldn't evolve that drastically is such a short time. On the other hand, I think the whole country now sounds more like Southern California than it did when I was a kid, just because of the influence of TV and movies.
Last edited by Rose_P; 04-29-2012 at 09:58 PM.
04-29-2012, 11:26 PM
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right on the money! i have lived in ALL those places! actually, i'm a bit of a vocal chameleon. i quickly and unconsciously pick up the accent of the person i'm conversing with. we moved around a lot all my life so it's no wonder i have a hodge-podge accent.
btw--midland
btw--midland
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