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grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:02 AM (EST) "Do you have a regional dialect?" Or, as they say here in NooYawk, "Do yoo tawk wid an ax-ent?" Do you automatically give away your region the second you open your mouth? Do people say to you, "Oh, you must be from _______" when they hear you speak? a berry nice sigpic from agman   Top

Subject     Author     Message Date     ID    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? brvnkrz 02-20-09 1    Emergency purchase! Estee 02-20-09 4        RE: Emergency purchase! grit 02-20-09 6            RE: Emergency purchase! Estee 02-20-09 10  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? byoffer 02-20-09 2  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? geg6 02-20-09 3  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? J Slice 02-20-09 5    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? grit 02-20-09 8    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? geg6 02-20-09 11        RE: Do you have a regional dialect? grit 02-20-09 16  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? thndrkttn 02-20-09 7    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? jbug 02-20-09 30  I'll let an 'eh' slip out IceCat 02-20-09 9  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? dragonflies 02-20-09 12    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Max Headroom 02-20-09 20  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? kingfish 02-20-09 13    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? grit 02-20-09 18        RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Max Headroom 02-20-09 22        RE: Do you have a regional dialect? kingfish 02-20-09 62  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Snidget 02-20-09 14    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? mrc 02-20-09 19        RE: Do you have a regional dialect? geg6 02-20-09 24        Quiz says Neutral Snidget 02-20-09 32            Surprisingly enough... grit 02-20-09 33            RE: Quiz says Neutral jbug 02-20-09 35            RE: Quiz says Neutral mrc 02-20-09 36                RE: Quiz says Neutral zombiebaby 02-20-09 40                    RE: Quiz says Neutral mrc 02-20-09 44                        RE: Quiz says Neutral Snidget 02-20-09 45                            RE: Quiz says Neutral mrc 02-20-09 46            Quiz checks out IceCat 02-20-09 37                RE: Quiz checks out grit 02-20-09 39                    Yup! IceCat 02-20-09 55                        RE: Yup! grit 02-20-09 60            RE: Quiz says Neutral geg6 02-20-09 41                RE: Quiz says Neutral mrc 02-20-09 43                RE: Quiz says Neutral Tenorsaxy 02-20-09 76                    RE: Quiz says Neutral CTgirl 02-20-09 77            RE: Quiz says Neutral vince3 02-20-09 42            Spot on... bystander 02-20-09 48            RE: Quiz says Neutral Max Headroom 02-20-09 52            RE: Quiz says Neutral HobbsofMI 02-20-09 57                RE: Quiz says Neutral dragonflies 02-20-09 71            RE: Quiz says Neutral PepeLePew13 02-20-09 66  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Buggy 02-20-09 15    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? grit 02-20-09 27  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? LostAddict 02-20-09 17  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? zombiebaby 02-20-09 21    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? grit 02-20-09 26  Unfortunately moonbaby 02-20-09 23    RE: Unfortunately zombiebaby 02-20-09 28        RE: Unfortunately Brownroach 02-20-09 49  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? cahaya 02-20-09 25  Arkie does. zombiebaby 02-20-09 29  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? samboohoo 02-20-09 31  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? agman 02-20-09 34  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? bystander 02-20-09 38    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? jbug 02-20-09 50        RE: Do you have a regional dialect? bystander 02-20-09 53            RE: Do you have a regional dialect? jbug 02-20-09 70    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? DearAbby 02-20-09 54    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? geg6 02-20-09 72        RE: Do you have a regional dialect? jbug 02-20-09 74  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Brownroach 02-20-09 47  Don't know. Estee 02-20-09 51  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Molaholic 02-20-09 56    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Snidget 02-20-09 58    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? J Slice 02-20-09 61        RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Molaholic 02-20-09 69  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Prof_ Wagstaff 02-20-09 59  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? MKitty 02-20-09 63  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Starshine 02-20-09 64    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? vince3 02-20-09 73  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? PepeLePew13 02-20-09 65    RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Starshine 02-20-09 67  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? kingfish 02-20-09 68  RE: Do you have a regional dialect? Quepea 02-20-09 75

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brvnkrz 20491 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:08 AM (EST) 1. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Like totally, oh my gawd no. Like nobody knows that I'm like from California. Gag me with a spoon. Tribe made me gay   Top

Estee 57126 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:16 AM (EST) 4. "Emergency purchase!" I will pay fifty dollars right now for the biggest spoon anyone's got.   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:17 AM (EST) 6. "RE: Emergency purchase!" Hey! Keep your sexual exploits with bravie out of my thresd!   Top

Estee 57126 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:21 AM (EST) 10. "RE: Emergency purchase!" I clearly asked for a spoon. Not a turkey baster. A spoon.   Top

byoffer 15947 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:09 AM (EST) 2. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Don't we all have an accent to people from other areas? I stand out as Canadian, because I pronouce "humor" with a "u", and when I write a "check" I do so with a "que".   Top

geg6 14941 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:11 AM (EST) 3. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Yes. http://english.cmu.edu/pittsburghspeech/overview.html "And let me give you a prime example -- when it comes to how we approach the issue of fiscal responsibility. Again, it's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they presided over a doubling of the national debt. I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility." - President Barack Obama 2-10-09   Top

J Slice 13166 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:17 AM (EST) 5. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" For some reason, people know I'm from New York. I'm not from the city, but I guess growing up in proximity, you tend to develop a slight regional dialect. I, for instance, drop the occasional "r". I am from New Yooawk, after all. I also talk very quickly. But see, my mother grew up in Tennessee. She does not have her accent anymore, since she has lived in New York for the last 30+ years, but she does say y'all. I say y'all too. Combine this with the accent I apparently have, and I must sound like a crazy person. I do it all the different ways.   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:19 AM (EST) 8. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" My brother now lives in Georgia and also says y'all. But he still has his NooYawk accent. It's kinda freaky. I got sliced! His co-workers all pick on him down there because of his accent but they're suddenly his best buddy after he's been visiting up here and he brings in NY bagels, pizza & calzone.   Top

geg6 14941 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:22 AM (EST) 11. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" LAST EDITED ON 02-20-09 AT 10:23 AM (EST) Dialect and accents are weird. I grew up in a home where it was a punishable offense to use "Pittsburghese." But, in order to get along with peers with less exacting parents, my siblings and I definitely used portions of the local lexicon to fit in. Today, I find myself unconsciously able to slip in and out of it, depending on where I am, who I'm interacting with, and whether it is a professional or social situation. I'll bet you're a little like me that way. "And let me give you a prime example -- when it comes to how we approach the issue of fiscal responsibility. Again, it's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they presided over a doubling of the national debt. I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility." - President Barack Obama 2-10-09 Edited to fix bad grammar.   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:26 AM (EST) 16. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I'll bet you're a little like me that way. I find that when I have to go down to NYC, my accent becomes heavier with a lot of "dese" "dat" and "dose" coming out. As soon as I'm on the train or on the Taconic it goes away... a berry nice sigpic from agman I worked really hard to eliminate the LawnGiland from my speech and I'd like to keep it out.   Top

thndrkttn 3216 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Car Show Celebrity" 02-20-09, 10:19 AM (EST) 7. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" My dialect is absolutely screwed up having lived in Syracuse, Cleveland, Boston, NYC, Albany and now the south. There's a little of each in there although I am trying my damndest to avoid the south creeping in. I have noticed that I already saying my 'o's differently. *rollseyes*   Top

jbug 17146 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 11:11 AM (EST) 30. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Aw now Hon..... folks'll jess luv yor akcent when ya git tha suthern bit in thar; truss me & guppee.   Top

IceCat 17415 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:21 AM (EST) 9. "I'll let an 'eh' slip out " ... every once in a while. Especially if I'm tired.   Top

dragonflies 8051 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:22 AM (EST) 12. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I sound just like the people on TV, so no, Midwesterners don't have an accent. But do you know what a bubbler is?   Top

Max Headroom 10069 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:44 AM (EST) 20. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" *sits with df at the Midwesterner non-accent table* But do you know what a bubbler is? Why yes, yes I do. My mother grew up in Whitefish Bay, and long ago she explained that they're not drinking fountains, they're bubblers. Surfkitten Sigshop Summer 2008   Top

kingfish 20752 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:24 AM (EST) 13. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Hail no!   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:32 AM (EST) 18. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Every time I heard JT speak last night, I kept wondering, "Does kingfish sound like that?"   Top

Max Headroom 10069 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:45 AM (EST) 22. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Nope. His redneck accent is much thicker than JT's. Surfkitten Sigshop Summer 2008   Top

kingfish 20752 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 02:18 PM (EST) 62. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" LAST EDITED ON 02-20-09 AT 03:02 PM (EST) I am a very refined and erudite speaker, my pronunciation is flawless, and my rhetoric unassailable. Of course, when, as happens on the odd occasion, I swallow my chaw, and then a hint of an accent, developed in my formative years, will peep through. ED: FTR, Snidget's quiz has me pegged as neutral. Now haint no dang way that hound dawg hunts!   Top

Snidget 44369 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:24 AM (EST) 14. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Mostly accentless, but Midwestern tends to be mostly accentless to start with. I have worked to take the R out of my warsh. I have picked up y'all being here in the south now. It is just so darn useful. Its still a soda, not a pop or a sody or a coke. Well unless it is the actual brand Coca Cola.   Top

mrc 10113 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:40 AM (EST) 19. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I hate to tell you, Snidge, but Midwesterners have strong accents. Now excuse me while I go pa'k the ca' in the ya'd. A Slice of Manga   Top

geg6 14941 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:50 AM (EST) 24. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" LOL! Totally true. "And let me give you a prime example -- when it comes to how we approach the issue of fiscal responsibility. Again, it's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they presided over a doubling of the national debt. I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility." - President Barack Obama 2-10-09   Top

Snidget 44369 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 11:31 AM (EST) 32. "Quiz says Neutral" link   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 11:48 AM (EST) 33. "Surprisingly enough..." I am also Neutral. another agman creation   Top

jbug 17146 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:01 PM (EST) 35. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" Which American accent do you have? Southern People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one. Didn't expect anything different! However, after living in SanFran for 6 years and South FL for 12 years, I lost a bit of my accent. But after 10 years now back home, it's returning.   Top

mrc 10113 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:08 PM (EST) 36. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" Well, if this online quiz, which cannot hear you talk, says so . . . My FB quiz says I have a neutral accent, but I don't. A Slice of Manga   Top

zombiebaby 7356 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:14 PM (EST) 40. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" I thought you had that freaky German accent like Froderick Frahnkensteen? You've been hotpocketed! See ya in another life brutha!   Top

mrc 10113 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:24 PM (EST) 44. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" I have a British accent, play tambourine, and attract girls. I'm a mAGMANimous ruler   Top

Snidget 44369 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:26 PM (EST) 45. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" You know that New means not the same as the Old England, right. Mr pa'k the ca' in the ya'd.   Top

mrc 10113 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:31 PM (EST) 46. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" But I'm a prince, so those rules don't apply to me. I'm a mAGMANimous ruler   Top

IceCat 17415 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:08 PM (EST) 37. "Quiz checks out"   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:12 PM (EST) 39. "RE: Quiz checks out" Are you from Canada?   Top

IceCat 17415 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 01:16 PM (EST) 55. "Yup!"   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 01:54 PM (EST) 60. "RE: Yup!" I thought these days you considered yourself a Saudi Arabian and had the accent to match… I got sliced! I guess I forgot to put a smilie in my lost post to you.   Top

geg6 14941 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:19 PM (EST) 41. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" Wow. That couldn't be further off for me. My Results: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827> Western Western is kind of neutral, but not quite since it`s still possible to tell where you`re from. So you might not actually be from the West (but you probably are). If you really want to sound "neutral," learn how to say "stock" and "stalk" differently. Not only would my part of the country be considered East Coast or, sometimes, Midwestern. But I've never lived on the West Coast. Weird. To make sure I wasn't unconsciously skewing it, I had a colleague listen to me and tell me how I sounded. "And let me give you a prime example -- when it comes to how we approach the issue of fiscal responsibility. Again, it's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they presided over a doubling of the national debt. I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility." - President Barack Obama 2-10-09   Top

mrc 10113 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:22 PM (EST) 43. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" Hmm. Maybe it's skewed because "Gnarly waves, dood" is part of your everyday conversations. Bunnies eat nerds.   Top

Tenorsaxy 947 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Fitness Correspondent" 02-20-09, 06:01 PM (EST) 76. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" I got the same result, and I agree this can't be right. I've been out of the Northeast very few times in my life. I've been skiing in Colorado (surrounded by other tourists), but I've never otherwise even been out west. The farthest south I've ever lived is Massachusetts and the farthest west is Montreal. I do use a few Canadianisms in my speech, and I've been known to say y'all, although I cannot explain where that came from. I can speak with a Mainah's accent, but I normally don't. For the record, I pronounce "stock" and "stalk" the same. Syren says: “Sometimes you have to weather the storm to play in the rainbows.” Check out my blog!   Top

CTgirl 8013 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 08:46 PM (EST) 77. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" I agree, mine was totally off. I came out North Central (Minnesota/Canada) - I've always lived in the Northeast and my parents are from Boston. I never thought I had an "accent" until I went to college in Central PA. There were some people from New England on my hall but it was mostly Philly, Pittsburgh, upstate NY, DC etc. Everyone said I "clipped" my words (yeah I talk too fast) and rolled my 'r's (instead of saying ca'h, I'd say "carrr." Who knows?! I say Dawn and Don the same though and it drives DH crazy because he never knows which friend I'm talking about! Mangafied by Slice   Top

vince3 17341 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:21 PM (EST) 42. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" Neutral, with Pittsburghese if I make an effort to pull it out.......   Top

bystander 4968 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:36 PM (EST) 48. "Spot on..." My Results: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827> Mid Atlantic Also known as a "Philadelphia accent" but also heard in south Jersey, Baltimore, and thereabouts.   Top

Max Headroom 10069 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 01:05 PM (EST) 52. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" Neutral here too. Can't say I'm surprised. Years ago I went to Boston on a business trip. Upon arrival at the rental car counter, I immediately noticed the clerk's thick Boston accent. As I was wrapping up the transaction, I idly commented, "I can tell I'm in Boston. You have an accent." She smirked at me and said, "I don't have an accent. You do."   Top

HobbsofMI 16065 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 01:31 PM (EST) 57. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" Which American accent do you have? My Results: Northern You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for. GO WINGS! 2008 Stanley Cup Champs! sig JSlice and by IceCat, and bobble head by Tribephyl   Top

dragonflies 8051 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:47 PM (EST) 71. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" Same here.   Top

PepeLePew13 26140 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:15 PM (EST) 66. "RE: Quiz says Neutral" I'm also a "Neutral"...   Top

Buggy 5089 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:25 AM (EST) 15. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" no   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:54 AM (EST) 27. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" No? Are you sure? I can't believe no one's called you out on this yet...   Top

LostAddict 420 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Daytime Soap Guest Star" 02-20-09, 10:32 AM (EST) 17. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I don't know notice it on myself. I try REALLY hard not to use Oklahoma-slang. I DO notice it on others. DH is the worst. Especially when he speaks to his dad.   Top

zombiebaby 7356 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:45 AM (EST) 21. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Gawd no. By the way...do you have a kawtah so I can buy some beeah? You've been hotpocketed! FTR I do pronounce my ending 'r's, don't say "yous", correctly say Long Island(2 words!) but I do say ahrange instead of ooorange.   Top

grit 4868 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:52 AM (EST) 26. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" "ooorange" is so upstate. With my husband, I always use this as my argument - the old orange juice commercial, "Aren't you smart? For drinking ahrange juice."   Top

moonbaby 17120 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:48 AM (EST) 23. "Unfortunately" LAST EDITED ON 02-20-09 AT 11:39 AM (EST) I don't "dese, dem, and dose or say toity toid and toid" but I do have an accent. How bad? Ask (not axe, never ever axe, LOL!) Buggy or IceCat They both sound loverly, btw. Accent free, even! Just took the quiz in Snidget's link and it said Northeastern. seltzah!   Top

zombiebaby 7356 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:59 AM (EST) 28. "RE: Unfortunately" Ugggh, DH says "axe" sometimes and it is like nails on a chalkboard with me. I always correct him. He says it's a Levittown thing.   Top

Brownroach 15341 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:40 PM (EST) 49. "RE: Unfortunately" I've heard people from all over the place say 'axe' instead of 'ask'. I don't think it's a specific regional accent, it's just an inability to pronounce the word correctly.   Top

cahaya 19891 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 10:52 AM (EST) 25. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Living in Kuala Lumpur and working in cities throughout Asia and northern Europe, my southern Indiana Hoosier accent was all but erased in favor of clear international English diction. Initially, I had real problems with people understanding me, although they themselves spoke English. Now the Hoosier twang is settling back in after two decades of disuse.   Top

zombiebaby 7356 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 11:01 AM (EST) 29. "Arkie does. " Twang! You've been hotpocketed! *runs away very fast*   Top

samboohoo 17173 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 11:18 AM (EST) 31. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I don't know what ya'll are talking about. For some reason, there are times when there is a little more of a twang than others. And if I get around a group of people - specifically southerners, it really comes out. My boss is a Yankee. He and I both pronounce the word "chocolate" in completely different manners. *smooches Agman*   Top

agman 11166 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 11:52 AM (EST) 34. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I never use to think I did(although I used surfer slang all the time)but when we went back to Michigan to visit my cousins, everyone was commenting on our accents! The same happened when my aunt and uncle for Iowa came to visit us, they said we had accents and I thought they had accents. So I'd say yes, I have an accent   Top

bystander 4968 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:09 PM (EST) 38. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I never really thought I did until I lived in Cincinnati for a few years. Everyone there thought I had the Philly accent. (even though I grew up closer to the Central Pennsylvania area). So I told them, "Youse guys don't know what you're tawking about!" After two years there I was saying crap like "Y'all" instead of "Youse" and "Please?" instead of "Excuse me?". They even had me eating spaghetti with my chili, a topic for another thread. I must say, my by-bro does have a hint of funny Canadian dialect going on when he tawks.   Top

jbug 17146 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:49 PM (EST) 50. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" oh yes! Let's talk spaghetti and chili!!!!!!!! Gimme some Skyline - just 2 way please.   Top

bystander 4968 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Stuff Magazine Centerfold" 02-20-09, 01:15 PM (EST) 53. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Would you like a couple Cheese Coney's to go with that?   Top

jbug 17146 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:45 PM (EST) 70. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" yes yes yes! please! and a few for DH - as he is the one who - being the Cincinatti native - that introduced me to them -r or them to me. & change my order to 3-way please. We used to be able to buy the Skyline canned chili at Kroger - but they are no longer carrying it. I can't believe we would pay over $3 for a small can of chili! I'd laugh if Hormel ever thought they could get that price out of me We could also buy the packets of seasoning mix and make our own. We like our make-your-own the best cause we make it a touch thicker than what comes in the can. I still have 2 packets left - I'm stingy with them. I'll have to get BIL & SIL to send us some more.   Top

DearAbby 3008 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Car Show Celebrity" 02-20-09, 01:15 PM (EST) 54. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I must say, my by-bro does have a hint of funny Canadian dialect going on when he tawks. You noticed that too, eh? According to the quiz, my accent is neutral, but I think I have a bit of a Southern drawl.   Top

geg6 14941 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:52 PM (EST) 72. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" They >even had me eating spaghetti >with my chili, a topic >for another thread. So you lose your tastebuds when you move to Cinci, too? Skyline Chili is the most disgusting thing on earth. I'd rather eat Chicago deep dish pizza. And, believe me, that would be the equivalent to fufaru for me. "The response of the right to the crisis in America was to flee to its catechism. The Republicans propose to bail out the economy with doctrine. Unemployment is 7.6 percent and rising, and they say: let them eat Friedman. When billions and billions of dollars are needed for the Pentagon (fine with me) and for Wall Street, it is damn the zeroes, full speed ahead--but when the prospect of relief for ordinary Americans in trouble rears its fair and compassionate head, the deficit desperately matters again. The Republicans are not only heartless, they are also hypocritical, since the cause of all this misery was the market abandon that they promoted so messianically. These are the people who would have privatized, that is, destroyed, Social Security: how can their protests not be met vehemently? This vehemence is not "partisanship," it is analysis. It is not "populism," it is liberalism." - Leon Wieseltier   Top

jbug 17146 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 04:47 PM (EST) 74. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Skyline Chili is the most disgusting thing on earth In your opinion of course Differences make the world go round and round and round...... Slicey took out the wrinkles '08   Top

Brownroach 15341 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:35 PM (EST) 47. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I took two different versions of the quiz and they both said I have a Philadelphia or Mid-Atlantic accent. Weird. To me most of the time I have no accent but occasionally a little bit of New York-speak sneaks in.   Top

Estee 57126 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 12:59 PM (EST) 51. "Don't know." Under North Dakota law, I'm no longer allowed to speak.   Top

Molaholic 9015 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 01:20 PM (EST) 56. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" LAST EDITED ON 02-20-09 AT 01:23 PM (EST) Speaking of accents -- the weirdest accent I ever heard was when I was in Boy Scouts (c. 1970) we had a new kids join our troop. His name was Deitmar Schantschnider (spelling approximate) and he was from Germany, but had lived in Australia for three years, which is where he learned English. He had a combined German/Australia accent. Zounds! Agman dos’t make sig! Mole Speak   Top

Snidget 44369 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 01:37 PM (EST) 58. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I saw a documentary on the Vietnamese kids that came right after the end of the whatever we call it to not call it a war. Anywho a bunch of them ended up in Oklahoma. They hadn't been there long enough to lose the Southeast Asian accent, but they had a drawl on top of it.   Top

J Slice 13166 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 02:12 PM (EST) 61. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" My mother's sister, Peggy, has been living in Switzerland since 1980. She is from Tennessee, and when she was not living in Chattanooga, she was living in New Orleans. She speaks English with an American southern accent. This is also how she speaks otherwise flawless Swiss-German. My cousins' friends find this hilarious. Her Swiss ex-husband now lives in Atlanta. Go figure.   Top

Molaholic 9015 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:42 PM (EST) 69. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" LAST EDITED ON 02-20-09 AT 03:45 PM (EST) When I was in Atlanta for a baseball tournament back in the early 90s one of the players had family living nearby. He had cousins speaking Spanish with a southern drawl. Zounds! Agman dos’t make sig! Mole Speak eta - swoop!   Top

Prof_ Wagstaff 4196 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Jerry Springer Show Guest" 02-20-09, 01:41 PM (EST) 59. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Which American accent do you have? NORTHERN You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for. They got me right. It's funny because a friend of mine from LonG Island NY, says that I sound just like a newscaster and I always thought he was goofy. Into the magna tribe by phyl   Top

MKitty 2976 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Howard Stern Show Guest" 02-20-09, 02:48 PM (EST) 63. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" LAST EDITED ON 02-20-09 AT 05:02 PM (EST) I think I have a fairly neutral west coast Canadian accent...(unlike the hardcore accents they have on the Eastern seaboard, when I lived in Halifax) I used to be told I had a "Valley Girl" accent when I was around 18 years old, but years of living overseas forced me to adopt clear and slow speech, which did speed up when I came back to Canada, but not nearly as fast as some people I know. I know a woman who speaks so fast that she slurs her words...I really just want to smack her! Okay, I now did the quiz...Edited to add: Which American accent do you have? Canadian People from outside North America probably think you`re from the States, but over here we wouldn't make such a mistake. LOL..well, that is what I figured all along! Tribe manga'd my mug   Top

Starshine 5033 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:01 PM (EST) 64. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" Somewhat disturbing, as I am the only one here without an accent Something or Other   Top

vince3 17341 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:58 PM (EST) 73. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" LAST EDITED ON 02-20-09 AT 03:59 PM (EST) I don't think they have a map that includes British accents...... Swoop block   Top

PepeLePew13 26140 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:10 PM (EST) 65. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I've got an accent that pretty much nobody else has since I can't hear how I speak so I sometimes don't realize how certain words should be pronounced (even if most people do get what I'm saying). The most common comment I've been asked when others hear me speak upon meeting me for the first time is, "Are you French?" More than a couple times, I've answered "No, I'm not, that's just how I speak or that's how sounds come out of me" and they insist that I "must be from somewhere!" Whew.   Top

Starshine 5033 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:17 PM (EST) 67. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" You know... I have always assumed you were from somewhere   Top

kingfish 20752 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 02-20-09, 03:40 PM (EST) 68. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I'm from Joisy! You From Joisy? I'm from Joisy! IceCat..SBOTs, unite!   Top

Quepea 313 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Cooking Show Host" 02-20-09, 04:54 PM (EST) 75. "RE: Do you have a regional dialect?" I don't in the ears of anyone who speaks proper english. I have a very slight lisp when I get angry. I have developed a relaxed, monotone voice from staying in the same city and house for over 30 years.   Top

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