I admit I talk funny - But it gives me character! - lol
I can feel Spring!!
One advantage of being from NYC - no one speaks too quickly for me to understand!
Ayuh! lol
Feeling better, stomach still thinks it's on the merry-go-round but i'll live.
Victor has N.Y. 'axent' that is very evident, especially here in Maine.
He couldn't of tried to lie his way out of it if he'd wanted to!!
I have friends that grew up and still live in the area of Blackstone Mass/R.I. and boy you can hear it when they talk!
So do you say CAH or CAR??
I say cah! Even when I'm trying not to! I think it comes out worse when I think about it too much! : )
Sounds like pahk da cahh in tha hahvahd yahd He He
I recently spoke with Shelly, who is from OR. Afterward, she dmailed me and said she now has to 'apply my NY accent' to all my posts!
I do that with letters from Brian's doctor...he's orignally from London. hee hee he
Oh wouldn't it be cool if we had a little button on our homepages we could click on that had a voice recording so we could click it if we wanted to 'hear' who we were talking to lol. Then I could put a voice to your name and here that silly accent you claim doesn't exist! : )
Even better - have a button that makes our own accent change!
Ha ha ha that would be fun!
A really good online friend of mine lives in New Zealand. She got herself a webcam and one day while we were messaging she turned it on and talked to me. LOLOL...what a hoot!! I couldn't understand a word she said!! She told me later I sounded American...
If you saw me live you wouldn't be able to hear me with everything going on here! : )
Our daughter who moved to Ohio & doesn't have a strong NE accent as we move here when she was 11, claims that she has lost NEishness except when she talks to people named 'Mahtha'. Can't get rid of it, she says.
when my kids were young i shopped at Toy's Us once in a while
My mother always taught me that "Chicago English" was pure, unaccented or perhaps correctly pronounced American. My father was from Baltimore via Manhattan roots and my mother grew up in Virginia with Ohio roots. I grew up in Boston but never knew how to pronounce anything.
I think the second or third generation that lives in the same place gets more of an accent, because one gets one's accent from one's parents, of course, but also from one's teachers and one's friends.
I do think that the current newscasters trend to accent the prepositions is not right. (A family OF five people fled FROM a burning building AT 3 am this morning. Firefighters ON the scene said they had never seen such huge plumes OF smoke or heard such screams FOR help. Luckily, all five people, ranging IN age FROM just 2 TO 47 were safely evacuated FROM the premises WITHOUT injury. [I made that up, but read it like a newscaster.] Apologies to any actual newscasters.)
Chicaago, really! I went to school in Rockford IL for a couple of years & we all thought Chicago accents were strange & funny.
I say that southern California and south west Connecticut have no accent. When I moved here from CA no one could tell that I wasn't from around here by my accent! Which, of course, I don't have because I'm from So Cal!
Right..
Wait a minute, back up a bit...you moved to the dark, cold NE from So Cal????
Why!!??
The weather's nicer in Connecticut.
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Ground doesn't shake as much.
oh! I was under the impression that English from MA was the correct one... and the rest of the country speaks funny! lol... since this is the only English I have learned!!!!
I once read the Johnny Carson was the epitome of accentless American English.
I thought Stallone was.
3gardners - the move had to do with a man and it turned out badly (the man part) so I don't talk about it. I (and the mortgage company) own my own home for the first time in my life - so it is OK with me. And I didn't mind the shaking in Cally - really it isn't that bad. The weather is usually warm when it happens and it only takes a few seconds and it is over. Survey the damage - if any and go on with life. Literally we would sit through a quake in the office and put together a pool betting on the epicenter and the strength!
As to quakes: During an earthquake a man dived under a table & yelled, "I'm from LA & we always get under heavy tables in LA" . Another man jumped into the doorways & yelled, "I'm from SF we always stand in doorways in SF". A third man yelled, "I'm from Chicago, what the devil to I do?"
No quakes in Chicago without the politicians being paid off. ^_^
Now a quake here, in New England, that would be scarey. Most of the ones in the LA region are rolling quakes and the tall buildings are built on rollers so they just sway. Here there most likely would be a slip and somewhere there would be a very hard landing. Still - not as scarey as hurricaines which you know are coming for you for days and there is nothing you can do about it!
I'll take a hurricane over a large quake anytime. You can leave!
Oh sure - I'll take a 2.0 quake over a major hurricane.
I know I have mentioned this before . . . .
Regarding accents . . . . Robert McNeil ( of the McNeil-Lehrer Report on PBS) did a wonderful 9 part documentary called "The Story of English" He concluded that the most accurate pronounciation of English was that of Canadians of Scottish decent (like me) - thus, everyone else has an accent!
And he was promptly removed from the News Hour.
gee . . . I thought he retired for health issues . . .
Bar Harbor/ Acadia National Park had a quake in 2006, actually several.
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July 14, 2006 Magnitude 3.8 located farther North than A.N.P
Sept. 22, 2006 3.4
Sept. 26, 2006 2.1
Sept. 28, 2006 2.6
Oct. 6, 2006 4.2
Oct. 24. 2006 2.9
Dec. 29, 2006 3.5
Historically, the New England region averages a magnitude 5 or stronger earthquake once every 50 years.
Or when the Red Sox win the World Series.
I'll let that slide. lol
Hee hee.
well that 1st earthquake was a 3.0 last month... I wouldn't have been so freaked out if I knew what it was
two weeks later they said we had a 2.1 in the middle of the night.. I slept right though that one