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View Poll Results: is baltimore a northern city?
yes 52 45.61%
no 62 54.39%
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Old 11-28-2014, 02:23 PM
 
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I've been to 40 states and listened to plenty of rap. DMX is from the Bronx and EVe is from Philly. Both sound like stereotypical African Americans. I've been to New York and all the blacks I met didn't sound too different from Midwestern blacks...all spoke African American vernacular pretty well. Didn't sound any different from the blacks in Baltimore or D.C. Go on pretending like you know me because the more you guess the more wrong you are.
You honestly think that Black people from all over the country sound the same? I guess you really need to get your ears checked. Tell me that Jay-Z sounds like Ludacris or like Ice Cube. Really, please, leave your house from time to time.

Here is a link that shows that there actually is NOT uniformity between Black people's accents throughout the country

Curious City: WBEZ looks at the Chicago accent and African-American English | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago

The fact that you think all Black people sound alike is a big testament to how bad you are at hearing different accents. The members of the LOX have VERY Northeastern accents with little to no Southern vowel raising and classic "r" dropping heard in NYC.

You think Midwestern Blacks sound like New York Blacks? Oh my GOD, you are really probably the only one who thinks this, as an entire city-data thread was made on how Chicago's Blacks sound very Southern when compared to the very Northeast sound of NYC and Boston Blacks.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/chica...hern-than.html
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Old 11-28-2014, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Seymour, CT
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You honestly think that Black people from all over the country sound the same? I guess you really need to get your ears checked. Tell me that Jay-Z sounds like Ludacris or like Ice Cube. Really, please, leave your house from time to time.

Here is a link that shows that there actually is NOT uniformity between Black people's accents throughout the country

Curious City: WBEZ looks at the Chicago accent and African-American English | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago

The fact that you think all Black people sound alike is a big testament to how bad you are at hearing different accents. The members of the LOX have VERY Northeastern accents with little to no Southern vowel raising and classic "r" dropping heard in NYC.

You think Midwestern Blacks sound like New York Blacks? Oh my GOD, you are really probably the only one who thinks this, as an entire city-data thread was made on how Chicago's Blacks sound very Southern when compared to the very Northeast sound of NYC and Boston Blacks.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/chica...hern-than.html
I wouldn't give him the time of day, he likes to send nasty messages to people who he doesn't like.
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Old 11-28-2014, 02:45 PM
 
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I wouldn't give him the time of day, he likes to send nasty messages to people who he doesn't like.
I'm just saying, how can anyone take this dude seriously after he admits he can't hear a difference between regional accents that Black people have? Is it just because they're Black? It's like when some non-Whites say that all White people sound alike and they they proceed to use a "General American" accent to imitate a White person.

I mean come on, even people who think Baltimore is Northeastern have to admit that his comment was REALLY ignorant.
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Old 11-28-2014, 02:48 PM
 
Location: Seymour, CT
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I'm just saying, how can anyone take this dude seriously after he admits he can't hear a difference between regional accents that Black people have? Is it just because they're Black? It's like when some non-Whites say that all White people sound alike and they they proceed to use a "General American" accent to imitate a White person.

I mean come on, even people who think Baltimore is Northeastern have to admit that his comment was REALLY ignorant.
The black people here sound worlds different than the ones from CT and NY (I'm in FL)
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Old 11-28-2014, 02:54 PM
 
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The black people here sound worlds different than the ones from CT and NY (I'm in FL)
Blacks in NYC don't say "tew" like Baltimore Blacks do. They also don't say "hot dug", either, or "curry" for carry. They even pronounce Maryland differently, saying more "Mawalind" or "Maralind" than "Murlind".
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Old 11-28-2014, 05:15 PM
 
Location: Prince George's County, Maryland
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I've been to 40 states and listened to plenty of rap. DMX is from the Bronx and EVe is from Philly. Both sound like stereotypical African Americans. I've been to New York and all the blacks I met didn't sound too different from Midwestern blacks...all spoke African American vernacular pretty well. Didn't sound any different from the blacks in Baltimore or D.C. Go on pretending like you know me because the more you guess the more wrong you are.
Blacks in the DC area talk differently than our counterparts up in Baltimore, Baltimore blacks sound different from New York City blacks, NYC blacks sound different from Chicago blacks, Chicago blacks sound different from Low Country blacks, Low Country blacks sound different from SoCal blacks, SoCal blacks sound different from Houston blacks, Houston blacks sound different from Miami blacks, Miami blacks sound different from Tidewater blacks, Tidewater blacks sound different from New Orleans blacks, NO blacks sound different from..well...everyone lol and so on and so forth. You get the idea. Not all of us have the typical standard AAVE that one can say is probably the black version of the "General American" accent.
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Old 11-28-2014, 05:16 PM
 
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It looks like you can hear Philly as soon as you cross the Delaware border, despite both Philly and Baltimore sharing an accent.
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Old 11-28-2014, 05:21 PM
 
Location: NYC/PHiLLY
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It looks like you can hear Philly as soon as you cross the Delaware border, despite both Philly and Baltimore sharing an accent.
Lol but they don't. You could never mistake someone from Maryland/Baltimore as someone from Philly, anyone who knows maryland knows that you all have a very distinctive accent, especially Baltimore. You baltimore posters are coming off very try hard.
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Old 11-28-2014, 05:29 PM
 
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Lol but they don't. You could never mistake someone from Maryland/Baltimore as someone from Philly, anyone who knows maryland knows that you all have a very distinctive accent, especially Baltimore. You baltimore posters are coming off very try hard.
What does Philly have more in common in accent, NYC or Baltimore?
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Old 11-28-2014, 05:30 PM
 
Location: NYC/PHiLLY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZK9Xsu0rac

I wonder if the guys who did this video wanted it to seem Southern since it looks like it was filmed in the Deep South. I've never seen palm trees in Baldamer.

Do they even grow there???

Anyway, even if that video was filmed in the Deep South (or California or Florida or something), the accents sound Southern on the people in the video. They sound not to different from Black Chicagoans, who mostly have Mississippi accents (many of the Blacks here come from MS and our deep segregation has caused them to maintain their MS accent).
"Make a ____ some hot DUGS." Now this is straight up Baltimore, Murrrrrlin.
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