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I'm from Dallas, and everyone I know talks this way (or with that accent at least). The only people I hear with a southern/Texas accent around town tend to be older people.
I think it has a lot to do with the fact that a lot of the people who grew up in the DFW within the last 25 years have been the children of transplants - we grew up without a lot of the traditional Texan/southern accent. My dad is from North Carolina and my mom is from Mexico, so I certainly didn't get a whole lot of the traditional Texas accent growing up. I imagine this is true of many places in the south that have seen rapid increases in population.
Edit: I'm from suburban Dallas, so my observations might deal with suburban DFW than some of the older, more established neighbourhoods.
Yeah, her talk isn't unusual for a Texan; you have those with Texan accents and than those with a more neutral accent.
Actually much of the NYC and Philly metro; especially further away suburbs would sound more like this - the overall American accent is becoming much more generic. Boston however and the metro seem to retain a stronger accent than do the two other cities mentioned away from the core now there are definately parts of NYC/North jersey and Philly that have strong accents but outside of key words many today are becoming more generic
Maybe there's a normalizing effect from all the TV and movies and other media we get these days. In the absence of a strong local accent, the generic American media accent takes precedence. Seems feasible.
You can't have a neutral accent. A person from the UK would find the Omaha accent very distinct. We all have accents. If you mean which cities have accents that sound the least like the Midwest accent, then that might make more sense.
That's not totally true. There is a neutral accent- major national news networks actually want people to speak with a "Neutral American" accent. The people they do get who have various accents are coached to speak with as neutral of an accent as possible.
That neutral accent is what you find on much of the west coast and central states (Nebraska and Iowa, for example).
To me her accent doesn't sound southern at all. To me it sounds neutral/urban. I didn't know that there were people from Dallas who talked like this.
I can still hear some Texan in there.
Our state has ALOT of transplants in urban areas and sometimes, you get different accents. But in this case, this is just another type of Texas accent.
Our state has ALOT of transplants in urban areas and sometimes, you get different accents. But in this case, this is just another type of Texas accent.
Where do you hear the Texan accent? Just listened again and I'm having trouble placing any, but it could just be that I'm not the best judge, what with having the same accent and all.
Okay, there is definitely a Miami accent. You can notice it the most in younger people, under 30. It sounds Spanish-influenced at first, but you can also hear it in people that don't speak Spanish, so it is just a Miami accent. It does vary, but you can hear some characteristics, such as drawing out vowels. Here are some pretty good examples I found.
Wow, I would really have to throw up if I dealt with that on a daily basis. Southern accents are unappealing to my ears with very few exceptions.
Yes. I, too, have a problem with those accents. Not so much now as years ago. The basis for what people take as a black accent in this county is southern. They sometimes live in ghettos and just keep on talking that way. It is very limiting because often, if you mispronounce a word, you spell it incorrectly as well and people don't think you're very bright. I dislike NY and NJ accents as well. I kind of prefer the media 'neutral' accent, but just wish some people in the media would learn to pronounce words properly.
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Where do you hear the Texan accent? Just listened again and I'm having trouble placing any, but it could just be that I'm not the best judge, what with having the same accent and all.
Listen to the words with 'a' and 'i' in them, listen to here say 'care'.... trust me, it's there.
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