Can Detroit ever make a comeback??? (Troy, Redford: 2013, apartments, for rent)

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by leastprime

the banner title, looks like Detrol. LOL.

No wonder Detroit is Destroyed! Haha

[Nattering Heights]

That depends on which comeback you want. I expect the suburban population will reurbanize for a while to reduce car use, then move out to farms for work. Detroit may reach a stable population in the range of 100,000-200,000, like it had before cars.

When depends on the cost of driving, the fuel, insurance, car repairs, and roads.

[fruityfred11]

It seems like half the city is basically semi-rural now. That's not so bad. Fascinating to see it go back to nature in so many areas.

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by fruityfred11

It seems like half the city is basically semi-rural now. That's not so bad. Fascinating to see it go back to nature in so many areas.

There are a few areas that are like this. It is still one of the largest cities in the USA. (25 out of 317 over 100K population).

Del Rey - one of the major empty areas is about to become one of hte largest ports of entry, so it will change dramatically.

Other empty areas are primarily in pockets. 4-5 blocks of empty surrounded by either nice areas or dilapidated but still occupied neighborhoods.

[NashvilleIsLife]

No I don't see it, it's so bad.

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by Well done

I. Excuse me but I am sure I have missed some other honorable mention ethnicities I am sure. Ah yes, the Italians. Canadians. Poles.

You forgot Danes and Swedes - we are plentiful here, we did not all continue northwest and become cheese-heads.

Also Koreans. A large Korean population here as well.

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by Well done

I. Excuse me but I am sure I have missed some other honorable mention ethnicities I am sure. Ah yes, the Italians. Canadians. Poles.

You forgot Danes and Swedes - we are plentiful here, we did not all continue northwest and become cheese-heads.

Also Koreans. A large Korean population here as well.

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by Well done

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Northerners spoke English with different inflections also. Here are two pronunciations of words in which I noticed a slight differentiation. They even talk like this on the radio over the air, I noticed.
Saahcks equaled, Socks, here.
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I think the influence is mostly a combination of Scandinavian and French. very much like Canada and Minnesota. Listen of ooots and aboots. Not as prevalent as in Canada but they pop ooot often. Other things: We stick an s on the end of everything. "I work at Fords" " I bought this at Kmarts (or Meijers, or Wallmarts)." We tend to speak fast and clip words together 'Oh not you di-unt . "You sh-unt do that." Also some words tend to be regional "Pop, Freeway, Party Story Doorwall" Lots of French and Indian city and street names that few people from elsewhere can pronounce as well.

[Well done]

Maybe Condjensens. I will consider your post for a time concerning language inflections. I was married to a girl from Minnesota for ten years and she spoke with a dialect different from the one spoken here in the Detroit area. Phone was pronounced Foon by her.
She laughed out loud when I- a southerner- said Hothouse in place of -Green house.. Many times, she worked as a nurse, her coworkers thought she was a Michigan, Yooper.
I worked with a Michigan yooper when I first moved here and I laughed out loud many times over his pronunciation of English. It was a lot of fun listening and he was good natured about it all.
I have noticed the word Gums, gums asin the human mouth holding the teeth in, pronounced as Gooms. I laughed out loud at that one too.
When they announced that they had sore gooms.
I replied. You have Sore what?
Yes, sure , when I first heard Soda water called POP around here, what with me being from the south, I was taken aback. POP? Everything in the plural- Kmarts? I work at Fords etc. What in the heck is going on with English around these parts? I surely was in culture shock alright.
I am bilingual myself and can read French with perfect inflection but do not mostly know what I am reading
only a little- as French is so dissimilar to Spanish. Italian is far closer to Spanish and I have found that I can communicate with Italian people and have even given street directions to lost, Italian visitors. However
I do not know any Scandinavian dialects so cannot know the inflections of these languages have upon English except for what I have heard spoken in movies.
I know that people from the east Coast leave "R's" out of words- All of the time. At other times these lost "R's" end up in other words where they do not belong, in words like "Warshington."

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

I think the influence is mostly a combination of Scandinavian and French. very much like Canada and Minnesota. Listen of ooots and aboots. Not as prevalent as in Canada but they pop ooot often. Other things: We stick an s on the end of everything. "I work at Fords" " I bought this at Kmarts (or Meijers, or Wallmarts)." We tend to speak fast and clip words together 'Oh not you di-unt . "You sh-unt do that." Also some words tend to be regional "Pop, Freeway, Party Story Doorwall" Lots of French and Indian city and street names that few people from elsewhere can pronounce as well.

[NoMansLands]

Well to be fair it used to be "Meijer's thrifty acres".