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Actually, it seems pretty clear to me that Frank is Canadian. I can hear some of the Italian influence, however; specifically the NYC area Italian-American features. Were your parents from this area or did you spend some time living there?
At any rate, I'm pretty sure you spent most of your formative years in Canada...
Wow, this thread has blown up! My first time seeing it and it's so many pages... This has definitely been a nice learning experience. For example, here I was thinking that neotextist was a guy!
Here's my contribution. In the first video, I'll be reading the list BPerone201 and kidphilly posted. In the second video, I'll be reading that Comma story Verseau posted.
Actually, it seems pretty clear to me that Frank is Canadian. I can hear some of the Italian influence, however; specifically the NYC area Italian-American features. Were your parents from this area or did you spend some time living there?
At any rate, I'm pretty sure you spent most of your formative years in Canada...
I would guess Canadian, too. "Passta" gave it away.
Virginia's an odd case that all in all belongs in the south imo. Obviously the Eastern Half isnt as southern as most other Southern states...I think the Richmond, Norfolk, VA Beach area is clearly mid atlantic..but the Central and Western portions of Virginia have a strong mix between a plantation south accent and an appalachian accent.
But the whites sound undeniably southern in that portion of the state. The blacks in Western and Central VA are peculiar sounding imo..They actually pronounce their words in a way that sounds pretty similar to southern blacks, except that they tend to not have any discernible drawl whatsoever, and they talk much quicker than blacks in the Central south of Arkansas, Texas, Western Tennessee, Louisiana or Mississippi. Its weird...I'd say that Virginia has a combination of different accents..but the blacks have more of a neutral southern accent type thing going on.
Basically, the only areas of VA that people can debate is NOVA and maybe the Hampton Roads but that's a big maybe. Everything else as it concerns to Virginia is no doubt very Southern. Virginia is Mid-Atlantic but many include North Carolina within that region as well. Virginia, outside of NOVA, has far more in common with the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee than it does with Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Basically, the only areas of VA that people can debate is NOVA and maybe the Hampton Roads but that's a big maybe. Everything else as it concerns to Virginia is no doubt very Southern. Virginia is Mid-Atlantic but many include North Carolina within that region as well. Virginia, outside of NOVA, has far more in common with the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee than it does with Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Please Excuss the ums and likes, I'm not a airhead (well 75% of the time), I just didn't know what to say, lol.
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