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I am new to this forum and I am enjoying reading people's comments here! I noticed some teasing about accents, especially about people from NJ. I agree they tend to sound kind of Soprano to me - I feel like I can say that because I am Italian American with all of my family from NJ! I am kind of curious now about accents. What does a CA accent sound like to people from NC? I am sure our slang is different, but I can't think how to tease a CA accent, but then again, I am from here. Another question, if we move here with a baby, will she develop a southern accent? It got me kind of curious since she hasn't starting speaking yet and her first words will probably start when we move here this summer.
My brother and his then wife, both from elsewhere, lived in Nashville TN where their children, who were born there, grew up without Southern accents. By choice. The kids watched a lot of TV, determined that there were many different kinds of pronunciation, and chose their own, which was closer to "newscaster generic U.S. English."
My California accent is very apparent in the South, as I'm sure it will be in NC if we move there. Unlike "newscaster generic U.S. English," we Californians draw out our words a bit longer, sort of like surfer dude stereotypes without the stoner quality.
My California accent is very apparent in the South, as I'm sure it will be in NC if we move there. Unlike "newscaster generic U.S. English," we Californians draw out our words a bit longer, sort of like surfer dude stereotypes without the stoner quality.
I love it. I was trying to figure out how to explain a CA way of speaking and you nailed it with ' surfer dude stereotypes without the stoner quality.' I wonder if people in NC also have a problem adding "like" to their sentences like we tend to in CA??? I am trying to drop it, but it always seems to creep into my sentences....
I am new to this forum and I am enjoying reading people's comments here! I noticed some teasing about accents, especially about people from NJ. I agree they tend to sound kind of Soprano to me - I feel like I can say that because I am Italian American with all of my family from NJ! I am kind of curious now about accents. What does a CA accent sound like to people from NC? I am sure our slang is different, but I can't think how to tease a CA accent, but then again, I am from here. Another question, if we move here with a baby, will she develop a southern accent? It got me kind of curious since she hasn't starting speaking yet and her first words will probably start when we move here this summer.
I'm guessing that won't really happen, but your child may end up with a strange mix. I, and my siblings, have lived in the south for about 20+ years (I'm 25). I do not have much of a southern accent. Rarely things creep in. But, it's funny to hear my sister talk like a northerner and all the sudden, she'll drawn out a sentence in pure southern quality. I think a lot of where a person's "main accent" comes from has to do with parents. Granted, I moved here when I was 3 and by then a lot of my speech patterns are already developed, but the majority of speech that a young child hears comes from his or her parents anyway. My parents are from Michigan.
We're from Wisconsin, and most people always seem to recognize the Midwestern accent, a lot even pinpoint it to WI. I was also curious about my kids developing a southern twang. Some of the kids in our neighborhood were born in NC to non-southern parents. Each and every one of them has their parents' accent, not southern accents.
I never thought that I had a southern accent until I heard myself on an answering machine. Man can you ever tell it then. I think other people notice it though. It must be pretty thick like Bridgette Fonda's on "Doc Hollywood."
I never thought that I had a southern accent until I heard myself on an answering machine. Man can you ever tell it then. I think other people notice it though. It must be pretty thick like Bridgette Fonda's on "Doc Hollywood."
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
It took me 3 years to control my southern (Mississippi) accent. (you can never lose it-it hides and comes out when you are excited or especially when you are angry!!)
I think of sports talk show host Jim Rome when I think of a CA accent. I guess it's really more of a Southern CA accent.
By the way, I'm pretty good at recognizing accents - I guess I have a natural ear for it.
You may or may not notice that there are different kinds of southern accents, as well as specific accents even within NC. One unique accent that I don't hear too often since I live in the NC Piedmont area is the outer banks or coastal NC accent of natives from that area - think of it as a cross between a southern accent and the stereotypical Canadian accent, at least with certain words (for example, the word "about" would be pronounced "a boat").
There really isn't a single "southern" accent - just like there is a difference between the upstate NY accent versus someone from the Bronx, there is a difference in pronunciation and patterns between someone from southern VA versus someone from south GA.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
It took me 3 years to control my southern (Mississippi) accent. (you can never lose it-it hides and comes out when you are excited or especially when you are angry!!)
I sound like Ricky Ricardo when I get mad. I talk so fast that the person that I am screaming at doesn't understand half of what I say. And I have a tendency to not finish one sentence before I start another one. But I am just nuts when I am really mad.
I sound like Ricky Ricardo when I get mad. I talk so fast that the person that I am screaming at doesn't understand half of what I say. And I have a tendency to not finish one sentence before I start another one. But I am just nuts when I am really mad.
My husband is from England. So when I get mad he can't understand anything and he gets scared A Mississippi accent means that half the words are not pronounced and don't even sound like English! At least from NC, you still sound American!!! hahahahahaha
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