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Originally Posted by jessaka
Very seldom, and whenever it happens it could be that the person is a transplant from Texas.I wonder though, wouldn't "you'all" be more proper and make more sense that "you guys?"
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We say "you guys" up here... Even when referring to women...
I guess it's a gender-neutral term.
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Originally Posted by jessaka
What I do unconsciously and always have is that whenever someone is speaking to me in an accent, I slip right into it and answer back the same way. I have tried to control myself, but it just happens. No one seems to notice. My step-father and ex-mother-in-law were from Arkansas. Maybe that is why. I also went through high school with a friend that was from Arkansas. And I grew up thinking the word wash was pronounced worsh. And so I am always correctly myself on that one.
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I pick up languages and accents easily, but not unconsciously...
In MA, "Park the car in the yard" was pronounced "Pahk the cah in the yahd."
Took me years to learn to pronounce my "R"s when I got to NH.
Also in MA, I had an IT job in a health care facility where about 70% of the employees spoke Spanish... Within about 6 months, I was almost fluent.
In the management job after that, there were 2 girls who spoke Spanish amongst themselves and thought they had their own secret code...
You should have seen their faces when I made a comment about the subject they were talking about in Spanish... THAT was funny.
The REAL born and bred locals where I live now talk like this:
"Nine is fine" becomes "Noyn is foyn"... I've resisted picking that up...
I'm an IT guy... We just don't
talk that way.
My wife on the other hand
has picked up the local patios a bit...
That's kinda scary.
I think I know why some people say "worsh"...
They were picking up all the "R"s I was dropping.
What I thought was really funny was when we watched a ton of John Wayne movies and I caught myself talking like The Duke... That came pretty natural for me, so maybe I
do belong a bit farther West.
You have to admit though...
If everyone sounded the same, it would be pretty boring.
Speaking of which...
Does anyone in OK say "kinda" (kind of) or "gonna" (going to) ?
It's so normal in New England I even type it that way.
M.
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