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Location: Philly suburbs or Jersey Shore or Philadelphia
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Originally Posted by pbergen
2e1m5a is exactly right.
north jersey accents are a subset of the greater nyc area accent.
south jersey accents are a subset of the greater philly area accent.
the closer you are to nyc, the more similar the accent gets.
the closer you are to philly, the more similar the accent gets. in parts of central jersey that have influences from both cities (e.g. mercer county), you can hear elements of both.
and in more remote parts of the state such as deep south jersey around the pine barrens, there's a completely distinct/country-sounding accent that outsiders would never associate with nj in a million years.
That's probably my favorite accent, the Trenton/Central Jersey one. It has the best of both worlds in my opinion. You'd think that the long O, being between a New York O and a Philly O, would be just a standard American O, but it's not.
My least favorite accent would be the stereotypical West Texas accent, like of George Bush and Rick Perry. Southeastern accents aren't usually too bad, but when you start heading west like that it picks up some features that I think make it sound dirty and ugly.
some claim that people from Michigan speak with an accent, still don't know what they are talking about, but any thick over drawn southern accent drives me nuts...in a bad way
That's probably my favorite accent, the Trenton/Central Jersey one. It has the best of both worlds in my opinion. You'd think that the long O, being between a New York O and a Philly O, would be just a standard American O, but it's not.
My least favorite accent would be the stereotypical West Texas accent, like of George Bush and Rick Perry. Southeastern accents aren't usually too bad, but when you start heading west like that it picks up some features that I think make it sound dirty and ugly.
It's called a twang and we're quite happy with it in these parts.
New York, Jersey, Boston - all pretty annoying over time... but I don't hate em.
Educated Urban Texas is about my favorite. Southern but quite subdued.
Obviously the opinions here are heavily based on where we are from in the states.
Location: NY-NJ-Philly looks down at SF and laughs at the hippies
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Originally Posted by annie_himself
Every single human in Joisey has that accent. Jersey Shore is distinguishable proof.
Again, they don't say it.
NOLA is definately the most annoying to me because it sounds extremely hick.
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