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Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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Originally Posted by Mutiny77
Like he just stepped off the train from Yazoo City at Union Station in 1940.
Accents can be tricky honestly, and really shouldn't be the only point of this thread.
Heck forget Maryland, even Grant Hill, from the mid-Atlantic in NOVA and mostly claims the DC region as home. Has a much milder accent than Jason Kidd (Bay Area). So much more twang with Kidd, but as stated in an earlier post, Hill more so has a refined form of generic speech growing up in VA suburbs. There is some sense of the regional mid Atlantic tone in Hill's speech though.
Accents can be tricky honestly, and really shouldn't be the only point of this thread.
Heck forget Maryland, even Grant Hill, from the mid-Atlantic in NOVA and mostly claims the DC region as home. Has a much milder accent than Jason Kidd (Bay Area). So much more twang with Kidd, but as stated in an earlier post, Hill more so has a refined form of generic speech growing up in VA suburbs. There is some sense of the regional mid Atlantic tone in Hill's speech though.
The Mid-Atlantic non-exaggerated accent is only faintly Southern if anything at all.
I'd expect nothing less from a Black person from NoVA (outside of the projects in Alexandria anyway). He and KD might as well be from two different metropolitan areas a good 300 miles or so apart.
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I'd expect nothing less from a Black person from NoVA (outside of the projects in Alexandria anyway). He and KD might as well be from two different metropolitan areas a good 300 miles or so apart.
Lol, yea there's a difference.
Ironically to the post about Mike Wilbon, and finding an accent to equate. Hill is from South of Baltimore in Virginia, and there's little difference in the speech of these two. Wilbon knew Hill growing up in the DC area while at the Post.
Lmaoooo, I was thinking about starting one myself but hey man if you were already there have at it. I really do think we need to make one focusing on Black accents in America. Often times when I see documentaries or series on linguistics they often gloss over our accents which in turn allows the general public to generalize regions based off of tv and film.
Baltimore is in th actual south, so it has to be Baltimore..
yeah, Baltimore is below the Mason-Dixon and literally within the historical South. Maryland is also within the demographic Black Belt. I'm not really sure, by which metric, that Chicago would be a Southern city (?) It's a cool Midwestern city..
I'm not sure if boxers in general are the best representatives of regional accents. Their job entails sustaining multiple blows to the jaw and head lol.
Yea, you gotta take Gervonta's speech with a grain of salt.
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