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I told you earlier that Jada Pinkett, Toni Braxton, Mario, Rudy Gay, Nicole Ari Parker have no "southern twang" in their speech, and they're all from Baltimore.
Yeah Jada Pinkett definitely don’t have a southern twang cause I’ll never forget how horrible her accent was in Jason’s lyric. Matter fact everybody accent was HORRIBLE in that movie. I was thinking to myself, “How did y’all film the movie in Houston yet got nothing right about the Houston accent at all?” Jada Pinkett sounded like a extra from Gone with the Wind. Lol
Yeah Jada Pinkett definitely don’t have a southern twang cause I’ll never forget how horrible her accent was in Jason’s lyric. Matter fact everybody accent was HORRIBLE in that movie. I was thinking to myself, “How did y’all film the movie in Houston yet got nothing right about the Houston accent at all?” Jada Pinkett sounded like a extra from Gone with the Wind. Lol
They used some default "southern" accent. Houston has their own unique way of saying certain words, like when y'all say "downtown" it sounds like "Dine Tine."
Chicago's Mayor has no discernable accent whatsoever. Her lack of an accent is not what I heard while I was in Chicago. Baltimore's Mayor has a Baltimore accent. It doesn't sound like a classic southern accent.
Notice how he says, "outta huh." When he says "on," it sounds like "own." "Nines" sounds like "Nans."
The Chicago accent sounds more southern.
I've always thought Bernie Mac was a good example of what the Chicago black accent sounds like. I definitely would say that is more the norm for the average black Chicagoan compared to how Lori Lightfoot speaks.
I'd like to know if @Personone has a southern accent being that he's from Howard County.
Definitely not now. I have lived in Chicago long enough that I have adopted a mild Chicago (White) accent. Maybe slightly growing up. Although I’m Polish American. Both my parents grew up in New York State, so I think based on that I maybe had a more neutral accent when I was younger. But many whites in Howard County (Ellicott City, Laurel, and especially places like Elkridge) definitely have southern accents.
As the poll indicates, Baltimore is way more southern influenced than Chicago overall. That’s why this thread has devolved to comparing only Blacks (which are less than 30% of Chicago’s population but over 60% of Baltimore’s).
I told you earlier that Jada Pinkett, Toni Braxton, Mario, Rudy Gay, Nicole Ari Parker have no "southern twang" in their speech, and they're all from Baltimore.
Jada Pinket Smith is all Hollywood now. I can show you clips of 90s Jada where she definitely had your normal Baltimore southern twang.
Toni Braxton is from Severn and grew up in Silver Spring, MD. You’ve got to go that far out to a DC suburb (which you claim to hate) to find an example? LMAO
Rudy Gay and Nicole Ari Parker- I’ll give you.
Mario- has a slight hint of that Baltimore southern twang, but it’s very faint. I’ll give you that one.
The fact you’ve got to reach out to throughout the state of MD to scrap up a few examples proves how few black Baltimorians lack any southern accents. Many White Baltimorians have that southern twang too. Marty Bass is the perfect example.
Baltimore is overall much more Southern influenced than Chicago. It’s not even a question or fair competition. I thought you used to embrace Baltimore’s southern influence. What happened?
It's interesting how a lot of melanated Chicagoans retained a noticeable accent full of Southern features from their grandparents. (to be fair, there's a lot of Chicago in the speech of course but the Southerness left an equally big mark. Interesting because NY, Philly, Boston, Providence, CT, NJ would have the next Gen speaking close to a full on local accent with "a bit" of no trace or a Southern dialect).
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