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I can't speak for the person who made the comment, but I personally feel like people from Baltimore and Virgina are "inbetweeners": some of the slang they use and their syntax sounds very Southern, and sometimes even downright country. But their actual accents sound like watered down versions of a very hard and stereotypical Brooklyn, Jersey, or Philly accent.
I can't speak for the person who made the comment, but I personally feel like people from Baltimore and Virgina are "inbetweeners": some of the slang they use and their syntax sounds very Southern, and sometimes even downright country. But their actual accents sound like watered down versions of a very hard and stereotypical Brooklyn, Jersey, or Philly accent.
Philly maybe. But no way a Brooklyn accent sounds like a Baltimore one.
Anyway my answer to this is Northern accents. Especially in women. I don't find Southern accents sexy at all. To me they sound (in women) uppity or just just lazy.
I love a good Northern accent. Minnesota is sexy. I like New York's all around. The Great Lakes has a very unique but reminiscent of non-standard English sound (which to me makes it sound very cool), and Boston sounds like a cool all American no-nonsense, bare bones English dialect.
I don't particularly put Philly or other "middle ground cities" in the hard North category. They are transitional even if unique. Those sound cool, however.
I don't like plain and bland General American English as it can sound pretentious but in certain ladies it can span the range of sexiness to annoyance.
Philly maybe. But no way a Brooklyn accent sounds like a Baltimore one.
Anyway my answer to this is Northern accents. Especially in women. I don't find Southern accents sexy at all. To me they sound (in women) uppity or just just lazy.
I love a good Northern accent. Minnesota is sexy. I like New York's all around. The Great Lakes has a very unique but reminiscent of non-standard English sound (which to me makes it sound very cool), and Boston sounds like a cool all American no-nonsense, bare bones English dialect.
I don't particularly put Philly or other "middle ground cities" in the hard North category. They are transitional even if unique. Those sound cool, however.
I don't like plain and bland General American English as it can sound pretentious but in certain ladies it can span the range of sexiness to annoyance.
I like most accents, but the northeastern accents are the worst. Philly and Pittsburgh accents are fine, the NYC accent sounds outdated, and Boston's sound like nails on a chalkboard.
Even though I am from PG County, MD I still find some true DC natives to have a thick accent which doesn’t sound completely southern or northern but just DC. It sounds similar to folks from the Chesapeake, VA or Tidewater area (Alonzo Mourning, Allen Iverson, Mike Vick). When I visit family in GA sometime they make me repeat myself because they don’t know what I just said with how some words roll off and the use of slang. Thinking of the movie Babyboy, Taraji P. Henson was using her DC accent to play Evette, which didn’t sound westcoast, southern, or northern but just fit the bill.
Even though I am from PG County, MD I still find some true DC natives to have a thick accent which doesn’t sound completely southern or northern but just DC. It sounds similar to folks from the Chesapeake, VA or Tidewater area (Alonzo Mourning, Allen Iverson, Mike Vick). When I visit family in GA sometime they make me repeat myself because they don’t know what I just said with how some words roll off and the use of slang. Thinking of the movie Babyboy, Taraji P. Henson was using her DC accent to play Evette, which didn’t sound westcoast, southern, or northern but just fit the bill.
Taraji P. Henson sounds just like my female cousins and aunts from PG County and SE DC. I'm always amused whenever I hear her. I think she went to the same HS as one of my cousins in Oxon Hill.
Martin Lawrence has a DC/MD accent, although its a lot more subtle nowadays. I always thought it was unusual how he set his television show in Detroit, but thanks to his DC Accent, along with Tisha Campbell's New Jersey accent and Tichina Arnold's New York accent, his show was much more East Coast in sentiment and attitude than Midwestern to me, partially due to their accents are so different than those of a Detroiter.
Taraji P. Henson sounds just like my female cousins and aunts from PG County and SE DC. I'm always amused whenever I hear her. I think she went to the same HS as one of my cousins in Oxon Hill.
Martin Lawrence has a DC/MD accent, although its a lot more subtle nowadays. I always thought it was unusual how he set his television show in Detroit, but thanks to his DC Accent, along with Tisha Campbell's New Jersey accent and Tichina Arnold's New York accent, his show was much more East Coast in sentiment and attitude than Midwestern to me, partially due to their accents are so different than those of a Detroiter.
I always thought the same thing. Even in his style of dress and mannerisms, it gave him away that he was from the DC/MD area. He is so animated lol, and that is what I love about him. Off topic, but I do wish that he and Tisha could have worked something out, a reunion is much needed.
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