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Trust me, they talk like that down there. I've dated someone from Louisiana and she talked just like that. It was like she was trying to talked with a northern accent, but failing miserably.
what do you mean "trust you" lol? as if my own personal experience of southeastern louisiana means nothing?
anyway, you sound like you're talking about a new orleans accent, which is VERY different from the rest of the state
Well Dallas accent is very similar to NOLA, Ark, and parts of TN (specifically Memphis).
I agree northern LA, ARK and North Texas accents are very similar. I have a friend from Little Rock and he sounds no different from the people in DFW. From "First 48 Hours" I found that Memphis black people are very similar in nature (attitude & accent) to the blacks in Dallas.
Where in that post did you feel the need to make a post discussing his supposed bizarre obligation to his loyalty to Texas? Why does it matter anyway? But in his post, he didn't knock Atlanta but just gave him information about Houston.
Where he said "I'm from Texas so of course I am going to say Houston"...his only justification for suggesting Houston is that he is from Texas.
Get a person from Houston and a person from Atlanta to say down. Your going to hear "dine" vs. "dyin'"
Get a person from Mississippi and a person from Louisiana to say car and you get "kah" vs "kawh"
The drawls decrease from east to west and the twangs from north to south, so the individual words have to shift as well.
I haven't heard "dyin" for down yet. I don't think that Atlantans today have a distinct/noticeable accent. It was already mentioned, but, it does depend on the person's family background (are they from ATL?), education level, and surrounding. I have a theory, ATL's accent will become a weird blend of Southeast(the Carolinas, Alabama, VA, and FLA), Midwest (Ohio, Illinois, Michigan) Northeast(tri-state area and PA), Appalachian (TN), and Canadian (the Ontario province). I don't know any Canadians yet but that's based on either people I know (or people I have crossed paths with) and the tags I see around town.
I haven't heard "dyin" for down yet. I don't think that Atlantans today have a distinct/noticeable accent. It was already mentioned, but, it does depend on the person's family background (are they from ATL?), education level, and surrounding. I have a theory, ATL's accent will become a weird blend of Southeast(the Carolinas, Alabama, VA, and FLA), Midwest (Ohio, Illinois, Michigan) Northeast(tri-state area and PA), Appalachian (TN), and Canadian (the Ontario province). I don't know any Canadians yet but that's based on either people I know (or people I have crossed paths with) and the tags I see around town.
it's actually not dyin, there's just no way to actually spell the pronunciation that I know of. I disagree, Atlanta has a very distinguishable southern accent, as does Houston, Dallas, etc. I don't know where all these people that claim that the accents are gone spend their time, but hang in any areas where there are natives and the accents are there. Sometimes natives make these claims and I think to myself "maybe they're so used to it that they don't realize it." or maybe it's just more noticeable when you live in a place where drawls are rare.
Gotta agree that Southeast Louisiana people pronounce car, Kawh...I also agree that Dallas' accent is some sort of odd confluence between an Arkansas, a Western Tennessee, and a Midwestern accent. While Houston's accent strikes me as being a blend of Louisiana with maybe a mild Atlanta semblance; but much slower of course. Texans in general talk slow.
Gotta agree that Southeast Louisiana people pronounce car, Kawh...I also agree that Dallas' accent is some sort of odd confluence between an Arkansas, a Western Tennessee, and a Midwestern accent. While Houston's accent strikes me as being a blend of Louisiana with maybe a mild Atlanta semblance; but much slower of course. Texans in general talk slow.
I disagree. I think only certain parts of Texas talk slower like East Texas and Southeast Texas. However, central and North Texas do not.
I disagree. I think only certain parts of Texas talk slower like East Texas and Southeast Texas. However, central and North Texas do not.
Ill agree to disagree here...I actually think Dallas people talk noticeably slower than people from the Southeast. I dont think they talk as slow as Houstonians but I do think they talk slowly compared to people from Florida, Atlanta or Memphis. From what Ive experienced, people from East of Mississippi talk with a quicker clipped pace than people in Mississippi and westward.
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