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Why is it that I, as a westerner (California), am not considered to have
an accent by, say, people from the East or from the South? There is
no such thing as a generic accent, is there?
I'll speak on the phone with someone from West Virginia and, if it's
appropriate, I will ask him/her if I have an accent. And invariably
they say no.
Charleston because it reminds me of Northern English dialects. Too bad it doesn't really exist anymore. It also technically isn't a Southern accent because it doesn't follow the stages of the Southern shift. It just happens to be an accent from the South that is very cool sounding.
An actual New Orleans accent is too similar to NYC for my tastes.
Lol. What went through your mind when you first heard White New Orleanians speak. I know that you're from Upstate NY.
I know they showed a clip during hurricane Katrina of volunteer NYPD officers helping out down there with the NOPD and they did sound similar when they were speaking to one another.
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Lol. What went through your mind when you first heard White New Orleanians speak. I know that you're from Upstate NY.
I know they showed a clip during hurricane Katrina of volunteer NYPD officers helping out down there with the NOPD and they did sound similar when they were speaking to one another.
It honestly threw me off! There was a subtle difference of course, but it was something they never get right in the movies.
Heck, I can tell what college many have attended by the accent. For example, if someone attended Rhodes or Sewanee or Ole Miss, they kind of have this back of the throat glottal thing going for them.
It even gets down to the neighborhood level. In Birmingham, I can tell if someone is from north or east of town simply from how nasally they sound.
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(Except for maybe Louisiana,weird combo of like French & southern)
Regional American Accents
Makes this 'ol Okie melt right into a puddle of goo.
