Will the Southern accent die out? (school district, best, area)

[CincyIU29]

No I don't think so no hope so. I really like the different cultures we have in the US.

However, I find it annoying when people try to over-exaggerate their accent to sound more Southern which can somewhat obnoxious.

[washwash]

It's disgusting that it's dying...

Do we really want to live in a world where everyone sounds the same?

So fckn boring.

[Hamtonfordbury]

I hope not. Why would someone want it to die out? It's unique and even has a genre of music centered around it.

[Hamtonfordbury]

Originally Posted by Richmonder27

Its not aboot accent. Its aboot the grammar that is being used. For example, improper English is just that. It has nothing to do with the local flavor of a particular region.

You can speak with a regional variation of English and still speak STANDARD ENGLISH.

Dialects of the Southern Appalachians would have something to say about what is "standard". Southerners have their own way of saying some things, but often older archaic terms like reckon and yonder are thrown in and speakers of "modern English" get lost when they start talking.

[Crazymomof3]

I live down here in the south and I love our accents. Granted, I'm in Texas so our accent is different than say, Alabama (lived there too and loved it).

[Crazymomof3]

When we lived in Wyoming, my daughter was told by a classmate that she's not allowed to say, 'y'all'; that the proper term was 'you guys'. I told her to y'all it all she wanted!

[eek]

most ppl in the u.s. speak with a southern accent, iirc. if anything our (ny, nnj, extreme surrounding areas) accent will die.

[TreasuredJewel]

I agree with the post above me. Southern accents are the largest accent group in the united States. Everyone in my family has one from slight to very pronounced. And everyone even in Alabama's larger metros of Mobile, Montgomery, Huntsville, B-Ham the majority populace had a southern accent.

Why do people worry that it is "dying out"? It won't.

I do not understand the "God I hope so" comments? Why this dislike for regional accents, specifically the southern accent? Anyone care to explain? Or am I just missing something?

[Bass&Catfish2008]

Originally Posted by CincyIU29

No I don't think so no hope so. I really like the different cultures we have in the US.

However, I find it annoying when people try to over-exaggerate their accent to sound more Southern which can somewhat obnoxious.

As one with a Southern twang, I actually agree with CincyIU29's sentiment. We call it "hamming it up" in these parts.

I don't like pretentious/look at me types no matter what kind of accent they have.

[Nanny Goat]

My husband's sister moved to Texas years ago and "learned" the accent. But, when she visited back East, she had no traces of it. Ha. The way she turned it on and off--like a faucet.