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Like all former great things that made NYC...NYC, the accent is going, going gone!
White ethnic flight, illegal aliens, foreign billionaires, Chinese nationals along with tons and tons of white transients will soon make the accent a thing of the past.
the big difference is with slang used, pronunciation of the "r" these days, and some of the huskiness in peoples voices; mostly though, the accent is alive and well with those of us actually from here; In New York City, there's a whole bunch of people from other places, being not from here or this region might stand out, and I'm sure there are native New Yorkers all over the country and they've took their accents and slang with them....
the big difference is with slang used, pronunciation of the "r" these days, and some of the huskiness in peoples voices; mostly though, the accent is alive and well with those of us actually from here; In New York City, there's a whole bunch of people from other places, being not from here or this region might stand out, and I'm sure there are native New Yorkers all over the country and they've took their accents and slang with them....
The craziest thing is that with the older accent becoming less and less common, people who are from here but who don't have the accent are told that they don't sound like they are from here.
Sigh. This happened to me in western Massachusetts back in the early 2000s. My parents, Carib immigrants. Me, born and raised in NYC.
But somebody caught the Carib cadences just recently, a neighbor I was chatting with, someone I didn't know. I sounded like some of his older relatives from my parents' country. Husband, from New England, could tell from the start that I have a slight accent.
The funniest, going to a bodega, and the guy asked whether I was British--this has happened a few times. Being from New York, living here, but people thinking I'm from elsewhere.
Me: I'm not British, I have a North American accent.
Me: I'm from around the corner.
The craziest thing is that with the older accent becoming less and less common, people who are from here but who don't have the accent are told that they don't sound like they are from here.
Sigh. This happened to me in western Massachusetts back in the early 2000s. My parents, Carib immigrants. Me, born and raised in NYC.
But somebody caught the Carib cadences just recently, a neighbor I was chatting with, someone I didn't know. I sounded like some of his older relatives from my parents' country. Husband, from New England, could tell from the start that I have a slight accent.
The funniest, going to a bodega, and the guy asked whether I was British--this has happened a few times. Being from New York, living here, but people thinking I'm from elsewhere.
Me: I'm not British, I have a North American accent.
Me: I'm from around the corner.
LOL
A lot of outsiders get their ideas of what a New York accent is from old movies, dated 30-40+ years
I also don't think that there was ever a time when every native New Yorker had the same accent.
My grandmother (who came from italy) …..spoke broken English. If she had to use the word toilet or oil:
she said it just like that…..”Terlet & erl.”
it was her accent…. So ‘terlet’ / ‘erl’ came from off-the-boat-Italians….……….LoL.
plus, she brought with her…….her unique, one-of-a-kind RAVIOLI’S she made from
scratch (with chicken soup not “red sauce” ravioli’s).
Here’s what happens after you eat my Grandmother’s ravioli’s:
Grazie...Gramma Louisa…….. (I still make them).
Lol. That sounds divine, both the pasta and the speech.
I didn't have an "eyetalian" grandmother, but if I had, and she wanted to say;
" let's get the **** outta here", it would come out this way: sghedda foccari!
"Lol. That sounds divine, both the pasta and the speech.
I didn't have an "eyetalian" grandmother, but if I had, and she wanted to say;
" let's get the **** outta here", it would come out this way: sghedda foccari!
"let's get theoutta here ---sghedda foccari"!
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