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As someone who is hearing impaired, I actually have an easier time understanding people speak who have distinct and heavy accents versus standard newsreporter "proper" english. Not really sure why that is. Someone told me once I had a Jersey accent and I was mortified lol. It's funny because back in the late 90s when I was in college I was enrolled in a pre-summer program for low-income students and one of our classes was Speech Improvement which basically was trying to get rid of all of our supposed low-income accents to prepare us for college, but the teacher had the biggest accent ever and our final in the class was to do a rap! kid you not. I was also mortified actually having to do that in front of a class, but i guess everyone was supportive.
I know a guy, about 55 years old, from the Bronx, who I think of as having a very distinctive accent. Imagine my surprise when I heard the voice of this other guy (60ish years old) also from the Bronx, who does the same distinctive thing with his voice. It's like there's a little rolling of the tongue in there. I can't identify it or figure it out, but it got me thinking that many it's a very local Bronx accent for people who grew up there 40 to 60 years ago.
The second guy is actually on this youtube video, starting at about 1:00
Not even remotely valid now, and even back in the day probably not. My grandpa was an Irish-American Brooklynite and I doubt he would have sounded much different if he was from Queens.
In the 1970's-80's, Italians from southeastern Queens sounded a little different than Italians from Bensonhurst, Gravesend, etc. It'd be hard for me to elaborate as to how, and no, I am not referring to the Bklyn practice of replacing a "t" in lieu of "th" (e.g. wit, instead of with), or the marriage of two words into one: "What's the matter witchchew? (with you)"
In the 1970's-80's, Italians from southeastern Queens sounded a little different than Italians from Bensonhurst, Gravesend, etc. It'd be hard for me to elaborate as to how, and no, I am not referring to the Bklyn practice of replacing a "t" in lieu of "th" (e.g. wit, instead of with), or the marriage of two words into one: "What's the matter witchchew? (with you)"
Well I can see it being a thing back then
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Originally Posted by Shoshanarose
I don't understand what you mean about the "rrrr" thing, or "pronouncing the R's".
Like in which words?
R's at the beginning of a word or at the end?
The end.
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