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I speak a dialect of something mostly So CA with some NYC. My natural accent however is a soft drawl and usage common to one who grew up in Louisville, KY.
If I spend a few days in a southern city I almost immediately pick up a little drawl and start using y'all.
I can control but not shifting to the drawl is the unnatural act. I can turn on the drawl but have to be careful or it comes through forced and phony. But in the presence of users it comes back quite natural.
I speak a dialect of something mostly So CA with some NYC. My natural accent however is a soft drawl and usage common to one who grew up in Louisville, KY.
If I spend a few days in a southern city I almost immediately pick up a little drawl and start using y'all.
I can control but not shifting to the drawl is the unnatural act. I can turn on the drawl but have to be careful or it comes through forced and phony. But in the presence of users it comes back quite natural.
Your "drawl" is likely faint to nonexistent to the ears of a native Southerner.
Your "drawl" is likely faint to nonexistent to the ears of a native Southerner.
Actually not true. Any southerner who would hear me in full drawl would know I am not a Yankee. The Louisville accent is quite a pleasant one. And it was strong enough that I was nicknamed "reb" during my last year of high school on Long Island.
I tend to pick up the local dialect a bit anywhere. My youngest sister speaks Brit with a lot of NYC and some undertones of Louisville. I expect she would begin to drawl in a couple of days in the south.
Actually not true. Any southerner who would hear me in full drawl would know I am not a Yankee. The Louisville accent is quite a pleasant one. And it was strong enough that I was nicknamed "reb" during my last year of high school on Long Island.
I tend to pick up the local dialect a bit anywhere. My youngest sister speaks Brit with a lot of NYC and some undertones of Louisville. I expect she would begin to drawl in a couple of days in the south.
Come to any rural Southern area. I bet your accent would fit in as well as Hillary's. Remember - Louisville is the absolute border of the most liberal definition of the South. Many Southerners don't consider Louisville Southern at all. Whether or not the accent is "pleasant" is immaterial to whether it is Southern or not.
Come to any rural Southern area. I bet your accent would fit in as well as Hillary's. Remember - Louisville is the absolute border of the most liberal definition of the South. Many Southerners don't consider Louisville Southern at all. Whether or not the accent is "pleasant" is immaterial to whether it is Southern or not.
I suspect you know little of Louisville. It has at least three distinct accents and you know who they are as soon as they open their mouth. Now that was when I was there but I expect it held through the years. And one of those accents is strongly southern. Not Alabama. But southern.
And I also suspect it is not a southern city...but that is a different subject.
It must be embarrassing to stoop so low as to attempt to defend the indefensable..
Those of you who continue to defend that horrible woman and tell us they too slip into an accent when around others who have an accent, really mean to say that their heads are so far up killary's backside that they can't speak at all..
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