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Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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Same here. I absolutely hate the Wisconsin/Minnesota accent.
Huh, I'm from New England but I moved to Wisconsin (and did work at an answering service there while interning and volunteering) and really never noticed an accent there.
Huh, I'm from New England but I moved to Wisconsin (and did work at an answering service there while interning and volunteering) and really never noticed an accent there.
Huh, I'm from New England but I moved to Wisconsin (and did work at an answering service there while interning and volunteering) and really never noticed an accent there.
We have a lot of Midwesterners here and I don't really notice it either. There were only a few times my dad's NY accent came out - my boss's tends to only comes out when he's mad. But my friend's Boston accent is very strong.
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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We have a lot of Midwesterners here and I don't really notice it either. There were only a few times my dad's NY accent came out - my boss's tends to only comes out when he's mad. But my friend's Boston accent is very strong.
It can be, I don't have one. That Boston accent is super super micro regional, appearing in some towns or sections of towns and totally missing in others adjacent. It's almost more socioeconomic than anything. It's actually rare that you run into someone with one if you're a white collar professional. People don't believe me when I say I grew up in Boston: Where's you're accent?!?! Eye roll...
The Midwest used to (not sure if this is still the case) be the preferred area for large call centers specifically because of the lack of accents.
People don't believe me when I say I grew up in Boston: Where's you're accent?!?! Eye roll...
Listening to one of my sorority sisters, you'd swear she was from TX but she was born and raised in ID. My family members who grew up on the East Coast (NY/NJ) and several of the Easterners I know just sound brusque.
One of the guys I met from OKC was from NJ. He was a genuinely nice guy and very polite but he also had that inherent NJ brusqueness about him. I found it to be a huge disconnect I couldn't quite reconcile.
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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One of the guys I met from OKC was from NJ. He was a genuinely nice guy and very polite but he also had that inherent NJ brusqueness about him. I found it to be a huge disconnect I couldn't quite reconcile.
Fair enough, I couldn't take the fake pleasantness of the Bay Area / west coasters and the reliance on superfluous niceties and avoidance of substance; it definitely turned me off of dating west coasters when I was there and only really connected with non-natives. In the Midwest though the niceness was genuine and I definitely grew to love it.
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Same here. I absolutely hate the Wisconsin/Minnesota accent.
Heh. I'm curious what you'd think of my voice. I'm a MN native, but don't have the strong rural MN (really Iron Range) accent, don't ya know?
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