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The Norfolk people in that last video sound Southern with an East Coast twist (almost like a mirror image of us DMV people who basically sound East Coast with Southern twist). People from Norfolk don't sound country like people from Richmond do, which is ironic considering that Richmond is further north than the entire Hampton Roads region.
The Norfolk people in that last video sound Southern with an East Coast twist (almost like a mirror image of us DMV people who basically sound East Coast with Southern twist). People from Norfolk don't sound country like people from Richmond do, which is ironic considering that Richmond is further north than the entire Hampton Roads region.
I forgot all about this thread until you responded, but I see what you mean about the southern/northeast mixture in accent balance between the Tidewater and DC/PG. However, I believe some people from both areas have accents that sound very similar (equally balanced between both northern and southern).
The black american urban accent outweighs the southern accents in all these mid-atlantic areas. I don't know why, but the white american dialects from the same exact regions, although no examples have been shown, probably differ the most.
The DC accent is easy to recognize. It's a mixture of slang and Mid Atlantic dialect.
It's not a "Mid Atlantic dialect" if we are talking about what linguistic researchers refer to as a "Mid Atlantic dialect." Baltimore falls within that linguistic regional pattern but not the DC area.
Some linguists don't even acknowledge a Mid Atlantic dialect. They break Midland speech into Northern and Southern.
It's impossible to get sense of how many people speak a certain way through YouTube videos since there are only a handful of samples from a region of millions. In my experience, the accent ranges from General American (neutral) to Southern. The more education, the closer to General American people tend to sound.
It's impossible to get sense of how many people speak a certain way through YouTube videos since there are only a handful of samples from a region of millions. In my experience, the accent ranges from General American (neutral) to Southern. The more education, the closer to General American people tend to sound.
^ you get a sense by living in or having had lived in the area yo.
The DC accent is easy to recognize. It's a mixture of slang and Mid Atlantic dialect.
Exactly, anyone who can't tell the difference either don't be down here a lot, be around Black transplants from outside area a lot, simply talking out of their a$$es, or are one of THOSE people who think Black people all "sound the same" LOL.
Our accent is the sound, our dialect is the pronunciation/language, and our slang is our local Ebonics/street talk.
And "Jawnt" is something Baltimoreans say. Down here in the DMV, we say "Jont".
I forgot all about this thread until you responded, but I see what you mean about the southern/northeast mixture in accent balance between the Tidewater and DC/PG. However, I believe some people from both areas have accents that sound very similar (equally balanced between both northern and southern).
Yeah, those videos definitely confirmed my thread revival post. The DC/PG Black accent and Tidewater/757 region Black accent share some words in each other's dialects but one side's accent sound even more on the Southern twangy side with some East Coast influences (Tidewater) whereas the other sound more on the East Coast side with some Southern influences (DC/PG).
Hampton Roads peeps are definitely our brethren nonetheless.
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