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Liss:
Quote from: reggikko on 2005 August 18, 17:18:11
I've never heard Tom Brokaw say "warsh" or drop the 'to be' as in 'do you need spanked?', but I've heard it from my midwestern in-laws. Anchorpeople learn to speak free of any accent, and in standard English.
Don't make me haf' ta sic my dawg on y'all. ;)
LOL I was just going to mention this...my grandma and grandpa always used to say "warsh" ... warsh the clothes, warsh the car....hehe
ElviraGoth:
Ah, I see my last post was taken quite differently from the way I intended it to be.
No, I do not think southerners are stupid. I do not equate a southern accent with stupidity in any way, shape or form. And I grew up saying "warsh", but have since dropped that.
All I meant was that I had a problem understanding people, because I hadn't developed the "ear" I needed to understand the twang. It's just this area has a little different accent. I have no problem understanding the southern dialect as a whole. And I did not have any problem understanding 99% of the people from this area. I felt stupid, myself, when I had to ask someone to repeat what they said because my brain was not processing what they were saying into comprehensible words.
I guy I met here once told me that yankees live up north, but damn yankees move to the south and stay!
I actually love the south, and most of the people here are great. But I should also say that's true of where I'm from. You have bad apples and stupidity everywhere! Us midwesterners are not making fun of the people here any more or less than we did the people back home. I should have also said that in my previous post. We make fun of the idiots no matter where they're from.
And, believe me, we were made fun of by the locals when we moved down here, mostly because we did have a hard time understanding some of the people here.
And btw, we also say "crick" instead of "creek". That's one of the things we make fun of about ourselves. We do also point out our own idiot-syncracies. We believe that if you can't take it, don't dish it out! We jab each other about misspellings, using the wrong word or verb tense, all of it.
But the midwestern accent, as hook stated, is what anchor people on the news try to speak, because it has the least difficulty in being understood by the public as a whole. I'm not saying my speech is perfect, by any means!
Have never heard "do you need spanked?", must be a regional thing like "warsh" and "crick".
I do, however, think that everyone needs to learn the correct way to spell the word they intend to use. That's how I was brought up. If you don't know how to spell it, LOOK IT UP! Imagine trying to look up a word in the dictionary when you don't know how to spell it. Makes a lot of sense, huh? I heard that all the time I was growing up.
I apologize to you southerners if I offended you. That was not my intention. If it makes you feel better, one of the things I hear around here a lot is that Iowa stands for Idiots Out Walking Around. When that's where you're from, it's real hard not to take offense at hearing that over and over.
So rip off my lips if you must! I can take it.
Hook:
Quote from: reggikko on 2005 August 18, 17:18:11
I've never heard Tom Brokaw say "warsh" or drop the 'to be' as in 'do you need spanked?', but I've heard it from my midwestern in-laws.
That's exactly how my mother talked. She was born and raised in Pennsylvania. Maybe we need to redefine "midwest." :)
Hook
Inge:
I love that Boston accent! Boarston; Dr Digoroarlami; that "oar" sound for the 'o's. That's my favourite American accent :) I fell in love with it during the Louise Woodward trial.
Shivani:
Quote from: Hook on 2005 August 18, 08:39:10
After being away from Texas for a couple of years, I lost most of the accent. The only time I had the accent was when I was very tired. It was really interesting because when I was tired I could *hear* myself talking with an accent.
I've noticed that myself. I grew up in Maine...Downeast Maine, to be specific, and anyone who's heard about Bert & I knows what I mean. Though, having a mother from Sheffield and a father who spent a lot of time in different places and countries, I never had much of a regional accent.
However, the minute I get really tired, I and my husband can immediately hear where I came from.
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