I was raised by parents with heavy southern accents. That was the way I spoke growing up. When I was in college and would talk to my parents on the phone my roommates would make fun of the way I talked like a hillbilly.
The thing is that I never noticed that I spoke differently with my parents until my roommates pointed it out. It was something I did without even realizing it.
(04-12-2019, 09:38 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I was raised by parents with heavy southern accents. That was the way I spoke growing up. When I was in college and would talk to my parents on the phone my roommates would make fun of the way I talked like a hillbilly.
The thing is that I never noticed that I spoke differently with my parents until my roommates pointed it out. It was something I did without even realizing it.
When I get around my family from SWPA, I get much more Yinzer-ish than I am normally. My wife cracks up listening to it sometimes. But then she gets real twangy when she gets mad or excited, so I like to poke fun at her for that, as well.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
I took it a couple of times and I'm pretty consistent with western North Carolina down into Georgia being my regional dialect. It is tough, though, because I had to think about which word I use more frequently. Like with sub versus hoagie, for instance. I will code switch that one, using sub more often, but hoagie around my SW PA relatives.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
(04-12-2019, 10:34 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I took it a couple of times and I'm pretty consistent with western North Carolina down into Georgia being my regional dialect. It is tough, though, because I had to think about which word I use more frequently. Like with sub versus hoagie, for instance. I will code switch that one, using sub more often, but hoagie around my SW PA relatives.
Like pop and soda. I say soda all the time. Picked it up from a college gf and never dropped it.
But I have also never said "yinz" despite being born and raised in SW PA and having a grandmother that used it all the time.
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(04-12-2019, 10:36 AM)GMDino Wrote: Like pop and soda. I say soda all the time. Picked it up from a college gf and never dropped it.
But I have also never said "yinz" despite being born and raised in SW PA and having a grandmother that used it all the time.
I use y'all more regularly, but yinz when I'm mad. Psychoanalysts would have fun with that one.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
(04-12-2019, 10:34 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I took it a couple of times and I'm pretty consistent with western North Carolina down into Georgia being my regional dialect. It is tough, though, because I had to think about which word I use more frequently. Like with sub versus hoagie, for instance. I will code switch that one, using sub more often, but hoagie around my SW PA relatives.
I thought a hoagie was a TYPE of sub, not synomous with "sub."
(04-12-2019, 09:38 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I was raised by parents with heavy southern accents. That was the way I spoke growing up. When I was in college and would talk to my parents on the phone my roommates would make fun of the way I talked like a hillbilly.
The thing is that I never noticed that I spoke differently with my parents until my roommates pointed it out. It was something I did without even realizing it.
Me too. Mother from rural Texas and father from rural Oklahoma.
When I got in trouble my mother would say "Yo daddehs gon clean yo plow!"
But I spent my whole adult life in the North and never picked it up. I learned to imitate them pretty well, though, when I wanted to irritate them.
(04-12-2019, 08:18 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: OP is claiming that AOC's accent was southern (it's not) and that it is racist for her to put that on for the predominately black audience she was speaking to.
She was using a forced New York Puerto Rican accent. Think Rosie Perez but not as authentic.
(04-13-2019, 12:19 AM)Beaker Wrote: Her and trump are two of the stupidest people I know. The direction of politics terrifies me.
I would consider AOC as naive and Trump as overly narcissistic. I would hesitate to call either stupid, but you probably know some really smart people.
(04-13-2019, 12:42 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I would consider AOC as naive and Trump as overly narcissistic. I would hesitate to call either stupid, but you probably know some really smart people.
Agreed. But AOC won't be naive forever. Trump will always be a narcissist. And in position to do far more damage.
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