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Posted on 08/25/2012 7:14:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I still live in Wisconsin because it is the only place I’ve found where the people have no accents.
Well I’ll be od damn!
YOUR VELCOME TO NEW YAWK, VER AL AKSENTS KAN BE FAUND.
My Wisconsin cousins have discernable Wisconsin accents.
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Ya mean “Worshington?” There IS a G in there. But I don’t know where they go at the ends of words.
The Southern accent is the best. Music to my ears.
“My Wisconsin cousins have discernable Wisconsin accents.”
Although I have lived in Texas for a good while, I still have the Wisconsin accent but a bit softened. Every once in a while I will meet someone from Wisconsin and my accent will come back quite strong for a few days. I love the sound of that accent.
This is what happens when tens of thousands of unskilled, ignorant people are given teaching licenses.
These are ‘teachers’ who can hardly speak proper English, don’t know what a verb or pronoun is, let alone how to diagram a sentence. What could possibly go wrong? Babel anyone?
We are simply experiencing the beginning of a nationwide Ebonics plague
HEY!
There ain't nothin' wrong with grits!
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1. "Youse", (What is that, you with an 's' to indicate plural?)
2. "You Guys", (This is definitely sexist. Do you mean only the men?).
A Southern Gentleman would never insult the ladies by saying "You Guys", so I think that the Southern second person plural 'fix' is the best.
Actually, it’s “y’all”.....jus’ sayin’.....
“the Amazing Disappearing G”
Bwaaaa! Reminds me of my 5th grade teacher. She was such a stickler for pronouncing the G, that when she said my name, Millings, it sounded like “Millinguhs!”
I am southern from as far back as John Rolfe, Pochahontas and William Byrd and French Huguenots in the Carolinas
the beginnings of Southerndom
and I can tell you the accent is fading...no doubt
anywhere in Dixie where yankees have streamed in....and boy have they ever
the accent is being diluted with Michigan, New York/Jersey, Ohio and the ones most likely to be liberals...California...one notable freeper who is a friend of mine off this forum being a glaring exception
and even more striking is that younger southerners who have secondary education at least in the more suburban areas are working diligently to erase their southern accents
the culture has taught them to be ashamed of it...it is the accent of racism to them
and worse...poorer and often less educated whites...at least in Middle TN are now often speaking Ebonics..they are “wiggers” or whatever word pleases folks...died in the wool...their intermixing of their women will result in a black southern dialect spoken by legions of mulattoes in years to come..not sure what that will be called
in that particular youth class in greater Nashville I would say it's the reproductive endeavor in 40% of poorer white girls...and no daddies of course...arguably the highest concentration of such class behavior I've seen anywhere in the US...its not common where I come from further south
and will no doubt change the language as much as yankee influx and shame of the more fancy youth
non southerners really just lump all Southern and Country accents together like Gringos think Mexicans and Argentinians are “alike”
whereas ...they are different and many sub dialects
true southern drawl will in time go the way of gullah
and it will be missed
the way Dixie Carter spoke, or Elizabeth Ashley or my Aunt Joyce spoke is fading and to my ear...it was the most pleasant female speaking sound...that and French girls speaking English
True southern is basically spoken from east Texas and North Dallas thru Mid Louisiana and southern Arkansas and all of Mississippi, West Tennessee west of the TN river, western Kentucky, all Alabama from Huntsville south, Georgia except blue ridge and yankee Atlanta..though Atlanta still has serious old school southern accents in Buckhead and Alpharetta..like Ted speaks though he was born in the north, the red state counties of Florida from the panhandle to Everglades City and aback up to Palatka..like a gerrymandered salamander, nearly all of South Carolina, 2/3rds eastern part of North Carolina except where Yankees have inundated...Chapel Hill..etc, rural lowland Virginia and maybe even the hilly part towards Lexington..but not real Appalachia..anywhere they say "out" like "house" Maryland..don't know....Oklahoma and the rest of Texas southern but not so much a Southern drawl accent but a teeth together country accent, southern Missouri...here and there..Missouri is hard to peg really...sure as hell nowhere north of 70
I tell you an odd place you hear southern is Maracaibo Venezuela....all the English teachers there must have been from Texas or Oklahoma...oil
“I still live in Wisconsin because it is the only place I’ve found where the people have no accents.”
Sorry! But,,, another BWAAAAAA! You must not ever go the Milwaukee’s Southside, aini hey?
I guess people generally don’t think they have an accent, but that everybody else does! I went to Midland Texas for three weeks when I was 13. Came back with a Texas accent, that my friends all made fun of!
I’ve traveled some, and always took delight in hearing regional accents. For my money, Northern Ohio is pretty un-accented,,, but Southern Ohio? Thick! Then again,,,, I’m, from Northern Ohio, so I’m prejudiced!
I'm afraid you're right about that. Here in East Texas the native Southern drawl is slowly becoming extinct as the old folks die off and the younger people are influenced by the influx of northerners and by the accents (or lack thereof) that they hear in the media.
Personally, I thought Shelby Foote's accent was about as good as it gets.
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