Accent Dialogue
I am sure that the reason that people take on a certain accent is because that is how the people around them are speaking. Either when they grew up as they learned to speak or if they have moved somewhere and slowly their accent changes to mirror those around them. But have you ever wondered what the origins of those accents are? Who was it that originally started to speak a certain way or did it slowly evolve over time?
I assume it is true in other countries too that there are different accents or dialects depending on what part of the country you are from, but it seems that in the US this is especially true. And being a relatively young country (only a few hundred years compared to thousands of years for other countries) you would think we could trace the origins of the many different accents in our country.
Of the many different accents in our country, which do you like to hear best? Do you like hearing those from the Northeast esp. the Boston area? I enjoy hearing this accent occasionally like Boston Rob previously on Survivor now on The Amazing Race (see http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race7/ ). Or do you like the Southern accent esp. in the deep South like Alabama or Georgia, which is different than the drawl of many from Texas and Oklahoma. How about the areas that kind of have inflections from other countries where alot of the people in those areas are from like in Minnesota or Louisiana?
And how come some people who have an accent from an area of the country lose their accent when they move to a different area but others don't? And how come some people have more of an accent than others even in their own family? I grew up in Texas and have moved to the Pacific NW, but most people tell me that I don't have much of an accent, but others in my family you can definitely hear a difference. This area doesn't have an accent associated with it. Maybe I can be the one to start one and be the origin of a new accent.
I assume it is true in other countries too that there are different accents or dialects depending on what part of the country you are from, but it seems that in the US this is especially true. And being a relatively young country (only a few hundred years compared to thousands of years for other countries) you would think we could trace the origins of the many different accents in our country.
Of the many different accents in our country, which do you like to hear best? Do you like hearing those from the Northeast esp. the Boston area? I enjoy hearing this accent occasionally like Boston Rob previously on Survivor now on The Amazing Race (see http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race7/ ). Or do you like the Southern accent esp. in the deep South like Alabama or Georgia, which is different than the drawl of many from Texas and Oklahoma. How about the areas that kind of have inflections from other countries where alot of the people in those areas are from like in Minnesota or Louisiana?
And how come some people who have an accent from an area of the country lose their accent when they move to a different area but others don't? And how come some people have more of an accent than others even in their own family? I grew up in Texas and have moved to the Pacific NW, but most people tell me that I don't have much of an accent, but others in my family you can definitely hear a difference. This area doesn't have an accent associated with it. Maybe I can be the one to start one and be the origin of a new accent.
posted by whaaaat! at
8:07 AM
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Just met a new friend whom moved in this Texas Panhandle area from Minnesota. I teased her about her accent. She said, "my accent, you guys are the ones that have an accent!" So--I'll be more careful at teasing someone about their accent. :-(
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