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post #51 of 57
12/12/09 at 3:11pm
Posting this here because the accent makes it awesome:

Skinheads from Maine
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post #52 of 57
12/15/09 at 6:15pm
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
I don't know where that is. Does that include the Berkshires? If so, Fuck you. (No offense!)
It most certainly includes you. Because you are part of the reason for the sentiment. Are you getting it yet?
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post #53 of 57
12/15/09 at 6:19pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan Bean View Post
It most certainly includes you. Because you are part of the reason for the sentiment. Are you getting it yet?
I guess so, but I don't know why you'd need to go out of your way to say stuff like that to me. There are people on the boards I don't care for, but I don't spend my time constantly trying to say rude things about them

Thanks, Ryan.
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post #54 of 57
12/15/09 at 7:56pm
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Originally Posted by Seabass Inna Bun View Post
Yes. I have friends from here who spent about ten years in New Jersey. This means they know what a toque is but drink a lot of soda. And y'all talk funny.

And eat this stuff called 'red sauce', but don't put gravy on your freedom fries. Philistines.
I had a friend from Calgary a few years back who spoke with no trace of an accent that would make it easy for an American to identify her as a Canadian. Then her little brother came to visit. Wow. I always thought of a Canadian accent as nothing more than pronouncing the letter "o" a little differently and occasionally adding "eh?" to the end of sentences. I thought Bob and Doug McKenzie were caricatures until I heard this guy. We had a little trouble understanding each other for the first few minutes, but we eventually got there. And it was great listening to my friend slipping in and out two accents while "translating" for two guys who had both assumed up till that point that they were speaking "proper" English.
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post #55 of 57
12/15/09 at 8:10pm
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Originally Posted by jvc View Post
I had a friend from Calgary a few years back who spoke with no trace of an accent that would make it easy for an American to identify her as a Canadian. Then her little brother came to visit. Wow. I always thought of a Canadian accent as nothing more than pronouncing the letter "o" a little differently and occasionally adding "eh?" to the end of sentences. I thought Bob and Doug McKenzie were caricatures until I heard this guy. We had a little trouble understanding each other for the first few minutes, but we eventually got there. And it was great listening to my friend slipping in and out two accents while "translating" for two guys who had both assumed up till that point that they were speaking "proper" English.
Canada has its share of accents but, sadly, the Mackenzie Brothers are pretty accurate of one type. Try talking to someone from Newfoundland or from the Ottawa Valley* sometime if you want some fun misunderstanding each other.

We Saskatchewanians have a really flat accent like Marge from Fargo only with more "ehs" and less "oh, yeahs".

*My wife's cousin can draw out the phrase "Oh, yeah" so long you'd think it's a Shakespearean soliloquy.
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post #56 of 57
12/15/09 at 8:15pm
Grew up in northeast Ohio, and this destroys me every time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9eJbAE1XpM
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post #57 of 57
12/15/09 at 8:24pm
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Originally Posted by JuddL View Post
Even if Princess Kate is mildly retarded she's not entirely wrong. There's a correlation between level of education and thickness of accent. I'm not making this up, it's a fact.
I think the connection here isn't the education, but the lifestyle. An educated person--even if he or she stays in the state, county, or town/city in which he/she grew up during school--is exposed to many different kinds of people from different regions, countries, and social/economic backgrounds than his or her own. This naturally leads to not only a more nuanced way of thinking, but also a wider range of ways to say things. An uneducated person is more likely to have a more homogeneous group of associates and thus more extreme/undiluted opinions and ways of expressing himself/herself. So, I'd argue that a dumb-as-nails flight attendant probably has just as slight of an accent as a highly educated person from her same area.
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