Do ya'll talk funny?

[DFB]

I'm sure anyone who ever travels is quite aware of the different accents across the country but lo and behold a university level researcher created some maps showing regional favoritism of different words.

22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America - Business Insider

But I think wherever you live you no doubt assimilate the language. My buddy moved down to the Florida panhandle almost 20 years ago. He definitely sounds different now!
After spending a decade in Maine I began to realize myself and the ex were pronouncing words just like all the local folks who grew up there.


Even living in new England there is distinct differences in Mass, Maine, NH, Vermont.
I remember when I first moved to Maine I wanted a hot sausage grinder with peppers, onion, and tomato sauce and they told me they never heard of it! :shocked:

And all they had was a sweet sausage link in a bun with mustard like a hot dog.


I grew up in a new England mill town with large Italian community. One time a visiting college student said to me "You sound like your from Chicago"


So what do folks from Chicago sound like anyways....gangsters?

 

[pjbci]

Naw, we dont talk funny. Yall do. Heehee.

 

[newbury]

I hail from Northern Vermont. Up there we tend to speak sparse and fast.

When I got down to Northern Virginia I gradually slowed down so the general public could understand me. Then later on I started training Army National Guard troops and found that down in LA (Lower Alabama) they still couldn't understand me. So I started talking like Jimmy Carter - rarely more than four words in a row without a pause. Stopped saying "depress the button" started saying "mash the button".

Pretty soon I was one of the more requested trainers.

I get back up to Ft. Drum to train, speech quickens.

You've got to adapt for your audience.

 

[farmgirl19]

Of course not! Texans don't talk funny! The rest of y'all do!

 

[Arbo]

Several years back, my family and I traveled to Cape Cod for a vacation. A waitress told me that I had a wicked accent, to which I replied that she was the one with the wicked accent, not me.

 

[brin]

So what do folks from Chicago sound like anyways....gangsters?

In Chicago they use terms like....Dis for this, dem for them, dose for those, youse guys, for Y'all, etc/

 

[DFB]

I hail from Northern Vermont. Up there we tend to speak sparse and fast.

When I got down to Northern Virginia I gradually slowed down so the general public could understand me.
I get back up to Ft. Drum to train, speech quickens.

You've got to adapt for your audience.

I can relate to that I've been working with a fellow who hails from northern Maine and boy can he talk fast! Couple that with the accent and after he gets done I just look at him and say "now tell me that again but in English this time" Then he breaks out in a great big grin and we both have a good laugh

 

[deepNdirt]

If'n Y'all want to know whether you talk funny or not, use the Talk-to-text feature on your cell phones, My phone puts words up I never said, or maybe my cell phone is like my GPS device and talks funny

In Chicago they use terms like....Dis for this, dem for them, dose for those, youse guys, for Y'all, etc/

My all time favorite words was used by my Grandma, God bless her sole, She was Tennessee hillbilly, to us we use the word ( Yall ) her word was (You-un-ses) not sure how to spell that, but I hope it's close when I sleep over at her house I had to sleep on the ( set-tee )

 

[newbury]

If'n Y'all want to know whether you talk funny or not, use the Talk-to-text feature on your cell phones, My phone puts words up I never said, or maybe my cell phone is like my GPS device and talks funny

No - you've probably got a Northern or California phone. Return it and ask for one that speaks your language.

 

[DFB]

In Chicago they use terms like....Dis for this, dem for them, dose for those, youse guys, for Y'all, etc/

Hmm must be why :laughing:

I market all summer at a lake and ski resort town and many of my customers are 2nd home owners from lower NY state, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Most of them sound like the Sopranos the rest sound like Woody Allen. Then there are the locals. I have to play the crowd right so I have both a Yankees and Red Sox hat

 

[DFB]

Of course not! Texans don't talk funny! The rest of y'all do!

Farmgirl...one of my fellow vendors is from Texas. He and his wife come up every year in the ol' Holiday Rambler and spent the summer camping in Vermont!

 

[farmgirl19]

when I sleep over at her house I had to sleep on the ( set-tee )

deepNdirt;

I think that is just an older term. A lot of things weren't said back then, and I think "love seat" might have been one of them. I remember one of my grandmothers wouldn't use the word "pregnant", but always said, "with child".

 

[DFB]

My French gram always called the sofa a Davenport

 

[Tig]

youse guys, for Y'all, etc/

Youse, I always associate that term with people in a nearby town.. Specifically those who live on the east side of the river and close to it. "Would youse like more coffee?"
But then again we dasn't make fun of them, that's the rough part of town, eh!

 

[Tig]

Well I'm having a good chuckle (at myself mostly) as I go though those maps. I do have to stop and comment that I can't believe that "runners" Or "running shoes" did not make the list for names to call athletic footwear.

 

[J F]

I'm a yankee in GA. I'm pretty sure I talk very funny. :laughing:

For the rest of the country, I don't have much of an accent at all, I grew up mostly in upstate NY (Syracuse), but lived in VA for a couple of years when in middle school. I'm guessing I could read the news and most people across the country wouldn't know where I "was from".

But here in GA, even after 20 years...I definitely have an accent. "You're not from around here, are ya?"

 

[Dr_Zinj]

I've been stationed all over the country, and all over the world for that matter.
Go 50 to 100 miles in any direction, and you're going to find people talking differently.
I end up adopting local speech patterns very quickly as a form of protective coloration.
And I always made it a point to take conversational language classes in any country I was assigned in that didn't speak English as a native language. (Although I was surprised as a young man fresh out of boot camp to discover that the English don't speak English as I was taught it - no educational substitute for real life experience!)

 

[J F]

I've been stationed all over the country, and all over the world for that matter.
Go 50 to 100 miles in any direction, and you're going to find people talking differently.
I end up adopting local speech patterns very quickly as a form of protective coloration.
And I always made it a point to take conversational language classes in any country I was assigned in that didn't speak English as a native language. (Although I was surprised as a young man fresh out of boot camp to discover that the English don't speak English as I was taught it - no educational substitute for real life experience!)

:laughing:

Interesting take, Dr. :thumbsup:

 

[DeereMann]

Man, I hope I'm not picking up the Scandahoovian accent here in Minnesota (every seen the move "Fargo"? )

I'm from Wisconsin where there is no accent, according to us. :confused3:

 

[J F]

There never is. :laughing:

Love Fargo, by the way. (the movie, ain't been there yet)