One of my best friends gets highly irritated at the way kids talk today. I’ve also noticed, over the years, that my dad has always complained at the way people constantly mispronounce a lot of words.
So I’ve narrowed the proper way to talk down to two possible dialects. Which one do you think is correct?
A) A middle class accent from northern Delaware spoken by people born in the 70s?
B) A working class accent from south Philly spoken by people born in the 40s?
They are distinctly different accents, so they can’t both be correct.
Note: for those who don’t get my sense of humor, I’m being sarcastic.
One of my best friends gets highly irritated at the way kids talk today. I’ve also noticed, over the years, that my dad has always complained at the way people constantly mispronounce a lot of words.
So I’ve narrowed the proper way to talk down to two possible dialects. Which one do you think is correct?
A) A middle class accent from northern Delaware spoken by people born in the 70s?
B) A working class accent from south Philly spoken by people born in the 40s?
They are distinctly different accents, so they can’t both be correct.
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I think the answer is, uhm, like, 2017 bartender from the Bronx.
One of my best friends gets highly irritated at the way kids talk today. I’ve also noticed, over the years, that my dad has always complained at the way people constantly mispronounce a lot of words.
So I’ve narrowed the proper way to talk down to two possible dialects. Which one do you think is correct?
A) A middle class accent from northern Delaware spoken by people born in the 70s?
B) A working class accent from south Philly spoken by people born in the 40s?
They are distinctly different accents, so they can’t both be correct.
Note: for those who don’t get my sense of humor, I’m being sarcastic.
B) There’s no reason to wooder down your Philly accent - otherwise how would people at the Ackamee know you’re not from somewhere else, like Baldymore? (unless you’re wearing your Iggles shirt)
Or, RIP, my grandmother. That’s the answer for me, my grandmother.
On another note, I do know people that don’t have the cultural awareness to know that stating facts without context and with a tinge of judgement can come across kind of bad. Especially in the south, where we take a paragraph worth of talking just to get across “no, I don’t like the pie”.
Basically:
Me: Thanks for the cake. I think it’s pretty good. If you pulled it out just 2 minutes sooner, it would have been a little more moist. Or you could try to add a water bath to the oven.
Spouse: You didn’t do what I told you to do to make a moist cake.
Every now and then I order a wooder, as a joke, and no one ever gets the joke.
I don’t have a thick accent, but people from other parts of the country have been able to place me somewhere in the mid atlantic region. I definitely have the Philly “o.”
One of my friends moved up here from the southwest. “I didn’t realize I’ve been pronouncing radiator wrong this whole time.” “No, YOU pronounce it correctly. Most of this region doesn’t.”
I also used to give him crap because he would make mine “possessive” by adding an s. “That car is mine’s.”
He once thought he caught me doing it. “You just said mine’s.” “Yes, I did. I said we ran a ballistic test today and evaluated the blast effects of two mines under a tank.”
Every now and then I order a wooder, as a joke, and no one ever gets the joke.
I don’t have a thick accent, but people from other parts of the country have been able to place me somewhere in the mid atlantic region. I definitely have the Philly “o.”
You mean the Philly “ew”? My M-I-L and most of her friends all grew up in Southwest and some of the dialect they use is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
When my older daughter was little, people used to comment on how she said “water”. Not because she said it “wooder” but because she said it the way I say it, which is… “water”. It wasn’t until she went to school and some of her friends met me - and then said something to her - that she realised I have an accent.
One of my best friends gets highly irritated at the way kids talk today. I’ve also noticed, over the years, that my dad has always complained at the way people constantly mispronounce a lot of words.
So I’ve narrowed the proper way to talk down to two possible dialects. Which one do you think is correct?
A) A middle class accent from northern Delaware spoken by people born in the 70s?
B) A working class accent from south Philly spoken by people born in the 40s?
They are distinctly different accents, so they can’t both be correct.
They’re both wrong. There are only 2 proper ways to pronounce anything - South Boston and New Bedford/SE Mass. Fuck you everyone else is wrong
A disproportionate number of presenters on US and international networks are Canadian. Think Peter Jennings (ABC News), Kevin Newman (Good Morning America), Bob McKeown and Keith Morrison (NBC News), or hosts such as Alex Trebek (Jeopardy). Most Americans don’t realize they are speaking Central Canadian.
The “funny” accents Americans think of as Canadian is only seen on the islands of Newfoundland (very north-east of the country) and to a lesser degree, Cape Breton (East Coast)
