My Midwest Accent
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- era4O4
...is officially gone! Someone asked me today if I was from NJ because of the way I say words like "coffee" and "water". When I first moved to NYC, people commented on my accent almost daily. And foreigners couldn't understand me at all. Now, I hear my parents' accents and wonder where they came from. After 10yrs in NYC, I'm glad to say it's gone...
...now I have to worry about people thinking I'm from NJ, dammit.
- monospaced0
- everytime i see this i remember this tag i saw on it "Y'all feels me?"cannonball
- bwahahahahaera4O4
- DrBombay0
You should fake a texas accent
- moural0
How are you excited about this? Nothing is more annoying than a Jersey accent. And Midwesterners don't have accents anyway. I don't know how this could be frustrating for you.
- Every region of the US has an accent, including the Midwest.monospaced
- Rodimus790
Jersey accent isn't very accurate.. What you're referring to is largely Long Island, Bronx and Brooklyn. Bayonne and some parts of Hudson and maybe Bergen counties in New Jersey reflect it. And Belmar during the summer, but who knows where all those Goku's come from.
- I lived in Bayonne when i was much younger. Thank god i got out and avoided that accent.baseline_shift
- Scotch_Roman0
Which Midwestern accent did you have? If it was Fargo-style, then no wonder foreigners couldn't understand you... but I find that most people here in St. Louis, or in places like Kansas City have no accent at all, which is why the Midwest is heavily plundered for radio and TV voices.
I've lived so many places... I don't think my accent can be called anything now except for vaguely American. Occasionally when I'm tired or upset, I drawl and a bit of the durty south comes out.
- moural0
Midwesterners might have an "accent" to you, but it's mostly non-regional. You can't tell the difference between someone from Kansas, Colorado, or Florida. It's like the American equivalent of RP.
- mg330
I developed quite a fondness for the Wisconsin female accent when I moved to Chicago in 2001. It's kind of a midwestern-ish, but more Wisconsin-ish accent, kind of whiny - you know what I'm talking about?
I met this girl at a party who was from Wisconsin and just about melted into the floor when she and I were talking. It was unlike anything I'd heard!
- Really? That accent makes my ears bleed. Almost as bad as the Joisey accent.Scotch_Roman
- so you like girls that sound whiny?coco_ono
- coco_ono0
I grew up in south central Indiana yet I don't have an accent. I think it may have something to do with having asian parents who didn't speak much english and having gone to a private catholic school for 8 years. Also, I listened to a lot of NPR, so I have this dull way of enunciating words.
- 5timuli0
Living in Indy and PA split for 2yrs now. Havnae lost ma fucken accent a jot, ken? Aye, dude, ye ken.
- juhls0
Your life started going downhill 10 years ago, I see.
- juhls0
Seriously though, I am not knowledgeable about accents in the U.S.A., except for the ones in and around NY, and the south. But I have heard NJ...
- megE0
Josev, I've heard the same thing. A lot of newscasters go to colleges in Michigan and Ohio because of the 'lack of accent' there. (I was raised in Central OH)
As far as I'm concerned, I sound like the majority of the people on the news, so I have no accent.
But when I moved to CO from OH people said I sounded different with certain words. Oh well...
- sikma0
Western Canadian cities seem to have no accent. Peoples voices sound the same everywhere, it's kind of odd.
Until you leave the city limits. Then everyone thinks they're in Texas.
- fooler20
I grew up in Central Ohio to and when I moved to Colorado and now Oregon people can pick up on my slight accent. Like when I pronounce my home state like "O-high-a"
- 5timuli0
To people from outside the US, the Midwest accent is THE American accent. NY is NY, the South is Texas, and then there's that one from that movie, you know, Fargo. Oh, and the surfer hippy dudes who sound like Tommy Chong.
- era4O40
The guy is intending it as a joke, and you may think this is hyperbolic, but it sounds like my parents' accent: