I know this is such a random topic but I couldn't help but write about it. Okay I am sitting in the school library with my best friend while writing this. And this lady is on the phone having a conversation which seems kind of business like. Well while she was talking she mention something about having a bad southern accent. As I was listening to her talk, I didn't notice a accent. Is it because I'm from the south too. I never noticed that us southerners had a bad accent? DO we really? My grandmother said that us southerners tend to slur our words. I never noticed that. But now that I sit here and think about it, WE CAN'T TALK.(lol) If you listen to someone from up north talk, you will notice that pronounce every syllable in their words. Now think about someone talking from the deep south like New Orleans. Matter of fact think about how we say new orleans: we pronounce it: N'AWLINS (well some of us lol) while northerners pronuce it NEW OR-LEANS (the way it is spelled. We say Y'all, they say you all. Just thinking about it makes me laugh.
Well I just wanted to share my insight about northern and southern languages.
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I moved from Pittsburgh a few years ago and people do talk different down here. It's not as bad as places in, like, Mississippi, say, but you can tell. My grandma will even tell me I sound country, of all people-- me?! When we first were looking for a house, a lady was showing us her's because she was selling it and whatever, and she told us about her daughter who was "fixing to be 18." And I'm like WHAT? How does one fix to be 18? I caught on, but was tripped out for the moment.
Well, everyone talks different with their own accents. When I first moved here a couple of years ago, I sounded totally different from everyone else. I usually get the question "are you from here?"
Man don’t even listen to those people but yea you southerns do have accents it is straight are you had around someone for so long that is just something that you pick up I am from Missouri and I am coming down with the southern slang so do not feel bad we all are just alive.
I think southern accents are beautiful. However you don't have to sound like a hick when you have an accent. You can still use proper grammar. But nothing wrong with a few regionalisms. Northerners definitely have accents, depends on where they are from.
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