Some of you Southerners....

[SpeedRacer 1]

...sound like you're talking funny on purpose.

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...sound like you're talking funny on purpose.

but the others just do it to annoy.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

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...sound like you're talking funny on purpose.

but the others just do it to annoy.

You must know something aboot it, eh?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[JohnMitchell 16]

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...sound like you're talking funny on purpose.

And you damn Yankees don't?

I met a New Jersey woman the other day. I asked her what her name was. She said "It's Duwha-an."
I said "That's a pretty name. How do you spell it?'
She blinked and said "D-A-W-N."

[Zep 0]

I met a Northerner once she was called Tracy and she wore white shoes,
except for the accent she could of been from Canvy island.

Five hours later and a sore dick she still hadent taken those shoes off.

Gone fishing

[skyrider 0]

Ya'll must be from Joisey or New Yawk ..

Or one of those british people that have lived here 20 years yet still have a THICK accent!

[JohnMitchell 16]

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Five hours later and she still hadent taken those shoes off.

In the immortal words of David Lee Roth "I like those kind of shoes. No, no, don't take them off, don't take them off."

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Ya'll must be from Joisey or New Yawk ..

Or one of those british people that have lived here 20 years yet still have a THICK accent!

I reckon when they go back to Britain, everyone thinks they sound American!!

I went to Florida last year and hadn't been there since like 2003 - everyone thought I had a British twang but I still think I sound VERY Canadian when I'm over here!!

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

[JohnMitchell 16]

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- everyone thought I had a British twang but I still think I sound VERY Canadian when I'm over here!!

Do you still say "aboot" instead of "about'?
I like that. It sounds so . . . North of the border.

When I hang out with Texans too long all my "twang" and drawl start coming back.
The best part about a Texas accent? People don't expect you to be all that smart.

[Nataly 38]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJwT40m24U

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

[happythoughts 0]

Who is it that invented the "ee" squeal in the middle of "right" ?

"rye-ee-t?"

[captain1976 0]

Actually the southern accent came from African Americans. Most Southerners will deny it but its a fact.
Most children were raised by slaves and after that by servants who were black.

You live more in the few minutes of skydiving than many people live in their lifetime

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...sound like you're talking funny on purpose.

Hi Speedybaby,
You must have found my stash of old "Brother Dave Gardner" records
Now, listen to me talk and go figure?? I'm first generation here of Hungarian parents I was born in "Newoawlinz!!" Louisiana and grew up across the lake in Hammond in the middle of an immigrant community of Hungarians (turn of the 20th cent farmers) Italian immigrant farmers up the I.C Line in Independence, Red Necks all over, some English, Irish and don't forget the Cajuns, Blacks up and down the street, a clan of Syrians that had the farm across the street, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Alponca Indians, was the only Hungarian kid in a Catholic School full of Dagos, staffed by a bunch of Creole Nuns from New Orleans down in the Irish Channel off Poyadras Street by the docks and God knows what else and you got the ballz, gall and audacity to say we talk funny!!

SCR-2034, SCS-680

III%,
Deli-out

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Accents are just a matter of perspective.

"Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death." - Sylvester Graham

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Five hours later and a sore dick she still hadent taken those shoes off.

What did you do to make "her" dick sore?

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[davjohns 1]

I swap accents. Sometimes intentionally. Sometimes not. When I give briefings, I have no accent. In Baghdad, I developed a British accent when I spent too much time with the Brits. When I go north, I turn on a deep south accent to annoy them. I also start using "y'all" to refer to one person. They hate that.

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

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...sound like you're talking funny on purpose.

Hi Speedybaby,
You must have found my stash of old "Brother Dave Gardner" records
Now, listen to me talk and go figure?? I'm first generation here of Hungarian parents I was born in "Newoawlinz!!" Louisiana and grew up across the lake in Hammond in the middle of an immigrant community of Hungarians (turn of the 20th cent farmers) Italian immigrant farmers up the I.C Line in Independence, Red Necks all over, some English, Irish and don't forget the Cajuns, Blacks up and down the street, a clan of Syrians that had the farm across the street, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Alponca Indians, was the only Hungarian kid in a Catholic School full of Dagos, staffed by a bunch of Creole Nuns from New Orleans down in the Irish Channel off Poyadras Street by the docks and God knows what else and you got the ballz, gall and audacity to say we talk funny!!

Ever been here?> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickfaw,_LouisianaLived on the corner of Whiskey Ln. and Tin Can Alley. You wouldn't like their jail. Nice tubing down the river tho. NO rocked in the day. Lines of coke on the bar in Fat City. No Problemo.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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I swap accents. Sometimes intentionally. Sometimes not. When I give briefings, I have no accent. In Baghdad, I developed a British accent when I spent too much time with the Brits. When I go north, I turn on a deep south accent to annoy them. I also start using "y'all" to refer to one person. They hate that.

I tend to mimic unconsciously; I have to watch out lest people think I'm mocking them. I grew up in the DC suburbs (which features what I like to call the mid-Atlantic non-accent), and my parents by that point had lost whatever regional accents they had. But my folks used to laugh when I'd get on the phone with my grandparents in rural Tennessee and eastern Connecticut, because by the end of the conversation I'd have picked up the accent on the other end of the line...

I can do southern if it suits me, but most of the time my accent's pretty darn neutral. When I lived in Seattle, I got "I don't know where you're from but you're not from around here." Probably because I didn't refer to carbonated beverages as "pop."

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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...sound like you're talking funny on purpose.

Hi Speedybaby,
You must have found my stash of old "Brother Dave Gardner" records
Now, listen to me talk and go figure?? I'm first generation here of Hungarian parents I was born in "Newoawlinz!!" Louisiana and grew up across the lake in Hammond in the middle of an immigrant community of Hungarians (turn of the 20th cent farmers) Italian immigrant farmers up the I.C Line in Independence, Red Necks all over, some English, Irish and don't forget the Cajuns, Blacks up and down the street, a clan of Syrians that had the farm across the street, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Alponca Indians, was the only Hungarian kid in a Catholic School full of Dagos, staffed by a bunch of Creole Nuns from New Orleans down in the Irish Channel off Poyadras Street by the docks and God knows what else and you got the ballz, gall and audacity to say we talk funny!!

Ever been here?> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickfaw,_LouisianaLived on the corner of Whiskey Ln. and Tin Can Alley. You wouldn't like their jail. Nice tubing down the river tho. NO rocked in the day. Lines of coke on the bar in Fat City. No Problemo.

Hi ak,
Funny thing?? You must be talkin' 'bout the Tangipahoa river!! I lived in Hammond but my brothers' wife's folks lived there off Whisky lane on Stone lane named after her father Stonewall Jackson Rogers. Ridgels and Rogers all over!! Small world!! The approach for runway 13 at Hammond Airport is over that area!! Was a major Skydiving Meca in the 60's till Leon Riche got into it with local politics!! The Airport was the most bitchin DZ in the area because of the light traffic and lots of room!! Right down he road from your place on the river is Dunnington's bridge, it had the best sand bar for beachparties!!

SCR-2034, SCS-680

III%,
Deli-out

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When I lived in Seattle, I got "I don't know where you're from but you're not from around here."

Y'all talk fast. I know you're not from my home town (Fort Worth).

Hey, how y'all doin'?

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I swap accents. Sometimes intentionally. Sometimes not. When I give briefings, I have no accent. In Baghdad, I developed a British accent when I spent too much time with the Brits. When I go north, I turn on a deep south accent to annoy them. I also start using "y'all" to refer to one person. They hate that.

I tend to mimic unconsciously; I have to watch out lest people think I'm mocking them. I grew up in the DC suburbs (which features what I like to call the mid-Atlantic non-accent), and my parents by that point had lost whatever regional accents they had. But my folks used to laugh when I'd get on the phone with my grandparents in rural Tennessee and eastern Connecticut, because by the end of the conversation I'd have picked up the accent on the other end of the line...

I can do southern if it suits me, but most of the time my accent's pretty darn neutral. When I lived in Seattle, I got "I don't know where you're from but you're not from around here." Probably because I didn't refer to carbonated beverages as "pop."

while working at peris , I caught myself doing hat a lot, (mimicing) because we got so many worldly travlers, (and employees) If I worked with someone from Australia all day, by the end of the day, I sounded like them!

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The best part about a Texas accent? People don't expect you to be all that smart.

In some ways that's kinda nice. I find it always better to be underestimated.

drew

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...sound like you're talking funny on purpose.

And you damn Yankees don't?

I met a New Jersey woman the other day. I asked her what her name was. She said "It's Duwha-an."
I said "That's a pretty name. How do you spell it?'
She blinked and said "D-A-W-N."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Gee I think I know her

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In Baghdad, I developed a British accent when I spent too much time with the Brits. .

Which British accent?

I love accents .... they add to the cultural wealth of a nation.

It's still amazing to me, in these days of mass communication, that regional accents still exist ( but long may they do so)... In the U.K alone, regional changes exist with just s few miles - That's there is history writ' big.

Some accents sound great to me, whilst others are rather grating, but they all have value (yes, even the rather false Youth speak - init).

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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The best part about a Texas accent? People don't expect you to be all that smart.

In some ways that's kinda nice. I find it always better to be underestimated.

Don't you mean "misunderestimated'? SC in 3-2-1.

Yep, it's worked for me too.