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re: Southern Accents
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:11 am to CatFan81
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:11 am to CatFan81
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Oh, it's fake. She's from the same area as my boyfriend and I've been there more times than I can count. No one there has an accent like that.
Isn't she from the Albany area? I have family from there and they all have a similar accent, just not as punctuated. They all talk sort of like Jimmy Carter, which she also somewhat does, but again just more pronounced.
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Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:14 am to The Spleen
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Isn't she from the Albany area? I have family from there and they all have a similar accent, just not as punctuated. They all talk sort of like Jimmy Carter, which she also somewhat does, but again just more pronounced.
Yes. No one that I've ever met there sounded even close to that. Most of the older people have a fairly thick accent but nothing even remotely close that the fake shite that she tries to pull off.
I spend holidays and quite a bit of time outside of that down there and I've never encountered it.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:19 am to roadhouse
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I'm on the phone with a client in Birmingham once a day. Once I hang up the phone I realize people are looking at me...then I typically get the question, "where the frick did that accent come from"
This happened when I speak to someone from La. I live in Houston so when I am at work I either sound neutral or cajun. I get looked at like I have a split personality.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:25 am to CatFan81
Well yeah, none of them talk exactly like her, but I think she truly does have a Soutehrn accent and just exaggerates it for TV. But I guess that does make it fake and we're quibbling over semantics. My wife used to watch her show all the time and her accent always reminded me of my aunt's who grew up about 20 miles from Albany.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:27 am to The Spleen
I watch a lot of Food Network shows but I never could watch hers because when she speaks it's like nails on a chalkboard.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:29 am to RogerTheShrubber
accents are the bees knees
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:37 am to roadhouse
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someone is playing a southerner in a movie or on tv they sound like some kind of retarded dipshit?
If the shoe fits
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:38 am to roadhouse
Born in the south(TN) and I know it pisses off a lot of native southerners...........but I think its pretty funny. Mostly because I hate a lot of aspects of the south(politics and religion). I do love southern hospitality and women tho. 
Posted on 6/13/14 at 9:56 am to UMRealist
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I've been told I don't have an accent at all.
I have lived my whole life in Mississippi, yet every time I meet someone from a northern state, they assume I am not from the south due to my lack of an accent. It happened a lot in college.
It's interesting, my grandparents have the thickest southern drawls of any people I know, and my parents have noticeable accents as well. I guess I just chose at a young age to not sound like a hick.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 10:01 am to dawgM2
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It's interesting, my grandparents have the thickest southern drawls of any people I know, and my parents have noticeable accents as well. I guess I just chose at a young age to not sound like a hick.
Boyfriend is the same way. Everyone in his family, with the exception of his uncle from the Bronx, has a fairly thick southern accent. He doesn't really have an accent though.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 10:03 am to dawgM2
I only have a Southern accent after I've been drinking heavily.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 10:03 am to dawgM2
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It's interesting, my grandparents have the thickest southern drawls of any people I know, and my parents have noticeable accents as well. I guess I just chose at a young age to not sound like a hick.
This sounds like my husband. I've never had a noticeable accent.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 10:04 am to dawgM2
I decided to go british at age 8 and have never looked back. Best decision I ever made.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 10:06 am to CheeseburgerEddie
Posted on 6/13/14 at 10:08 am to CheeseburgerEddie
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I decided to go british at age 8 and have never looked back. Best decision I ever made.
I'm sure it's a lovely cockney accent.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 10:10 am to CheeseburgerEddie
Did go with a cockney accent or a more refined accent?
Posted on 6/13/14 at 10:11 am to CatFan81
it is more of a mix between Sharon and Ozzie - Sharon for the normal day, Ozzie when I start to get inebriated.
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Posted on 6/13/14 at 11:55 am to UMRealist
I have a strong southern accent that I am very proud of and spent some time out in California, I used to to turn heads out west......
Posted on 6/13/14 at 12:03 pm to HowardsRock
Some parts of Cali are very slow speaking as well, but do not have the same "slang" or punctuation as the South of course.
I consider the D.C, VA area to be accent neutral. Any further North leans towards the other end of the spectrum. Wisconsin, Boston, Maine all those states have accents that sound worse than an educated Southern accent to me.
I consider the D.C, VA area to be accent neutral. Any further North leans towards the other end of the spectrum. Wisconsin, Boston, Maine all those states have accents that sound worse than an educated Southern accent to me.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 12:07 pm to roadhouse
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Does it piss y'uns off how every time someone is playing a southerner in a movie or on tv they sound like some kind of retarded dipshit?
I've got a pretty strong southern accent. So much so, my customers immediately know it's me when I say just a couple of words. It's not the accents that bugs me in movies. It's that they always try to associate it with uneducated, backwoods, hicks most times.
I've been across the country, and the people I've always encountered, loved the accent. They just had misperceptions due to how southerners are portrayed as a whole. Hell, even today, a lot of northerners or folks on the west coast think we have predominately dirt roads and outhouses.
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