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people are nuts about southern accents: i had a manager (not my manager but one of his peers) actively mocking me for having a southern accent after finding i’d
by sigstoat 3y ago
people are nuts about southern accents: i had a manager (not my manager but one of his peers) actively mocking me for having a southern accent after finding i’d grown up in the south.
weird thing, though, my accent (since everyone has one) matches the area i live perfectly, which isn’t much of a surprise since my parents grew up here before moving to the south.
- zerbinxx 3y agoFor a lot of Americans, unfortunately, the biggest exposure one gets to Southern Accents is from the fake, “dumb on purpose” caricature that defines country music stars and Larry The Cable Guy. I’m from Montana, and know several born-and-raised Montanans (and Oregonians, Washingtonians, even Californians) with completely inexplicable drawls (people decidedly not sharing any familial or otherwise relationship with the South) that lapse in and out of perceptibility based on circumstance. It wasn’t until I had a research advisor who was verifiably not a dullard that I even had an option to consider anything to the contrary of the base American conception that a Southern accents indicates stupidity, laziness, pig-headedness, etc. The death of the region accent really is a crying shame. Glad my folks still have their hokey Saskatchewanesque lilt.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoWhat does "saskatchewanesque" sound like, Corner Gas?
- zerbinxx 3y agoNot familiar with the reference but I would describe it as similar to the classic Midwest/Minnesota/Wisconsin “ohyooobetcha” parody, but more dour/deadpan in delivery, and almost with a lilt. People from Saskatchewan would say Saskatchuwun, “we are” becomes “were” exclusively, “you” becomes “yeh” (as opposed to classic Midwest “yuu” or “yah”). I’ve had people tell me, and noticed it in other children-of-Montanans, that it’s reminiscent of a Scottish/Irish manner of speaking, which makes sense as my great great grandad emigrated from Ireland to Butte in the 1800’s, as did many Irish people at the time.
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- uptime 3y agoI like when these things are celebrated with humor. Letterkenny/Shoresy can do good things with that sometimes.
- TrevorAustin 3y agoIronically Larry the Cable Guy's accent is itself affected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy#Stand-up_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy#Stand-up_c...