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    Dhampy posted on Jan 01, 2010 2:02:32 PM - Report post
     
    I can't understand my friend from Oregon. He has a thicker southern accent than folks from Indiana (Indiana is, by far, the most southern state).
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    airhead posted on Jan 01, 2010 2:05:36 PM - Report post
     
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    You say Dancer
    like, DIANSUUR.


    I said it DINE URR SUAR

    Then I realized I'm blind. That clearly does not say dinosuar.

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    Dhampy posted on Jan 01, 2010 2:11:15 PM - Report post
     
    Accents have less to do with where you're from than what accent you're around the most when you're learning to talk. You can be in Zimbabwe and if your family and caretakers speak with a Swedish accent, your accent will be more Swedish than Zimbabweish.
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    Foxxie-kun posted on Jan 01, 2010 2:30:52 PM - Report post
     
    Indeed, and despite me spending 3 years in Alabama, I retained my Pacific Northwestern accent because my mom and direct relations all speak with that accent.

    I also like Scottish, Irish, and some Spanish accents (Antonio Banderez is the best Latin-flavored voice ever).

    However, I HATE the poor neighborhood black people dialects of English. This includes people who use "Dog", "yo", and other idioms in everyday speech, as it makes them sound like idiots.
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    Dhampy posted on Jan 01, 2010 2:37:37 PM - Report post
     
    I made the decision to intentionally adopt a Wisconsin accent, as I grew up in the Army and so had a mixture of many American accents and also quite a bit of German. No one can place the accent of an Army brat, because there really isn't an accent...there's LOTS of accents.
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    KiddCold posted on Jan 01, 2010 2:48:48 PM - Report post
     
    I don't know what kind I really have. I mean because you have the U.P and south(Michigan) I know I partly have a ghetto one, had a lot of friends from flint/Detroit and it rubs off on you, in less i'm around a cop.
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    nimbledude posted on Jan 01, 2010 2:51:56 PM - Report post
     
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    Accents have less to do with where you're from than what accent you're around the most when you're learning to talk. You can be in Zimbabwe and if your family and caretakers speak with a Swedish accent, your accent will be more Swedish than Zimbabweish.

    Zimbabweish?!

    Im not even here tho
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    Dhampy posted on Jan 01, 2010 2:55:54 PM - Report post
     
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    quote:
    originally posted by Dhampy

    Accents have less to do with where you're from than what accent you're around the most when you're learning to talk. You can be in Zimbabwe and if your family and caretakers speak with a Swedish accent, your accent will be more Swedish than Zimbabweish.

    Zimbabweish?!

    Well, it's not Rhodesia anymore so there isn't a demonym that rolls off the tongue like "Rhodesian" does.

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