Funny accents

[chelsea0011]

Mitt raised the question. Who among you have "funny accents"? Mitt got a chuckle from me with the "funny accents" comment. But you do know that if he was hiring someone to watch his kids from a nanny agency he would have asked about their status. Or would he? His comment about green carding the help was correct, but he is the clown who wants to deport everyone and he doesn't know landscapers are renown for hiring illegals?

[YOY]

1. A comment about "funny accents" from a guy with a "funny religion"

Fire with fire...

[truebrit71]

2. I'm an ex-pat Brit and TRUST me...y'all talk funny...

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

12. I've a British, USNorth/US South Heinz accent. I can say 'y'all' and still sound like a Yankee.

In Florida, it's 'Miamuh' not 'Miamee'.

[Beerboy]

13. I gotcha!

Could you imagine how bad it would sound with the American dialects in a British accent? The only example that comes to mind is the late Linda McCartney (Eastman); she was a native New Yorker and affected a pretty bad one.
That's an outlier example though, she was already set-up w/ a huge inheritance, she can talk how she wants and fire the people who laughed @ her.
There was lots of ridicule of Linda while she was w/ Wings as being not much more than a bankrolling prop for McCartney's business ventures, but as a kid, I bought their albums, they weren't so bad.

[magellan]

3. Yes, I have a funny accent

My husband tells me so. He's British.

:P

[helderheid]

5. mine says the same thing. He's Dutch.

:P

[XemaSab]

4. I'm a Californian

dude. :P

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. What if your accent only shows up with certain words?...

I still say 'warsh' instead of wash, and I have to consciously not call the sofa a davenport.

[Clark2008]

19. Wes Clark...? Is that you?

:hi:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. you can take the girl out of the midwest, but...

:P

:hi:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. Do you have a link to what he actually said? I googled it and found blogs about the comment

but not word for word.

[chelsea0011]

9. No, I don't. It was in last nights' debate. At the beginning.

[Warpy]

8. I moved around every 6 months when I was a kid

and my survival in school depended on my learning the local accent very quickly.

Six months after I got to NM, natives were telling me I sounded like I'd grown up here.

Same thing with Boston.

It's also a help speaking other languages. Visitors from France accused me of having a diplomat for a father and a Parisian childhood.

However, if you're from Alabama or Minnesota, you're going to think my accent is hilarious.

[mikelgb]

10. California Standard

[Beerboy]

11. I'm sure Romney would find that everyone who has less than

10 million in their assets has an inferior accent.
Romney is a Fuckmitt.

[Love Bug]

14. Ya, you betcha!

I live in Minnesota, and ever since that damn Fargo movie, everyone laughs at my accent!

[Clark2008]

20. Ya!

[AlCzervik]

15. a transplanted masshole living in California.

left ma 10 years ago, the accent went with me. there is nothing worse than hearing someone trying to do a masshole accent, just don't do it people.

[zabet]

16. My accent is soooo bad...

that when I moved to Connecticut
to work, people would come by my
office and say, "Say something for
me.....(me saying some inane statement)..
What country are you from?"

I am from the lower, Southeastern part
of NC.

[tularetom]

17. Moved to California from TN when I was ten

and I sounded like frickin gomer Pyle. By the time I graduated from HS the accent was all gone and I sounded like a third generation Californian. My mom grew up in TN and never lost her accent until the day she died. My dad came to CA from Oklahoma as a teenager and never had much of an accent at all although he once told me he made a real effort to avoid sounding like an Okie so he could get hired for better jobs.

[Clark2008]

21. I live in Tennessee and my accent doesn't sound like Gomer Pyle.

Where did you live when you were here?

Us folks in the big cities don't sound hick. :)

[tularetom]

24. Sumner county north of Nashville almost at the KY border

Keep in mind this was over 50 yrs ago.

[Clark2008]

18. I'm Southern... I have a GORGEOUS accent.

It must be... every time I went up North as an unmarried female, men would buy me drinks just to get me to talk.

;)

[RebelOne]

22. Even though I grew up in Miami,

I still have a Philadelphia accent.

[Beerboy]

25. Philadelphia Freedom cool,

mafia hits bad. n/t.

[blondeatlast]

26. Born in Kansas, raised in Montana and AZ, married to an Asian Indian.

I think I do! :rofl:

[nonconformist]

27. I'm from Michigan, but currently living in Kentucky.. people here think I'M the one with the accent

:wtf:

[annabanana]

28. I didn't have an accent until I moved from Mass. to NJ. .

THEN I had a funny accent.

[goodgd_yall]

29. I sound like a New Yawrker

Which is funny here in California. Born in NY, raised by NYers, lived in California for 44 years and people can still hear it.

[Raine]

30. Native Californian

I have no accent unless you count Valley Girl speak. :D