<p>I’m from Ohio, but Cincinnati, so we don’t really sound like all of those Northern Ohioans. Apparently I don’t sound like I’m from around here because people always tell me that. A lot of people think I’m European, or at the very least from a Francophone are, which is just weird. My parents are from Alabama and DC/Maryland, so I think that adds to it.</p>
<p>I have lived in GA forever but every. single. person. I have ever met tells me I sound like I’m from the NE and slightly bordering on Boston-ish. Eh. Probably true, since when I visited Boston, people thought I was from there. It’s not that heavy though.</p>
<p>Nor Cal (Northern Californian noobs!)</p>
<p>hella HYPHY dude!</p>
<p>our english (slang and everything) and accent is THE BEST! We are the closest to standard english. Like, we have our slang, but its very unique and very complicated! and we don’t say POP; its SODA.</p>
<p>I like my accent. It’s a blend of sophistication and charm</p>
<p>I have an extremely unique accent. If I’m not focusing on my accent it’s a Boston/British hybrid. However I can change it to either a strong Boston accent or a posh British accent if I think about it (and both of them are very convincing). This is very useful because American girls LOVE the British Accent, and British girls like the “American” accent.</p>
<p>Hispanic Accent (especially after living for two years in Miami)</p>
<p>Bothers me, though, cause usually the people with accents can’t speak well and I speak better than my white peers.</p>
<p>I have a very mild Minnesota accent (dontcha know)?</p>
<p>but yeah as jkaufman said, basically hard core mn accents sound like sarah palin</p>
<p>I partially have the “Bostonian” accent. When people have pointed it out, I have said “paak” or “cah keys”. For the most part though, I have speak in a “Standard American” manner. When I went to Arizona, I didn’t notice any accents. Anyone want to verify/disprove that they don’t have a discriminate accent?</p>
<p>i say some words weird, like “grandma” I say “grandmaww”, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>Well,I have an European accent :)I like it ;] I hope US chicks will like it too ;)</p>
<p>I’m from New York and I never thought I had an accent. It wasn’t till I met people from out of state and said they knew I was from New York because I talked liked I was from there.</p>
<p>Nor cal FTW.
Standard American accents, least ridiculous slang.
“Hella” is as legit as it comes.</p>
<p>^Yeah it’s soo trippy. I think she’s American though.</p>
<p>The standard American English that’s spoken on CNN is called the Midlands dialect. It originated from the old Northwest. Most linguists generally tend to agree that the general American dialects include the New England one, the New York one, the Pennsylvania one, the Southern one, the Northern one, the Midlands one (standard), and the Western one. </p>
<p>New England is the typical Boston accent, but after living in Rhode Island for just a year, it’s obvious that there are subcategories. To me, the RI accent is the ■■■■■■■ child of the Boston and the NY one.</p>
<p>NY accent aka Long Island accent aka Brooklyn accent aka NJ accent. From my experience, it varies a big according to where you’re from, but more it’s more of less the same thing. You can also tell the difference between a Jewish NY accent and an Italian NY accent sometimes. </p>
<p>The Northern accent is from around the Great lake area and places close to Canada. I think it’s basically the Canadian accent. Some distinctive cue words are tomorrow, sorry, south, about, ocean. I think they also say tour differently; I say ‘tore’, they say ‘two-er’. Apparently Sarah Palin’s accent is a combo of this one and the Alaskan accent. I have no clue what the latter’s supposed to sound like.</p>
<p>Southern is southern. I think this is the easiest one to pick out. The Texan accent falls under this one too.</p>
<p>And finally the Western one… It sounds really similar to the Midland one, and I can barely pick it out…</p>
<p>These are only the regional ones. There are some other accents based on background like African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) or Ebonics, Chicano English, Cajun English, Gullah, and plenty others.</p>
<p>I have a Californian/Western accent, I guess. I’ve never really thought about it. But when I have visited the Midwest and the South, I’ve been told I have a weird accent. Someone once thought I was European, which threw me off.</p>
<p>Wow, I really need to travel within the United States, let alone outside…I don’t have trouble distinguishing among accents, as in noticing a difference, but I can’t seem to identify which type is from where.</p>
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Yeah I noticed that quite a bit of people have assumptions about accents and think that those with them aren’t intelligent or something, although it’s not true.</p>
<p>I’m from Texas, and compared to others here, I speak in a standard boring English. But I have friends up north that say I’ve got a barest hint of a Southern accent, which I imagine must sound weird on an Asian chick haha.</p>
<p>Having been raised in one of the more northen Southern states (NC) by parents born and bred in Arizona, I have the unaccented/bland/nongeographic specific accent that makes it so you can’t tell where I’m from. That being said, I can slip on a Southern accent pretty quickly, and no, Southern accents are not all the same. Charleston is not Raleigh is not Appalachia is not New Orleans is not Texas. One of the more commonly used accents for Southerners in movies is the old South accent, where “there” becomes “they uh” and “here” becomes “he yuh” is supposedly disappearing. I think it’s my favorite.</p>
<p>I have a really weird mix of Viet/Brit/Boriqua/French accent. All my vowels are shortened and rounded, except for o which sounds like u. My v’s sound like b’s. My s’s sound like x’s. My f’s sound like v’s My c’s sound like s’s. My h’s are silent. My j’s sound like ch’s. My r’s are rolled. I stick my tongue out when I say l’s. It’s almost as bad as the Boston accent (we make jokes about the ‘cafeterior’ and “Havad”).</p>
<p>any attractive males here with a british accent? lol <3
erm…i’ve lived in Texas, Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennslyvania, and Utah…and with the exception of Texas (was only there for two years and was very young then too) most of those places sound the same…
except for the quirky little philly accent where people say “wuh-ter” instead of “water”
and the utah accent- which i dont have, thank GOD- is saying “pitcher” for “picture” and “mou-tn” for “mountain”
ugh. :P</p>