<p>Hi,
Alright, let's say I went to college at GaTech in the deep south. I live in Connecticut now. How long would it take for me to acquire (if I ever did) a Georgian accent?</p>
<p>My sister went to school in the south and had lived there since she graduated and she doesn’t really have an accent. She says y’all sometimes, but that’s the extent of it</p>
<p>Okay, thanks.</p>
<p>Well I live in North Carolina, but lived in NY the first 10 years of my life and have acquired nearly nothing. My friend’s sister went to Clemson in South Carolina after High School and they lived in Upstate NY, and she had one when she came home. Her having one and the rest of her family not having one creep me out. Just hang out with people who don’t have one and talk how you normally talk, and you shouldn’t get one.</p>
<p>The people I know have all retained their respective accents quite well even though the people around them speak differently.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’ll acquire an accent. And it’s not like everyone in college will be from the deep south. At most, you’ll have a little southern lilt which will be hardly noticeable.</p>
<p>@MattNC New Yorkers don’t have an accent.</p>
<p>^Are you joking? There’s like 3 different accents… A city accent (that may even vary depending upon ancestry/ethnicity/borough you live in), a long island accent (which I barely developed because I only lived there until the end of 5th grade), and an upstate accent.</p>
<p>^^^Am a native new yorker from brooklyn, I don’t have an accent. You are referring to the immigrants which is obvious that they will have an accent. I do agree with the long island accent but usually when people refer to long island they don’t refer to it is NYC because technically its not in the city. Btw I never heard of an upstate accent.</p>
<p>If you’re a native New Yorker, then you probably cannot discern your own accent.</p>
<p>Upstate NY’ers have a slight canada/minnesota/wisconsin accent…</p>
<p>The only change is that you’ll say ya’ll :)</p>
<p>my dad’s from ny, and we live near dallas, tx. he still has a (new york) accent. my mom’s from Connecticut, and there’s no accent…</p>
<p>I can definitely answer this. I moved from Florida to Georgia, and by the end of the first year I already said “y’all” for all second person pronouns, and used ma’am and sir often when refering to elders…</p>
<p>Now I also turn Is into Ahs quite (quaht, I mean) often.</p>
<p>I’ve also picked up quite a few of the local idioms, such as “Ah’ahit” for “ok” and 't’all for “at all” as in “no trouble 't’all”</p>
<p>The funniest thing is that the teenage girls around here still talk the way they do in Florida, except it’s “Lahk, I know, Rahght?” instead of “Like, y’know.”</p>
<p>^I couldn’t make out what you were talking about, but now I know, and it’s disgusting, hahaha.</p>
<p>LOL. Yes. New Yorkers DO have a huge accent…</p>
<p>New Yorkers have the best American accents!</p>
<p>^False.</p>
<p>I’m quite fond of the Minnesotian and Bostonian accent (which I suppose is slightly like NY, but not really).</p>
<p>^Boston’s is pretty nice too (but it’s somewhat similar to NY, like you said). Ehhhh, I’m not a huge fan of Minnesota’s accent. It’s kind of cute, I guess.</p>
<p>Minnesota and Wisconsin accents remind me of the Amish and old women knitting.</p>
<p>^LOL. I kind of see it.</p>
<p>Whoa, I didn’t know there was a Minnesotan accent. So I YouTubed it several times, and it ended up sounding kind of Scottish to me. Same with the Wisconsin accent. Not too fond of it.</p>
<p>Listened to the Bostonian accent. Resembled a Brooklyn accent imo.</p>
<p>Personally out of those four I liked the Bostonian accent the best.</p>