<p>My friend is unusually sweet, maybe a little naive. Laid back west coast girl. Her family is financially comfortable though she definitely doesn't flaunt it (i.e. she won't be coming to school wearing Abercrombie driving a BMW). She liked what she saw of Wheaton-MA. I realize not everyone there is actually from the east, but a lot are. I'm afraid the a lot of the east coast schools would eat her alive and/or she'll be bored while they're drunk all the time. What do you think? Are you right-coasters tough to get along with? ;-)</p>
<p>I'm not like that at all. Hope they arent like that at BU :/</p>
<p>The Northeast has a level of elitism that you won't find anywhere else in the country. However, that doesn't mean all of the northeast is elite. It just has more of it. And obviously, only in certain areas of the northeast, etc.</p>
<p>I went to Boston as my Grade 8 grad trip, and everyone was strangley friendly...
The only thing that happened that was even wierd was some girl kept pointing out my Canadian accent (pleez, I don't even have one) and how i kept saying eh.
Also, some guy asked if we had elevators in Canada, and that was actually pretty wierd..</p>
<p>Indeed, and I am the Prince of Wales.</p>
<p>for every rich and snobby person living in mass or the north east, theres a rich and snobby person living in the west.</p>
<p>all you have to do is watch laguna beach to see that.</p>
<p>tru dat, jags861</p>
<p>It is just a stereotype... I'd like to think that I am pretty friendly...</p>
<p>No, it just seems that way because there is a lot of old money on the East Coast and old money is elitist without even recgonizing the fact. The nouveau rich which are more prevalent everywhere else aren't that much better to be honest.</p>
<p>On a side note:</p>
<p>If you're from Canada, you have a Canadian accent. If you're from Toronto, you have probably have a Toronto accent. Officially, it's called the Southern Ontario accent but even within the city of Toronto there are different accents. Someone from North York sounds different than someone from The Junction (if you actually know what I'm talking about, you're definately from Toronto). I can point them out pretty easily.</p>
<p>People from Toronto tend:</p>
<p>Not pronounce T's that are in the middle of words. Words like Toronto, international, ninety are usually pronounced Torono (but I've heard it called Trono, Terawna etc.) innernational, ninDY. This is called the t-d deletion by some linguists.
Say Pass-ta instead of Paw-sta, although it varies by region, personally, I say Paw-sta.
Sore-y instead of Saw-ry.
The ubiquitous "eh".
Terms like "gino", "two-four", gits or gettones (pronounced ge-tonys, or foozeball to the rest of you) are unique to Southern Ontario. Although Montreal and Ottawa seem to have gotten into gino.
The prevalence of Jamaican slang in our ebonics. It's very much like New York's Jamaican community but a greater percentage of our blacks are from the Carribean so I personally believe it's much more prevalent up here.</p>
<p>Soooo true, Icrisis, I do say all that stuff!!! but Gino? what the h*ll is a gino? Never heard it...
But I think I sound like most americans for the most part...Anyways, how do you know what Torontonians sound like?</p>
<p>And you have to admit: Do you have elevators in Canada? Was the stupidest Q ever...</p>
<p>The human race never ceases to amaze me. Do you have elevators in Canada? You should have said only the ones that go side to side, not those silly ones that go up and down.</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>I was born and raised in Toronto, plus I've always been interested in linguistics. </p>
<p>You probably don't notice it as much now but once you leave Toronto for another place, you definately notice a Toronto accent. Some people's accents are so strong you can actually tell what part of Toronto they're from (Cabbagetown, Yonge and Eg, Beaches, Leaside etc.</p>
<p>Gino used to be a term we used to describe Italian men (gina's for girls), but more recently it's used to describe guys of any ethnicity who dress in really tight clothes, pop their collers, drive around in souped up Japanese cars (usually Honda Civics) playing loud electronic music all the time. Faux Hawks, spiked hair, tight clothes etc. Gina's usually have tight clothes as well, a lot of them wear skin coloured lipstick, trucker hats and running shoes with the tongues sticking in front of their pant legs.</p>
<p>I've heard GinoBeats before as like a joke word, for techno/dance type music...Never Gino...If my friends saw a guy like that they'd probably call him Gay(don't agree) or their new word metrosexual...
I think people are actually a bit outdated about how they view Canada, Toronto is just like NYC to me, only smaller and cleaner. People think it's freezing and it's all wilderness. And that people keep moose as pets:D..</p>
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Not pronounce T's that are in the middle of words. Words like Toronto, international, ninety are usually pronounced Torono (but I've heard it called Trono, Terawna etc.) innernational, ninDY. This is called the t-d deletion by some linguists.
Say Pass-ta instead of Paw-sta, although it varies by region, personally, I say Paw-sta.
Sore-y instead of Saw-ry.
The ubiquitous "eh".
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<p>SO TRUE! ..</p>
<p>I'd like to see someone with a distinct accent from the North, like from Boston, come to the South and try and understand everyone. I know I wouldn't be able to completely understand someone with a Boston accent, at least not at first.</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>In movies(I know I sound like a ditz), southern accents-->pretty sure most are real, sound cute and 100% understandable.</p>
<p>It's the atmosphere. All this humidity, you sort of fall into a droll. Movies are just that: movies.</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>"No, it just seems that way because there is a lot of old money on the East Coast and old money is elitist without even recgonizing the fact. The nouveau rich which are more prevalent everywhere else aren't that much better to be honest."</p>
<p>I'd like to say that this Nouveau Riche is FAR from that :)</p>
<p>Obviously gross generalizations are always true</p>
<p>Well, let's see...</p>
<p>You ask if MA kids are rich and snotty, but you make sure to tell us that your friend is "financially confortable".
You make the assumption that MA kids are "drunk all the time".
You fear that east coast schools "would eat her alive", whatever that means.</p>
<p>And you wonder if "right-coasters" are tought to get along with? If you bring that attitude along with you then we probably will be.</p>