<p>Unless you go to a small state college (ie TCNJ with its 90%+ NJ residents), you see a wide diversity of people who in turn all speak different...
Have you ever come across people "criticizing" how you speak...
For example, people make fun of how I say 'library' as 'liberry' and 'orange' with the first syllable rhyming with 'are'
Discuss :)</p>
<p>I make fun of one of my friends all the time. She pronounces tongue "ton". Which is very weird for us ohioans! She has a lot of strange ways of saying things, and we just shake our heads...heheh :D</p>
<p>I haven't been criticized yet but I know plenty of ppl who speak really differently - sure, we make fun of em but it's all in good fun, diversity is GREAT</p>
<p>I have this australian accent, so people look at me funnily when they see an asian speaking english with an australian accent..
so i try not to speak in class :/</p>
<p>Well, for starters let me say that I don't think I have a Southern accent; however, my friends here in NYC say they can hear it in some of the words I say like the other day it was the word Friday (Fră-day, kind of like the a in apple). I have never, though, been made fun of in any kind of malicious way. I wouldn't mind having a Southern accent; I really like they way they sound.</p>
<p>People probably won't make fun of your accent, but anyone would make fun of you for pronouncing library like that--it's wrong, and most people learn to correct that in kindergarten.</p>
<p>i used to tease my roommate (from the west coast) for saying "pop" for soda, "tennis shoes" for sneakers, "bEHgel" for bAYgel, and "jam" for jelly. she would make fun of the easterners for saying "oregON" instead of oregIN etc etc.
Thats what makes college so fun- expanding your horizons!</p>
<p>Jam and jelly are actually different things. Though most people, probably myself included, use them interchangably.</p>
<p>I say Ore-gun.</p>
<p>heh, yeah we poke fun of how people speak from different states. Mostly Jersey kids, saying stuff about Texans is pretty old. And like someone said the whole pop thing which I say.</p>
<p>I'm Canadian, and so I say a few things differently from people in Philly, where I go to school. I'm used to saying "pop" and "jam" and "running shoes." Also, I'm used to saying "grade 7, grade 11" etc. rather than 11th grade or junior year, and "pencil crayons" rather than colored (coloured) pencils. I haven't gotten any negative comments, but I wouldn't expect to since I usually switch to "soda," etc. when I'm in Philly, and my general accent isn't distinguishable from the normal accent here. Also, I don't say "eh" - but then, I never used to say "eh" anyway.</p>
<p>I go to an international school. Us English speakers come from all over hte place and we love making fun of each other's accents. :)</p>
<p>I've lived in the south (texas), east coast & now west coast.. I've picked up a little bit of lingo from everywhere.. for instance "coke" refers to any soda regardless of brand or flavor. I don't get made fun of though. There is so much diversity at large universities here that over half the time the big question is whether the professor or TA speaks english... forget about the students.</p>
<p>my accent is different from others
they always make fun of me and learn to speak with my accent
but i didn't mind of this
just take it as a joke and enjoy it</p>
<p>Been poked at insanely for how I talk...
Balmer, wuter, warsh, harricane, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah in Illinois we have the most dialects just from differing urban and rural communities. Southern IL people talk southern. People from the city talk different. Then there's the whole soda/pop thing. (I think that whole debate split our state horizontally). It seems like for every town of a certain size there is a certain dialect. It doesn't seem to be that regional (except for north and south) but the smaller your town is the stronger the accent.</p>
<p>Yes, of course. I either get told that I speak 'funny', or that I sound too American, or that I sound like an Australian, and once in a while people compliment me because my English is 'real good for a foreigner'.</p>
<p>i love it when people from wisconsin say "bubbler"</p>
<p>I'm from Illinois as well, I went to school in Missouri for a year and then came back. I thought their accents were hilarious, especially when they say "Missourah".</p>
<p>in chem lab, there's this girl who pronouce iron "irn" or something like that. I have no idea how to spell it, but she has a HEAVY southern accent.</p>
<p>One of my professors took two points off my paper because I said "pop" instead of "soda". I'm from Pittsburgh and "soda" is about as foreign as something spoken in French.</p>