Do you have a strong regional accent?

Daniela · 01-31-2015, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Daktari

Just an American one

Right...we tend to forget that, here in the States.

I also have a "generic" American accent.

Can you usually detect regional accents on Americans? I can't distinguish between different types of British accents. Sometimes it takes me a little while to tell whether it's Australian, South African or British.

Gráinne · 01-31-2015, 11:27 AM

I grew up in Ohio, now live in Arkansas for several years. I get people guessing I'm from Michigan or Wisconsin, never the South. I did one of those linguistic tests once and obviously came out "Upper Midwest". However, if I'm very tired, a few picked-up Southernisms come out and I sound like a muted Scarlett O'Hara from Cleveland.

Daniela · 01-31-2015, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Gráinne

I grew up in Ohio, now live in Arkansas for several years. I get people guessing I'm from Michigan or Wisconsin, never the South. I did one of those linguistic tests once and obviously came out "Upper Midwest". However, if I'm very tired, a few picked-up Southernisms come out and I sound like a muted Scarlett O'Hara from Cleveland.

Scarlett O'Hara from Cleveland...

hah

I'm going to look up linguistic tests - good idea!

Cin · 01-31-2015, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Daniela

Right...we tend to forget that, here in the States.

I also have a "generic" American accent.

Can you usually detect regional accents on Americans? I can't distinguish between different types of British accents. Sometimes it takes me a little while to tell whether it's Australian, South African or British.

That's an interesting question. I know here in Montreal, Anglophones can tell immediately I'm from Boston while Francophones mostly cannot.

Daniela · 01-31-2015, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Miss Tick

That's an interesting question. I know here in Montreal, Anglophones can tell immediately I'm from Boston while Francophones mostly cannot.

i guess it would make sense that a native English speaker of any kind would be better at distinguishing differences, although perhaps that's not the reason...who knows?! I can always tell when someone speaking Spanish has an Argentinian accent (they sound like my parents!), although I'm a little lost at picking up Cuban vs. Puerto Rican, for example.

LOQUI · 01-31-2015, 12:39 PM

Living in California but...made, born and raised in Puerto Rico...hmmm yes I definitively have an accent!

01-31-2015, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Daniela

Right...we tend to forget that, here in the States.

I also have a "generic" American accent.

Can you usually detect regional accents on Americans? I can't distinguish between different types of British accents. Sometimes it takes me a little while to tell whether it's Australian, South African or British.

I can only really detect general areas of some accents. Mainly due to tv and fillums.

I can usually tell the difference between a Canadian and American accent.

There are just as many regional accents and lingo here as there are there. I'd say more folks sound Downtown Alley than Downton Abbey, but then I would say that, I'm a "...up t'back ginnel" northerner!

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/de...english/ginnel

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