how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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07-05-2009, 08:37 PM
Andre

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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Originally Posted by bcollins

I'm not as country as this guy, but it's hard not to talk this way when you live in Western Kentucky. He lives about fifteen minutes from me - I love how people underestimate a person with a southern accent. Keep on thinking we're stupid because of the way we talk. It makes it easier for us to take you to the cleaners ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzul5rxd-i8

Wow, I just watched that the whole way through he is great.

Talks like Boxing Gorillas last avatar pic Huckleberry hound.
07-06-2009, 12:21 AM
jamiebhoy

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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Originally Posted by Andre

I have Elle Macphersons voice.

With the body of John Candy ??
07-06-2009, 12:26 AM
jamiebhoy

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

Coming from Glasgow it's a good idea to learn how to write quickly 'cause no one understands a bloody thing we say !! it's not so much an accent thing as a completely different dialect so it does sound like another language.

Wullnae = Will not
Didnae = Did not
Gona = Going to
Ser heid = Sore head
07-06-2009, 12:30 AM
Youngblood

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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Originally Posted by Andre

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcollins

I'm not as country as this guy, but it's hard not to talk this way when you live in Western Kentucky. He lives about fifteen minutes from me - I love how people underestimate a person with a southern accent. Keep on thinking we're stupid because of the way we talk. It makes it easier for us to take you to the cleaners ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzul5rxd-i8

Wow, I just watched that the whole way through he is great.

Talks like Boxing Gorillas last avatar pic Huckleberry hound.

Yea I just watched it all the way through too. I liked that guy a lot.
07-06-2009, 01:31 AM
Gandalf

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.
07-06-2009, 01:39 AM
Youngblood

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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Originally Posted by miles

I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.

I honestly never thought I had an accent, until just recently, and that everyone else did. As I have started to meet people from other places in the last year, them laughing at me while I talked and calling me a Yooper, well, that was the first tip off I might in fact have a bit of one.
07-06-2009, 01:46 AM
Andre

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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Originally Posted by jamiebhoy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andre

I have Elle Macphersons voice.

With the body of John Candy ??

A work in progress.
07-06-2009, 02:48 AM
CFH

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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Originally Posted by Youngblood

Quote:

Originally Posted by miles

I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.

I honestly never thought I had an accent, until just recently, and that everyone else did. As I have started to meet people from other places in the last year, them laughing at me while I talked and calling me a Yooper, well, that was the first tip off I might in fact have a bit of one.

What does that mean?
07-06-2009, 03:12 AM
Youngblood

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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Originally Posted by CFH

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Originally Posted by Youngblood

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Originally Posted by miles

I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.

I honestly never thought I had an accent, until just recently, and that everyone else did. As I have started to meet people from other places in the last year, them laughing at me while I talked and calling me a Yooper, well, that was the first tip off I might in fact have a bit of one.

What does that mean?

People in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan have a distinct accent. They call pop, pap, popcorn comes out papcorn,and so on. It is very noticable. And I guess because of our close association to them it has found its way into our accents just from sheer proximity. I have relatives who live not far away, mere miles who are american, and any time I have visited them I couldn't ever not laugh at how rediculous it was. How goofy they sounded.

So now I am travelling more, and talking to people from other places, and the first thing a number of them have done, is laugh and call me a Yooper, a term for an Upper Peninsula person.
07-06-2009, 09:06 AM
El Kabong

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

People from Buffalo speak a lot like the "Youpers", it can really throw you off
07-06-2009, 02:45 PM
RP33

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

leftylee and tam seddon don't even speak english as far as i'm concerned.. i see their status and stuff on facebook and i seriously don't even understand it.. it may as well be a different language. If i wasn't at work i would be able to post some examples but facebook is blocked on my work network.

i live on the east coast of the states, in RI, and i can happily say that i don't have the typical RI/Boston accent that about 90% of them have. I pronounce my R's. ;D
07-06-2009, 04:46 PM
ICB

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

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Originally Posted by BIG H

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO2DRjLuXOg

Something like this ;D

hahah thats quality mate i always used to quote that like crazy.

"You wana wait till the game or you wana make one with me now"

"Don't punch above your weight you long streak of piss"

By the way i speak like that aswell folks :)
07-06-2009, 05:12 PM
Youngblood

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

this is fairly retarded, but a bit accurate if even by accident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9yhhflmvY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4HV4NfgIdc
07-06-2009, 05:59 PM
JazMerkin

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

People kinda talk like this where I live, at least people who were born here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GD2X...eature=related

I don't live in prison btw, just an example of the accent ;D

But, there are varying accents you'll hear round here. There's a few older white people who have accents like those in Big H's post, whilst there's also a lot of people with Carribbean & African accents.

But for people my age, it's generally like the video above. That's if they're well spoken ;D
07-06-2009, 08:00 PM
kingfrnk

Re: how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izHGq4FQ-TQ

like this. but i talk nothing like that.

actually the only person that has ever heard me talk is JTrock on xbox live.

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