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

[Andre]

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


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.

[Youngblood]

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


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.

[Gandalf]

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.

[Youngblood]

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.

[CFH]

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?

[Youngblood]

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.

[El Kabong]

People from Buffalo speak a lot like the "Youpers", it can really throw you off