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Posted on: Mar. 30 2001,15:29

I know this is going to sound stupid but here it goes, Are American accents weird to people from England and the rest of the English-speaking world? I mean one doesn’t realize one has an accent but I don’t think the American accent sounds like any of the others.(besides maybe the Canadian one) I mean we don’t sound like Britons or Irish or Australians but to most Americans those accents sound somewhat similar. So I guess what I am trying to ask is do Americans sound like everyone else and we just don’t realize it?

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Posted on: Mar. 30 2001,15:44

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and this is in the geeks forum?...

anyways... all accents "sound" funny to anyone. If you're from Boston, hearing some redneck from Mississippi is funny as hell. Aussie, British, and Irish accents sound a like cuz that's the general idea us Americans get...

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Posted on: Mar. 30 2001,16:23

watch british shows that have brits playing americans, and then they do "american accents" they sound like southern drawls kindof to me.

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Posted on: Mar. 30 2001,19:38

I think it may be a coincidence, but everywhere I've lived (Twin Cities, Milwaukee, Arizona), the general populous doesn't have an accent. And, from what I've heard, this might actually be true. The midwest accent is one of the most understandable accents there is, because there's very little added inflections and crap. Most successful radio DJs sound like they're from the midwest.

As for Arizona, almost everybody that lives here moved from Minnesota. It's odd. Even black people (all 4 of them) don't have much of an 'Urban' accent/dialect.

I've seen Fargo and it made me laugh, because it's a huge exageration of what's supposed to be a Northern Minnesota accent. Nobody down in the Cities ever talked like that. It's Hollywood's interpretation of one of the 'fly-over' states.

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Posted on: Mar. 30 2001,20:20

It was odd that in Naples Florida the newscasters sounded like people from where I was from (Milwaukee and Chicago) and the Midwest in general. Southern Florida has become like the north in terms of accents. It also seems like people in the media in general sound like there from the Midwest. Even Conan O’Brien who is from Boston sounds Midwestern now. Although people in Wisconsin including myself don’t pronounce I’s very well I try to correct myself but it’s hard, for example it’s not Wis-con-sin it’s was-con-sin and it’s not Milwaukee it’s Ma-Waukee

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Posted on: Mar. 30 2001,21:14

the reason why people didn't talk like that in the cities is because just that. you lived in the cities. actually go to brainard and then hear what people are like. trust me. you can find hicks anywhere.

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Posted on: Mar. 30 2001,22:42

I've been out in Bemidji, and Lutson, and my folks live down in Montgomery. Outside the Twin Cities, you get hicks all over. It's funny, because down in Southern Minnesota, you get mild southern accents. In Northern Minnesota, you get mild Fargo accents. Maybe there's something to the city concept. Except, people from downtown Boston, downtown Pittsburgh, downtown Chicago, downtown Atlanta, downtown Dallas, etc... all have their own distinct accents.

I don't know. I have to believe that America has the most diverse sets of dialects and accents in the world. I know the Brits would expound about the Welsches, the Londoners, the Scots, the Irish, the Some-other-province accents... but how can you stretch from Southern Drawl to Boston, to Valley-Girl, to Fargo? I think it's cool, even though everybody without a Twin Cities accent sounds like an uneducated hick to me

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Posted on: Mar. 31 2001,01:19

Did you know the main chick character from Pitch Black is British? I saw her in an interview and she had a HUGE British accent, and she was talking about how she had to LEARN to do an American accent!

And Marla from Fight Club is British to. I thought they just got some weirdo to play that part, but when you see have gorgeous she is in real life, you relize that she doesn't get enough credit for ACTING so well in that role!

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