new york, new york...
I really got a kick out of this license plate I found in the parking lot at the mall. it looks to me like someone is proud of their new york accent. recently while visiting wisconsin, quite a few of the natives enthusiastically commented on my accent. one lady seemed quite proud that she identified a "real" new yorker, as if I were an entirely different breed of man. this always amuses me because unless someone is from the deep south or another country, I usually don't notice a difference between my accent and theirs.
what about you, are you conscious of other people's accents?
this is a small part of my world. to see other parts of this great world, please go here, thanks to klaus and his team, sandy, ivar, wren, fishing guy and louise.
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If you add some typical vocabulary, many patois.... then you're in trouble if you are not native.
I was born in PA, lived 21 years on LI, and now more than 30 in NJ. Whenever I visit any of those states, I am accused of having an accent from one of the others.
In Finnish - yes, other Finns can hear that I'm from Helsinki, capital city of Finland... :)
In Italy we have a lot of different accents and dialects! For example, Piedmont and Lombardy, although they are near, have very different intonations.
When people speak we generally recognize at once their region by the accent!
Cute license plate.
I'm from California, starting in Texas and going east I can hear accents. I think it's interesting.
67 years and thinks she has no southern accent at all—wrong. My Welsh friend has been here for more than 40 years, but her Welsh accent returns whenever she's angry. Often when I'm in Italy and I speak in Italian, I'm answered not in Italian, or even English, but in French—??
BTW, lili, I don't think you have much of a Long Island accent.
I did comment on someone's accent once and asked "You definitely don't sound like you're from around here. Where are you from?" and they said "Manhattan." :-O
Strange thing is our govt and school emphasizes English as 2nd language when we could've used one of our major languages to understand each other.
Anyway, my world is here
It is always fun to place where people come from by their accents.
Paz
However, we like people just the way they are, WITH accents. Would love to meet the person behind this vanity tag!