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[-] mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 4 points 1 hour ago

Huh. I wanna say it's wild to claim people from Arizona and New Mexico have Midwestern accents, but I've only just realized I have no clue what the hell they do have. Midwestern accents, I guess?

[-] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 30 minutes ago

It's definitely not Midwestern. Grew up in Colorado and have lived in Ohio and Arizona. Arizona is much more a mountain west accent.

[-] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 33 minutes ago

We're in the deep Mid now bois. 😎

[-] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

As the representative of the Southeast, there're also several 'southern' accents. The refined 'southern belle' is a favorite, alongside a more brusque and inarticulate 'hillbilly' accent from the sticks.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 11 points 16 hours ago

As we in the Midwest prefer to call it, "a normal accent".

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 22 hours ago

Go on, tell people in Philly they got a New York accent, I dare ya.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago

Or folks in Baltimore that they have a Midwest accent

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

baltimore assent say dis.

arn arnd an arn arn.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Never heard a New Yorker say needs washed, yins, warsh, or pop.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 16 hours ago

Baltimore has filed a protest.

[-] Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Aaron earned an iron urn.

[-] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 10 points 20 hours ago
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

This bit is so good.

[-] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 9 points 20 hours ago

New Englander here.
What in the world is a "New England accent?" Do you mean Boston? New Hampshire? Wood Chuck? Whatever the hell is going on in Maine? (I didn't know anybody lived there to have an accent.)

[-] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

Maines got several, none of which sound Canadian or like the rest of New England. The two big ones we call County and Downeast.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

People from away always think we’re canadians for some reason.

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 4 points 19 hours ago

You don't know any wicked mainahs then. Up north in East millinocket driver mcguyver

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 points 22 hours ago

Gonna make lots of Philly people angry.

[-] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Gonna make a lot of Mainer’s mad saying we have a Canadian or New England accent. Someone from the county does not sound like a Canadian, and someone from downeast doesn’t sound like someone from Vermont which doesn’t sound like someone from Mass, and so on.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago

They were already angry

[-] odium@programming.dev 11 points 22 hours ago

Austin doesn't sound valley imo.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Funnily enough, it shares a lot of dialectic traits with Orlando.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago

It does not. It's more of a mix of Midwestern, border mexican, valley, and standard Texan. I loved how many of the Indian tech-workers that moved to Austin in the early 2000s quickly developed a habit of using y'all...and a breakfast taco addiction.

Source: Austinite from 1999-2022.

[-] odium@programming.dev 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I'm an Indian born in Austin in the early 2000s who uses y'all and is addicted to breakfast tacos ^and elotes^ 💀

why is this so accurate

[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

The breakfast taco is the glue holding together Texas

Thank you Tex Mex cuisine

[-] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 6 points 20 hours ago

If anyone is wondering, I grew up in Seattle and I've had people who are English second language ask me if I'm British.

I just learned English by watching Frasier.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)
[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I’ve got a proper Cascadian accent. It’s lovely, but gets me marked as an outsider when I go elsewhere in the country.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Over my dead Appalachian body!

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

"you betcha" I say as I choke you to death with a corn cob

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago

I live in Jackson, Wyoming (right on the border with Idaho for 8 months out of the year. I travel most of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and I do not detect a difference in accent between there and most of the Midwest.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

NJ gets its own on the map, so I'm happy.

Also all tourists can fuck off now, is fall, go home, beaches are closed.

[-] irreticent@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Also all tourists can fuck off now, is fall, go home, beaches are closed.

You still have to worry about the leafers.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Leaves are all gone! On the ground! I promise, no need to check!!

Well if it makes you happy, to me, youse sound the same, I can make out the southern accent, but the rest just sounds american.

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