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Sunday morning coming down 10-1-06

Lily....do you catch yourself NOT talking at times when people draw attention to your accent?

When someone makes a big spectacle about my accent...I usually tend to not say anything from that point on.

I can't count the times I've heard..." where are you from?"...and they ask with such inflection, it's like they're thinking Mars maybe!!

If everyone gets so " 'goo-goo" ( esp. the men folks) over a Southern accent...why do so many people make fun of it? I've always wondered that. I never heard anything funny about a mid-western accent.
 
I always thought I had no accent, just flat midwestern or whatever.. The only things I ever got called on was enunciating the double TT in button and that was it. Well, when I went out to Montana people startted lookign at me strange and saying that I had a funny accent, maybe it was because I said creek instead of crick or something else I kept saying to myself... turns out that I say the word sausage with a very thick working class Chicago accent which is funny because no one in my immediate family does (Although all my cousins who live on the southside do.)

Drives me nuts and I find myself trying not to say it that way but it hurts my mouth too do that so I just let her rip now... Who cares eh?

MY wife on the other hand will watch a movie based in Ireland and start talking with a slight accent.. She just picks up on whomever is around her and doesn't even realize it... Drove me nuts when she was down south for 2 weeks and came back an watched a movie with real bad Irish accents.. nothing like a southern drawl , mixed with a terrible Irish accent crossed with a chicago accent... Just gosh darn awfull...
 
Me....not talk......you gotta be kiddin right? LOL naww it don't matter to me if they are listenin to the accent. Have had people say, "say somethin texan" to me when up in Canada, and some of the northern states. Heck I don't know how to say anything "not texan" LOL I is what I is...n that's what I is, ain't no use in tryin to change me LOL
 
I hope I don't offend anyone who has an accent or drawl or whatever. It just facinates me.

I love to try and mimick them.

When the Danes were here, I noticed that when I spoke to them, I spoke differently than when I was speaking to someone else.

My son, who is fluent in Spanish, was watching a movie with us and the guy in the movie was in Mexico and using a few Spanish words. Made my son mad. He says that we who don't speak it, shouldn't try. I think he's just a snob. :wink: :lol:

Muy beuano, por favor. :P :P :P

I think that it's cool that so many of the words we use in everyday conversation, come from another cdountry. Just listen and pay attention. It will surprise you.

Also, when the Danes were here, it was funny to watch others try and talk to them. I usually told these people if they spoke slower than normal, the Danes would usually catch on to what they were trying to say. With out fail, most spoke LOUDER. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hey, they ain't deaf, they are foreign. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
soapweed---not only did those cattle NOT stop for the traffic sign, but I have a feeling they failed to yield the right of way, did NOT stay on the right side of the road and I did not see a single blinker on ANY of them!!!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
Nothing funner than a cattle drive on the highway during tourist season, though......gotta love the city boy in the little convertible who decides (at just the wrong moment) to hit the horn!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
 
ranchwife said:
soapweed---not only did those cattle NOT stop for the traffic sign, but I have a feeling they failed to yield the right of way, did NOT stay on the right side of the road and I did not see a single blinker on ANY of them!!!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
Nothing funner than a cattle drive on the highway during tourist season, though......gotta love the city boy in the little convertible who decides (at just the wrong moment) to hit the horn!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Years ago, a neighboring rancher and his hired hand were crossing the highway with cattle, in a bad spot right by a curve. They were short-handed and weren't able to warn oncoming traffic properly. A fast-moving convertible came wheeling around the bend and had to screech on the brakes. In the back of this luxury convertible was a sun-bathing lady wearing nothing but her birthday suit. The cowboys had a rare treat of unexpected eye candy. The hired hand was a concientious Christian family man, and averted his eyes as speedily as possible. The single rancher, who was an avid subscriber to Playboy magazine at the time, wasn't quite so quick to look the other way. :shock: :wink: :-)
 
kolanuraven said:
Lily....do you catch yourself NOT talking at times when people draw attention to your accent?

When someone makes a big spectacle about my accent...I usually tend to not say anything from that point on.

I can't count the times I've heard..." where are you from?"...and they ask with such inflection, it's like they're thinking Mars maybe!!

If everyone gets so " 'goo-goo" ( esp. the men folks) over a Southern accent...why do so many people make fun of it? I've always wondered that. I never heard anything funny about a mid-western accent.

Accents and different word usages are an interesting part of living in the USA with the wide variety we have. Well, actually that is true all over the world, isn't it. I don't think people are trying to be mean or make fun in a nasty way when they comment on accents. We all have some kind of an accent, right? It is just an interesting part of life.
 
nr said:
kolanuraven said:
Lily....do you catch yourself NOT talking at times when people draw attention to your accent?

When someone makes a big spectacle about my accent...I usually tend to not say anything from that point on.

I can't count the times I've heard..." where are you from?"...and they ask with such inflection, it's like they're thinking Mars maybe!!

If everyone gets so " 'goo-goo" ( esp. the men folks) over a Southern accent...why do so many people make fun of it? I've always wondered that. I never heard anything funny about a mid-western accent.

Accents and different word usages are an interesting part of living in the USA with the wide variety we have. Well, actually that is true all over the world, isn't it. I don't think people are trying to be mean or make fun in a nasty way when they comment on accents. We all have some kind of an accent, right? It is just an interesting part of life.

Peach Blossom's aunt from Alabama attended college in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has a pict-ear-esque quaint soft southern accent, and having the Nebraska boys wrapped around her finger, they would buy her ice cream if they could just hear her say, "Please, could I have some ice cream?" :wink:
 
Soapweed said:
Years ago, a neighboring rancher and his hired hand were crossing the highway with cattle, in a bad spot right by a curve. They were short-handed and weren't able to warn oncoming traffic properly. A fast-moving convertible came wheeling around the bend and had to screech on the brakes. In the back of this luxury convertible was a sun-bathing lady wearing nothing but her birthday suit. The cowboys had a rare treat of unexpected eye candy. The hired hand was a concientious Christian family man, and averted his eyes as speedily as possible. The single rancher, who was an avid subscriber to Playboy magazine at the time, wasn't quite so quick to look the other way. :shock: :wink: :-)
:lol: How much was he paying you soap? Or was you paying him? :lol:
 
Red Robin said:
Soapweed said:
Years ago, a neighboring rancher and his hired hand were crossing the highway with cattle, in a bad spot right by a curve. They were short-handed and weren't able to warn oncoming traffic properly. A fast-moving convertible came wheeling around the bend and had to screech on the brakes. In the back of this luxury convertible was a sun-bathing lady wearing nothing but her birthday suit. The cowboys had a rare treat of unexpected eye candy. The hired hand was a concientious Christian family man, and averted his eyes as speedily as possible. The single rancher, who was an avid subscriber to Playboy magazine at the time, wasn't quite so quick to look the other way. :shock: :wink: :-)
:lol: How much was he paying you soap? Or was you paying him? :lol:

I just heard about the deal after the fact. :wink: The version I heard was from the hired hand. :-)
 

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