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[neadods]

From bentleywg, a tour of 21 accents in a two and a half minutes. She is most definitely NOT from South Carolina or Texas (damn close but no cigar) or France - but other than that, I'm impressed.

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Texas sounded okay to me, but SC was definitely wrong. I haven't known enough people who were actually French to judge that one.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

French was off. Her Texas and SC we dated and very Hollywood.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I think her Texas may have been eastern-regional. I know I've heard people here who do sound very much like that, so it's not just Hollywood.

(Yes, Texas is large enough to have eastern, central, and western regional idiolects.)

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Well, her aspirated 's' was definitely spot-on for regions of Texas.

(Yes, Texas is large enough to have eastern, central, and western regional idiolects.)

New York City is too...

Most places are. I picked up a pretty solid ear for dialect (and, now that you mentioned it idiolect (YAYZ! I CAN HAZ NEW WORD! (thanks))as a mil-brat moving from place to place.

I know work in a call center that has multiple accounts and play "Guess that accent" before pulling up account information. I'm typically spot-on except in case of transplants.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Of course it would be, it's huge! And besides, cities have the same thing, London in particular.

[cedara]

It's amusing for me to listen - nevermind that I'm pretty sure not to have that much of an accent when I speak English. *G*

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if you kill your accent, nobody gets to play the "where's she from?" game. (My dad had to kill his accent; as a Southerner up north, nobody was taking him seriously as a scientist.)

[cedara]

True that.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

One of my friends is from Peru, and she loves playing "guess my accent" with people, mostly because she sounds, for some odd reason, German.