Garfield: You talk funny Nash. Where you from?
Nash: Lots of different places.
My accent is a mix-up of Kentucky/Northern Plains/West Coast/Whatever. A nomadic lifestyle for the first 30 years on the planet has made me a linguistic mishmash. Girlie Bear and Little Bear, on the other hand, have a pretty thick Kentucky accent. Boo, who was born here and learned to speak listening to University of Louisville fans argue with University of Kentucky fans about basketball has a full-on twang. Irish Woman has a bit of a drawl. That is, of course, until she starts drinking or someone pisses her off. Then the twang that she has spent decades trying to soften comes out in full force.
How we speak tells the world who we are, where we’re from, and where we’ve been. They are a roadmap to how we were raised and educated. Our words and our tone tell the world what we believe and what we know.
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bluesun
/ March 29, 2014I’m from Western Colorado, which means I sound like a newscaster. Borrrring.
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oldnfo
/ March 29, 2014Heh, yep and CAN provide some funny moments in the ‘right’ situations…
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jbrock2014
/ March 30, 2014My own accent is a five-train pileup involving Southeast Coastal, Chesapeake Tidewater, and southern New England, pasted together with Generic Military Drawl and subjected to 20-odd years of Commonwealth osmosis. Dominant components shift, depending on variables like fatigue and alcohol consumption, but the net result is that I get ‘Where the $&#* are you from?’ a lot.
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