obviously all ov the international posters do (except Sketch of course) but does anyone else have a noticable accent? Bostonites, Philly, southerners, Canadians, Belize... I'm sure several of us don't realize we've got an accent, but they're there. Just need to know if i should associate a twang with anyone's typing.

i've managed to retaining pieces of the 'burgh and Savannah, but mostly i'm regional dialect free. I do not say "wuhter".

Dahntahn...

depends on who you ask and if Ive been drinking or not

I am accent-free. Non-Minnesotans who meet me are disappointed that I don't sound like a character in the movie Fargo.

fuck you you fucking fuck.... (NYC accent)

I heard mix opinions. After seeing an old high school teacher a couple of years ago, she said I sounded like a Yankee.
After running into a true Yankee in the lobby of my building in NYC, she said I had a really thick accent.
After talking to some friend's parents from Ohio, they said I sounded Midwestern. From my girlfriend's parents who live in Chicago, I just have a slight accent.
So, I guess it depends on who you ask. I think it comes out more when I'm drunk or tired.

I'm still disappointed. That, and you never say "darn tootin".

I have several.

I refuse to say "wooder" or "down the ocean" however.

Most influences I have are from having southern roots, then hanging with several guys from NOLA.

I get the yankee slur in the south and the southern slur from the north.

After living in WI for the last 7-8 months and visiting GA this past weekend, I can say without a doubt that the Senator and Bloor have pretty deep southern accents. The Senator a little more than Bloor.

But as soon as I saw them down there my accent came back FULL FORCE!!

I'm southern through and through. And wouldn't have it any other way.

i've been asked if i'm from canada before because of the way i talk (or michigan) by OTHER ohioans.

which is funny to me because i don't think i sound any differently than they do.

but apparently some people think i do.

I get that a LOT here, actually. I then tell the hosers to take off.

Just like everyone else I have the same factors that influence this:

1) Have I been drinking?
2) Who are you asking?
3) What crowd am I hanging out with?


When I worked in the Midwest I was told I had a thick southern accent. It doesn't come out that much except on certain words.

If I'm drunk and a lot of "I ain't"'s start flying then it could be classified, by Loogar at one point, as "hick". I resent this.

WOW! Coming from Busty I'll take this one as true.

I never noticed how I spoke until I saw a tape of me at GA v. FL reading a birthday toast to Derris. I was like "Do I really sound like that?"

That said, it gets progresively worse the more I drink. Until at 4 am I am an incoherent Senator.

Fair enough, TK. But what kind of NYC accent? Bronx sounds different from Brooklyn. I've got a major Bronx accent. I literally have to consciously speak slowly and enunciate when, for example, I order at a restaurant here in the south.

Steve

I believe Bloor and I came to the rightful conclusion that, being from Dalton, you are classified as a "hillbilly"

It depends:

- on which class of people I've been making fun of the most lately;
- whether or not I've got marbles in my mouf;
- (and this is an odd one), if I'm addressing multiple people -- when that happens, I have a tendency to say "y'all", at which point, my whole persona changes to a southerner (a nasty, crabby southerner, not the hospitable kind).

I was once asked (by a child), "just how many voices do you have in there?!?"

i say "wooder" and "down the shore"
but otherwise not much of an accent.

I guess I probably did at one point, there is kind of a lazymouth where I'm from in Northern Ontario that is not evident in Southern ON. I know two years ago when I spent a week there and I called my wife, who was alarmed that I was accenting my speech. You can notice it on the "o" vowels.

My father in law does have that classic Scandinavian Fargo-ish accent.

I've had a couple southerners tell me I have a Canadian accent, and I probably have a bit of an accent (I'm in Michigan), but I grew up in Iowa so I don't think it's very pronounced.

never heard of a northwestern accent

If you're asking me, I'm the only one who DOESN'T.
Actually I got made fun of all the time down at Mizzou for saying thing like: "I gott go get my beeag (bag)"

Generally speaking I don't have an accent. However if I spend more than a couple of days in an area where there is a predominant accent I have this unintentional tendency to start picking one up - It happens every time I go back to visit family in MN, has happened when I spent a few days in TX and Arkansas, and most famously has happened when I spent 10 days in Boston a few years back.....I say most famously because we went to lunch when we got back to Seattle and while we were waiting to be seated I had 2 people come up to me and ask if I was from "Back East", lol.....

This sort of unintentional acquiescence can get a little dangerous though when you are a straight guy hanging out with some gay friends and people you don't know and in doing so your voice comes up an octave or so unintentionally...you kind of send the wrong signals...

Josh will probably KILL me for this one but:

My husband is born and bred New Hampshire, and while he doesn't have much of a new england accent, he has this slight tinge of a southern one. So it's a combination of a mild, mild new england one and a southern one.

It actually comes off really sexy.

Myself: I don't sound midwestern at all. I almost come off as part british/part southern. And I don't have a fucking clue why. I've just always been told that.