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 Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:09 pm
Yes friends and neighbors, I return to you today with another thread aiming to pick your brains. I want to know all about words, sounds and their regional variations that you've encountered in your lives. What are some words and terms used in your area that are alien to people not from around there? What terms have you heard that confused you until you found out what they meant? What does your area's "accent" sound like and do you have one?
And so on and so forth.
Discuss
1) Your regional terms and variations of speaking
2) Is it "Pop" or "Soda"?
3) How Headhunter should be fined for obscenity because he doesn't think of the children.
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:10 pm
Well, although I am from the Southeastern United States, I really do not have that much of an accent at all. The only time what little of one I do have comes out is when I am not myself in some way, be it due to exhaustion, etc. Otherwise, I am much more likely to pick up other peoples' accents and speech patterns if I spend enough time with them. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:40 pm
I'd debate with you that you don't have an accent, Amaeli - I'm Australian!
The Australian accent varies quite a lot - the biggest differences are between city and rural folk. Just like most places, the the people who live in the country side tend to have the thicker accents.
Words we say differently :
When referring to a standard glass of beer (285mL/ 10 fl oz...and yes, we call it Beer, not "Lager" although most of our beer is...)
In Perth and Sydney it's a Middy
In Melbourne and Brisbane it's a Pot
And in Adelaide you'd be asking for a Schooner
In Brisbane they'd call a bikini "togs"
In Sydney they'd call them "swimmers"
In Perth we call them "bathers"
So, so answer question (2) it's neither Pop or Soda - it's a Soft Drink
Doressa, can you think of a few more Ozzie examples??
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:25 pm
I'm a bit of an accent chameleon, I think. I'll tend to pick up accents from people around me, movies, television...
Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, I was always a little baffled by the fact that many of the people living down the street had what might be called southern accents, while many other neighbors did not. I did have an interesting experience the other day when a young woman came into my place of work and told me I looked like a "vampahr."
I think most people in this area call it 'pop.'
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:34 pm
Touché, Sablara. wink Most people here tend to assume I am from the Midwest. For some reason, they find it hard to believe I am actually a native Southerner. confused
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:31 am
well here in Germany we have also differen accents.
if you order in Hamburg an "Haven Hahn" that means a half chicken, but you get a bread roll with cheese.
there are also some different regional names for meatball and doughnut.
i speak "pott" that is typical for my region. it´s very close to the classic German most people form the foreign country understand us. if you travel to the south it get more difficult to understand the people, even i have huge problems.
i personally like to listen to people speaking german with an accent. i´m used to it from my mom and dad , theey speak with a polish accent i´m living too long in Germany so i lost my polish accent and have a german one when i speak Polish xd
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:36 am
i'm not sure exactly what type of accent i have to be honest. being in northeastern pennsylvania, our accent tends to be influenced by ohio, new york, and even canada. ask antonia if i have an accent, because i have no clue.
and as for soda or pop, it really depends on who you ask. i prefer to call it a "tasty carbonated beverage" rofl
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:10 am
I am from the Kansas City Metro Area (there I finally said what the "KC" in my profile stands for); and well, I don't think I personally have an accent. I say things that just come naturally to me and try to speak my mind. I do know that some people here call the beverage you speak of "soda" and some call it "pop" I prefer to call it "soda pop" and combine the two words. Often times I find myself though calling it "coke."
Other things I know we as a family say different are, if we're not eatting a home-cooked meal we are "going out for dinner" and a "bag" by itself references a "plastic bag" and a "sack" is a "paper sack". Also if we have to dispose of bodily wastes (trying to be polite here) or make sure we don't have to before arriving at our destination, etc. we "check in". Let's see other things that are different, hmm...
pancake vs. flapjacks (I say pancake)
cracker vs. biscut (I say saltines or crackers)
university vs. college (I say college, but I am more inclined to put both when speaking online to avoid confusion)
french fries vs. chips (we say fries)
I know there are others, but I can't think of them right now. xd
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:11 pm
From the mid west (chicago) and while i dont notice it i'm told 1. we talk to fast round here and 2. we do some funny thing with our A's like chikaaaco
family all lives way north and i pick up a minniosta OO when we vist.
ps. its pop
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:29 pm
I am from wisconsin and most people here claim we don't have accents...
I think we do though.
Generally I hear people call it soda but pop is also common. I think it is probably like 55% say soda.
One example of a wisconsin accent is mylk instead of milk. Minnesotans and people from the dakotas tend to say wisCANsin... don't be like those people.
Also there is alot of german and dutch influence in our past so you will hear people exclaim things like oof-da.
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:59 am
Both my parents grew up in South Saint Louis. The a and the e sounds are hard for me- case and point- "sentence" I will pronounce it in such a way I might as well spell it sentance. My "then" and "than" are eerily similar.
Other lingo from my background: ya, n', (it's soda for me), creepin', sleepin', warsh instead of wash on occasion, and "yous" sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:14 pm
Well being a person that has an accent it's even harder to understand people with accent and they start to get upset with me because I can't understand them; I grew up in my early childhood in the Philippines, we have more than 300 dialects (languages) and each dialects depending in how educated you are, they speak it differently than others. When I was in CA it was great, and I could understand the Mexican accents which most of Hispanic people have. When I went to Japan, I could also understand the Japanese accents; when I came in NC confused sad xp I could not understand the Hill Billy accent that some people spoke; it made me quite in a way ignorant xp since I always thought of that kind of accent, you only see them in good sometimes SCARY movies or shows. sweatdrop Grown adults have talked to me rudely because of how they say "Are you stupid? You're not from here? You Speak English?", I mean I could of have spoke back to them rudely and say something ignorant as well; but there is a time to speak back, and this usually occurs during work hours.
Now I am here in AL, I am sure they have accents as well, I just hope it's not as thick as the one in NC. sweatdrop Or I'll be listening to them like they are aliens......I just hope they don't give me too much of a hard time stressed .
When I was in P.I. as a kid we call it "Soft Drinks" (a real bottled sodas not as carbonated more to a sweet compare to the sodas here). Since I've been in CA the most of my years, I say "Soda"; I got rattled with a stupidity on my face when I ask what's "Pop" the first time I heard it lol .
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:46 pm
Aww...I am so sorry, AQuA. *hugs* If it makes you feel any better, even I have trouble understanding people with thick country and/or Southern accents at times, and I was born here in NC. So, you are not the only one. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:25 pm
I cannot understand most accents at all. Most British and Austrailian I am good wih, bu even many US accents, forget it and I've lived all my life in MN. I know I have an accent but I have no idea where it came from. It's not just English, Russian I can only understand a St. Petersburg accent and Japanes is only undersood well if it's a Kyoto or Hiroshima accent. I always eel like an idiot that I can't understand people, even ones I'm supposed to be close to. For me, it's soda
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