Got Accent?
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posted by Breathing at 8:24 AM
5 Comments:
Good job not having a Wisconsin accent. I got a "West" accent but they wrote that also means no accent and that I may also be from Florida.
Odd.
I wonder how accents originate and spread and how Floridians sound like both Midlanders and Westerners, separated by the South. If both Midland and West accents are "not accent" than how are they different?
I'm north central:
"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot."
wow, the internet knows where I'm from.
Maybe Florida has a non-southern accent because so many northerns have transplanted there from colder climes with different accents.
Any Floridians want to chime in on this.
That is a reasonable theory, especially since many of our transplants come from the Midwest, which evidentally doesn't have an accent.
I'm guessing you're also thinking that so many accents just become difuse into a non-accent when put together (New York, Michigan, & Missouri blend to become Florida). On the contrary, I would think that would actually make a very strong accent; we'd have the flat ar's of Boston, the o's of Minnesota, etc.
My thought.
That makes sense to me: that many accents colliding in one place would smooth out the irregularities. Maybe we should ask the Linguist with a Heart...
I don't think that it would lead to a frankenstein accent with all the wackiest aspects of the various accents.
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