People from (insert your home area) are the only ones that are accentless

[mrboba1]

Everyone has an accent to someone else.
No matter what.

Except me, of course!
:silly:

[elperromagico]

1. I wish I could say that about Arkansas,

but I can't. I don't have an Arkansas accent; I've lived here for 20 years and I still don't know what one sounds like.

[JohnKleeb]

2. one word for ya Clinton

Thats what an Arkansas sounds like.

[elperromagico]

3. I don't think so. His accent is too "clean."

The Arkansans I hear around here have far more guttural accents.

[JohnKleeb]

Hell if I know

Thats what he gets for spending time in hell I mean England :P.

[mrboba1]

7. but you didn't learn to talk there did you?

If you learned to talk with people from the area, then you wouldn't hear their accent...

[elperromagico]

15. I did learn to talk here.

I just didn't let the eccentricities of the native pronunciation pollute my mind. :P

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. You have the biggest accent of all!

It is I who have no accent

[mrboba1]

10. You, sir, are a LIAR!

Actually, this is my accent story:
I was born in NC but to an upstate NY father and southern Wisconsin mother. Therefore, I had no southern accent as a child. However, I grew into a slight southern accent as I was exposed to more southerners, but it is a very waek one.

[NashVegas]

5. Upstate NY

although we do talk fast.

[GiovanniC]

6. People From Michigan Don't Have An Accent

Well, the people in the U.P. do. But not us "normal" people.

[mrboba1]

9. Thank you.

You prove my point.
:P

[GiovanniC]

11. Alls I Know Is

That I hear people doing "Southern Accents", "California Surfer-Dude Accents", "Baawwwston Accents", "Brooklyn Accents". I never hear of anyone doing a "Lower-Penninsula Michigan Accent".

:headbang:

[mrboba1]

14. yes but maybe a southerner/brooklyner/etc. would say

man - he sure pronounces some words strangely. What kind of accent was that?

[GiovanniC]

18. No, They Would Say

"That person speaks clearly and without any trace of accent! Magnificent!"

[samplegirl]

16. Michigan

Baby you can drive my c~aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar

[parasim]

19. That would be a Troll accent...

No, not that kind of troll... I'm talking about what we yoopers used to call people that lived below the bridge. :evilgrin:

Anyway, being born in Oklahoma City, I had quite the southern accent when my family moved to the UP. It didn't take long and I was tawkin wit dat goodol yooper aaccen tuh wit doze loooong draaaawn ou tuh words and ending each word dat had a "t" at da end with "tuh" and all, eh?

All I can say is that whenever I "do" the yooper accent, people here in Ohio where I now live say, "Hey, do that accent again, it's so cool" (or more typically they say, "Where you from ? Canada?") Yet, if I do the southern accent I had as an Okie, people think I'm just trying to act like a redneck.

Accentless speech to me is kind of bland. Kind of like the way I talk now.

[mrboba1]

21. ha! I thought you were calling me a troll!

:D

[slappypan]

22. Holy Cri

Just moved to da Yoop and I can't pronounce anything da right way.

[parasim]

26. oh, I wouldn't worry aboot it, eh?

You'll get it soon enough!

Hey, do they still say "Holy Wah" up there? and "side-by-each"?

As in, "Holy wah, youse gise, didja see all dem whitetails standin dere side-by-each on da side of da road? Musta bin a tousand of em, at leest, eh?"

[fujiyama]

20. Debbie Stabenow

has a pretty thick accent.

[bif]

25. I agree totally

And that includes northern Ohio and Indiana.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Springfield, Ohio.

No, we sound like hicks.

[mrboba1]

13. you are a hick.

[soothsayer]

12. Us people from Washington DC (the proud, the few, the accentless) n/t

[samplegirl]

17. "mouth full of cow shit accent"

No exageration......Zel Miller

[truthspeaker]

23. I'd have to say No, that's not true. And the "O" in "no" is very long

Ya sure, you bethca we have accents. Gotta problem with that?

[JVS]

24. Pittsburgh, no accent? Sheah right! We know and love our accent

But most people these days can put the accent on and off like a coat