Hair of the Dawg
Nov. 3rd, 2006 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetI call Bullshit
Cutting for accent quiz
Maybe not complete bullshit - growing up I watched a lot of television and always worried I'd develop a local accent (which I *did*) that I identified as "hick" when all I ever wanted to sound like was...Johnny Carson. Shut up.
But I'd watch the local news and listen to people at school and church and OMG the deep dark shame of my mother saying "warsh" for "wash" and you know - it wasn't so much how those chicks that went to Western (WKU) that WBKO would interview sounded so much as what they said and how they said it: I classified a certain pronunciation in the same column as ignorant. I feel shame over that, now. Fuck the warsh.
So in school and in college I worked so hard to have a "normal" accent and I would feel so frustrated when my friends from somewhere like Ohio would go on and on about my accent ("I don't have an accent!!" "Yeah, you do" "I do not! YOU have the accent!") and I got a B in Vocal Production for the Stage because apparently I can't say the word "blue" correctly. I swear I say it right and then I am told "blue" doesn't rhyme with "igloo" - say what??
So anyway, somewhere along the line I moved to New Orleans and that is a melting pot of accents and there is no telling what all I picked up (and yeah, some of it sounds so much more Boston than Charleston any day of the week and it frustrates me so much when someone adopts a fake ass Colonel Sanders voice for a New Orleans accent - wait. That is another rant) and then I was in Memphis and eventually I just stopped caring and I have no earthly idea what comes out of my mouth and in what form. Part of me cringes that it is really really hick but then I remember, like, life lessons and The Driveby Truckers and I try not to be prejudiced and bigoted.
But this test? On paper (er - written on the 'net but you get the picture). And I know what words sound like in my head and how they are supposed to sound when you say them. Kinda. I just don't have the time or the energy to worry about it too much. Plus, the more you drink the harder it is to pronounce shit anyway but the way you pronounce them. So, yeah...
Cutting for accent quiz
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. | |
| Boston | |
| The West | |
| The Northeast | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The South | |
| The Inland North | |
| North Central | |
| What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes | |
Maybe not complete bullshit - growing up I watched a lot of television and always worried I'd develop a local accent (which I *did*) that I identified as "hick" when all I ever wanted to sound like was...Johnny Carson. Shut up.
But I'd watch the local news and listen to people at school and church and OMG the deep dark shame of my mother saying "warsh" for "wash" and you know - it wasn't so much how those chicks that went to Western (WKU) that WBKO would interview sounded so much as what they said and how they said it: I classified a certain pronunciation in the same column as ignorant. I feel shame over that, now. Fuck the warsh.
So in school and in college I worked so hard to have a "normal" accent and I would feel so frustrated when my friends from somewhere like Ohio would go on and on about my accent ("I don't have an accent!!" "Yeah, you do" "I do not! YOU have the accent!") and I got a B in Vocal Production for the Stage because apparently I can't say the word "blue" correctly. I swear I say it right and then I am told "blue" doesn't rhyme with "igloo" - say what??
So anyway, somewhere along the line I moved to New Orleans and that is a melting pot of accents and there is no telling what all I picked up (and yeah, some of it sounds so much more Boston than Charleston any day of the week and it frustrates me so much when someone adopts a fake ass Colonel Sanders voice for a New Orleans accent - wait. That is another rant) and then I was in Memphis and eventually I just stopped caring and I have no earthly idea what comes out of my mouth and in what form. Part of me cringes that it is really really hick but then I remember, like, life lessons and The Driveby Truckers and I try not to be prejudiced and bigoted.
But this test? On paper (er - written on the 'net but you get the picture). And I know what words sound like in my head and how they are supposed to sound when you say them. Kinda. I just don't have the time or the energy to worry about it too much. Plus, the more you drink the harder it is to pronounce shit anyway but the way you pronounce them. So, yeah...
