Regional accents seem to be merging, creating a more standard "American" accent, instead of a New York accent, Midwest accent, etc. Mo Rocca reports on what's happening to accents in the U.S.
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@erinnab83354 жыл бұрын
Here in Ireland we have a whole generation of little Irish kids, teenagers and early twenties speaking like they're American due to how much American media content were exposed to. They literally sound like Americans, not Irish people. It's terrible as the Irish accent was so unique, musical and varied.
@elias77482 жыл бұрын
Sad..
@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын
Tragedy
@ElectrostatiCrow Жыл бұрын
That's a world wide thing. It's a slw but noticeable shift to American English.
@jeanrodriguez2078 Жыл бұрын
do you see an american accent as a plain accent?
@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 Жыл бұрын
Speak Irish not English
@strawberrygirlpanics77756 жыл бұрын
pretty sure the internet is a huge factor, it unites us by presenting the same media to the whole world simultaneously.
@lilypippili9 жыл бұрын
dude... come to boston... these accents arent going away anytime soon
@GreatIntellect138 жыл бұрын
Shame. They really should. Much too harsh.
@ethankeller15267 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be too sure...
@fqoff46546 жыл бұрын
SoV21 Sorry guy but that intense jealousy you have going is gonna eat you alive....
@tunabeans6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Peanutbutter that's literally one of my favourite accents ever, my dad has a really nice Boston accent that's not too thick and it sounds really smooth
@edwardmiessner65024 жыл бұрын
I heard it is disappearing ... you won't find it in the city or in Cambridge or Somerville ... but go out into the suburbs and it's there
@bigslorbsofkyrgyzstan55413 жыл бұрын
Watching this is highkey depressing. That professor’s right, accents and dialects are what helps make us human. I really hope we all don’t become globalized.
@supahjadi89442 жыл бұрын
Too late. This is what the elites want.
@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын
Friggin tragic
@tamnickyle11 ай бұрын
american accents are disgusting. who cares?
@donbeck88356 жыл бұрын
I guess this explains why every teen and early 20s girl from my town in Ohio sounds like a Valley Girl now. I swear a lot seems to do with the media
@davidmacphee35493 жыл бұрын
That was really strong In Toronto hear .. here .. a while back and I really had to speak up and tell those girls how bad it was. They actually understood me I guess because it stopped abruptly
@DP-hy4vh6 жыл бұрын
Radio, television, movies and the internet are making accents disappear.
@davidmacphee35493 жыл бұрын
At least we still have Arnold
@sasmas154511 жыл бұрын
It's because of TV. They use standard pronunciations so that it doesn't seem like you're hearing an accent.
@Rolando_Cueva3 жыл бұрын
Not only about that. There’s also the intonation.
@rbiolden11 жыл бұрын
I actually really like the Southern accent.
@kcalhoun89446 жыл бұрын
Ashley Martin there dead to us younger guys don't have them most of us don't
@dylangregory98554 жыл бұрын
Well then howdy
@chrismoon43744 жыл бұрын
Ashley Martin North Mississippi have such a strong drawl I couldn’t imagine it gone
@deadheadwsp7053 жыл бұрын
Haha how y’all doin
@tonygabashvili83576 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure the Midwestern accent has gone extinct, I've maybe heard 3 people speak with it the entire time I've lived there.
@ethanschoof79893 жыл бұрын
I'm from rural MN and the accent is alive and well where I"m from. It's the cities that kill it.
@BadgerCheese94 Жыл бұрын
What? I live in Minneapolis and Midwestern accents are alive and well doooncha knooow?
@dickturpin47866 жыл бұрын
Sad they are fading, but it's happening in the UK too, particularly in England. The rural vowley accents with the rolling "R's" in the south east of England have all but gone and replaced with a generic Londonish accent even as far north as south Lincolnshire with some young people. And have you noticed with people under the age of 40 that both Americans and Brits are going up in tone at the end of a sentence like the Aussies do as if the'er asking a question, they never used to do that in either the USA or Britain. Love the old NYC accent though, Kojak..... "Hey you bozzo, gid outta here"
@davidmacphee35493 жыл бұрын
Are you serious? Brits are getting to talk like boring Torontonians?
@Mykaininekkkkkahajw3 жыл бұрын
Really sad to see parts of people’s cultures fade away like this
@angelwrapper1003 Жыл бұрын
Ralph macchio who plays daniel in karate kid and cobra Kai did lose his accent as he got older! Because when you move out of New York and live in another state your more likely to lose your New York accent because you talk differently than before!
@ShawnGaming117 жыл бұрын
It's weird because even though most of my family has a southern accent, I just naturally had the general American accent, I don't know why, but I just don't sound like my family
@greatestaxolotl49334 жыл бұрын
Same bro
@greatestaxolotl49334 жыл бұрын
Arjel Dela Peña lol why would they want to speak in an accent that is not theirs?
@dylangregory98554 жыл бұрын
Well mine is still pretty thick
@erinnab83354 жыл бұрын
It's due to listening to mainsteam accents on TV, movies and entertainment.
@deadheadwsp7053 жыл бұрын
I got family from north and south, but grew up in the south. I remember when I was younger I would always try and have more of a northern accent after I’d visit family and friends up north and hearing them trash on “dumb rednecks”. I’m glad that I was unsuccessful when I was younger and have kept my accent
@danylo93605 жыл бұрын
It even affects Ireland, I sound Irish but my younger sister sounds american it’s so cringey. Thankfully Irish people aren’t that tolerant of “yank talk” so hopefully she’ll lose it.
@TheCaliforniaboy14 жыл бұрын
I lost my Australian accent when i moved to America. I still have specific words I say and drinking brings it back too but in the natural sense, it's gone and I regret to this day. Especially now that Hollywood is showing more Aussies on TV.
@Chris_T_3rd_Ward_50411 ай бұрын
I mean, your name is literally “California boy”. So, there’s that.
@TheCerealluvr10 жыл бұрын
This is SOOO wonderful. What a gem of a KZbin video:)
@howdoifixmyspacebar8 жыл бұрын
0:48 *talking about nyc accent* *cuts to north jersey actor doing north jersey accent* glad they did a "high tider" accent though, closest accent to general Early Modern English you can find outside of the West Country. Though it's really not a homogeneous accent at all, accents people would label "hoi toider" change pretty drastically all along the east coast from the Carolinas to the PA border, e.g. in MD and VA the watermen have noticeably different accents county by county. It's really just relatively isolated maritime communities descended from 17th century British colonists that retain a lot of Early Modern English features, so of course differences in regional dialects/accents of the 17th century would impact the communities differently.
@mkfanforever5810 жыл бұрын
I have never heard of Chi-cah-go. I've always said Chi-caw-go, and I'm from the area.
@midnightfirefly10010 жыл бұрын
Now that i hear my self out loud i do hear my self saying Chi-caw-go ^_^
@midnightfirefly10010 жыл бұрын
But im from New England and i say Ca-fee
@36isnotold9 жыл бұрын
I'm from the area and I say shicawgo
@Arkayem9 жыл бұрын
I always went Shukago
@Steven846297 жыл бұрын
I knew a chicago family and they said chi cah go.
@lalakuma96 жыл бұрын
"People want to be connected, to places, to traditions, and accents are the strongest indication of that." This makes me sad, because English is my primary, but actually my 2nd learned language. I learned English from a mix of American, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, and Filipino teachers, and a lot of my friends also speak English as a "second" language. I don't have an accent, not even really from my 1st language. Or rather, I pronounce some words with one accent, and some other words in another accent, and often I don't say the same words with a consistent pronunciation. I think the loss of accent indicates that people are more globalized and better connected to people from other places, thus their cultural distinctions get diluted. But at the same time, I do realize that I have much less connection to regional culture and tradition than most people. It feels kind of lonely, and confusing at times. It seems really nice to have that cultural connection to other people.
@greatestaxolotl49334 жыл бұрын
I don’t really care for accents. I don’t mind them but they are not overly important to me, and I’m not sad that I don’t have an accent like my family does. Does anyone else feel this as well?
@Mindraker16 жыл бұрын
Transportation, communication, and education all are factors in the decline of accents. They mentioned Asheville. It's blurred a lot.
@vadimtaranov30419 жыл бұрын
Yes English has many accents around the world. For instance all Russia speak only two-three accents, such a big country and same accent everywhere. Do you know why? Because of the army that mix people from different regions. So conclusion is that mobility kills accent.
@ichbineinegluhbirne41417 жыл бұрын
I'm from MN and I cam say it hasn't gone away. If anything it sounds a bit more Canadian....
@ethanschoof79893 жыл бұрын
Fellow Minnesotan here, I agree.
@bettierusso54104 жыл бұрын
The Southern accent should be held near and dear. I have seen our accent's dying all over the country. The only people that have a true accent are the older generations. The internet and air travel have destroyed our regional accents. They have been replaced with an obnoxious combination of the airhead "valley girl" sing-song inflection at the end of every sentence as if it is a question & speech from a person with an incredible sinus infection and NO air conduction in nasal passages at all. It is truly hard to listen to the Millenial generation and it is spreading all over our country and replacing our accents. It is so sad. Our freedoms, our accents, and our patriotism are being stripped away from them and they haven't got a clue it is happening. Technology has NOT helped it as they live inside a computer-"phone" that is seldom ever used as a phone.
@lindawolffkashmir27687 жыл бұрын
It's very funny how these accent divisions manifest themselves, also. The Chicago accent seems to spread along I-94 through Michigan to Detroit, and Toledo, however just south of Michigan, in the Fort Wayne, Northern Indiana area, we do not have the accent, at least as of yet. Then south of Indianapolis, you begin to hear a more southern touch to the accent.
@Tripps25647 жыл бұрын
Indiana is a widely diverse state that represents the North, Great Lakes and Upper South all in one state linguistically.
@kaylacampbell18356 жыл бұрын
Come to Pennsylvania accents are alive and well. Philadelphia vs. Lancaster
@xxIluvyouguysxx6 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU FOR PRONOUNCING “APPALACHIA” correctly
@nathangale77023 жыл бұрын
Accents are only disappearing among elite, cosmopolitan, urbane types. Go outside your bubble a little and you'll find there are a wide variety of accents in continuous development all across the continent.
@ruzzelladrian9077 ай бұрын
In New York City, the younger generation don’t speak with an accent anymore. It’s more neutral. There are still accents spoken by the younger generation, but it isn’t as common as it used to.
@ccmanize7 жыл бұрын
I still notice strong regional accents when I travel to the United States. We don't have much in the way of regional accents in my country, except a little bit in the eastern part.
@HughBurgessSinger11 жыл бұрын
everyone in the uk sounds more american thanks to the tv. cheers usa
@zacarribuffet88823 жыл бұрын
No way bro. I’ve just met some Royal Marines last week. Still very British dudes.
@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow3 жыл бұрын
Yw 😌
@x97s2 жыл бұрын
Netflix
@happygilmore59482 жыл бұрын
If anything, British accents today are a lot more distinct than they used to be back when they colonized North America. The British accents of today are a result of the industrial revolution.
@lelmdrWHO10 жыл бұрын
i love accents and i love how they show diversity. but my own ( a mix of southern and appalachian) is really faded. i can look back in my family and the older the relative the more accent they have. i love hearing my grandmother speak. she grew up in east texas and didnt really go anywhere else util her 40s. its so rich and wonderful. but the more americans are able to travel and move and the more media we listen to the more different american accents disapear. look at politicians and news anchors. the more nuetral thier accent is the more people accept them so many intentional try to loose thier accents and they are who we listen to
@CJColvin6 жыл бұрын
Go to the Ozarks in Missouri or Arkansas they sound pure Southern.
@BlueFlame414mdftw5 жыл бұрын
Nobody’s losing theirs in Springfield, SC
@stuckonaslide3 жыл бұрын
i think its from kids hearing so many general american accents through media.
@lana4u14 жыл бұрын
I'll never lose my Greenpoint, Brooklyn ole skool accent. I've lived in Los Angeles since 1977 but I communicate with my people every month.
@joshuaram1003 жыл бұрын
The south hasn’t , especially the black southern accent
@joshuaram100 Жыл бұрын
@Aaron9 I can see that. Lol my sister in law grew up in the urban south and some how has a valley girl accent.
@MeadeSkeltonMusic10 жыл бұрын
Richmond, VA had a distinct accent. Tidewater Virginia and you dont heart it from anyone under 70. Northern accents on the other hand, are still alive and well.
@MeadeSkeltonMusic10 жыл бұрын
Janet Kidd No, it is distinctly Southern. Look up "a very richmond phone call" Nothing like New England. Polar opposite, but I supposed to the untrained ear it may sound that way. People say that of Charleston dialect as well, but I can hear the difference. New England accent very harsh and nasal sounding. Tidewater is soft and lilting.
@MeadeSkeltonMusic10 жыл бұрын
Janet Kidd Yes, its a true Virginian accent. The oot and aboot feature is heard in Canada as well, but to me its more Southern in my mind. Though I would never confuse the Virginian accent for New England.
@MeadeSkeltonMusic10 жыл бұрын
Janet Kidd Not sure, could be. I just turned 35 so I'm on the cusp. I think Virginia Beach area sounds mostly like Cali/Midwest sound with maybe a touch of Southern drawl. NOVA also is this way. I noticed traveling all over the Deep South and even down there I didnt hear any true Southern accents. So like the clip says, I think its dying. Hampton Roads and NOVA are both very transient areas with people from all over- so they are probably the least representative of the native dialect.
@TheBeautyofMy2Eyes8 жыл бұрын
+Meade Skelton Why do people give a damn about accents?? I'm Canadian & we've NEVER had a "Canadian accent" (except in quebec). And I couldn't care less! But yes, in my eyes, americans ARE losing their accents. They're sounding more & more Canadian all the time!
@MeadeSkeltonMusic8 жыл бұрын
SnowbirdFlock Its not important.
@laurabrooks88246 жыл бұрын
I moves to York, PA in 1972 from Chicago. I fell in love with the dialect and "Dutch" accent. I hope it never dies
@robintst7 жыл бұрын
I live in Uniontown in the southwest of Pennsylvania, it's a small town about an hour's drive from Pittsburgh... a lot of people have heard about "Pittsburgh-ese" and the dialect specific to that area but when you come down our way, it's a little more tortured. Being closer to the border of West Virginia our dialect and accent gets blended with a slight tinge of a southern drawl. Not all of us have it, but you'll hear it frequently out in public. Words like tire and tower are both pronounced "tire." Wash is "wush" or "warsh." Iron sounds like "ire'n." Downtown is "dahntahn." Creek is somehow "crick." And the most notorious of our exclusive slang, "younz" and "yinz," which are synonyms for "you all." As in "where are you all going?" which becomes "Where're yinz goin'?" Eloquence defined.
@Tubewelder1545 жыл бұрын
I also live in Uniontown and you are spot on. When you get around Smithfield and Fairchance everyone still talks Pittsburgh-ese but with a faint West Virginia accent.
@VanuOfMILF6 жыл бұрын
As a military kid, I resent having my General American accent called boring.
@nathangale77023 жыл бұрын
True, it is a little mean-spirited. It's never too late to adapt a little to your surroundings though. I've gradually adopted lots of pronunciations I like from the people around me.
@greenmachine56003 жыл бұрын
@@nathangale7702 exactly. You can adopt an accent a bit. Most don't realize this.
@BadgerCheese94 Жыл бұрын
@@nathangale7702 Yea I grew up in Miami and as a kid I had a noticeable Miami accent (you can hear it on VHS tapes from back then) but I spent most my adult life in Minnesota and I sound more Minnesotan than Floridian.
@rmadrid61193 жыл бұрын
I had a Texas accent as a child, and people would laugh at me in Denver. I chose to learn a new accent. 😳
@fazbell2 жыл бұрын
Anyone who thinks accents are going away, should go to Alabama. You will need a translator. I am FROM Alabama and sometimes I have to ask people to repeat themselves.
@melaninqueen24136 жыл бұрын
Well I'm originally from Michigan, even though I live in the south. I think that I still have an inland-midland northern accent! They're some people that can tell that I'm not from here.
@norma64645 жыл бұрын
First regional architecture disappeared and now accents...sad.
@genebigs5 жыл бұрын
I am a Long Islander in my 50s, with the classic Brooklyn/Long Island accent. My kids make fun of me, and none of their early 20s friends have an accent either. Everybody sounds like they're from California! Booorrriiiing!
@logicalconceptofficial5 жыл бұрын
The idea they don't have accents is nonsense they just have a "media accent" that many people have. It seems to have evolved into an androgynous mix of Midwest newscaster and Valley Girl...listen to the way the one guy says "it's gone" at the end...it's like omg it's gone...that's an accent, just one that makes you sound like you live in West Hollywood and need a new pair of knee pads for Christmas...
@edwardmiessner65024 жыл бұрын
Except he also has that annoying nasality that you hear only in the greater Boston and Upper Midwest (Great Lakes/Minnesota) areas.
@jeffcreps55314 жыл бұрын
I hate how everyone is trying to have a geto accent nowadays
@tsjoey255 жыл бұрын
1:10 - 1:15 wtf did he say??? Like was there actual words coming out his mouth???
@PrincessTS0112 жыл бұрын
thanks to television we will all sound alike in a hundred years
@unigamehead11 жыл бұрын
I lost my accent when i was nine. I guess it happened between my time between Boston and the Bronx. I originally had a New Orleans accent and now i have what my friends call the "white" accent. I call it the non standard accent. Sometimes people pick up certain things i say to try to figure out where im from. When i write people ask if im British because i use certain spellings. I like hearing their guesses.
@QuietFries6 жыл бұрын
Im from New York and when he said New York He did not say it right. He fucked that up
@QuietFries6 жыл бұрын
New York accents haven't disappeared there less common, but you still get kids with New York accents. Im 14 and I have one.
@bostonanut7 ай бұрын
I was raised outside of Boston in the same house my dad grew up in. He and all his childhood friends have very thick Boston accents, but I don't no one I know who's my age does either. Not sure if it's bc of being raised on television, or our teachers, or gentrification, or what, but the difference between just a single generation is stark.
@Futuresoldier12111 жыл бұрын
Don't nobody down here in the south talk like in gone with the wind anymore
@omarduncan49044 жыл бұрын
@@greco-romano9852 😀😂
@soulflower666 Жыл бұрын
The Ocracoke brogue reminds me a bit of the Newfie (Newfoundland) accent.
@eclipseRz10 ай бұрын
reminds me of my grandma talking to her sister
@trancestimuli11 жыл бұрын
I work for a major phone company and handle calls from all around America... I can definitely tell that everyone has an accent depending on where they're from, even if it's miniscule. Statistically speaking, I have the most "average" American accent (it's in Akron, Ohio and I'm about an hour south of there so the same accent) but everyone has one. It's an important part of culture :)
@rs720984 жыл бұрын
True, I worked in tech support and could totally tell where people were from on calls, however the vast majority were still Standard American. I had almost no brooklyn, Wisconsin, or Boston accents. Plenty of southern accents. If they were from India, China or another forign country I could tell right away.
@aikidragonpiper7110 жыл бұрын
I have a strong Arkansas accent and I keep my accent strong. Rural areas in the south are still strong but many cities are more mild because of the generic fake tv American accent.
@Laztana2811 жыл бұрын
This is sad. As a plain speaking midwesterner with zero dialect or accent, I always wish I had one. I love listening to them.
@9175rock4 жыл бұрын
Midwesterners have accents. At least in Michigan they're are a few different accents.
@haroldmerewether12243 жыл бұрын
2 14, sounds like it has a Bristolian or Cornish twang from the UK.
@mortenb36063 жыл бұрын
It crazy for me as a Norwegian that people actually want to loose their dialects! If you drive anywhere from 5-20 minutes you can already start to here noticeable differences in the way people talk here. Its the big pride here!
@GinaBlythe8 жыл бұрын
Just found this...4 years later! As a Navy BRAT, I learned how to disguise my Southern accent to sound "Yankee". Big mistake. I have just recently started using my normal accent and people don't know what to do! I say don't like my accent? Too bad.
@CloudsCoverTheSun11 жыл бұрын
Actually there are, but it's just more rare nowadays
@masterjabberwocky11 жыл бұрын
Gahhh what did that guy say at 1:14-1:15?
@pinangjawa12 жыл бұрын
As a foreigner, I can only differenciate three different accents in America - urban, black and countryside American.
@jondoes82225 жыл бұрын
We did not need to lose our British accents.
@JasMcKenzie4 жыл бұрын
The British accents have changed as least as much as ours have. Check out videos about original pronunciation for Shakespeare. Much more rhotic than most modern British accents.
@codysparks1454 Жыл бұрын
Accents are always evolving. This is nothing new. But if one accent (like the Californian accent) starts spreading everywhere than that’s not good
@dvg45364 жыл бұрын
The thing is, nobody ever talked like that in Manhattan. Or at least it was less common to have thick an accent, there was a more refined snot nosed tone that still persists today just a bit broader.
@aivars95792 жыл бұрын
for me as a non native speaker of English it's good. Sometimes I can't understand some British accents and some American ones. General American accent is what I like :)
@Kingofspaids Жыл бұрын
Yeah but it's sad. These accents are incredibly unique and tell us history
@Obamaisterrorist10 жыл бұрын
I've lost my regional dialect. Which I regret now.
@energydragon11477 жыл бұрын
i been told my accent is weird by one of my friends
@harveyepstein82562 жыл бұрын
in 2021 everyone has that generic california youtuber accent.
@rs720986 жыл бұрын
I still can't really hear a Chicago accent.
@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын
Yes, or rather everyone is now using the generic American accent/the general north American accent.
@nathan150710 ай бұрын
As a foreigner, nowadays I can only notice 3 accents: black, southern, and valley girl.
@underground92603 жыл бұрын
Everyone is going to sound like The Kardashian’s soon!
@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551 Жыл бұрын
As an Italian American New Yorker born in 46 from Howard Beach Queens Mob capital of America I first noticed our accent was becoming a thing of the past when I was 30 I was dating a gal 8 years younger she was 22 and still had the accent but her younger brothers sounded like regular white folks. Then instarted paying attention and was saddened its bad now.
@TheInkPitOx Жыл бұрын
Accents help identify where you're from. If a neutral American accent becomes universal, we all sound alike and can't tell eachother apart.
@Polksalad6153 ай бұрын
I lived in the college area of North Carolina.
@rauleyshar36356 жыл бұрын
African american accent?
@ShidaiTaino4 жыл бұрын
Rauley Shar it’s not an accent. It’s a dialect
@xxIluvyouguysxx6 жыл бұрын
And it’s so true about North Carolina. We have so many accents lol
@northof-625 жыл бұрын
Ocracoke accent reminds me of some UK old speech.
@mousc4605 жыл бұрын
Charlie to his female assistants: "Don't mind me, I'm just nekkid."
@vaughnpeterson31625 жыл бұрын
Yorktown VA 😃
@jrainey9412 жыл бұрын
My friend Bryan Docherty has lived in my country of Scotland for a full 17 years but somehow he speaks in an American accent
@nevergettoeatdatpussy44536 жыл бұрын
I live in Buffalo, but I feel that people that live in Rochester and Syracuse sound wierd.
@WCBXTV10 жыл бұрын
It's ultimately a result of the media, mostly television. We hear a lot more General American now because of television than we would have a while back when everyone was isolated. I think dialects and accents will live on but not be strictly limited to geography. Different people from different classes and personalities speak differently even if they're from the same place.
@Rolando_Cueva3 жыл бұрын
Americans are sounding more and more Californian!
@JohnnyKings411 жыл бұрын
I live in the Bronx NY and I never had the accent that is there
@JasnoGT9 жыл бұрын
Im from Dallas and when I call up north for business they assume Im from the north based on me sounding just like them.. They are shocked to learn Im born and raised here. Stereotypes..smh lol
@mr.tabares44846 жыл бұрын
Funny Charlie Rose would choose the word naked.......
@dalubwikaan161 Жыл бұрын
I agree to revive all accents/ However, learning an accent is harder than a dialect.
@Heizler9 жыл бұрын
Interesting to watch this. I can say that here in Hungary accents have already died (95%). Everyone from every part of the country being younger than 60 speak the same way as we do here in Budapest. What I see is that we have lots of negative associations about accents. Children make fun of their mates who speak accents (there are few of them and they try to avoid it as much as possible). Adults consider it uneducated. Maybe it's sad, maybe it's the destiny of all languages. USA is a bigger country so this process will be slower there. Really interesting to watch this video, because until now I thought USA is the country where there are lots of accents, and where they still speak them, and where they don't give a shit about others' accents when judging each other. What I've experienced so far is that in the USA people can be cool despite having different accents. In Hungarian mostly those people have accents who live in the Hungarian communities in the neighbouring countries. They were isolated from Hungary in the socialist times, and they watched less Hungarian TV. Nowadays they're also loosing their accents.
@Polksalad6153 ай бұрын
They hate me in some small towns!
@atribecalledjudah54364 жыл бұрын
Listen to Joey Diaz podcast “The Church Of What’s Happening” you’ll get a true New York Accent.
@austinhill58253 жыл бұрын
They're talking about the New York accent and they're playing a show from NJ?
@raulantunez42283 жыл бұрын
Diversity is our strength! The United States is almost as big as Europe when it comes to land area. And it’s the third largest country in the world when it comes to population. It’s sad that every year, states are looking more and more alike and one day, we’ll be one big country filled with cities that speak the sane way.
@jarrengabaldon11 жыл бұрын
They're so many different "southern accents"
@kmca14956 жыл бұрын
jarren gabaldon no their isn't they don't exist their allmost dead
@thezzqueen756410 жыл бұрын
Does Stl have an accent?! I don't think we do.
@BadgerCheese94 Жыл бұрын
Oh you guys def do. Listen to Kathleen Madigan. Great example of a St. Louis accent.
@dwcarkuff11 жыл бұрын
It's pretty sad to me that we are losing the various American dialects. I met some people from Texas a while back - they sounded exactly like me and I'm from New York.
@swee22516 жыл бұрын
I knew a Texan at school during the early 1990s. When I went to Texas a few years ago, I didn't meet anyone who spoke like him.
@rs720986 жыл бұрын
Very true, my cousins lived in Texas their whole life and sound like they're from California. Times are changing I guess.
@SomeRandomHobo444 жыл бұрын
@@rs72098 if i had to venture a guess, id imagine its partly due to TV / media in relatively recent history with some media stations wanting their folk to have "normal" American accents and not their regional accents. ie people from my generation born in the 90's mostly having "standard" American accents compared to someone in Bernie Sanders' generation
@saintdenis1112 жыл бұрын
New Yorkers still have strong accents, just not white New Yorkers. Most white people in New York nowadays are hipsters that moved to New York from elsewhere. Its rare to find homegrown white New Yorkers except in State Island or some parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Blacks and Latinos still have strong New York accents especially uptown like Harlem, Washington Heights, and the Bronx
@BadgerCheese94 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Miami and all the white NY transplants I met had thick accents lol I used to think this dude in my class was cute. Irish guy from Brooklyn with a thick sexy Brooklyn accent
@aikidragonpiper716 жыл бұрын
We still have plenty of an accent in rural Arkansas. But yes television and the internet is trying to make everyone sound like the boring TV accent. No matter where you are keep your accent strong,never change it . Wear it like badge of honor proudly.
@EWHhaha5 жыл бұрын
Growing up in Arkansas, I never had the Southern accent, but I had the Ozark accent. When I moved to Russellville for college, I worked all summer to train myself to speak without my accent. Now, I have been told by teachers and colleagues (from every part of the country) that I don't have an accent now. Thinking back to my small town in Arkansas, I realize that many of us have done this to get rid of stigmas against us.