Yeah You Rite 1: Dialects in New Orleans, LA

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@wakegary 7 ай бұрын

This warmed my heart. I was a toddler living there at that time and I love every single voice I hear. Great find, brought me back to my alee yall

@JaleelScheppy Жыл бұрын

Really inspiring video, I'm fairly impressed and genuinely happy to see how origin of our accent have come a long way. I appreciate this!!

@marci917 7 ай бұрын

My dad is a yat ❤ and I’m a Katrina kid 😊

@tranurse Жыл бұрын

The gentlemen from the Garden district sound like my grampa. He was born on St Charles Avenue. His grandfather had the Rice Building built…

@realMartinHamilton 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite place in NOLA is down in the qwatah!

@satanlaffing Жыл бұрын

We put the "S" at the end as well......"da qwawtahs".

@Ojb_1959 5 ай бұрын

Neva hurd it wit a “s” b4, eva.

@ryancmt 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating video. I lived in New Orleans in 2012 and the local accents were really few and far between. One of the senior execs at my company invited a few of us to her mom's house on St. Charles Ave. in the Garden District to watch one of the Mardi Gras parades and I remember her having the most beautifully elegant lilt to her voice, just like in this video, but it was the only time in 18 months I really heard the "Garden District accent." Most of the younger people I worked with were originally from Kenner or Metarie and their local accents were faint as can be. It's a shame that regional accents are dying out across America. Sooner or later I guess we're all going to sound alike.

@neworleanscreolestorypot5577 4 жыл бұрын

ryancmt So sad. I really hate what’s happening with local dialects. We’re losing our distinctness.

@ryancmt 4 жыл бұрын

@@neworleanscreolestorypot5577 Hopefully the trend will change. I cringe when I hear movies/TV shows try to imitate a Nola accent; it always come out sounding like Alabama to me.

@neworleanscreolestorypot5577 4 жыл бұрын

ryancmt YES!! Same!! They can never ace it. It’s an accent that you have to be immersed in for many many years to imitate. It’s a tad complex. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that this trend does change.

@BigJoe2354899 3 жыл бұрын

@@ryancmt In fact nobody even tries to imitate it. Hollywood has decided that since New Orleans is in "The South" - you know, that part of the world where everybody is racist -, people in movies about New Orleans should sound like Elizabeth Taylor in _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_ , which is the Holywood version of a "Southern accent." Tom Hanks did it in _Benjamin Button_, and Kevin Costner did it in _JFK - the latter being doubly ridiculous since Jim Garrison was from Iowa and had no New Orleans accent at all. Meanwhile, young New Orleanians do seem to sound more and more like they're from the San Fernando Valley, down to the vocal fry. Perhaps Hollywood will catch up with that, and the accents we grew up with will be lost down the well of oblivion. While I've got you here, what about "N'Awlins"? Do you know any New Orleanians who actually say that? I was born in Hôtel-Dieu in 1946 and I have yet to hear a New Orleanian use fewer than three syllables in saying the name of his/her city. I swea' to Gawd.

@bluerose465 2 жыл бұрын

That’s true- I’m from Metairie and people from the North even tell me that I don’t have an accent? I remember going to school and the other kids would stop me from saying slag like y’all and whatever- because of the internet I feel like kids have seen the general southern accent as a bad thing making use self regulate our accents

@derlingerardclair6252 2 жыл бұрын

I believe that a Mr.Jerry Block used to own the FM Station WWOZ,which was located in Armstrong Park,New Orleans.Also,I worked there as a Volunteer computer clerk from 1988 to 1991.

@derlingerardclair6252 4 ай бұрын

I believe that dear Jerry may have passed back in the 90's,or early 2000;s;God bless his dear Memory.