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They speak an entirely different language in Louisiana. He didn't use enough French/English words, you'll get lost talking to cajun.
yeah my grandma made my head spin sometimes 😂
@@jch6809 I worked with a guy who would use cajun talk randomly. We both got a kick of out what I thought he said. Dude was a solid guy. Cajun folk are alright by me.
Even if I can't understand half of what they are saying, the Cajun accent is so fun!
@@artsysabs So true. But I liked the challenge. Have a great evening!
@MARK WARDS I think a lot rural areas do the same thing. My dialect told me I was from the Carolinas, I'm Ohio born and breed.
The Minnesota settlers were mostly from Scandinavia, so that is the big influence on the accent.
Ya sure, you betcha! (Swedish/Danish/German/Irish/English descendant from the Dakotas near the Minnesota border. LOL) I hope you know the difference between Uff-da and Ish-da.
With a little Canadian thrown in also.
For sure. I tend to sound swedish on some words
Yes. Rose Nylund taught me that 😊😋
The Minnesota accent is so strange because there's such a massive difference between rural and urban speakers.
As someone living on a Native American Reservation I'm pleasantly surprised that the rez accent was included here. You don't hear rez accents as strongly with younger people but you definitely hear it more with older generations.
I think there was a large shift by parents in 1980s/1990s to have their kids “speak better English” by losing accents. A lot of it is the stigma placed on having accents by the majority population. I personally think we should embrace our accents as it makes us who we are and our connections to our heritage languages.
@@williampacheco7767 I agree!
@@williampacheco7767 Definitely, I agree that we should keep it since it's now very much a part of our identity.
As a white person who doesn't really know much about it, I think it's fascinating hearing about that and it leaves me wanting to know more.
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I love how he's loosing his mind over some of these accents while I'm just sitting here confused at why he is until I remember he's british.
Who is watching this and forgetting how you normally speak? 😂
The opposite for me. I tend to think that I don't have much of a Chicago accent and then I realized that I pronounce my vowels all shifted like he says we do.
@@maddwitch haha nice
Whatcha talkin aboot?
As someone from Buffalo my mind was blown. I realized my A's are kind of weird lol
@@maddwitch I'm over here thinking I don't have much of a New Orleans accent, but then I find myself saying "Dat" and "Yat" alot
The grim look on Luka face when he hears about the European effects on the Native American people breaks my heart. The lad seems like a really good guy who has a lot of empathy for others.
That's the problem guilting white people the world over. You saw his body language when the first black woman came on talking about kidnapped africans and colonizers??? Purposeful accusatory language used.
@@monember2722 Funny that I saw empathy and you saw a problem. 😜
@@SeanShimamoto I think Luka is surprised at some of the problems from our past that are not widely known, even here. Imagine if he were told about the Japanese Americans put in internment camps (A euphemism for concentration camps used since we didn't intend genocide which does not change what they were.) during WWII. We have far more people of German heritage, but they were trusted. Whatever Mon says, it's not about guilting people. My ancestors were being abused by the English (including being told not to speak Gaelic, and only English) when the Tribal Americans were driven off their land onto the least valuable unfarmable land. That doesn't mean I should ignore that as I consider how they are currently fighting new laws that require street addresses, not PO Box addresses on official IDs (like a driver's license) to vote. They don't have a mail truck go around the reservation delivering mail. They are understandably untrusting of any kind of government vehicle roaming the reservations. So the mail is dropped off at one place, Thus the PO Box addresses. Your license should be a confirmation of your mailing address when needed. Since they police themselves, a state id should not tell those off the reservation where each member lives. This would once again (for the zillionth time) break the deals we made with the Tribes. When I vote I want to keep that in mind. I consider the logic of honoring our agreements, not my white guilt over President Andrew Jackson's genocidal policies. While sad, I wasn't there. I can only inform myself through reading and raise my children with the same curiosity and scruples that my parents instilled in me.
@@jdice6868 I’m not sure what you perceived my original comment to be, but judging by your response, it was very different from my perception of my own thoughts.
Firstly, Luka has remarked, on many occasions, how awful Europeans have been to the rest of the world...and each time he watches one of these videos, he makes those comments when he sees the horrible effects of European colonization, and i would never even suggest that it was his first time learning that fact, or if his reaction is because the video was just a reminder of something he had already known. All I know is that in the current state of our country, where there seem to be so many bad Caucasian Americans...when I see a Caucasian person exhibiting what I perceive as empathy, I’m going to point it out. This is a 19-year old man who regularly exhibits compassion, keeps an open mind, and wants to learn about everything and anything...and he’s the kind person I want to keep encouraging, and hopefully when he has kids of his own, he’ll pass on those positive traits. BTW, I never even remotely implied anything about guilt...and I’ve never gotten the impression from Luka that he harbours any guilt from his ancestors’ actions...you and Mon brought that up.
Secondly, I don’t know what kind of person you think I am, but judging by your response, it’s definitely not the kind of person that I actually am. I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i...and on the weekends I was raised by my mom’s best friend, who was Native Hawaiian, and she taught me and my brother about Native Hawaiian traditions, culture, cuisine, etc. and I took it upon myself to learn about Hawaiian History, the history that isn’t taught in American History...including the atrocities that Caucasian Americans committed, including staging a coup and taking down the Hawaiian Gov’t and Hawaiian monarchy, and imprisoning Queen Liliuokalani and illegally annexing the Hawaiian Islands in 1898. And my learning continued with Native American History and African American History...all three histories have left me in tears, so I know that the pain that all three have is vastly and unimaginably worse.
Thirdly, as a gay 5th gen Japanese American, I’ve always hated when people treat all gay men as a monolith, and hated when people treat all Japanese as a monolith. So I don’t do that to other groups and races. Yes, Caucasian people have done horrific things in the past, and there are still a lot of horrific Caucasian people in this world...but there are also a lot of really good Caucasian people in this world, friends that I know would give their lives for me. While I think it’s very important to call out the worst Caucasians, I also think it’s very important to point out and support the best Caucasians...if I can do that with my own people (I went months w/o talking to my own grandma after she made a racist comment about my African American gf at the time...and I only started talking to her again AFTER she took the time to get to know my gf. Spoiler alert: she ended up adoring my gf), I do that across the board.
Lastly, I wasn’t exactly thrilled to have someone telling me about concentration camps as though I had never heard of them...after all, my last name is Japanese, and I’m 100% Japanese, and my last name is so Japanese that it’s the name of a town in Japan...but on top of that, my relatives were rounded up and put in those concentration camps.
@@monember2722 but that’s what happened though? It’s history and it’s documented. Ain’t no more sugar coating.
I’m from the Midwest, and my fiancé is from New Zealand. He’s literally always saying I have all my vowels swapped around wrong and I’ve always said I don’t. Then I watch then and he says I have my vowels all swapped around and I do sound like that lol
This guy has a video on those accents also - and NZ pronounces their vowels are super weird and unique even from Aus. So, you may not have them swapped at all ;)
Thing is, Kiwi accents have a chain swap going on too, so neither of you do it right.
I’m so glad you’ve continued to react to this series.
It’s a such a more accurate portrait of American English than that 50 people video that so many you tubers react to.
There is a Part 3 coming he says. I am glad you found it.
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I'm waiting for the Northern California accent.
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@@mholtebeck I've seen a few videos by this linguist, and he touched briefly on NorCal in one of them. It was honestly difficult to hear it as anything but normal to me since that's what I grew up with. My parents were from California as well (Oakland and Bakersfield), and from before modern Western Valley or City accents were much of a "thing" as they are today. But when I moved to Alaska in my senior year of high school everyone claimed I had a "Californian" accent; I just couldn't hear it! Slang and grammar differences, perhaps, but not particularly an accent. So strange to be nearly blind to your own sound!
I'll spoil the southern california one a little: You've definitely heard all of them in movies. The names differ, but you can call them "dude," "valley girl," and "cholo."
And “ranch”! Don’t forget “ranch“ “Or shewd I seh reanch?” (Central Valley CA ag accent).
@@m.m.i.9586 OMG 😳 That sounds like a bad merger of a North Carolina and a Wisconsin accent
@@nicomars7836 Yeah, there are lots of people, and it's pretty big. Get out more.
Edward- it's Okie in the CV, particularly in the Southern end, but somewhat blurred since the Dustbowl great migration during the 1920s-40s.
@@m.m.i.9586 I'm from the Central Valley. There's no such accent. Hollywood and TV like to pretend people in the Central Valley are somehow southerners planted in the middle of California. The only "Central Valley ag accent" is Mexican.
This dude laughing at southern accents like Brits don't say "You wot? That's somfink innit" and think they're still speaking English.
That f for th sor’afing (sort of thing) in some British accents really sticks out to me ever since I watched the britcom ‘Chef’.
Cracks me up how Brits from some areas really cannot seem to pronounce 'th' but rather use that 'f' sound or even more often, the 'v' sound, as in brover (brother) or anover (another)!
IKR😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@allenhuling598 True. I remember watching an old DanIsNotOnFire video where he was calling for Phil, and the l became a "w" like "Phiiiwwwwl". Threw me off for a hot minute.
@Reynz J seems you missed English class.
That term you were thinking of I believe is “drawl” commonly referred to in pop culture as Southern drawl. Maybe 🤔 haha - btw you’re effin awesome !!
It is. However, the more east you go, the thicker the accent is. Like Southeast Texas? Sometimes it is a serious challenge.
Utah has a incredibly high English ancestry. Many of which came from England in the mid-1800s.
Luka says, "Bro...where were the words?" I understood it.
Every once in a while my Minnesota accent pops out - surprises even me 😂
From Mn but have been in NC for over 15 years and when I drink it comes out. My friends make me say bag and vague over and over again.
I wouldn't trade my MN accent for anything
It’s funny how some US accents can develop characteristics and sounds similar to UK and Irish accents
of course. America used to be part of Britain and the british/irish/scottish emmigrated to the new world in droves. They say the southern accent is what the british accent sounded like in the 17th century. Europeans who settled in the Minnesota area came from Scandinavia and have retained scandinavian type accents. Louisiana was a french colony and people there still speak creole french.
@@anastasia10017 Yup, it's crazy to think about it but American accent is closer to colonial accent than British. The rhoticity has been lost in Britian, a huge factor that makes up the Bri'ish accent.
@@anastasia10017 I've heard reconstructions of 17th Century English and colonial accents and they sound like the Down East / Hoi Toider accents prevalent in far east NC and Okracoke, Tangier, and Smith Islands ... and used to be heard among lobstermen in Eastern coastal Maine.
There is a small island in the chesapeake VA area that is rather remote and I have heard that because they are so cut off, that the small population there has retained a 17th century British accent. I have heard that language specialists study the folks from that island. The Australians will also have retained the british accent from centuries past due to the british colonization and their habit of shipping all their criminals down under. Although the aussies seem to have developed a twang that the americas did not.
American Southerners also retain a lot of british turn of phrases, idioms and expressions that are commonly used in England today but are not heard in Northern US states or used by yankees.
They should have talked about the Spanglish, it's hilarious. My mom says mcdonal instead of McDonald's😂
Probably will in part 3
I speak fluent spanglish 😂
My mom once macdonald and it threw me in for a loop 😂
@Brandon Esquivias Don't worry that should be noticed in California's part lol.
My grandparents say wal-mar and forget the "t" entirely. We're from Colorado too so we don't use hard "t" in our words up here either. It might be Spanish influence.
Well, he nailed the cajun accent prevalent here in new orleans. Louisiana accents change by county and area.
You mean "Parishes" right? Louisiana doesn't have counties.
@@complexdevice that’s kinda like how Alaska’s are called Boroughs
New Orleans accent isn't Cajun. There are some influences due to migrations, but the New Orleans dialect is primarily French Creole, derived from the early French settlers and later Haitians. New Orleans also has a distinctive Black dialect which defers from the general Yat dialect.
Our “counties” aren’t called counties they are called parishes.
@@complexdevice Yeah its a French hangover, that originates from the Catholic church. We have Parishes, not counties.
Minnesota accents are similar to Scandinavian accents.
I’m from Minnesota and I didn’t know I had an accent until I went to New York for a trip
Love their accent lol. I'm from NY
@@naimahussen7480 Same here. I moved to Texas two years ago and I get a lot of people asking me where I'm from based off my accent. Never really thought about the way I spoke until moving down here.
@@naimahussen7480 Yeah, I'm from the Chicagoland area, and I've never thought of myself having an accent, but my relatives in Tennessee would disagree. I don't know if I can say that I have a Chicago accent though. I think the true Chicago accent is dying out in favor of just a general Midwestern accent like you'd hear on TV.
@@Vortex1988 very true. It does seem to be a dying accent
I'm from New Orleans and whenever I visit other states they think I'm from New York. It's weird because not all parts of the state speak with that accent, just the New Orleans area. So it probably does have to do with being major port city like New York with a similar mix of immigrants.
Nice to meet another person from my city! 🤣🤣🤣
My mom's from New Orleans and sometimes she sounds like she's from New York 😛
Yeah, for YEARS I thought Emeril Lagasse was from Brooklyn & when I found out he was from Louisiana my mind was like 😱🤯
Meanwhile I'm a born and bred new yorker and I've had people ask me a few times if I'm from the south. Like Tennesse or even Texas. I'm like ???? no??? Why would you say that?
@@Dhi_Bee actually he grew up in Fall River MA so he might have a Providence area accent.
That Utah mountain and button thing is also very common in Colorado. Sometimes we also replace single t’s with a d sound to make “water” sound like “wadder.” In extreme cases we might even drop the t from “water”, making it sound more like “wa-er”.
I'm from Louisiana and my grandmother has that type of accent where she pronounces words like "work" as "woik".
Me, from Rochester: Shhhiiiiit, he's right. My vowels are WEIRD....
Me, from Syracuse: I've heard maybe two people talk like that in my life.
@@1000g2g3g4g800999 Me, grew up near Syracuse and lived most of my life near Buffalo...nah, don't hear it.
I think I have a very mild version of it here in Buffalo. My As are definitely longer and I have a tendency to turn Es and Os into As. Like "lot" is "laaht" "egg" is "ayeg"
@@David-un4cs Hm, it's possible. A friend of mine who moved to WNY from Alabama pronounces "Don" and "Dawn" the same, such that I used to confuse the former for the latter - while I, a lifelong upstate New Yorker, pronounce the former very clearly like "Dahn".
Yeah Im suprised they even mentioned rochester in this series.
I was massively surprised when you picked up the “Minnesota” (also Milwaukee-ish) accent close to an Irish accent as they share some features in common. I spoke to a lovely woman from Dublin, then moved to Manchester, and she quite enjoyed spending time in the city. Manchester English is also said to be a near-American sounding accent to people that live in this area :D
This was so fun watching you experience this. I'm from Utah. Utah had a huge emigration movement from Britain, so that's why we sound similar. Also, you're spot on thinking Minnesota sounds Irish. A lot of Irish immigrated to that area.
I found it incredibly interesting that you couldn't understand that Cherokee English. No judgment from me because there are definitely English accents I can't understand, but that one was super clear for me.
Oklahoma representing! That voice clip that you couldn’t understand is definitely Okie 😂. I love this land. However, the land run brought a bunch of Irish settlers because it was during the same time they were losing their land so the Oklahoma dialect is a mix of Native American and Irish.
As a Louisianian I'm glad to see the Cajun accent get some attention! It's a beautifully unique accent, if not absolutely unintelligible to those unfamiliar with it.
Born and raised in New Orleans, LA and my parents were born in FR. Cajun is very difficult, but there are many more variations of cajun french accents with a southern twist.
As someone from california, our accents are all over the place 😂
My cousins, who live up in the northwestern part of California, say "crick" instead of creek. They actually lived in Willow Crick.
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Uh, I don't really agree. I am not the most well traveled, but I wouldn't say the differences are enough to be recognizable accents.
Most cajuns aren't gonna say there they will say Der instead. Like hey han me dat pole from ova der. Hand me that pole from over there. Grew up in Louisiana cajun French is beautiful.
"Shoot dat gata right der between da eyes."
@@F28aj choot em
Lol
@@brittywren2877 thank you for having a damn sense of humor
The movie Drop Dead Gorgeous, with Kirsten Dunst and Amy Adams, has some great Minnesotan accent parodies with varying degrees of accuracy if anyone wants a laugh.
And in Austin, TX we don't have a southern accent whatsoever. Part of why people from elsewhere refer to Austin as "not Texas".
I agree! I’m from Dallas and my friend is from Austin and she always says I have an accent but she doesn’t haha
Saw the original video in my feed, waited for the this reaction to see it through 😁.
Totally! It is way more fun to watch this stuff on this channel than the original sources.
I’ve been waiting for part 2 to drop for a long time! I’m glad you finally glad you got to watching, now I can’t wait for part 3!
"Check it oot here." He outed himself as a Canadian.
You mean "oat" and oated
@@edwardmiessner6502 Yeah, I guess "oat" is what he said...more general Canadian and Minnesotan. "Oot" is thick Canadian.
@@Bob-jm8kl no one in Canada says oot or aboot. Those are features of some Scottish accents. The only people who do say that in Canada are making fun of the stereotype. Canadian raising is more like a cross between saying oat and aboat and the way an American might say out and about.
@@raynemichelle2996 No one is a lot of people not doing something. I've heard the oot from Canadians I know. I've also heard oat and out. I'm in MN and oat and out are both common. A lot of dialectical difference nowadays is urban vs rural or older vs younger.
@@Bob-jm8kl I don't believe you have heard oot "seriously" from a Canadian. Not that I've met every Canadian, but most of the people I know are Canadians and the only time I've heard it said that way is in making fun of the stereotype, like JJ McCullough does, for example. Perhaps the people you know are just taking the piss.
I'm dead, i saw this right around when you posted this and thought 'oh luka will have a reaction to this soon!', the timing is incredible 😂
I thought the same thing! Lol
My family is from New Orleans by way of Donaldsonville and Lemannville, LA. My mom pronounce Oil...Earl. and my wife family is Fench Creole from Lafayette LA. He is pretty spot on with the Louisiana accents
Lol and call points “pernts”
You ever hear the good old "hey dea paadna" meaning "hey there partner"
I love your videos! I feel like i’m watching these educational and fascinating videos with a pal! lol
Love your channel bro! Supporter for life, about to set up patron
When Erik Singer did the Minnesotan lip movements, it brought me back to my childhood when I would just watch how much the pastor’s lips would move while I didn’t pay attention to the sermon, lol! And these pastors were old, white Minnesotan men so them and the rest of the congregation really had the accent, which was always charming to hear.
seeing my accent (chicago) explained and analyzed this deeply is so weird omg lol he's doing a pretty strong chicago accent but that's how most of my vowels sound especially a and o
it also depends on what side of the city you live.........southern parts of Chicago are much stronger in the pronunciation than the northern parts.
and then you have me with the Michigan accent looking at this and going "we have that, and that, and that..." here we have so many different parts of every flavor of English no wonder no one understands us
@@jacklewis5452 oh for sure, i come from big southside irish families on both parents sides so a lot of my relatives really sound like that lol
@@bessc3358 “oh for sure”, definitely a midwesterner...
@@pigboy69420 lmao u got me
I'm from south Louisiana and when I was in the military a lot of people thought I was from New York. My roommate correctly heard the French influence and told me I had the thickest French accent he'd ever heard. People south of us have a way thicker accent than we do though, lol.
I remember thinking that watching The Green Mile. Of course, that's just a movie, so who knows how accurate it is.
I’m from Milwaukee, we sound much more like Minnesota in this video than Chicago...the vowel shifting is wild!! I never thought of it like that
Most people in Chicago sound more like the guy in the videos main voice/accent
I just felt so dumb cuz I’m Texan and was like is he even doing an accent? He sounds normal? AND THEN REALIZED THATS BECAUSE ITS OUR ACCENT BAHAHAHAHA god I’m impressed really
I’m really intrigued with how the dialect coach positioned his book ends in the shelves behind him. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it done that way before. His bookends are hands seemingly pushing the books. Normally, you’d have left bookend/books/right bookend. But he has on one shelf, left bookend/books/divider, and on the shelf below it’s divider/books/right bookend. That’s interesting I like that
Autistic for noticing?
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 ignorant for saying something so stupid?
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 wth man
Wth are u doing here?
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Seriously dude? Why?
Love this series. There's a podcast called the History of English that goes into a lot of this as well, but it starts in Proto-Indo-European, and three years on it's still only up to the great vowel shift in Shakespearean times that this guy spoke of.
I heard a theory that a lot of people who settled in the southern US came from a certain area of England which still used the old Anglo-Saxon dipthongs of AE in their pronunciations, and that's why the southern accents pronounce words with the long A sound like AE.
Areas of Appalachia conserve aspects of earlier, pre-Received Pronunciation British accents.
One of the other things that us michiganders tend to do is add s's to everything. Kroger's, meijer's, family video's for some odd reason we add a lot of possessives to business names.
I'm from Los Angeles and I just realized I say mountain and button without pronouncing the T 🤯🤯
Man, it’s not a mystery about New Orleans’ accent. The white accent at least (with about 12 variations in the 60 mile radius) comes primarily from the Italian and Irish combinations which flooded New Orleans around the same time as NYC. They were the two largest concentrations of those populations in the late 1800’s.
No kidding. I lived in Chalmette when I was very young. I never acquired the accent, but if I hear it anywhere out in the wild I will stop the person and ask "Chalmette?" and I've never been wrong lol
@@Amy-bl8sp my ex-wife was Chalmatian, but she would always tell people outside the area she was from New Orleans. There is no mistaking that distinct sound, you’re right!
@@NOLAgenX I can usually guess NOLA area accents in general, but Chalmette is the only place I can nail down exactly. I wonder why it's so distinctive. I have many relatives from around NOLA but I can't pick out a specific neighborhood/suburb except Chalmatian.
What does it sound like if you take an Irish accent and mix it with an Italian accent = New York City! ;)
@@mimimonster it’s also a matter of time and development, as he says in the video for part 1. Included in this 3 city compilation is also Providence, and he lists the exact same background.
Living in Michigan my whole life and working in Detroit, I don't typically hear the vowel shift he says is so strong in Detroit. When he was doing that accent, it just sounded like upstate New York to me, and a bit like a Yooper.
Yeah, I live in Grand Rapids and while I do hear occasional examples of this, especially with words like bag, it isn't particularly prominent, though I guess I hear it enough to not be too surprised that it is happening.
Yes, I don't think it is very strong in Michigan. Maybe the word bagel in a few people. Or maybe fir inplace of for. I have caught myself saying "I'm using that fir.."
@@alboyer6 Yeah, that particular one is pretty widespread around here, too. I think it's less replacing the o sound with an i sound, however, than just leaving the vowel out altogether.
Luka thanks for always making my day.
Finally been waiting for part 2! Thanks
I think a lot of people who watch your videos are American, like me, and I think it would be cool to see the differences between different areas in Britain.
Jimmy Carr does some good British accent videos.
I saw a video some time ago (which I really wish I could direct you to, but I would have no way of easily tracking it down all this time later) which went over English accents…
But what was very interesting about it is that it went over these old-ass archived vinyl recordings of people talking in their different dialects from around England from ~100 years ago, compared to today.
If memory serves me right, these recordings were taken of men enlisted in the military in World War I.
The video not only went over the nuances between the accents, but also _WHY_ they talked differently...
For example, one accent would be of someone from a region that was very cold and windy, so they had to talk with their mouth as closed as possible to keep the air warmer inside their mouths for their lungs to breathe in. This caused them to barely move their mouths, and obviously made their words much more difficult to make out for outsiders.
Some accents were/are much more sing-songy than others - the range was phenomenal.
What is really sad about it is that so much of these different accents/dialects are very watered down or disappearing altogether now, and some are downright _GONE,_ as globalization has marched on. :(
The King’s/Queen’s EngIish (it depends on who is sitting on the throne atm as to which version it is called - currently it would be the Queen’s English with Queen Elizabeth on the throne) is one of such dialects that is dying out fast.
Perhaps, if that video sounds interesting to you, you might be able to track it down using key words that I have mentioned (i.e. “old English/British accents of military men/WWI enlisted historical archived vinyl recordings” etc). I’m too lazy to try and do it atm lol; especially if I don’t know if you’d even care that much to bother watching 😉).
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 That's really cool. I wish I could see that. And it would be interesting to see Luka do a video on something like this.
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I just took forever editing my comment… right after I finished, I hit refresh, and you had already responded haha. You’re quick!
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Haha, thanks
He said that you really only hear the dropping of the Ts (like in mountains) in Utah and parts of California, which isn't entirely true. A younger person from Colorado here and everyone I know who grew up here drops the T. My parents don't because they're from Wisconsin and New Jersey, but the entire younger generation in Colorado drops their Ts as far as I've seen.
FYI, if you want you can get your own dialect / ideolect analysed, and a vowel chart can be produced just for you
WHAT?! From where?
how?
Explain more :)
yes i wanna know too
@@mbdg6810 There's a program called Praat that is used to analyze formants and stuff using speech samples. Someone skilled in the program can take the samples of your speech, specifically vowels in this case and analyze the spectograms and other graphs to get a detailed picture of the formants in each vowel sound. Using some math and phonetics one can use a program called R to produce a vowel chart using that data. Both praat and R are free, but you'd need someone that knows what they're doing with it to get anything out of it. I'm most definitely not that person, but I might know some people who could be able to do that.
I enjoy your reactions a great deal.
This guy is great. I especially like that he can explain things and then vocally demonstrate.
I'm looking forward to part 3 - because there are so me very interesting regional variations in the west.
That 'ae' symbol is called 'ash' and represents the "trap vowel" Erik talked about - as in trap, cat, ash.
It's only one vowel if you have the bath/trap merger
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I love this series too. It really is interesting. My dad was actually originally from Indiana and moved to California when he was little. So his accent was influenced by his parents and his environment. My husband was raised in Texas but went through speech therapy as a child by someone not from Texas so he is the only one in his family without a Texas or Louisiana accent. His father was raised by Louisiana parents in Texas. My husband and I have moved from California to Iowa as adults so it doesn’t really affect our accents but has changed some of our phrases and terms for certain things. Most people probably don’t move around the country so much but I’m sure movements like this also affect individuals’ accents. Keep it up! 👍🏻
I never really thought about how weirdly people from where I’m from pronounce certain words, like mountain. We pronounce it as moun-in. I think we also tend to drop t’s or d’s at the end of words.
West Coast?
Yep, this is a great series, Lav, glad you introduced me to it!
The Utah one is similar to your British accent maybe because the majority of Utah is English descending
funny cuz im from upstate ny, not far from where mormonism started, and we say mount in and butt in. wedont have a hard stop though in between, its just pronounced as if its spelled “mountin’ and buttin’ “
@@caterpillakilla That’s interesting. The Utah/Colorado region has that weird pronunciation all over the accent. Mountain sounds like mou-in with the guttural stop at the “-“, and even in extreme cases water can sound like wa-er with a slight, but not nearly as distinct guttural stop.
That "New York" accent is actually Astoria, Queens, (Archie Bunker from All in the Family) as well as Hoboken NJ, and New Orleans (Confederacy of Dunces). Why so far apart? It's derived from Irish sailors.
Or you could just watch every Coen Bros movie and hear each region represented. They focus on a different region for each movie.
I watched the first and say you reacted. So happy to watch both reactions and hope he continues. Your videos are great to watch during this pandemic!
I kind of wish they cut to Black accents in New Orleans because Black people from there have a totally different accent than white people from there. Like... it’s a huge difference if you look it up lmao. A lot of South central and southeastern/south Atlantic accents are heavily inspired by French, British, and other European accents.
18:25, I was so glad Thurnston picked up that his speech also removes the " T" sound in Norwich.
I am literally in the "vowel shift" region and I'm not sure I've ever heard it to the extent that this guy was saying... But I have heard people say "beg" instead of "bag" and "baggle" instead of "bay-gull" for "bagel" ...And I hate it. I am begging you not to put the "baggle in the beg" please just put the bagel in the bag.
I live in the vowel shift region, too, and no one around here has an accent as thick as his. I don't know if I've heard "bag" as "beg," but I have heard some people pronounce "egg" as "aig." I also know someone who puts Ls in words that don't have it (e.g. saying "drawling" when they're actually talking about "drawing").
@@Counterpoint1951 I'm pretty sure I've heard "drawring" and "drawling"along with "warsh"
@@ohifonlyx33 One of my old teachers said "warsh," too; as a kid I found that pretty funny. I encountered it again many years later at my job.
I'm in that area too and was worried that I just lived in a weird outlier since I've Never heard it the way he was doing it before. I did see some other comments claiming that they spoke exactly like that, although I'm hoping they're from closer to the east coast for it since I'm solidly midwest and rarely encounter those kinds of pronunciations.
I'm pretty sure the only people who talk like that are senior citizens.
Erik's videos are so great, they legitimately make me wish I studied linguistics in college.
I have a friend who is a dialect coach for movies and yeah when we get on this subject it’s just fascinating
I’m from san antonio in Texas but I’m hispanic so while I say ya’ll I have that more “generic american” with an occasional “tex mex” way of speaking that has combined southern Texan English with Mexican Spanish
Same ! Kinda disappointed they didn't go over that in their video
Thanks for checking this out man!
They really use the word latinx 😂
Gives away why she is so fluff and no substance in her segments- totally disconbected from REAL NORMAL AMERICAN LATINO CULTURES.
You want to earn a hard side eye and disgusted sounds? Say Latinxxxxxx around anybody in the real world.
@@seaneendelong8065 normal? Get lost, bigot
Whats wrong with saying latinx?
@@Cory_Springer It's just messing with grammar. "Latino" is term that comes from the Spanish word for "Latin American". And the plural is in the masculine form even if there is only one guy in the entire group of Latino people. Itall comes down to grammar and English speakers not understanding that all other languages use gender for their nouns. They could just call us Latin-American, Hispanic, or people with meso-American blood and other stuff with parents from Spaniosh-speaking countries.
Just translate "Latino" to English and presto! Gender-neutral "Latin-American", "Hispanic", English speakers forgetting their own language is genderless.
You shouldn't have to put "Latin" and replace the o with a latin plural x. That's simply moronic and unnecessary. We already have a word for Latino and it's Latin-american, where it derived from. And it's mostly those from the Spanish speaking countries. who still live there presently, that make a bigger fuss over this because how much "Latinx" is used is blown out of proportion to them compared to those of us who were either born here and raised here and those who've actually lived here.
LatinX is just some people with masters degrees or higher say. Regular people with tan skin and north/south american spanish speaking heritage don't use it unless they're really trying to appear woke.
Glad you like this series; can't wait for Part 3!
That lady in the beginning looks effing crazy
The lady who refers to Latino and Latina as Latinex, right?
She has the crazy eyes. Thats a red flag and also "latinx" sounds like a tissue brand.
It looked like she was going to lose it at any second
I thought the same thing! I had to skip her stuff because I just couldn't withstand her extreme facial expressions.
I have never noticed a similarity between the Minnesota and Irish accents but you are so right about that! As soon as you said it I heard it and now I can’t stop hearing it!
That girl in the red sweatshirt is WAY to facially expressive when she speaks. Very intense
Yes bro :D been waiting for part 2, this video was so good
I always thought Oklahoma looked like a rusty cleaver.
I’ve been waiting so long for this video! Yay!!!
Edit: I need part III soon 🥺🥺🥺
*_I don’t think I’ve ever watched a UA-cam video with no dislikes. I almost want to click it just to know it was me..._*
Well there’s one now. I blame you.
This comment aged well
I see this comment right after 2 dislikes are shown
I see such videos all the time, man. You must only subscribe to large channels.
I so excited for part 3, which starts in my homeland. I'm thrilled to anticipate Chicano English, which I hear so rarely since I live in a very different region now.
Now that I live in Chicago, I found his version of the Chicago accent very amusing and recognizable.
I'm not an expert on Minnesota, but I always associate that accent with the Nordic countries. I feel like you'd get a lot of Irish around Chicago, but I don't know the influences clearly.
my dad was born and raised in northern utah and my mom was born and raised in southern california....I thought everyone pronounced mountain and button the same way where the t isn't enunciated because they're from such different areas with different accents
though, I've moved to a new state every 3-5 years so my accent itself is pretty muddied lol
Every time he did his examples of Price Smoothing I could just hear Matthew McConaughey saying “alright, alright, alright” 😂
"know it" is a very native american thing to say. my grandma (navajo) said it all the time.
Sorry, I can't watch these Wired videos because of the lady with the horrible speech impediment. What's the context for "know it"? So curious, but obvs, I don't want to bug you.
@@dianem8544 Which lady has the speech impedient? Maybe I'm just not very observant, but I don't recall any of them having a noticeable speech impediment.
@@avian1 Nicole Holliday.
@@dianem8544 ...I listened to her speak in the video again, but I really can't notice any speech impediment. I don't know what you're on about.
judging someone for a speech impediment in which they can't control is a pretty asshole thing to do anyway..
Luka I love your EPIC reactions😂 HUGS and Love
His Minnesota Accent is very off he is trying to emulate William H marcy's Accent in Fargo(he is not a native of the region) and his voice is was too high and his timing is to fast, Minnesotans have a sort of laconic pace when they speak.
Agreed. I'm from Minnesota and I've never heard anyone talk like that.
What about Rose Nyland on Golden Girls?
Agreed. I've several friends from Minnesota and he sounded nothing like them. I'm starting to lose faith in the authenticity of this guy.
I’m sure that your opinion is more accurate than a trained dialectic linguist.
@@jacklewis5452 Betty White is not from Minnesota, she is from Illinois, and was mixing a lot of Iowan and Wiscansin patois into her acting, at no point did she ever say anthing remotely correct for Minnesota aside from Scandanavian lutheran culture.
When he talks about the Rockies and -ing being pronounced like "een," the first person I thought of, perhaps strangely, was Bob Barker.
I've lived in Chicago half my life and I've never heard someone talk like that. Just sounds like Minnesota to me lol
we dont even sound like that either in minnasota
@@coreytaylor447 I'm probably just thinking of the over-the-top stereotypical accent then, maybe I was thinking of a Canadian accent idk
At least up until a couple of years ago, whoever did the pre-recorded announcements for Midway Airport could have come straight from The Super Fans.
I live in the Chicagoland area and I've never hear any talk like this.
@@smoothyoda3581 Yeah, the strongest accent i've heard here is like a faint Italian one
Fun Fact: I'm from the norf-east of England and took English Language with an accents module for my A-Levels. Loads of Brits absolutely use the glottal stop for our 'T's, you're right! We're getting meme'd to fuck about it about the moment though lmfao ('Bri'ish!') I wonder if there were a lot of English settlers in Utah or something.
The Chicago accent is a bit off. We say bag how he was saying it at first, not the lower a.
I thought the Chicago accent was off as well.
I thought several of his accents were off or he only addressed one accent in an area where there are a large number of accents. I’m from Charlotte, North Carolina, and there are seven distinct accents between the two Carolinas. Even the word egg is pronounced three different ways just in the greater Charlotte area alone.
I think he was exaggerating for effect, which is so unlike him. Usually he is good with the subtle changes from place to place. I thought both Chicago and Minnesota were a bit off.
@@dcmc7383 I don't think he has time in these videos to learn and detail every single American dialect, but general differences region to region.
Same. I feel like they watched the SNL super fans skit and based all their observations on that.
In Colorado we have a mix of very small features but are mainly monotonal. We don't pronounce our Ts ad will also say things similarly to Midwesterners like ope. But if you say MounTain here, it's weird because we just say moutin. (I purposefully misspelled that mountain to get how it sounded across)
I just roll my eyes every time someone uses the term latinx
Its cringey attempt at being PC
Me too. I just think it's stupid and I heard the Latinos/Latinas hate it too.
@@edwardmiessner6502 Miami girl here and yes! No one here likes it! It's so dumb
@@edwardmiessner6502 Latino/ latina is a stupid term.
Love your channel!
I like how people try to shove the term Latinx down our throats even though in a way it’s kinda bigoted against the Spanish language and culture to conform English language culture to the gendered language of Spanish.
Because they're trying to make a language politically correct, this has gone too far.
Latino is already a wrong term but whatever.
@@aquilescastro1794 How so?
@@aquilescastro1794 where are you from? Is that your actual name?
You should do the part 3!!!
Ay I'm from the Cherokee nation portion of Oklahoma, I'm even a tribal member.
Would you say your accent is sing songy?
@@raynemichelle2996 Its hard to say, people say I have a fairly tradtional southern accent but I don't hear it much. Many ogmf us oklahomans speak Okie our own version of english that I dont really know how to explain. I guess an example would be the way my sister says green which is "gurn".
This is what I studied in college. Every time I see Erik in my feed I always click his videos. I nerd out hard. You should read the comments on these videos...they're so funny
Hey Luka
My comment on their video I will also put here - I am tired of people flying over the Rocky Mountain region - Colorado has this same thing as Utah. I am originally from Wyoming but have been in Colorado so long that when I visit my cousins in Wyoming I notice the difference. They have a more Western Cowboy drawl (they are ranchers). This drawl is also in western Oklahoma. I really think they need to look at this whole region more. Also, to explain Minnesota and North Dakota, a lot of the accent is from Canada. That area of Canada was settled by Scots, so you were right about it sounding like that. The other influence is Scandinavia as many people from there settled in Minnesota and Wisconsin. My Scandinavian ancestors ended up in Wyoming instead.
I’m a Marylander but I go to college in Rochester and I’ve noticed I’ve started doing the vowel shift on some words since everyone says it that way. Crazy!
I'm a Marylander too living in Chicago. Hearing their accent is wild but how I pronounce words is starting to shift as well. Question, what do you think our Maryland accent sounds like?
How old are the people you're talking to who sound like that?
That glottal-stop in place of a T is pretty common throughout the U.S., especially in Pennsylvania.