Interview with a Maine Lobsterman
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2009
- At the Common Ground Country Fair in Maine, the OrganicNation.tv crew got a chance to talk with Ty Babb, a charming lobster fisherman from Tenants Harbor on the coast of Maine. In this video, Ty talks about sustainable fishing practices that help maintain a healthy lobster population. He also tells the story of the biggest lobster he's ever caught and reveals his favorite way to cook lobster!
Produced by Dorothee Royal & Mark Andrew Boyer
Special thanks to: Ty Babb, Carmen B. Cherry, Alex Steed, Zack Bowen & MOFGA
Music by Tom Schraeder & His Ego: myspace.com/tomschraeder
For more videos visit: www.OrganicNation.tv
At least now I know how every Stephen King character ever sounds. Ayuh.
Yup Judd Crandall from Pet Semetary and Warwick from Graveyard Shift are the two best examples.
This is exactly why I was looking for maine accents lol, oh ayuh.
OMG THATS WHY IM HERE TF
Same here! ☝️
Not all Mainers sound like this. Mostly costal towns
i like how this guy is a perfect example of how Mainers are pretty intelligent and pretty crazy
Undeah statement on the crazy there deah
@Your Average Trump Supporter I drive a Mercedes coupe and I love Maine. Lived in tennessee for 3 years and couldn't wait to move back home bub.
Skatergy You’re not wanted here skater boy. Who the fuck brags about driving a europeon pos in a state with 110inches of snow a year? And who do you call when you get that rwd nazi shitshack stuck in a ditch in the winter? An average “trump supporter in his big truck” asshole.
Yeahhhh where a different breed
Jeez’m dude
People are saying he sounds Australian; I've lived in Maine all my life and that's just kind of how people talk. There are also differs variations to the Maine accent.
The term you're looking for is "non-rhotic." I think they're a little more similar than that, though! Listen at 1:58...he says "And we hauled him up" with almost the exact same pronunciation that an Aussie would use.
+Jonah Loeb
I noticed that too, you really could hear that old Anglo origin in the accent there.
Not only that, but this guy could have lived in Australia for awhile and adopted dialect.. who knows
B Roko Nope, the New england accents Mother accent originates in East Anglia and came along with the Puritans who settled the region. Australias is as well though there were more accents than east Anglias so theirs is different.
Mackenzie Whethers very cool I didn’t know that! I’m born and raise in NE
This guy's accent is incredible. Sucks that regional accents are disappearing across the US
I think its pathetic everyone wants to sound like they are from California . even people in the south are losing their accent .
the 'carpetbaggers' as the old timers used to call them have been moving to Virginia for decades so the accents are being phased out.
although, New England *understandably* isn't quite as welcoming to outsiders that relocate to their area.
John Doe , i would agree with that.
John Doe yeah nah man i live in Austin texas and i'm none of those. Quit generalizing
What I find strange is my whole family speaks with a southern accent (were from southern Ohio) yet I never got the southern accent (except for a few words) I just naturally acquired the general American accent
Wow, a rare sighting of a Maine Lobsterman. You can see the human genes are much stronger than those of the lobster genes in this gorgeous little fella.
This guy obviously loves his job- really great interview.
Hes wicked good at it 👍
He's adorable.
Man, at times he sounds *really* English. He has clear elements of at least four (West Country, Yorkshire, East Anglia, West Midlands) different regional English accents in that video. Incredible haha!
@Eclipse538 Maryland and Pennsylvania aren't New England states.
Sounds American to me. Granted, I am from Maine, but I can hear the Maine accent. The stronger more English-y accents are more north. Pebnobscot is one of the more northern counties meaning his accent would be super light. I don't even hear one on him and I'm from the southern-most county meaning we have the most "standard" accents. He sounds like every other American to me really.
The upper class Boston Brahmin accent I think is much closer to modern British ( ua-cam.com/video/bXjU60a8dmI/v-deo.html )
@@kewkabe Wow! Yep, I have definitely met older English men who sound similar. I always find Meryl Streep intriguing too - She has a real mid-Atlantic accent.
@@jackward9901 Delaware Valley English?
he just cracked open a fucking cooked lobster right in front of a live one - absolute savage
Lol
Lobster fisherman😜
Matricide!!!!???
That's how you keep them in line.
I was born and raised in Maine.When people ask me if I've lived here all my live,I just tell them,nope,not yet! You should their expressions!
I worked for so many years to cover my accent to sound more "american" instead of sounding like a hillybilly from Lubec/Millinocket area but lately I've given up trying to cover it up.
My heart was renewed for the accent one day when I heard two small children arguing over some construction workers.
Kid 1: whata they doin ovah theyah?
Kid 2: they fixin the road ya numma. 😂😂
I killed my Appalachian accent when I left Kentucky. It made it easier to find work. There’s still nothing more nostalgic than people who sound like home.
It's a cool accent; don't try to hide it! It's similar to some UK accents, which sound lovely!
@@elijahculper5522 why? Regional accents are so cool, they're unique. Better than having a generic ass standard accent.
Make Rome Great Again
I was in high school when I left the state. The bullying in school from both students and teachers was really rough. And it wasn’t easy to find an after school job. Everyone just assumed I was stupid because of how I spoke. It took me about a semester to make myself sound pretty generic and i was able to get hired as a waiter and some of the bullying slowed down. When I’m around my family or when I get angry, my accent comes back. But I code switch for work and school.
This is the most New England video I've ever seen.
I feel kinda bad for the two live lobsters at 2:57 that are watching their boiled brethren get cracked open before their eyes.
Lobster 1: "There goes Jerry. He was a good guy."
Lobster 2: "Ayuh."
Is there any greater word than "ayuh" ?
lol
That made me think of Pet Semetary, lol
haha just remember that lobsters are very nasty creatures that eat their own babies and each other
When it comes to catching lobsters, this guy really is the…
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Maine man
🤌
I had a drill sergeant who talked just like this and everyone literally just though he had a speech impediment. Seeing it's an actual accent is mindblowing.
His name is TY Bab he is originally from Port Clyde Maine i went to Georges Valley High School with him
ayuh!
I must be use to my accent, I didn't even notice his. I was to busy drooling over the cooked lobstah! 😋🦞
Just a bowlah chowdah!
I’m from Maine I WISH I had this heavy of a accent mines a very mild version of this
What a fascinating accent! As an Australian, I thought I could hear some Aussie accent mixed in too. For example, at around 2:00 when he says ‘and we hauled him up, and he was all crusty’ that to me sounded very Australian
It's stems from the West Country in the UK, so it probably has some similarity to Australian, and Birmingham in the UK.
Maybe this is what aussies would sound like if Australia was cold
1:58
As another Australian, this guy sounds like he's from Boston. With the way he says "lot" and "all" and even "lobster" it sounds like "lawt", "awll", "lawbstuh".
I can sorta see what you mean by when he said crusty, it might be a muscle thing, Australians are supposed to not use a couple of soft muscles in the mouth/throat and that's hard for other accents to learn how to do, while easy for us to do theirs, because it's harder to unlearn something than it is to learn something.
@@unfortunateobserver1244 well the guy is from Maine not from boston, I say this because people from Maine and other parts of New England really don’t like people from boston
I love Maine, this guy is adorable!
What an awesome accent! I could listen to him recite every word in the dictionary and i'd be entertained! Not to mention he's adorable and obviously very passionate about his job which is cool.
WHAT ACCENT??? I don't even hear one!
I love how he says Yeaaahhs for years. That's great!
Most DEFINITELY elements of South West England in those vowels!!
nope, east anglia. note the absence of rhotic Rs
I always thought that the accent originated from the West Country in England (Dorset, Summerset, Devon and Conrwall)
Yep! Spent all my summers growing up in Cornwall and he sounds just like the fishermen I'd meet. He has elements of a few UK accents, but West Country by far the strongest.
@@jackward9901 Actually, I think Coastal Virginia and parts of Maryland have regional accents that are much closer to the English accents.
Wicked proud Mainer, he-yah, now living in exile on the South. This makes me so homesick. Thanks for the video.
And I left North Carolina for Maine, the south is like a whole other nation
They try to train the New England accents out in school. The accents are fading and retreating east and north. I call it (the short for Robert) Bob (Bawb) line. I also heard someone from Maine complain she was corrected for pronouncing shark (shaak) when in school. I also remember my neighbor, who was raised in Vermont and died in 1975, answering in the affirmative, ayep. You don't hear that anymore in Vermont to my knowledge. People in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the defenders of the accent. They have the thickest accents and I can't see them changing. I remember calling someone in Seekonk MA in search of a little tech support. He explained the bolt was "shot". I thought he mean broken. He said, "no Bawb, shot not lawng."
This fisherman is awesome! Love that he understands the cycle of life in what he takes and leaves❤️
I’m from Connecticut and this reminds me of how many fisherman and boaters would talk, from Montauk to Boston.
He's REALLY cute.
Next time you're enjoying a lobster roll, you can thank this guy for it. up at 3am every morning for the days steam to the grounds.
Man talking about his lobsters and people in comments talking about his accent 😂.
I'm here for the lobstah!!
I came here to hear a Maine accent, which I love, and learned about lobsters, which Maine people love. It's a total win!
Unless that Maine person is me. In which case eating it will literally kill me because I'm extremely allergic.
Man I miss living in Maine and hearing these accents!
Come back!!
This accent is surprisingly much more like a southern British accent than anywhere else in the USA.
I thought he was kind of "slow" but he's just from Maine. 🤣
I don’t know whether to be angry at your comment or laugh. Oh well… I guess I’ll laugh 😂😂😂
The true farmers of the sea. I live in Maine and understand the true passion lobsterman and women have for their harvest.
those lobsters are having Vietnam flashbacks watching him crack a claw open lol
About 25 years ago when I was a young boy we caught some lobster pots in the rudder of my grandpas boat. My grandpa jumped in the freezing water and freed the ropes up. The lobsterman threw us a couple fresh lobster on the deck for saving his pots rather than cutting them free. We cooked up that lobster that night and it was the best shit I ever tasted.
That's awesome
Somehow I could imagine giant lobsters doing the same to humans and then interviewing each other while soothing acoustic music played in the background
Hes adorable
I love his accent. it's lovely to listen to!
It used to be that each town had a slightly different accent. If you are interested in linguistics and take the time to listen and learn you can still hear the slight differences between them.
new harbor accent is still alive and well
True that. I'm from Augusta originally, and I would say that I have an urban Maine accent, which is identifiable as a Maine accent but not as strong as others. I had a girlfriend from Windsor, 10 miles east of Augusta, and she had a stronger more farm-like accent and more readily identifiable as a classic Maine accent.
Ty.. So good to you and hear your voice! Miss you guys! Miss Maine!
I love his accent, one of the coolest in the USA. Next to Louisianna.
They're both influenced by their Acadian heritage.
I love the New England accent too, closes American accent to English
I am here because I wanted to figure out the accent of the 76ers coach Brett Brown. I didn't know anything about him. First, my reaction was "is that some sort of U.K accent?" Then, I heard him saying he lived in Australia for many years but still it didn't sound Australian to me at all... maybe, a few sounds... Then, it said on Wikipedia that he was born and raised in Maine. I traveled to Vermont and Massachusetts but not further north. Being from NJ, I have never knew people from Maine have such a different accent but I love it.
Head Downeast. Very strong theyuh.
There she is mistah! anothah mainah comin at ya! Limerick Maine
I'm right in cornish bub!!!!
Im right in Hiram. Love Maine
I nearly lost it when he said the he knows where all the hungry lobsters are
Sounds english to me. Presumably most new englanders sounded like this in the former colonies, but Maine being pretty rural and remote kept its british roots. I remember watching a tv documentary about the "outer banks" islands of the carolinas, and they interviewed some fishermen who sounded just like they were from "cornwall", an english county in the south west. Same again, remoteness preserved they're accent.
this was very interesting. Someone who truly loves their job and life
I know next to nothing about this man yet would love to have an hour long conversation with him
He seems like a fun guy.
what a real guy xd
Maine is where Robert Pattinson got inspiration for the accent in the lighthouse.
Yer fond of me lobster aint ye?
Father told me, growing up they could eat all the lobster they wanted but could not afford the butter to dip them in.
My goodness, I read that this is taking place at common ground so I looked in the background, and dang it hasn’t changed in 12 years. I can’t wait to be back at the fair.
Even though I have lived in Maine for many years, this video was very entertaining. Thanks
best way to describe a maine accent: person with no accent sometimes drifts through boston and australian accents
Exactly what I thought
As a Mainer, I feel offended. He doesn't even have an accent. And I would know because I also don't have an accent. I sound like every other American and so does he.
@@VictorMatthieu I'm not surprised you don't hear it then. Everyone has an accent. Growing up in a lot of places in the u.s. his accent would be very odd.
@@liamsmith4018 I know, just making a joke lol
@@VictorMatthieu haha okay my bad
Edit: I completely forgot I made this comment! I actually do have a Maine or New England accent. I think it’s something I’ve always had and has just become stronger. My accent is mostly just a common “American” accent? But I pronounce my As like I’m about to say “Ack”. And I default to that really thick Mainer accent with certain phrases/words. (Ex. Wicked smart, car, accent). Sometimes its as a joke and sometimes it’s part of my speech! I used to say lobster like “labasta” as a joke and now I can’t stop.
Just want to say a quick thing about this man’s job, a lot of lobsters in Maine are dying from diseases and other things such as illegal fishing, so it’s actually noble to be a Lobsterman because people like him balance out lobsters and other sea creatures lives. As briefly mentioned, they don’t take in oversized lobsters, and they are very careful about how much they fish because it’s honestly important to Maine’s not only ecosystem but economy.
I live in Maine and to me the Down East lobsters are the tastiest. Maybe the colder water.
I needed to learn this for a book I'm reading. Thanks :D
The old swamp yankee new england accents were the best. My older relatives all have them, but no one in my generation does anymore! Shame.
This sounds like the Metro Boston accent combined with some of the accents you can hear in the Maritime provinces of Canada.
he's so happy
It's cool hearing this accent. I love Murder She Wrote, and she's from Maine and many of the people had the strangest way of saying things, but I loved how they'd say, Ayuh. It's so laid back and enjoyable to hear.
LOBSTAH
Love this. I’m from buxton Maine and really miss the culture
As I am born in maine, I truly wish that I had the maine accent. Me and my family moved when I was 3 to South Carolina, and that's when I started to speak, so I didn't develop the accent. I adore Russian, Scottish, british and Irish accents.
I was born and raised in Maine…that’s definitely a Maine accent.
I'm reminded of Dex from Omgcheckplease
Elizabeth Gatsby i came here to find out what a maine accent sounds like because of dex
I know this man personally! He's amazing at his job!
Would he let me buy him a beer?
@@jaspern.7702 if in same state and town ya he probably would lol
@@wudwu2012 Rad, I know Maine's a big state, but if he's ever in Bar Harbor, he has a free 6 pack with his name on it! I'll be working there for about 6 months starting early May.
@@jaspern.7702 Port Cylde isn't that far away lol
@@wudwu2012 lol, dope, I'll try to talk a coworker into making the drive in the next 6 months
I live in Ellsworth, ME and there are lot fishermen in the area.
I think someone has already said this but there is definitely an East Anglia (English) twang to it.
Robert Patterson did a great job at mimicking this accent in the movie The Lighthouse!
I like that guy. He would be fun to know
There are some parts of maine that really suck but there's a lot of beauty in the state once you get out of the cities.
The Maine accent is very distinct. It’s not Boston; Maine accent is more charming....and it almost sneaks down to British Countryside a little.
Those giant lobstahs don't taste good anyway... They get tough... I'm from Maine
You can fry with butter cut up in small pieces and you won't know the difference.
Bless his heart. I live in Philly. Send me some of that good lobster!
I love his blue vest
gotta love maine:)
Man I kinda wish I had the Maine accent now.
I’ve lived in Maine my whole life but no accent.
Hey! HAMMERED! WEREN'T THAT THE 20TH MAINE REGIMENT AT GETTYSBURG!
I have a heavy accent and our language is a form of creole and old English mix. Some have the accent more than others but from small point to five islands it’s the true creole old English. People have a hard time understanding me But I love it. My 3 kids have it too. South Carolina has a couple small coastal communities that speak the same as us
This dude is what a real fisherman is! He actually loves he's job and cares about the ocean and doesn't just ruin it and doesn't give a shit like the ones on the big factory monster trawlers
There's alot of the East Anglia dialect in the Maine accent.
New England accent sounds somewhat alike an easy England accent
To me he doesn’t really sound like an American. This is fascinating! 🇳🇿
New England accents are from east anglia immigrants
He literally sounds exactly like every other American to me. I don't feel like I speak with a Maine accent because lemme tell you. But everyone keeps saying they like his accent or whatever and I have no idea what they're talking about because he just sounds normal.
@@VictorMatthieu its cuz youve heard it all your life so youve gotten used to it
He has hints of various English dialects.
Adorable.
Listen I’m from maine,I love this
Regional accents are disappearing. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, the people there now have neutral accents that you can't really tell.
MondoBeno it’s so sad. People have no pride in where they’re from anymore cause pride is considered “racist” now
Poopy believe man, that’s not the reason why regional accents are disappearing you ideologue.
Nah go to Stonington
That’s so not true. Even today, I can still tell if someone’s from philly, Buffalo, toronto, New England or New York City. These are all places I’ve either lived or been around a lot, and there’s still a definite distinction.
@@Dalt21 I'm from New York City. People are losing the accent here when places start to get built up. Downtown Brooklyn is basically Manhattan now and it's very neutral. Manhattan the same. Most other parts of Brooklyn as well, park slope so on. Not sure about the Bronx and Queens, but I'm from Brooklyn, and go to Manhattan often as well, so this is my experience.
He sounds like someone who came from England.
Maine is a British colony in 1700's
@@fuckheinschitt239 It actually belonged to Massachusetts until congress made it an actual state before the Civil War.
@@seanbrummfield448 ohh ok!
His surname (Babb) is like most people who have been residing in northern new england for generations, English, i believe south west english. Northern New England and the south have the highest concentrations of english americans in the us. You can still hear it in the speech. The most numerous ancestry group is English in america - see 1980 census
Greetings from NH..oh by the way my maine brothers GO PATRIOTS!!!
Knows his stuff…
LOL notching every egger.
he's adorable
People, other than fellow Mainers, never understand what im saying...
Gawd, it's lawbsta! I remember trying to kill my accent at age 7 in 1974, after watching the 11:00 news with mom and dad - I've always been a night owl...
I'm English and the Fisherman's accent is very similar.
So cute.
If you close your eyes, it sounds like JFK talking about lobsters.
Glad Bert's grandson is still manning the Bluebehrd.