Dat's So Yat! Pt. 1 - Pronunciation
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2022
- Scratching the surface of how the Yat dialect of New Orleans and surrounding areas is pronounced.
"The Yat Dictionary" by Christian Champagne (ISBN-13 : 978-1935084495)
Dirty Coast (where I got this awesome "ARABI" shirt designed like ATARI. Great place for gifts and apparel that is totally New Orleans.) dirtycoast.com/
This brought back my childhood! I miss hearing it. My kid laughs at me when I talk to my family or old friends, cuz my Yat comes out. I didn’t even realize I do some of this. 😄 My grandparents definitely had the Old Yat.
Yeah. "Old" Yat sounds like it's seasoned more with that "Joisey" (Jersey) accent. I can't say it's old, because there are still a lot who talk like that.
This is THE best breakdown of the New Orleans accent! Seriously. And thanks for covering how New Orleans is pronounced. I’m in North Carolina now and every once in a while someone tries to be slick and say nawlins like they’re reading it off a souvenir t-shirt and it’s infuriating.
Amen bro, I live in NC as well Raleigh no less and she is doing a great job. The only thing she has said so far that I don't say is chaowmet. I grew up in d nint wawd and we speak cohrec English.
My hubby stumbled upon this & played it for me…one of THE BEST y’atccent lessons we’ve seen!!! Lawd Gawd of St Benawd, we couldn’t love it more!!!! You got two new subscribers today
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PS- My grandparents lived in Arabi (Carolyn Pawk) & that shirt is perfection! Hahaha!
Shout out to Da fellow Parish peeps!
I didn't know d lawd Gawd was in saint bernawd. Dats such a cute thing to learn. She is great doh dats foh tru. Wawd kills me is when I write in yat people tell me it ignoh rant..look I done got me a BS degree and I still speak in Yat. I love my Yat and when I come home and visit wid my buddy in Metry who lived aroun d corna when we grew up I am in heaven ya hear me!
Perfect. Just what I needed. Thanks for putting the time in.
You tawk just like I do and doh I been gone since befoh u was bawn I still speak Yat prowdlee.I grew up on Piety street a block off galvez
Thanks so much for the updated videos! The original you made was a fav of mine and brought a lot of comfort when I lived in Arkansas for a lil bit. Now that I'm back home in New Orleans I want to let everyone know how much I love the Yat accent, and your videos are an amazing overview for those not familiar!
Love the lessons. I lived in River Ridge for 7 years. I miss the accent. A little more tame than the St. Bernard accent.
It may be a little more tame, but it's still yat, yat, 'n all'at, right?
@@Mehrvigne absolutely.
One of my aunts disappeared from the PNW for some time then reappeared a few years later with a man who appeared to be an Italian man from Brooklyn. He was from New Orleans and speaks with a heavy yat accent. I still swear he’s either in witness protection or on the lam 😂 this accent genuinely fascinated me and I’m pretty sure it’s not widely known about outside of your region, especially here in the PNW. NOLA is a neat plce tho.
There's a mob presence in NO due to Italian immigrants.
So crazy hearing this. I grew up in East Texas/ Beaumont area and I can see that about half of my accent was derived from this. We used mom an nem and get on down the road and many of these inflections. I don’t pronounce Th and I also drop my ing’s as well. But, I have more of a country sound than the “New York” sound. No “ersters” or “zink” but my grandparents would say things like that. Grandma would say wrench (rinse) the dishes and would add r’s to some things.
People will never understand our culture and accent, people say we sound like are from New York but my family is originally from New York and when I’m in New York I get called out. I will say that women in New York love our accent.
I work with a woman from NY. I find that when I am speaking with her, my accent gets thicker. They are very similar!
Love your videos, please make more. I'm gonna make a few when I come back. I miss Nola so much.. I miss my girl, I miss muffuletta's, I even miss people on Bourbon street trying to bet me they know where I got my shoes at! She taught me that trick lol that's another funny story. Never got so attached to a person or city in my life. Time to go deaux deaux now, I'll be back for Mardi Gras.
I love this. It's so informative and well done. Being from Florida I don't think I have a accent though some people say otherwise but I am always curious about other accents. Hopefully this helps people get it correctly!
thank you!!!
Reminds me of an older Brooklyn accent. I saw a video years ago that demonstrated several areas around New Orleans. The Yat ones were so Brooklynese. Not Brooklyn, but enough to blow me away. I gather that the reason is the same group of immigrants settled in both places and with time differences appear. I love how accents develop. I once heard that my New York accent is a working class European-American accent.
I'm pretty sure I know which video you are talking about. If it is the same one I'm thinking about, it was a great one showing the diversity of accents in one city. I have heard the same thing about the same immigrant settlements giving our accents similar sounds. It would make sense that your accent is the working class Euro-American accent since Yat is considered one of the working class accents as well! Cheers to the New Yorkers!
@@Mehrvigne Yes. It has people from all over the city.
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Some of your expressions are very different based on your own geography ie neutral rather then median . We dress a turkey so I can see ordering something fully dressed. We'd say give me the works .
I guess I speak old yat, we didn't even have an upper or lower nint we just was d nint ward. I was born in 1950. YEP d moh you talk in old yat d moh it souns like me.
Where y'at!!! Born and raised in Gentilly and New Orleans East by war baby yats, I was an accident at the corner of Desire and Burgundy. Literally. Daddy grew up on Desire and Momma on Burgundy......I served as dialect coach on a production of A Confederacy of Dunces in 2010 for Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta, where I've lived since the 1980s. I have a question for you, so I hope you're still monitoring this clip as I'm just seeing it for the first time: Do you think the yat accent is dying out????
Hello, fellow local! As a matter of fact, I do monitor all of my comments. If I don't, I could be missing out on a really great conversation. In my opinion, yes. I do feel the Yat accent is dying out. There were times when I said that someone talked with an "old" accent ("poils/pearls, terlit/toilet). But as time went on, like any dialect and accent, new influences come in and meld. Certain groups of people settle in areas which form those specific sounds of Yat. Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, "down the road," "Nin't ward," etc. However, it seems like through the generations, people want to sound cool, or go with a fad accent. Some just don't want to talk like their locals because they feel it sounds uneducated or something. I have a lot of friends who tried to lose their accents for whatever reason. It definitely is not as strong as it used to be in New Orleans proper, but if you go to outskirts such as the New Orleans metro areas, the yat accent is still kicking and alive and well. It's still there, but so many foreigners have come to live here and brought their accents that I feel the accent is evolving, definitely.
Thank U!!!
Lov dis
Hollywood gives us a Savannah, Georgia accent or something like it.
youre very beautiful and i love to hear you talk
Sound like you from da paaarish...
Translate from YAT to English:
'Muh mutuh''s flawn to Itlanta awn Dilta Ayahlions'
'Pudda litta mawnez awn muh sammich'
YT actually tagged a translation link under this comment! 😄 "My mother's flown to Atlanta on Delta Airlines. Put a little mayonnaise on my sandwich." I actually NEVER heard anyone call it mawnez. It's either "MAN-az" or "MAIN-az" (most commonly/more downtown), or "MY-nez" (less common/more uptown.) Also, I've rarely heard "sammich." People say it in jest when being silly, but it's mostly just "sa'wich. No N. It's a silent N. haha
@@Mehrvigne But the REAL question is... Does your bubblegum lose its flavor on the BEDSTEAD overnight? And do you hang your coat in the closet or the CHIFFAROBE?
@@Mehrvigne And don't forget to stop and get a loafa bread at TOM SAVA
@@Mehrvigne And the REAL pronunciation is NA WALLINS
@@Mehrvigne didja get all dis, HAWT? 😂
Been a while....
I was just thinking about you not long ago! I miss you, girl.
How brilliant! You should study linguistics.