Dialect in Southern Cities
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Segment on Charlotte, NC, and language trends in southern cities
Excerpt from from the documentary "Voices of North Carolina"
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I disagree with the notion that the south needs to "change their accents" to be professional. Why should I be ashamed of who I am and where I come from? Judging my intelligence based on the way I talk is a form of discrimination and I, for one, will not change because of it. No southerner should feel this need either. Don't get me wrong I am thrilled that my home state is growing so rapidly, but the dialect that we communicate with is a token to our charm and our heritage, no matter how flawed it may be. "Part of knowing where you're going is knowing where you're coming from."
Didn't u just want to whoop the arrogance out of them... I sure did..
dixie girl It's whup, not whoop, Dixie girl!
That's what I meant lol .. I've got auto spell. Lol
+Marsha Smith. That's what I meant. .. my phone had auto spell and I sometimes don't catch it.. lol
+myjfff true, but then they can go eff themselves.
I've never been ashamed of my Southern accent.
Anna Grady i never had one sadly
Anna Grady --- Nor should you be. I am not a Southerner, but I am convinced that a steady diet of propaganda has made people think that people with any of the Southern accents are unintelligent or uncultured. In my experience in dealing with my customers from there, I have found the people to be amongst the most intelligent and cultured that I have met in the U.S. Much of what I love about my own people (Armenian) I have found in many people from Louisisana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, plus more natural joy.
It is something to be proud of. I'm from eastern NC and I wouldn't change it for anything. Some of the most genuine, kind, and respectful people in the country live here and throughout the south. There's a reason people from up north are moving down here by the busload!
@@movsestimiryan3854 Thank you for the sweet compliment. I have what has been referred to as the "upper class Southern accent," which in reality is drawled English accent according to linguistics. To me, I sound just like everyone from Mississippi. I couldn't disagree more with the woman in video about changing your accent to appear more intelligent when speaking with New Yorkers. I often had business relationships with NYC attorneys. When I went to NYC, I found out they all wanted to meet me because of my accent, they had actually been putting me on speaker so all could listen; not to make fun, but to enjoy. There is a reason for the phrase "Southern hospitality" and it begins in our greeting. You are welcome in Mississippi anytime!
Movses Timiryan Thank you for your kind words. I believe most people are good, no matter what culture or part of Mother Earth they call home.
I don't think 'it's OK' to shed your Southern accent so that outsiders won't view you as being a country bumpkin. Why can't the outsiders change their point of view and realize that a Southern accent does not equate ignorance? I love all of the different regional dialects in the USA. They are uniquely identifying cultural features and a great way to start conversations. "Where are you from?" Keep speaking Southern, y'all.
I’m 20 years old. I dropped my when I was around 12 to where my own grandma says I don’t even have one. It only comes out in some words.
I'm from Texas and the southern accent is strong, but different than the Charlotte accent. Ive got family in New Orleans and Mississippi and all three accents are totally different.
Yep, for starters, New Orleans English has a sound that's a cross between old New York and southern American English. Mississippi has various accents, so does Texas. Texas being the twangiest of them all.
Libertopa EurekanAnarch To me, New Orleans - & the Bayou areas - accents have a bit of French in them, too.
@@sylviaross5486 Those accents have varying degrees of French influence, but most sound like a cross between a NYC accent and a southern American accent. No matter which of the two is more dominant in a given New Orleans\ south Louisiana accent, it's usually non-rhotic, my own accent is quite similar to New Orleans because I grew up an hour north of the city. I even have plenty of the non rhoticity!
I have a mama who's Texan and a daddy who's North Carolinian. My accent is really mixed up! I do sound more NC than Texas though, cause I grew up in NC. I do say pecan like a Texan though (I don't say "pee-can").
I'm a native Charlottean and have lived throughout the Southern Piedmont and Sandhills. Being Southern doesn't make you a "country bumpkin" any more than speaking Gaelic or Scots, or being Irish makes you ignorant because you don't sound like you're from South England. These business types should be ashamed for being embarrassed of their linguistic heritage. I really hope times are changing when diversity includes the Southern people. Stamping out cultural identity doesn't make you "Progressive." It makes you ignorant and a sell-out.
Gangleri MacLeod I have said for years that the only people it's ok to be bigoted towards is southern people.I from the foothills of NC in Surry co.I love history and from studying the western part of the state has always got the short end of the stick.We see on TV how they make fun of people from the south or the way we talk.When people say something negative about the way I talk , I just tell them Hollywood sends people to classes to learn to talk like me.I am proud to be a southern .I have done a lot of genelogy on my family and my ancestors came to this country in the early 1600s in Virginia and some came in the early 1700s . I hope we don't lose our southern heritage .
Gangleri MacLeod You are so right!!! Thank you for speaking out.
roscoe barney I hear ya!!!
You are so right these I would like to tell these people in the video a few words that anyone would understand
For years I attempted to change my southern appalachian accent so to improve my career chances by not sounding like a hillbilly. What I discovered after relocating to NYC not only was it a mistake to do this it was the worst thing I ever did for my southern accent opened more doors than not!
Just Perkey I'm from Charlotte. I find myself trying to correct my Southern accent around people not from here so that they won't discount me right off as ignorant. That makes me sad. When I'm around my family or good friends or people I feel comfortable with I can really just let the accent go! I speak like the old South. Doesn't make me ignorant. My brain works fine. Lol My conclusion, my Southern accent is like a slice of home for me.
Just Perkey I'm from Charlotte. I find myself trying to correct my Southern accent around people not from here so that they won't discount me right off as ignorant. That makes me sad. When I'm around my family or good friends or people I feel comfortable with I can really just let the accent go! I speak like the old South. Doesn't make me ignorant. My brain works fine. Lol
I'm not changing my Arkansas accent for no one. And neither should any southerner ever change their accent for anyone. Other places don't change their accent from. Their not any better than us.
@2:45 I love her accent. She has that "Old money" southern sound lol.
L B that's hard to find now days
Km Ca I know, but I hear it a lot when I see my grandparents who are from Alabama.
Yep, she sounds like she blew in straight out of Gone With the Wind!
I'm a 35 year old male from W-S N.C. and I'm happy with my accent
I got your back-Kernersville native here! :)
Im from Rockingham NC and i have a lot of pride in my southern culture....and my dialect North Carolina's southern dialect is many times one of the most eloquent and charming southern accents and i dont understand where people get off picking on a dialect..me personally i feel the new york accent is silly ....
Grey Grooms
The new york accent makes my ears wanna throw up! I'm from Seagrove. N.C.
I miss that old Charlotte accent...my grandmother spoke even slower than the woman who spoke at the opening. But it's really hard to find people who speak like that any more.
sazji I still find it in Gaston County and Lincoln County
Education. Yes Northerners sound so much more educated. "Hey you guyeees". Whaaats going aaaaan"?
I don't have any problem with other people from different places. I just have a problem when they come in and try and force us to change. I don't force them to change so they shouldn't try and change us.
aikidragonpiper71 --- Makes sense. You go to Spain, you learn Spanish. You go to Tennessee because you think it's better, ok, but don't try to remake it in the image of the dysfunctional place you left. I was raised primarily in California and want to leave. I have no intention of remaking whatever my destination is into the image of California, but I am afraid that others may not do the same...
Who, exactly, came in and from where, has forced you to change?
If you want to hear a southern accent, don't look in Charlotte. Look to the surrounding areas: Gastonia, Lowell, Dallas, Lincolnton, Bessemer City...the accent is still strong there. Pineville is starting to get diluted out as it continues to expand, but a lot of the locals still have that twang in their speech.
Some parts of Stokes County where I am from
Everywhere in the south if you wanna hear our strong accents. You have to visit tiny towns to hear it. Cause our big cities are loosin their accents. If you have a southern accent ,never loose it and pass it down. I have an Arkansas accent ant I keep mine no matter what anyone thinks.
Dear Charlotte, don't forget where you came from...
I think southern accent is the most beautiful of all. I speak spanish as my first language And i'm learning English but this is the accent i want to get... Its perfect
i love the southern accent. Its so warm and full of feeling
Don't erase your southern accent, we love it.
Having grown up in the Deep South one could readily distinguish between educated and uneducated southern accents, but one did not discriminate because of that. When I left the south I had to erase my accent to appear credible , not mention easily understood. Now, though, if I speak to a southerner on the phone I easily fall back into my old patois and can easily understand the range of dialects (Cajun french accepted) throughout the south. I really miss it and hope to return before the Yankees homogenize the place!
I'm from Florida and the Yankees have ruined this place. I was actually thinking of moving to north Carolina but it looks like that's gone to. I want a state with mountains so Maybe Kentucky.
darkduck2000NC still has the Blue Ridge! You know it's beautiful in the N.C. mountains. Anyway, whatever happened to people being diverse and accepting people as they are? I have a deep Southern accent and I really don't want to have to practice sayin all my words like perhaps a Northerner would just to let people know I'm not ignorant. How sad that is.
Molon Labe you shouldn’t have to in your own state
Alaska has mountains
@@darkduck-qg2so I think part of what would help is if people in states like Florida and Kentucky and Virginia moved further into the South, it would help preserve the Southern culture where it still has a fighting chance to survive.
Chaarrrlotte is awesome! I was born in Hershey PA i been here since i was 3 years old. Im 30 now and still live in Chaaarrrlotte and everywhere i travel up north they always say i have a strong southern accent. I can here my southern twang in places like D.C. Philadelphia and NYC. When I was a kid I would always travel to DC for The Summer's year after year after year to visit my grandmaw and the kids up there would always Call me bama. Lol and you know what im a PROUD BAMA
I grew up near Charlotte...moved to Florida in 1979, then moved to Washington State in 1995. I still have the Carolina accent:)
I'm from Germany,and I just love the Southern Accent!
I don't understand why the South and it's accent should change, while nothing from the South changes something in the North or West in return!
Why should everything being soaked up with California - style culture?
yall be proud of your culture !!!!!!! carolina bourne carolina proud !!!!!
Im from the north i agree.. i went 2 nc and was amazed at the friendliness of the ppl i almost became suspicous ... mind u i come from a place where u can barely say good morning 2 ur neighbors without them giving u the stank face
Yeah same thing in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. People from other areas are coming in and are completely changing the cultural identity of those cities, especially Pittsburgh. It started in Pittsburgh back in the late 80's and has just recently taken off in Cleveland; culturally they're unrecognizable from what they were 30 years ago. Very hard to find a genuine Pittsburghese accent anymore unless you find an older (45+ year old) speaker born and raised in Allegheny County.
Southern hospitality's real I've lived in the north and south and i've been in a lot of northern hatestaurants where I was not welcome because of my accent .
Sounding "Country" is not the same as sounding "Southern". Im surprised they are that ignorant. That one lady, there. She is actually from the South? Only a Northerner would say southern sounds "country". its not the same.
True. Charlotte natives sound different from small town mountain people from Western North Carolina
I was born, raised, & still live in the Appalachian foothills of Alabama. Although I'm a graduate student in anthropology, I'm proud of my hillbilly accent. I agree that the South needs to be progressive & lose its racist, homophobic, Christian fundamentalist, backward stigma. However, we need to retain our charm.
Agreed, there's a lot here that needs to change and just isn't and then there's a lot here that doesn't need to change but is changing quickly.
I remember my family moving six times and ending up in the west coast from Western North Carolina, I didn’t know we talked with an accent until we moved away. At school I was made to attend remedial English speaking lessons, on proper annunciation.
I always gravitated towards other folks from the south; didn’t matter which part. To this day when I hear someone speak with that familiar North Carolina country accent I feel like I just found a cousin and we usually become friends. I live in North Idaho now and love it here as there are lots of southern folks around here.
TJ
born and raised :) almost 18yrs.
my nana and papaw used to sound like this. i love my hometown and love our accent :)
I grew up in Charlotte. I live near Seattle now. And almost everyone asks if I'm from Texas~LOL
You'd think they would have seen enough Texans on TV through the years to know that ain't so!
Most people can't tell the difference between Southern Dialects even though the South is the most diverse part of the country when it comes to English dialects. In fact, NC has the most dialects in the entire country.
These northerners come down here and we take them in and before you know it it aint the same!!!! LMAOROFL!!!!!! GOod one. and I agree!!!!!!!!!
i agree, i think its so sad when people lose their accents, wherever they're from.
Just being born in the South doesn't necessarily give you the accent. Depends on where your mama and daddy that raised you came from. My mama and daddy were born here to so my earliest exposure to language or an accent was mana and daddy's old Southern accent. These business people seem too worried what other people think. I wonder where the woman came from that says phone so properly. Here we mostly pronounce it like it would be fone. What a shame.
I have spent over 25 years in the financial industry. I have a Deep South accent. I have never felt I was not taken seriously because of my accent. The content of my speech determines my intelligence, my accent makes me memorable.
I have met many Yankees that I like better than my fellow Southerners. Don't judge people by where they are from. There is good and bad in all groups of people. The Southern accent is derived from a British accent, it isn't from ignorance like many assume.
Most parts of Mississippi are borderline third world. Dialectically, it might be advantageous to be in a dystopian hell hole!
Thank you!
Yankees might change there address and live here, however they are still northerners. Our regional speech and history is part of who we are .
If they don't like it then they can go back home
How on earth can you be Southern and Not know the difference between Southern and country? Our accent is more an attitude, a blood deep accumulation of history and heat, than a drawl, so to some of us even people born here don't sound like they're from here. And, whether we like it or not? No, you aren't going to be North Carolinians, your kids will be, if you actually stay.
EXACTLY!!! Regional Dialects and people cultural identities are disappearing. I disagree with them saying that you shouldnt sound like your from the south anymore and they're the reason why the dialect is disappearing in big cities like at Atlanta and Charlotte. Atlanta is full of transplant people. The only people you hear there with real southern accents be the ol people who are in their 70's..
0:20 - 0:40 - Sweet non-rhotic southern accent. Something that's rare in the Carolinas these days! Whatever happened to that accent in the Carolinas?
I’ve traveled through out the Carolinas and I see it quite often. Raleigh Durham is dead though. I rarely here at all in the triangle. You gotta ride 45 minutes in any direction and you’ll hear it
You hear non-rhotic southern accents more often from older people in old coastal towns like Savannah, Charleston, and Wilmington. It's usually associated with "old money," so people treat as a more soft and elegant Southern accent. Most people in Hollywood movies use that accent waaay too much when depicting Southern characters, not realizing that this accent is extremely rare in the South.
7:16 i wouldn't call it Evolving the opposite of that actually
There is a difference in country and Southern. There is nothing more beautiful than a Southern accent so long as the grammar is spoken, correctly.
I so agree with you. Judge my intelligence on the content of my speech. I've found my accent makes me memorable and opens doors.
Here’s a brief course of the “Charlottese” dialect mainly of younger women spoken from the early 1980’s until presently:
Amanda age 37 “Hey! Jowl nay thet Me-mau gotter a nee cor? She’s say fenny! Me-mau dudn’t lock t’drov rul faist y’nay? Nay, she jest dudn’t.”
Translation: “Hi! Did ya’ll know that Grandma got her a new car? She’s so funny! Grandma doesn’t like to drive real fast, you know? She just doesn’t.”
Area women seem to have more prominent accents than males, especially when pronouncing words with the long “O” sound. Words like “blow”, “throw”, and “go” are routinely pronounced “blay”, “thray” and “gay” occasionally ending with a “soft W” as in “thrayw”. Also the “oo” sound is frequently pronounced as “ee” as in “Hee or yee?” (“Who are you?”) Even numbers are affected by the dialect which often has adverse results during financial transactions especially when the speaker makes the numbers “2” and “3” rhyme with each other as in: “wen, tee, three” (1, 2, 3) These phonics appear to created when annunciated while smiling broadly. Try this: Grin into a mirror and try to pronounce this sentence: “ My friend Joe from Monroe broke his toe on a stoop while carrying soup to the group.” Don’t be surprised when it comes out sounding like: “Muh friend Jay frem Menray brake his tay own a steep while carrying seep tuh thuh greep.”
Just remember EVERYONE talks funny, except ME.
In North Carolahna, I've noticed that a lot of people make their O and I sound like a long A/Ah sound. Some examples of that are saying "Tahm" for Time, French Frahs for French Fries and "Sahdwalk" for Sidewalk.
I do find it interesting how before the Civil War, Virginia had much of the political power and the South wasn't considered backwards.
I'm surprised not more people talk about the Richmond, Virginia accent (Tidewater) Virginia, most distinctive accents- much more so than North Carolina, and it had a very strong drawl, but with almost an English lilt to it. Look up "very richmond phone call".
It wasn't Southerners who created the myth that our accents are dumb, or "country'. And yet now, it's us Southerners, some of us anyway, who pat ourselves on the back and congratulate losing it, calling it progress. We're actively getting played by people who don't like us, often over something as benign as an accent.
My family is from Massachusetts but I was raised in Charlotte. I have a slight southern accent, though it's not as pronounced as most Charlotteans. My family thinks that I sound very "Southern" and I tell them that they won't really know a strong Southern accent until they go and speak to people in the more rural parts of the state. Charlotte has more of a Standard American English accent (SAE) than most rural parts of the state. Standard American English is the accent most commonly spoken in the media, it originated in California/Midwest and most people associate it with being accent neutral, which is silly because everyone speaks with accent. When people say someone doesn't have an accent, they mean that they speak Standard American English. In Charlotte, you will usually hear SAE accents but often more heavily rhotacized (which means, the R is pronounced more heavily). You will also hear a lot of Northeastern accents and some Midwestern accents in Charlotte, like other cities in NC. I was often taught to suppress my accent because my family teased me over my how "Southern" they thought I sounded. I remember my cousins teasing me because I would say words like "Crown" for Crayon, "Dawg" for Dog and "Concreeet" for Concrete. I remember one time my cousin told me in her heavy New England accent that my way of speaking made me sound like a "Retaaaahd" as if her accent made her sound like a scholar. My grandmother wouldn't let me say "Y'all" or "Aint" because she said that those weren't real words. Even my spell check on UA-cam is saying that Aint is not a word! They completely ignore the fact that "Y'all" is a contraction of "You all" and "Aint" is a contraction of "Are not" or "Am not" and those contractions date back hundreds of years to different dialects from the British Isles. The older I get, the less ashamed I am of my accent and the more "Southern" I sound. A New Yorker isn't expected to apologize for their accent so why should I?
It's funny that southerners try to lose their accent to fit in
Because when I moved to the south I had to LEARN the southern accent in order to fit in
And honestly
I wouldn't go back
This is my accent now
Where did you move to?
I think the native speakers have sold out the South when they say it's OK yo loose the Sothern. They're motivated by money and whether people from other areas will do business with them. Sad. Very sad, indeed.
Much of the North Eastern US is moving South to get out of the cold.
"n these northerners come down here n we take them in and before you know it.. it aint the same its really not ..they dont think n act like we do.. well they sure dont talk like us" lol.. yep she knows her northerners from her southerners.. Well said Auld yin.
This video is nothing but "CULTURAL MARXISM".. Who the he'll do these people think they are trying to shame people with propaganda about their dialect. I have a Inland Southern Dialect. I'm proud of it. At least I'm not soundin like an arrogant snob as these ones were soundin like then..
I wasn't aware that accent was translated into text.
Horace Popostoppolis In the video the propaganda against Southern Accent is beyond insulting
There's no such thing as "Cultural Marxism", it's recycled Nazi propaganda you dumbass hick.
John Smith Now John you should apologize for being so mean and calling someone else a hick. You know that's not nice.
John Smith Piss off, asshole.
It's because of the original part in Great Britain and other countries where the original four waves of settlers in America came from, be it the Midlands, the Border Regions, the South of England or Holland, etc. Please read Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America.
How in the world could ANYONE think that lady at the first of the video was a Texan??? 🤣🤣🤣 I need to get my Texan mother to watch this-she'd scream.
I don't like the fact that people think the "flat" northern accent is better. Each place proudly wears it's culture like a badge up until the point that a few changes come to the state. Success shouldn't mean that people should mirror big cities because even those cities have there own flavors and would be darned to mirror a southern city. It's really just cultural castes.
I seemed to have paused at 1:49.I looked at the screen and laughed.Then resumed on.
Lol last time me and my wife son go to Dallas a lot and they ask me and wifey if we are from Georgia quite often lol I'm from Cumberland county and she is from pender county
I lived in GA for a year and a half. There are certain accents there that are very similar to ours so that may add to the confusion. Then they have some of that "Scarlet O'Hara" accent going on too. I'm from the Winston-Salem area originally, and the accent there is definitely different from the eastern NC accent I experienced when living in Sampson/Bladen Co.
I'm from Fort mill and I love my accent awh go charlotte !!
I am a native Charlottean and still live here. I know lots of natives.
This is so sad to watch. Thank God Mississippi is so poor and has such a bad reputation so that these damn Yankees stay far away.
I think accents are cool, people who lose their accents don't like themselves and are embarrassed to be from the south. I like people with personally, I don't like robots who judge other people.
I'm southern and live up north:-). They are rude here though!
please by all means force yourselves to loose your cultural heritage! try to be what you're not , you're basically going to be a huge conglomerate of people with no culture no diversity and you're all be the same, cattle to the saughter, obey consume and die.
be proud of who you are
Exactly,I think it is beyond ridiculous to want to destroy what makes all the regions of the country unique in speech.
actually if you look on wikipedia, the HUMID SUB-TROPICAL CLIMATE ZONE is = louisiana,oklahoma,arkansas,mississippi,alabama,georgia,tennesee,kentucky,virginia,northcarolina,south carolina, northern florida,eastern texas [all states historically with SOUTHERN speaking and culture] ; and also maryland,delaware,and southern new jersey [which speak a "MID-ATLANTIC" dialect - which is kindof a fencesitting/blend dialect of southern to the south-and-northern[new york/boston/new england] to the north.
North Carolina has the best accents in the world. Born and raised. The Blue Ridge Mountains are home. :) Don't even notice the accent anymore...
I just found this production. I live near Charlotte but you could not pay me to live there. Along with their desire to become “big time” the problems that infest large cities have also come to Charlotte. There was a time when you could enjoy dinner then a lovely leisurely stroll without being harassed by drunks and addicts demanding money. That time and that city, the Queen of the South, no longer exists. Charlotteans wanted to become big-time but what they have become is just like any other major city in the world with the same problems; a higher crime rate, a lack of affordable housing, etc. I wonder if the result was worth the price.
but i've read a couple of times that part of the reason for the southern "drawl" + culture/attributes is because of the CLIMATE. centuries/decades of long hot humid summers helped produce slow drawl speaking, and kinda a slow/laidback culture; (slow- meaning not hyper or rapid like the north). example=even here in philad,all these heatwaves in a row, me +and other people are talking+moving+walking slower)--during a heatwave,downtown here kinda resembles downtown atlanta ! :-)
@BostonsFatBeats - You have much to learn. The South and New England are two completely different "countries". Though we both speak English our language is different. Though most of us are Christians our religion is different. Your region is socialist and liberal. Our region is traditonal and conservative. We think different and have different morals, values and culture. You folks are welcome to visit but don't come down here trying to change us into what you are.
as a former Charlottean living in NYC suburbs I will say yes the northerners will ruin the soft laid back feel of the south!!! ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!!! lol
Here's the problem....These outside folks bring their POLITICS....That's what bothers a lot of North Carolinians.....We are traditionally a Conservative state.....not only do we have a nice accent, we have good politics....especially now that we have a common sense Governor and a common sense Legislature.....You can have your accent...LEAVE your politics up North or out West....
It'd be interesting to see some research on how the rise of the internet affected language and dialects in various cultures. Everyone is susceptible to all different accents and dialects nowadays.
my point is if climate really does play a part in speaking accent + culture/attributes , then maybe all these newcomers to the south, will soon - or later - or maybe over generations - will gradually adopt southern speaking style + southern ways.. i personally hope so.
It's better to be a barking dog than a mindless sheep that is controlled to what someone else thinks you should be. But we believe in freedom not to be controlled by others, more like wolve wild and free. What give others the right to think they should tell us how to talk and live. We don't go their and tell them how to live.
I don't know if people are purposely changing their accents, I think it's all of the outside influences. I was born in NC and live in Greensboro for most of my life but my southern accent isn't as thick It's like half and half here but I like that about NC, we've never been a traditional southern state throughout history.
Yeah, and the other thing is that Charlotte is such a diverse city nowadays that there's a lot more linguistic influence, a lot more people from all over the place with a lot of different accents, so to me there isn't really one sound of Charlotte, what I like is that there are so many differences
I've been to North and South Carolina and that Southern accent like that old lady with the striped shirt is commonly sounded.
I love the Carolina "dialect",slow,smooth and not to be confused w/ being a bumpkin, as I know quite a few Charloteans and respect their hard-workin' easy- goin' way of life.
@98bigbutt I think that is a little unfair. All that stuff is a part of our history, certainly Jim Crow, but while some of us were holding on to negative things like that, others of us were struggling against them.
No we don't. Saw it in Bemidji and the audience loved it. Oh, I'm also have loads of relatives in NC...going all the way back.
Spent three years at Duke for grad school. I heard a lot of the old accent from one of my landlords there. They have some peculiarities like pronouncing America as Amurica. They will also agree with you by saying, "no, thaaaat's right."
at least this aint happenin in jacksonville! the south is still strong as ever over here! thats why im proud to be from the 910 of N.C.
The Atlanta accent is sadly gone now. My grandpa has his
I love that first older woman!
dam hipsters still at it?
they sound very ignorant especially when you get an emergency call in the middle of the night
I understand the adaptation to new points of view, but too loose who we are, and our charm, is not wise. We can broaden our ideals, but to loose what makes us, here in NC, us, will prove nothing but conformity. I don't like how my accent carries some times, but I also adore the the unique qualities of it. I am noticing a shift in linguistics as I grow older. Some of the greatest minds have came from the south, and have held this accent. The notion that it is a slow, lazy, and uneducated way of speaking is false. I my self speak faster than most, and have a good head on my shoulders, and educated mind. To evolve as a people is one thing, but to forget who we are is something else.
Parks Helms helped DSS take Jack Stratton's kids away from him so PH can stick it as far as I'm concerned. And who's the *itch in the orange suit? She can stick it too.
@ 2:13
Texans talk in almost a completely different accent. I know people from TX.
@onetrickpony420 i agree rotf! i like charlotte growing but i want my city to keep its accent,i try not to be prej towards ppl from other states especially up north but i dont like the comments on changing the accent to become more professional, if they dont like it move!!
@JoniOdin Yes. This coming from a born and bred Southerner.
I find conformity sad. Its ok I guess. But changing to be accepted . Kind of sad. Different languages have personality, like music
True, it screws up NC's congressional delegation and probably state legislature, but at least there are Senate and Presidential elections where we can see the actual majority have a chance to prevail.
910!
Why do southerners have to change their ways? Why cant the none southerners change and assimilate with the true southerners.
(#2) As far as Southerners just living in the South...that's a stereotype. I have both lived in Venezuela (where my father worked for an oil-company) & California (for the past-30 years). Parts of the West were settled by Southerners, more than a hundred-years ago.
My Great-Grandparents, Grandparents, Parents, Other Relatives, and My Cousins & Siblings...have all lived in houses, used telephones, watched t.v.'s, worn every-day clothes, driven cars, etc.
Lol --I do have to agree with the older ladies statement about some of the northern dialects sounding harsh and somewhat sharp...at least to a Southerners ear. :-)
lol... was that lil john at the end?
i've lived in charlotte my entire life. I moved to go to college and realized that i dont have a southern accent.
and i did read about the climate - speaking /dialect/mannerisms/culture connection in several places. and when you see the entire list of humid sub-tropical STATES i listed, it seems very believable to me. so , Lunarman29, maybe in several years?a generation?few generations? those Atlanta city-center transplants[and ALL newcomers to the south ] will gradually evolve into southern style of speaking+mannerisms -[or at least the humid hot climate will compel them to speak and act slower pace ! :-)
Dave, not a bad supposition, but if you study the Koppen weather classification, the South (from about the last 1/5th of Texas running towards Lousiana, and going north towards about W VA and Pittsburgh) is Cfa, Humid semi-tropical. This would mean those in Delaware, Chicago and Des Moines, etc. etc should have a drawl. A lot of accent is peer-driven, meaning, for example, that those in the suburbs of Atlanta for 40+ years have the accent, whereas young city-center transplants don't.
@BostonsFatBeats - You don't have to apologize for me being so "close minded". It's just that my mind is closed to your Yankee nonsense. I'm sorry that you feel the necessity to meddle in our business. As far as division goes, I'm not creating it, I'm just recognizing that it's there and necessary to preserve my culture as well as yours.