Bernie Sanders' accent, explained
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- Bernie Sanders' accent, explained
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Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both speak with a New York City accent. And Queens College linguist Michael Newman thinks it might be good for their brand. Writing in the New York Times, he said:
"Americans have come to associate New Yorkers, and so New York accents, with saying what you mean, intense emotional talk and not worrying too much about whom you offend."
But the larger pattern outside this year's presidential race is that the New York City accent is stigmatized, and its most distinctive features are fading.
That's why Bernie Sanders provides such an interesting case study. He was born in 1941 and raised in a lower-middle-class household in a Jewish part of Brooklyn. Even though he's now spent more of his life in Vermont than in New York, his voice tells a story of his past and the past of the nation's greatest city.
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The one famous guy who's associated with Vermont isn’t even from Vermont
Haha true
You forgot Ben & Jerry's
They are also from NY!
*who's
bruh what about
*MONTPIELIER, VT*
Sanders's Brooklyn accent is basically his birth certificate, in auditory form.
+Boogster Su But curz doesn't say "Eh" after every sentance... That must mean he's not as canadian as we all thought!
+Boogster Su So when he gets elected, Republicans won't have to demand he produce it to prove he was born in America?
Shit I wish us Pheonicians had a cool accent haha
+Boogster Su woah
that's fawm not form
We got robbed of a legendary inauguration speech
@Nick Arjomand by the Democratic Party establishment actually 💅🏽
@Nick Arjomand yeah I guess it’s just a coincidence that every other candidate dropped out at the same time but Elizabeth Warren stayed in to ensure the votes were split 🙄
@Nick Arjomand the DNC also admitted they rigged the 2016 primary and a federal court ruled they are ALLOWED to select their own candidate. But that completely defeats the democratic process which is the entire point and why so many voters become fatigued and ambivalent.
@@Pointlesspeach can you link the article?
Dude, imagine the debates between him and Trump.
I grew up in Bernie's neighborhood -He speaks Poyfect English.
You mean PoyfecT?
Poyfect?! Giddadaheah!
@Gavin Lim that was unnecessary
Is that on thoidy toid street?
@M O drink your pork and consume your wine?
"I'm Bernie Sandals."
elite27 🤣
Terrifying pfp! 😅😱
No
Im Bernie Sandass 😂😂
I’m a damn sandle
Sword and sandals
*"Health cay-ah is a **_yoomin right!"_*
@@shaloamnenja12yearsago29 but i am
That's funny. I love listening to him tawk tbh
Drew Sullivan • 12 years ago hater
@@shaloamnenja12yearsago29 Ok anarcho-primitivist
Shaloam Nenja • 12 years ago
you’re free to go off and live in the woods anytime
*I want to hear Bernie say "Bernie Sandahl President of the Yunite Statets of America" So please vote Bernie.*
I just want him president because he's getting old and why not give him the presidency while he's still here? He's a good guy. Too bad I ain't a US citizen.
Do people normally say Hunited States?
Like from Australia
No
im good
Why does Bernie sound so comforting when he talks but Trump sounds so triggering?
Must be the arrogance in his character. Whereas Bernie's is sincere.
Holly Snow Because you find Bernie comforting and Trump triggering.
JJ [Nobody liked that]
JRH 😂
It's because you don't like Trump and you like Bernie. That's why.
I love his accent. Shame it's dying out :(
Shaun Gordon, Regional accents in general are gradually dying out, so NYC accents are not unique in that regard, even though they sound unique!
Michael Naness yes older white people still have the accent, like my aunt, but not a single one of my friends nor anybody in my age period has anything close to a classic NY accent
micklemore, Actually, you can still find younger New Yorkers with traditional NYC accents, though it's more common in the suburbs than the city proper, just as the local accents of other major cities are
it ain't! :) I noticed even Trump has a soft New-Yowkish accent. I get the vibe when he says "Millien/Billien" (Million/Billion), "Pehcent" (Percent), Yuuge (Huge).. his accent is a lot softer than Bernie's though that's for sure.
go to staten island or talk to an older union member, like an electrical worker
There's this old man that rides the city bus with me sometimes & he sounds just like Bernie sanders. I pretend to have music playing in my earphones just so I can hear him talk lol
If you want to hear him talk then why are you wearing earphones? Why not take them off?
@Joshua Jung not really. They're not listening to his conversation; they just like to hear the sound of his voice.
You should talk to him, I bet he would pretty interesting to talk to you even might become friends with him who knows.
@bongo155 , he is a millenial, they can only communicate through online :(
@@chineseviruszombie773 ok boomer
Whoa whoa whoa, back it up...Bernie played a rabbi in a 90's romcom?!
IKR?? I wanna see this movie now!
I love the way he talks. But that's partly just because he's one of the few good guys in politics. One of the very few in congress not selling us all out to the wealthy, sociopathic elites.
Tom cool compass brotha, mine is inward and upward a touch but not by much 😩👏
*Hillary Clinton left the group*
Wow
Same speaking points since the 80s. Same direction for a politician is as rare as....Nevah' eva'h 😁
Is that why he flip flopped on immigration? He used to be against mass immigration (as recently as 2016) because it suppresses wages to the benefit of large corporations. But now...
the New York accent will always be my favorite accent from america!!!
Twill be a sad day when the New York Jewish accent is gone. I love the way it sounds.
hewhoisknownastaco One thing for sure.... that's classic!
Wednesday Bloke I'm from NY and I do not speak like that lol
Same, I only drop my r's occasionally.
Death and All His Friends - Woah man, hard R
Feel the Behn !
is your profile picture the adventure time planet?
Conor Healy Yeah ! I like to call it, "A glimpse to the future with republicans in power"
+Joao Pedro Nasser Feel the Behn.
You must have chlamydia or syphilis if it burns
eric Stoenescu Does herpes count ?
Interviewer: explain the employment gap on your resume
Me: i went to Yale
Interviewer: Great u are hired !
Me: Thanks, i really need this Yob
martinezandy15 very underrated comment 😂
Wow
Great pun
😂😂😂😂😂😂
nice unoriginal and irrelevant comment
SO THAT IS WHY BOB ROSS PRONOUNCES HWHITE!
Titanium HWhite
bob ross 😔💔
Next video:
"why Marco Rubio talks like a robot"
+mike mikey
Because he needs more battery aka money
+persian pirate
It's because, according to him, he knows exactly what he's doing.
+mike mikey Marco Rubio is Skynet.
+mike mikey Cubans have a very mechanical spanish.
+mike mikey The one you call "Marco Rubio" is Cyberdyne Systems model 102.
Im Jewish and a Brooklynite and i speak like that
Because the accent is dying each generation
Rivky B brooklynite? lmfao
+Rivky B I know it sounds stupid, but to me that accent sounds trustworthy because of Berny Sanders.
I have an accent and I speak lile that too
I speak similar like that as well. I drop my Rs at the emd of words. I live in bay ridge Brooklyn NY.
2:00 Im sorry but that little clip of bernie sanders is so funny “Denmark” 😂 with no context
I know right!!! And “computahs” also
Elena B. 😂
He was probably responding to someone saying denmark is radical socialist.
That makes me so sad to hear modern New Yorkers are not using their traditional accents! :(
Please don't loose your accents no matter where you are from! Its part of what makes you beautiful!!
Accents are one of the spices of life!
They are not "losing" it, it's just changing, like languages always do.
The traditional white working class variants are steady disappearing with the rise of the education system but the african american and latino ones still going strong 💯
Because they aren't actually New Yorkers, but suburbanites from Jersey and their kids whole piled on and moved into the City after the crime rate went down later in the 1990s. I can recall when they were terrified of the place.
I don’t think it’s intentional.If you hear cwahfee (coffee) and worsh (wash) at home but cough-fee and waash all over on the radio and tv you’re probably gonna end up pronouncing Those words somewhere in-between. And if you’re local accents less pronounced it’s probably gonna be even less pronounced by your kids especially nowadays with kids hearing accents from all over the country and world from an early age.
*lose not loose
I'm from New York and I really wish I had a profound accent, but as the video said, it's fading. However, when I'm angry, excited, etc., my accent bounces right up, so I guess it's not all gone.
That's the same with me. Especially when I have Road rage
@@SimonKanner-si3it It's still in long Island
I'm from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, but due to working with people from NYC and North Jersey (plus having some speech issue from my youth) in younger adult year, my dialect is now mainly a blend of Philadelphia Dialect and North Jersey. Without it, I would end up sounding like Porky Pig. Whereas "water" in the Philadelphia Dialect is pronounced "wooder," I would say "wooter."
S.H. K. I’m from Long Island and I most defiantly have it
Ken Hudson it’s more like loawgn eye-lan
Idk how it would be an “ethnic” joke but it is kinda a stereotype
I went to a Bernie rally back in early April, and when he said "HUGE CHANGE" ALL of us started going "YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE" It was funnny. Later on I got to shake his and his wife's hand and that was the single most amazing moment of my life.
Bernie Sanders would destroy the economy.
Maximum Borkdrive the richest economy can't even afford universal healthcare which so many smaller countries have but it can afford trillion dollar wars..
Cleaver Fever So cool!!!
Totally jealous! I was always working when he had his rallies in Maine... So needless to say I never made it to a Bernie Rally😔
That's a really cool story! I wish I met him too once
He's one of the smartest people around
Hey Ray
...
Yes
Smahtest*
This guy is literally everywhere.
Vox just proved that Bernie Sanders is FDR 2.0.
Rishi Kaufman FDR is closer to an Obama type. Firstly, many things in the new deal were actually made by people further left politically than him (he was more of a center-left person), just like how govt. healthcare was made largely by Bernie types. Also, both led us out of recessions.
Rishi Kaufman Exactly correct. *"Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and l welcome their hatred."* -Franklin D. Roosevelt
@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim They never learn. They know what happened in 2016 but they just never learn. They had to go with the lesser of two evils.
Rishi Kaufman Masses of us are joining and voting for People’s Party so that they get gvmt funding. They’ve espoused Bernie’s policies, and they have Nina Turner. Bernie even gave them a shout-out. The Green Party is a mess - Howie is peddling weird hoaxes and voters are leaving. See you in 2024! ✌️
@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim Live In India so can't vote there.
Loss of regional accents is actually becoming pretty common everywhere. I would say the majority of people under 30 in the south no longer speak with a southern accent in normal speech. However, I have noticed that whenever someone is frustrated or angry they tend to revert back to their regional dialect. Ie Spanish speaking people arguing in Spanish, and for southern people certain words come out differently.
Yo my grandma's Russian and she always cusses in that language.
super NOWU Ya I realized my southern accent comes out one day when I was frustrated. I then realized that my family and friends do it as well. I think it goes for everyone that has adapted their speech patterns.
Yep. I do this. I was born and raised in TN tho ppl can't really tell... Until I get mad or super excited.
@@soapftw96 I'm still always genuinely surprised meeting a southerner my age who speaks like I do
I am an example of this kind of, though in a different way from what you’re describing. I don’t really notice it coming out when I’m mad but as I’ve grown up, I found I can say certain words with a Cajun accentuation, especially “Cajun” words (meh sha, for instance, which is a Cajun term for endearment towards family and friends; that’s how it’s pronounced, may not be how it’s spelt).
I'm voting for Bernie Sandahs in 2020
Up The Irons I’m sorry
We need YUUGE chainge in ouh countree.
YUUUUGE
i read bernie sandals XD
I would if I was American. Trust me guys, as a Brit who's traveled a lot, you guys absolutely need to elect him. The guy is just right in every way on everything tbh
Vox: R’s are dropped except before a vowel.
Bernie: My name is Bernie.
Bernie Sandahs
Bunny Sandahs😎
Bernie Sandals
Benie Sandes
Silly Vox. Everyone knows it's pronounced
"Boinee Seeanduhz"
Oh my God! I'm not sure what's more pleasant. Her voice or her look.
everthing !
I love the way she says, "uuge" and "umans"
definitely not her nonboobies
When you get to be 40+, you'll start to appreciate women for their 'nonboobies' as you say. Bigger certainly doesn't equal better in this regard.
Porque no los dos?
I'm so depressed.
Please someone bring Sanders back.
*Sandah
[Not Interested]
*Sandahs
All Bernie supporters are dumb minimum wage socialists who wants to steal from the rich.
Not true.
Olof Palme, the Swedish social democrat who is regarded as one of the founders of the Nordic model, was born into an upper-middle class home. He just saw that social democracy was a fairer system and he spoke up about it. It's a question of ethics, not a question of "Hey, that guy has more than me!"
Please educate yourself to keep from further embarrassment.
What a retarded comment. The nordic model is a fundamentally flawed and failing system. How is stealing money away from hardworking people and subsidizing laziness "fair"?
Liberal policies punishes success and rewards failure.
I will never, never vote for Bernie Sanders!
Because I'm British.
Oh Jeremy Corbyn...
Bri*ish
Pricalt it’s weird we do say it like that and I never realised until the meme surfaced 😂
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
lol
UA-cam in 2016: ...
UA-cam in 2017: ...
UA-cam in 2018: ...
UA-cam in 2019: *I'm abaout to make mahn's huwole careeah*
Jairaj Patil 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is recommended every year
" Cool wHip "
I see wHat you did there
Hannibal Barca Thanks Brian!
brian you're acting weird
+Song Yonguk Oh come on, that doesn't even have an 'h' in it!
It's briahn
I love all the original New York accents. Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn. It's a shame they're slowly dying out. It's true what this video says. The older the New Yorker, the thicker their accent will be, the younger, the more generic American they will sound.
jsphat81, Well, New York is one of the most diverse cities on the planet so you're not going to find many people in NYC with any of the classic New York accents in the city proper, you'll have more luck finding them in the suburbs of NYC.
The Utopiano Utopioan I think the further away you go from the boroughs, the thicker the accents get. I was in a fishing town in Long Island and people there had the thickest NY accent I've ever heard. Even young people!
not at al LOL where you get that from? i live in brooklyn
she's pretty
This comment is gold
thanks for the giold kuind stranger!!11
I know right, who is she?
Bro....get a life
@@user-zm7zl9lc6j how do you do that, lol
Who wants to hear him say, "Hey, I'm Walkin Here!"
AM WALKIN' ERE!!!!
@@mitsumikyoya8746 if he were to debate trump it would have been, HEY, AM TALKIN ERE!!!!
I'm amazed, what a beautiful creature......oh and the girl is cute too
+Michael Mbz nice one
Not really
feel th bern
+Cruzifer07 he was talking about bernie you nitwit
+Cruzifer07 fuck off
I love the New York accents
I have a heavy Brooklyn NY accent and I have non rhotic speech.
you should listen to Azzerz's impression of the New York Italian Mafia :P
Morgan Bellavia I love the host of this video.
Me too
Noo Yowk
I ADORE the way he says understand, "Unduh-stay-und"
That really brief explanation of the vowel chart and the linguistic definition of vowels at 1:09 was so good. Much simpler than what my intro to linguistic theory professor had to use a whole lecture for.
Who is she? And how can she be so beautiful?! WOW!
+sanitallica Joss Fong
+sanitallica She has a job because of people like you! Nothing personal, just the way it is.
***** She seems to have studied Science, Health and Environmental Reporting at university and she is a Senior Editorial Producer at Vox, so I don't think she would be out of job otherwise! Not with a beauty and a sweet voice like that! Yupp, I think I'm in love!
*****
Let me decode my passive aggressive comment, since I don't want to come off like an ass. Camera personalities are usually beautiful because of human bias. Therefore its easier to get a job as a presenter or an anchor if you have the right genes. In retrospect I shouldn't have even brought it up. Feel free to ignore me.
+sanitallica Eurasian women have the most attractive faces on earth.
I pretty much am bernie sanders. I have the older fashioned accent. I have always said "uge" i am jewish and I was born in Brooklyn. Only difference is I am one of the very few Jewish Italian people left.
Could you record yourself talking?
Feelin specshial arren't ya?
Congressman William Macavoy Yay!
Congressman William Macavoy *Sandahs spell it fight
I legit made a playlist of him just speaking to go to sleep he has a comfort of father for some reason.
@Ruh This is like three months ago but hey go for it! 👍
ugh, we don’t deserve him. he would have been an amazing president.
some of us dont like socialism
Lol some people really don’t understand basic economics
@@Cokepencilpsd Truth be told it doesnt matter if you like socialism or not at least Bernie has kept to his ideals for over decades.
@@cdxii-zanemmv46 you're so right!! bernie is consistent with his policies and ideas and that kind of politician is rare nowadays!
When he said “it’s kind of typical of jews to do that”, I literally did a spit take😂.
Saaame. I felt called out.
@@maazkalim No.
i'm jewish and don't see why it was a big deal. it's all about context. we are 'jews,' it's just short for 'jewish people.' it's not like it was associated with something negative in this example.
All other major countries: yeah we already have all the shit Bernie's talking about
America: HoW cAN wE aFfORd IT?!??
+Kyrie Irving Better question is how can we afford to bail out the banks should another recession happen? Why doesn't this question get a substantive answer during the GOP debates? How come the military is 55% of the federal budget and nobody asks how can we afford Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria?
oeckstei Military is actually 55% of discretionary spending but yeah, its WAAAY too much. If the media wasn't corrupt and bought off, they would be asking the questions you just raised.
+Kyrie Irving Yet no one asks about how we could afford the 5 trillion dollars our wars in the Middle East cost...
+Kyrie Irving Funny part is that if you were to cut your military budget by half you would still have the best equipped military in the world and would spend on it waaay more then anyone else in the world...
+oeckstei For a better economy, do what Iceland did and don't bail them out and instead jail the bankers and increase social welfare so the citizens don't suffer from the recession like the rest of the developed world.
As a non native English speaker, I find this very interesting.
When you're from The Bronx and realize you have all these speech habits.
Vox is truly a gem. One of my favorite UA-cam channels, for sure.
oxy clean It's not bias to call out Trump for his utter nonsense, and how dangerously unqualified he is for the job. But I do agree that they could be more hard hitting towards the Clintons aswell.
However, I still find this channel hugely entertaining and good.
Mr. Cool Guy You mean "yugely"?
NetRolller3D of course! My mistake
Mr. Cool Guy definitely better than buzzfeed..
or at least no politics in general, guys.
8:39 pm, 7-24-2017
Now explain how Hillary Clinton's accent changes...
+mel berlin :
She does that to get more votes.
+mel berlin Lizard person.
+Josh Won LOL
loool
+mel berlin well learned narcissistic sociopathic traits.. she blends to any group to pander and placate into peoples emotions for personal power and gain.
Both my grandparents drop their Hs, and have some other quirky speech patterns. They’ve lived on the east coast for many years but both grew up as Jewish New Yorkers in the 1950s.
Not only is the New York "thought" vowel raised, it's diphthongized, so it comes out more like /o͡ə/
at 0:47 i totally forgot what the video was about.
Roman R she fine
I did too. Hahaha.
For real, I had to go back and listen again.
Maybe two years late - She is absolutely stunning. Natural beauty.
I was lost @ 0:20 lol a young bernie sandahs is a tall drink a watah
2:34 Newman totally dropped a thought vowel in "lost". Nice.
We need fdr style fireside chats when Bernie becomes president just so I can hear him talk every week
that would be wonderful!
Fiyahside chats
Yesss
I'm actually a Jewish guy from Brooklyn and I sound pretty similar to him at times, it cool! I'm way younger and it's less pronounced, but my parents talk exactly like him.
Goodness. She's so gorgeous.
+DesapoleEdits pathetic primitive human bias, you disgusting animal
xiAGC123 Sorry.
The Internet Tough Guy your name is fitting
+xiAGC123
Nah, it would have been much more fitting as "Internet Douche Bag."
Melting Sky aye he's a fucker
eee ooo
ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bang bang
+Hussam Dasouqi Was that a donkey voice?
waaassssaaaamatttawihyouuuuuuu
who are you? freddie mercury?
As someone who's finding a passion in imitating famous voices, this is nice. Thanks.
sounds just like my grandpa who is jewish and from brooklynn ny
Why is this girl so hot?
+ironmantis25 Her and I would get it on..
+Egaal O That's called hybrid vigour.
+ironmantis25 she doesn't sound like a girl, more like a woman
Thrashaero You're right, my mistake
+Egaal O Well, half of him.
So what you're saying is that Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan totally have the wrong accent for Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes? Man now I'm just imagining Captain America or the Winter Soldier with the New Yorker accent x)
Kate Speaks
Nice!
Kate Speaks Chris does noticeably slip into it near the end, when plans out a dance with Peggy. I wanted him to talk like that for the whole movie.
Kye Talks yeah the movies gave them a generic American accent instead of a NY accent.
I really love dialects, i think they're so fun. It makes me a bit sad that they're dying
Extraordinary production! Every aspect is truly wonderful. Well done!!
She is adorable lol
Nóra Bánfi
Yes, she.
Bernie is a she... duh!
Nóra Bánfi yes she... we are talking about the girl not bernie lol
so is he
Bernie was a fashion model in the late 50's,so yea,he was hot way back.
Excellent video! For some reason I did not expect much when I clicked on this.
Friend Man k
Name checks out.
Linguistics, accents, and Bernie Sanders all wrapped up in a Vox video? 🎶 These are a few of my faaaavorite things 🎶
This is great content, even though it's not news it's still interesting and informative.
Im native new Yorker and i do not have this accent i know very few young new Yorkers that do. The ones that do are usually of Irish, jewish and Italian descent. I do find it endearing.
I love Bernie sanders so much dude
Endrias Garza *Sorry do you mean Sandahs*
Boynie Seehndahs
One of my favourite videos of all time .. I don’t know what it is but I keep coming back to watch it. Greeting from Australia!
this isn't something i ever thought needed explaining.
0:49 SHE CANT BE REAL, 200% CGI, iswear
What do you mean?
She is adorable, isn't she?
Yeah lol, when I first saw her I had to look away xD
Bass Dat And why would this be so?
welp the perfect beauty is said to be mostly western with a tad of asian.
she's so pretty...i don't want to close the tab in fear that I may never see her again..
+ignatiosification ikr
ignatiosification dont worry. you'll never have her
As a linguistics major, this video was fascinating and too short.
I'd love to say "uge win for PresidenT Sandahs".
Great video. She is gawjuss
My good Lord!! This has got to be one of the best educational videos on phonetics and phonology I've ever seen!! As an English teacher, I have to tell you, I freaking love it!! I'm so glad to have stumbled upon it!! You guys are amazing, thanks a million and keep 'em coming!!
Me: Gets a Bernie ad on this video
Me: My time has come!
I love the way those videos are made, the music is good, and we can feel there's a lot of work behind it. It's nicely done, and designed to keep you hooked (in the good way) and entertained by all of these different schemes. I'm not saying that i understand everything is this video, but it's really pleasant to watch. Ah, and off course the splendid women speaking make this video even better!
everyone is talking about the girl, yeah I guess she is cute.
Bernie is 10x hotter though
jorge murillo randy old beasts
@@YashBudhiraja oh Bernie!
The sun is 6000x hotter
Audi Azham pun intended
I noticed that this is how a lot of the older, "less educated" people in Philadelphia also speak which is really interesting. This accent is by far my favorite to imitate
Trump is from Queens, and his accent is just as rough around the edges as Bernie's NY accent. Brooklyn and Queens are both very similar. They said it's more common among working class, but really, it's common among all types of people if they're originally from the boroughs.
Dang, so Jacksepticeye be saying “what” and “when” and “why” correctly ;-;
Jeez this girl is such a beauty.
As a linguistics major, I found this video to be very enjoyable, informative, and terrifically well-made (as do a lot of Vox videos). Nice one!
imagine making those sounds in a public space
the faces you’ll get
Interesting vid. Always love learning about dialects and accents. Good job!
That girl is cute :$ Nice video.
oh hi
Simp
I'm from Switzerland and something fascinating I realized about accents (in comparison to the way they are perceived in other parts of the world) is that usually they are treated as something negative, while in Swiss mentality people appreciate the variety of accents throughout their nation. It isn't necessarily linked to patriotism. You usually never hide your accent because it's rather considered a mark of individuality than provincial and a sign of lack of education. And in fact it really is interesting that in a country as small as Switzerland there are so many different accents of German. So if I'm speaking with Swiss people they will immediately know that I'm from Zurich and not from Lucerne (for example) even though these cities are only 40 km apart from each other. It's actually entertaining and something I don't want to miss.
In Germany it's quite the oppisite as far as I know. You try to speak Standard German by not showing some signs of rurality.
Thanks for giving answers to questions I never had Vox
;)
I'm almost creepily impressed by how deeply you delved into his accent. No I'm just plain impressed.
Dear mother of god Joss is beautiful *__*
I am more interested in what he has to say rather than how he says it. A great man.
You can't say "hwhat" without sounding like an old-timey southern villain.
Or Stewie from The Family Guy.
Bob Ross? Titanium hwHite
Two, two hwhat?
Also note that in the older generations, different boroughs also had different accents. Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, all had different intonations. My Dad is a Bronx Boy and growing up hearing his pronounced accent, I moved to NYC in college and now I can always tell when I meet someone who grew up in the Bronx and speaks the same way.
You should also look into the influence of 17th century Dutch on the New York accent. After all, the English didn't found New York, the Dutch did and Dutch remained the colloquial speech for several generations of New Yorkers (certainly well into the 18th and even into the 19th century)...
Don't lose your unique accents. Accents are cool.
Me and the boys singing The Box 1:04
Cool Whip
YOU’’RE EATING HAIR!!!
Cahhnt hahve a pie without cool hwip
Kewl hwhihp