Re: CHAT: Vowel shift - angry-beaverisms

fortytwo@ufl.edu writes:
>That's nothing compared to the Minnesotan accent, with its beautiful,
>yet funny, intonation patterns.  To me, that was the funniest part of
>Fargo.  I mean, that accent is just so hard to take seriously, I mean,
>they could say "Ja, my wife was butchered and cut into a million
>pieces", and it just wouldn't sound like a bad thing.  Okay, slight
>exaggeration, but it does sound just funny.  :-)

Oh yes i forgot about that accent! My Chem teacher last last year talked
like that. I think she was from Minnesota, and she would always say yes
with a "ya". Another one is the Hawaiian pidgin accent that a lot of
hawaiians use. Anyway, my Tagalog teacher last summer said that all of us
students who were from this area spoke with what he called a "mexican"
accent. I never really got an explanation of just what he meant.


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