Re: CHAT: Vowel shift - angry-beaverisms

Barry Garcia wrote:
> However, i think the funniest east coast accents are
> those from massachusets. Like that carpenter guy Norm Abrams on PBS. It=
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> always funny hearing him say his er's like a's and his a's like er's.
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.  :-)

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