I’m confused. West Coast people tell me I sound like I’m from the East Coast. East Coast people and people in my home town tell me I sound like I’m from California. but I’m from the landlocked Desert Southwest and I dont’ think I have any accent at all.
Has anybody else been told weird things like that?
Joe Cool
I’m from Texas.
It’s all of y’all that have accents.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
People tell me I have a California accent. Since I’ve lived in California for 21/22 of my life, this is not surprising.
I’ve managed to eliminate what used to be a very strong Irish accent. It takes a conscious effort, still.
However, my funny sentence structures / grammar / style (especially when I’m tired) give me away as a native irish speaker. (Irish is a VSO language)
After a pint of Guinness, it’s all moot. The accent comes out, loud n’ clear, n’ scares the living god out of friends and loved ones.
Slan!
E.
“Semper Ubi Sub Ubi.” =-)
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY… need I say more?
Rose
I told you not to be stupid, you moron.
We went over accent/dialect one time here. I have one of those.
I’ve been told that I have an accent and that the way I pronounce different words is ‘cute’. The maritimer in me does add an ‘eh?’ to the end of sentences (sometimes).
There is something about a texan drawl…
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Yeah, I do but I can’t hear it. I can’t hear those subtle sounds no more so I don’t always say them. This gives the old deaf accent a show. No ‘s’ ‘th’ etc.
Sometimes people ask me where Im from cause they hear this accent. Ill give them answers from France to Swizerland & they accept them.
That John Denver’s full of shit man!
Well, full-blown Oxford English here, obviously.
Coldfire
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For heaven’s sake, why? I see you’re in Canada; were people finding you hard to understand?
Catrandom in L.A., who has no regional accent at all, dude!
I sometimes slip into a southern drawl, sometimes I’m more northern. It’s my mom’s fault, I was raised up North, but she emphasized her drawl. She gave up after a while. Then we moved down south and people told me I talked too fast, now I’m up North and people tell me I talk like a good ol’ boy. Sheesh.
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
I’ve lived Georgia my entire 36 years and have never had a “Southern” accent. In fact, I get many people who will ask me (in a subtly rude tone) where I’m from. When I tell them I’m from 'round here, they say “Well, you don’t sound like it.” I always say “thank you”. They never have a comeback!
Joe Cool: Do you live in Arizona? If so, then you have an accent. In fact, I’ve found that people here (in AZ) sound noticably different than those from the Midwest.
I don’t have an accent BTW.
Originally from California, where we have no accents. I lived for a couple of years in Oklahoma and eventually found the phrase “fixin’ to” creeping into my speech. Now I’m in Minnesota and have been known to utter a Norwegian-esque “yah” now and again. What can I say? I’m highly impressionable.
“My hovercraft is full of eels.”
Nope. I’ve been there once or twice though. I’m from New Mexico originally and I live in New Jersey now. And I’m making a very conscious effort not to pick up the accent.
Joe Cool
I’m midwesterner, born and raised. Of all of you, I’m probably the only one who truly DOESN’T have an accent. I do, however, have a knack for picking them up. If someone is speaking to me with an accent, gimme 30 seconds, and I can do a (near) perfect imitation. Happened just today. Found out a friend is from Canada. When I thought about it, she did have a slight french-canadian accent. I made her say a few sentences, then she got mad at me when I started doing a dead on impression of her. What can I say? It’s a knack.
–Tim
We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first “lost generation” nor today’s lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak.
some crazy trout used to think that i had an accent, but i’m pretty sure that i just talk funny.
but in france, i certainly did. 
if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean.
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I’m from Texas.
It’s all of y’all that have accents.{/quote]
I’ve met and conversed with Sealemon several times and can attest that, down here in Texas, we do not have that midwesterner accent.
The two main places I’ve lived over the past 20 years or so have been Texas and Nebraska. While in Texas, I was told I sounded like a cornhusker, and then, while in Nebraska, I was told I sounded like a Texan. 
Go figure.
I personally think I just sound like ME.
I can mimic other accents, often do, just to mess with people, I like to keep people guessing about me.
You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life.
L.L.