What's with the Accent?

[Yar]

I think a Southern accent can actually be cute sometimes so screw you guys.

[Laddy]

Me too.

I don't hate the South or its accent, it's just associated with bigotry oftentimes, and when some dumb redneck with little grasp of the English language talks about which strangers they don't approve of, it become a staple. An often unfair staple, but a staple.

[fire_of_avalon]

I have a pretty thick accent and I'm definitely not a moron. It seems some of you are just as prejudicial as those you accuse. For something as uncontrollable as the accent with which a person grew up.

People with the same slant made me feel ashamed of myself my first year of college. But then I learned better.

"Dat dere dog wud chasin' my chickens la nihe. I wud ou wit da dry cows n came hoome ta da damn dog raysin' a starm n da chicken coop." aka"That there dog was chasing my chickens last night. I was out with the dry cows and came home to the damn dog raising a storm in the chicken coop." Is that how you sound?

There is talking with an accent you grew up with and there is talking like a moron.

I was born in Houston. I grew up between Texas, Wyoming and Oklahoma my whole life. I know it's not something that just happens to end up that way. No, I've known many people, even family members with a Texan accent. There's a difference between having a drawl to your speech and sounding like a moron.

Nah, mine isn't quite that thick, but you really think you can judge someone so harshly by the thickness of their accent? Do you think people who are involved in ESL are morons, too? How about first generation Americans who retain thick accents and speak with somewhat mangled dialects? Morons? I just plain old disagree.

[Freya]

It's not thickness it's about stupid terms and phrases. Saying "dat dere" is stupid and moronic.

[Jessweeee♪]

It's not stupid and moronic. I would take the example "dat dere" and say that maybe saying that instead of "that there" is an indication of laziness when it comes to speech, but not a lack of intelligence. You're just a jerk

[Laddy]

That was mean, Freya.

[NorthernChaosGod]

It's not thickness it's about stupid terms and phrases. Saying "dat dere" is stupid and moronic.

And if that's just how they say "that there" through their accent?

[Freya]

An intelligent person would use proper grammar. :]

[Laddy]

Not necessarily.

[Bunny]

This thread is stupid and everyone in this thread is stupid.

[Zeldy]

I always get accused of being a scouser, a person from Liverpool. When I'm actually not, I sound nothing like a scouser! not really, not in comparison. I say "Like dacchh" though, apparently, I always get called up for that, as that's very scouse. My town is half way between Manchester and Liverpool, so we have influences from both. It's been referred to as "when the scouse accent goes Northern".

I'm from St Helens (pronounced here as: "Saaint 'eluns"), and here our accents get us called "Woolybacks" and I'm proud of it.

[Old Manus]

Actually I lied. The scousers have the worst accent on the planet, with south wales coming in a close second.

[Zeldy]

Alright, alright. Exactly why I hate being referred to as one! Plastic scousers are worse than a scousers, though. The fake scousers who aren't really from Liverpool.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

An intelligent person would use proper grammar. :]

That's less grammar and more of the accent again. Yes, "that there" is not correct, but it's derived from the accent. Many accents have people saying things they wouldn't actually write down. I've never seen anyone around here actually write out "that there" in a sentence. They just write "that".

Don't use the counter point that I've never seen any one write it, because they're all too dumb to know how to write. That's too easy and obvious. You'll have to be more creative with your jibes.

[Rye]

Whoa, everyone needs to relax in this thread. Keep it civil, folks.