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Re:Minnesota Accent
Mon, 04/6/09 10:48 PM
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Davydd
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wanderingjew
If you want to talk about overdone accents, just watch any episode of the sopranos.
I grew up on Long Island, lived in Brooklyn and Queens and knew people from New Jersey and never met anyone who sounded like the characters on that show. Now that I live in Rhode Island, to me it sounds more like a Rhode Island accent everyone sounds like that (and you don't have to be Italian)
Wandering,
Very few people in NJ sound like that. Every now and then you'll run into them. Most I'm convinced play it up or are from Bayonne, NJ or Staten Island. Actually, I think Sopranos made more people play it up. And I have never in all my life in NJ heard anyone with the "joisey" accent. People from North Jersey tend to sound more like new yorkers and people from south jersey tend to sound more like they are from pennsylvania.
When I visited Boston I was disappointed at the lack of a "Boston" accent. I was expecting much thicker.
"Youse" guys are reinforcing what I said previously - the closer you live to an accent the less you hear of it, the farther away the more you hear of it.
Well...yes and no..... With the TV show the Sopranos, all I hear is an archaic accent that no longer exists (except here in Rhode Island)
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