She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[scflock]

I believe the way you talk and sound gives people their first perception, you sound like a ghetto dog, they're going to think you are and treat you like one. You sound educated, you're going to be taken seriously and treated rightly. So I strive to talk proper and pronounciate...lol Now sc, I think of Lucas Black (Chris LaSalle in NCIS New Orleans) with an Adam Sandler sense of humor. I see BYC more as Ralph Waite (Daddy on the Waltons not to mention Leroy Jethro GIbb's daddy and Seeley Booth's grandad.) RIP and bless his soul. I have to admit (hope it's not insult) I see WV like me because we seem to be a lot alike. Lazy Gardener, I can't help it, I see Aunt Bea. So those are my character attributes.
Don't hurt me!

lol

Honestly, you are dead on with the "I like the way you talk" kid. I'm not quite that drawn out, but close. My sense of humor would be more George Carlin than Sandler. Sandler to me is more slapstick, Carlin played with words, and that's what I enjoy. I also like comparing BYC to Ralph Waite. I'll be that's fairly accurate. I refuse to agree with you on Lazy Gardner

The way you talk absolutely gives people their first impression, but that's what aggravates me about the southern accent. I love the south, and am proud to be from the south, but the accent automatically deducts 40IQ points to anyone not from here. I sound like a redneck, but do you think you are the only MENSA member on this thread?

 

[scflock]

Dang close...I am of Finnish descent rather than Norwegian, but the nasal fast talking southern Michigan aspect comes through. My parents have been in Texas 25 years and haven't lost that yet.

For Amy, I don't hear the New York thing as she's upstate. My son went to RPI. I hear a little of the Vermont twang.

SC, your voice as described is how I pictured it. Southern voice is so soothing.

You just had that Nordic look in the picture of the redfish you posted

edit: In SC, NY is NY

There are like 9 different accents in NYC alone, so I just lump them all together

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Honestly, you are dead on with the "I like the way you talk" kid. I'm not quite that drawn out, but close. My sense of humor would be more George Carlin than Sandler. Sandler to me is more slapstick, Carlin played with words, and that's what I enjoy. I also like comparing BYC to Ralph Waite. I'll be that's fairly accurate. I refuse to agree with you on Lazy Gardner

The way you talk absolutely gives people their first impression, but that's what aggravates me about the southern accent. I love the south, and am proud to be from the south, but the accent automatically deducts 40IQ points to anyone not from here. I sound like a redneck, but do you think you are the only MENSA member on this thread?

LOL. I fall short of Mensa. All it takes me is 24 hours in the presence of a southerner to sound like one...lol. Kid you not. My daddy had 9 brothers and 1 sister and all my paternal family is still Floridian. I have so many cousins I never even met in person...lol I can hey,ya'll with the best of them. My favorite uncle (bless his soul, died last year) used to call me the little half breed. Mouth of the north...lol and the Northern Campbell (I guess it's a rarity for our line). All my Campbell relatives are southern baby. My daddy eats grits and okra and a bunch of other nasty crap. So the south is a deep part of me, I wouldn't mind transplanting myself either. (I wouldn't tell my uncle this, but I am proud of my rebel blood-makes it hard to live in NY during winter though...lol)

Come on, Aunt Bea of the chicken world???

You just had that Nordic look in the picture of the redfish you posted

edit: In SC, NY is NY

There are like 9 different accents in NYC alone, so I just lump them all together

Oh hell no!!! NY is NOT NY there's a big difference between downstate and upstate and us upstate people don't have an accent or twang....just bland speech..lol

 

[scflock]

Siri can't understand my husband. I told him voice recognition wasn't designed for country hick!

I feel his pain. You should see what Siri does to my texts. My best friend is from Boston, so when Siri autocorrects, I send it to him anyway. He gets a lot of mileage out of that

 

[WalnutHill]

I do think it's funny that we unconsciously assign a voice and vocal pattern to printed words. I even "hear" the speech cadence while reading...SC and BYC, I slow my reading down just a touch when perusing your words. I rush headlong through Amy's, even though her use of her middle name is more southern than northern.

My profession consists of writing a large number of technical documents, so my writing and speech tend to lack a lot of social grace. On the motorcycle and car forums I am members of, a lot of members don't have a clue that I am a woman, as I don't really write like one most of the time. I actually had a guy on a Firebird forum get PO'd at me because he thought I was misrepresenting myself. Sorry, I'm just me!

 

[WalnutHill]

LOL. I fall short of Mensa. All it takes me is 24 hours in the presence of a southerner to sound like one...lol. Kid you not. My daddy had 9 brothers and 1 sister and all my paternal family is still Floridian. I have so many cousins I never even met in person...lol I can hey,ya'll with the best of them. My favorite uncle (bless his soul, died last year) used to call me the little half breed. Mouth of the north...lol and the Northern Campbell (I guess it's a rarity for our line). All my Campbell relatives are southern baby. My daddy eats grits and okra and a bunch of other nasty crap. So the south is a deep part of me, I wouldn't mind transplanting myself either. (I wouldn't tell my uncle this, but I am proud of my rebel blood-makes it hard to live in NY during winter though...lol)

Come on, Aunt Bea of the chicken world???

Oh hell no!!! NY is NOT NY there's a big difference between downstate and upstate and us upstate people don't have an accent or twang....just bland speech..lol

Ohhh Amy grits done right is heavenly! I make it for breakfast or dinner. Okra, now...just ewww. I can't get past the slime.

I make a mean smoked pork shoulder and dry rubbed ribs that my family prefers over anything you can buy here in Michigan (which really isn't saying much).

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I do think it's funny that we unconsciously assign a voice and vocal pattern to printed words. I even "hear" the speech cadence while reading...SC and BYC, I slow my reading down just a touch when perusing your words. I rush headlong through Amy's, even though her use of her middle name is more southern than northern.

My profession consists of writing a large number of technical documents, so my writing and speech tend to lack a lot of social grace. On the motorcycle and car forums I am members of, a lot of members don't have a clue that I am a woman, as I don't really write like one most of the time. I actually had a guy on a Firebird forum get PO'd at me because he thought I was misrepresenting myself. Sorry, I'm just me!

That's funny cause it's true. Or they just rename themselves. Half of my uncles went by their nicnames or middle names, not their real names. They have always called my daddy Donnalee (Donald Lee, but it doesn't sound that way.) LOL

I have a heck of a time figuring out people's gender on here! Oh my! I'm wrong half the time. I wait until they say "my husband" or "my wife"....lol sc was a woman for a while...and lazy gardener was a guy...lol

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Ohhh Amy grits done right is heavenly! I make it for breakfast or dinner. Okra, now...just ewww. I can't get past the slime.

I make a mean smoked pork shoulder and dry rubbed ribs that my family prefers over anything you can buy here in Michigan (which really isn't saying much).

lol

 

[scflock]

I can hey,ya'll with the best of them. Don't fake it. That just makes me mad. I hate a fake southern accent

(bless his soul) Now THAT is real southern


My daddy eats grits and okra and a bunch of other nasty crap. You can't say this...

So the south is a deep part of me ... and then say this

Come on, Aunt Bea of the chicken world??? What about Maine makes you think Aunt Bea?

Oh hell no!!! NY is NOT NY there's a big difference between downstate and upstate and us upstate people don't have an accent or twang....just bland speech..lol

I know that there is a huge difference in the northern part of that state. That's why I said I was imagining you as Snookie. It's just funnier that way

 

[FridayYet]

This whole thread is funny... That's why I like it!