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Whoa, I never thought an article about Liberal would be on HN. I'm a Liberal, KS resident since about 2005, and now that I think about it...people here do have a kind of unique accent, but I don't know if it's really as striking as the article makes it out to be. I don't know, maybe I've just gotten used to it. I was shocked when I opened the article and saw our welcome sign. Hahaha
Interesting. The "spanish influenced" accent described in the video sounds like standard English in southern california.
Whoa, I never thought an article about Liberal would be on HN. I'm a Liberal, KS resident since about 2005, and now that I think about it...people here do have a kind of unique accent, but I don't know if it's really as striking as the article makes it out to be. I don't know, maybe I've just gotten used to it. I was shocked when I opened the article and saw our welcome sign. Hahaha
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Yeah I've always wondered why that has happened in Britain but not so much in the US in that people on different ends of the country can often sound not too dissimilar,
It used to be that way in the US, too, up until radio and TV began exposing everyone to the accents from the Northeast (politicians) and California (Hollywood).
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That scene is only a slight exaggeration. Rural West Country accents can be almost totally unintelligible to users of standard English. https://youtu.be/WjTIFkWJctY?t=40s
Wow. There's a linked video of farmers from Kerry, Ireland as well. I can't understand the first one, the second just barely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsUvcjk8J5c
I know it sounds like a stereotype, but with a few pints down them I swear I couldn't understand a thing they said when they were talking to each other. I had to check they weren't speaking Gaelic or something.
You definitely get used to accents quickly though. After a couple of weeks of hanging out with a bunch of Scottish people, I could understand Glasgow patter like it was normal English.
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fwiw, I grew up in Miami, and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever ... because for whatever reason, there weren't really a lot of people born and raised in miami in popular media (at least that I was aware of, days before Pitbull, etc). Well, I moved away to central florida (very different demographics) at 17 ... and it wasn't until a few years later when I went back to…
> and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever I suspect everyone thinks that. It's all those people from other parts of the world/country that have accents. :)
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> and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever I suspect everyone thinks that. It's all those people from other parts of the world/country that have accents. :)
I'm 37 and I'm still perplexed that it rains some places in the summer.