I just adore the old southern accent (rolled Spanish/Italian R, non palatalization of de/te/ti, dark L sound (velarization), the letters e and i pronounced like in Spanish/Italian, the pronoun “tu” conjugated in second person, local vocabulary and expressions) and since I would like to move to Pelotas (in the far southern coast of RS) from North America, I figured why not learn this endearing accent? I’m just curious if people would take me seriously, haha?! Would it generate any negative reactions or mockery?

Also, I want to note that I love all the different accents in Portuguese, the global lusophone varieties make the language a beautiful rainbow, that we all contribute to. The accents of the Brazilian Northeast, Florianópolis, Portugal, the Azores, Angola, Uruguayan border Portuguese, etc, they are all beautiful sonnets of gorgeous sonority!

Thanks for reading! Big hugs to you all!

I’m from a non-English speaking country and my partner is an American from the South. He usually doesn’t speak with an accent, but ever since I heard him talk in his Alabama accent to his family on the phone I can’t get enough of it. And when I hear other people that have it I find myself thinking it’s attractive.

I’m halfway through season 7 and it seems like nobody has a noticeable southern accent anymore, except for Maggie, Eugene and Morgan. Negan has only a slight accent, and Rick’s an Daryl’s have definitely faded over the seasons. Is there any reason for this? I really liked the accents in this show, it made it feel cooler and more gritty to me.

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Single/Taken/Complicated: Single Seeking Relationship/Friends/Squish/Other: Relationship, but I’d rather start out as friends. I also don’t care if you’re asexual, I’m a bit sex averse and fine avoiding that

Romantic Orientation: Heteroromantic

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 19

Height/Build: 5’11”, pretty skinny

Physical Description: I’m white, but a bit tan. I have blue eyes and wavy, curly in some spots brown hair (been kind of letting it grow). I’m clean-shaven and weigh almost exactly 140 pounds. I also wear glasses.

Personality Description: I’m a pretty awkward person. I’m always slightly anxious about things and feel that I sometimes care too much about people responding. Besides that, I’d like to think I’m a pretty caring person, though introverted. I tend to view myself as a bit of an idiot / fool, but that’s fine since it can make people laugh.

Location: Northern Alabama, I know in my history I’m active in the Auburn subreddit, but that’s my university. I don’t care if you’re nearby, US is fine since I have no idea where I’ll end up after university.

So, did the template but I have a lot of other stuff to say! Currently, I can’t really travel as I’ve had Achilles’ tendon surgery (I can explain it more in detail in DMs) on one of my feet and will be having another surgery later in the summer for the other foot. So, even if you’re nearby can’t really do much, but that’s fine since a lot of stuff I do is online anyway. I play video games, tabletop games, watch anime (and almost anything I find interesting), read, and used to cook and fence (both of those are on hold for the time being). Also love writing! Mostly poems, but I try some bigger projects from time to time.

If you look at my Reddit history you’ll find I’m pretty active in left wing subreddits and politics is a big passion for me, despite the fact I’m a compsci major. I don’t care what your political orientation is, though I’d like to talk someone who else enjoys politics. I also like history and tried to understand philosophy (I’m too dumb to understand it, honestly).

I decided to edit this and add in my musical tastes. Bit of folk (Irish/Scottish), bit of rock, bit of lo-fi. It’s mostly individual bands / artists I like. My favorite being the Smiths.

I debated making this for a while but I decided to anyway, as why not? I don’t have a lot to do this summer because of the surgeries so might as well try to talk to people.

We moved here from GA but not native Georgians. We live near Cleveland but seem to hear a lot of Southern accents in Cuyahoga and Lorain County. It's not widespread, but not tourists based on location and activity.

Is there a part of Ohio where these are common? It's not really a retirement destination, but most people I observe with this accent tend to be older.

Not hating, just curious!

She plays guitar, banjo and other obscure instruments as well. I remember some originals she played, also videos of her checking out some obscure guitars.

So yeah, southern country music girl in her late twenties/early thirties (mostly a brunette) on youtube. Anyone knows?

I'm rewatching the Florida Crowes season on Justified and I can barely pay attention when Michael Rappaport is on screen. It's literally painful for my ears, his awful awful accent. Also recently had similar issues with the otherwise brilliant Ozark, the guy playing Jacob Snell (a fine actor!) made me want to scream every time he opened his mouth.

Who else?

Can anyone seriously explain how people actually develop southern accents? Seriously, majority of the country has essentially no accent but southerners almost always have one? Was there a predominant ethnic group that populated in these areas in the past that had a strong accent or is it something learned?

It's like too good. We northern folks along with our Canadian neighbors could never hold a candle to the way you guys do your Cowboy talk.

the fuck kinda shit is that? How the fuck does that even work? Makes no sense

Hey there. I'm not a native speaker, but I've been interested in imitating a southern American accent. Let me know how accurate my accent is. Bonus if you can tell where I'm from.

https://voca.ro/1jysKcA4nh6M

I'm reading from The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner:

Caddy uncaught me and we crawled through. Uncle Maury said to not let anybody see us, so we better stoop over, Caddy said. Stoop over, Benjy. Like this, see. We stooped over and crossed the garden, where the flowers rasped and rattled against us. The ground was hard. We climbed the fence, where the pigs were grunting and snuffing. I expect they're sorry because one of them got killed today, Caddy said. The ground was hard, churned and knotted.

Really liked the southern accent that he speaks. I wish he would've lived on longer in the show, he was a really enjoyable and believable character. Maybe he even would've sided with the Byrd's. Only Darlene didn't like the Byrd's.

It's really too bad that he got killed so early on in the show. He's definitely one of my favorite characters of TV shows.

Killing Del was also a mistake in my opinion. Seemed almost like a excuse to remove him from the show.

Hope this makes sense

So I am pretty much answering all calls these days, but I am having an issue with getting hung up on pretty quickly. I do use a really thick Southern accent to make it more funny if I start recording them or not, but I also wonder if I am getting hung up on because they have trouble understanding MY accent?

Is it best just to use one's normal voice, or just go "all in" and get a voice changer?

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I remember reading about how a lot of people can't really here accents in most singers voices which I think is true to a degree because of the extended vowel sounds and whatnot; but this doesn't really seem to apply to southern accents for some reason. Is it just intentional? Or does the it come naturally to people with that particular accent? It's much easier for me to identify a southern accent than an English accent for some reason (I'm american) and I got to thinking about this. I didn't even know mick Jagger was British for like the first half of my life but if a country singer comes on I automatically know they are going to be from the southern states.

There was a thread, now archived and closed to replying, that blew me away! I thus want to "reopen" the thread. So I copy-paste the opening post.

"Southern accents in rural Upstate New York - is this a thing now?"

"Over the past 10 years or so, I've noticed that Southern accents (or at least mild Appalachian drawls) are becoming more prevalent among residens of rural UNY towns that are poorer and more removed from a metropolitan area -- places like Cortland, Waterloo, Seneca Falls, and Bath. As far as I can tell, these aren't transplants from Southern states, but native upstate New Yorkers.

I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this, and if this is really a thing, what's going on? The only explanation I can think of is an uneducated "armchair anthropologist" guess -- with the loss of manufacturing and a brain drain, what was once "blue collar" rural Upstate is turning into "redneck" rural Upstate. With that, elements of country/Southern culture (country music, powersports, hunting/fishing, pickup trucks, etc.) now have a much stronger pull than traditional Rust Belt culture."

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Huh? I come from Interlaken, in South Seneca county. Interlaken is about 30 miles south of Seneca falls. Southern accents? Amazing. The thread spoke of theories like workers on oil field rigs and country music influences.

However, my Guts tell me that there are other reasons. On a map of creek names, the creek name "run" is found in Pennsylvania and North West Virginia. However creeks in the Central finger lakes are sometimes called "runs"!

I think there are more interesting reasons though why this area has a southern influence on the accent. Seems this area is isolated and far from cities. That alone, though, does not explain!

linguistic people often write excitedly about the huge change in Urban Northern dialects, The greatest change in 1000 years, they write! Chicago, Rochester, Syracuse. The urban areas see this change, and this change is NOT the southern change, though. There is something strange going on with southern accents appearing here, in rural areas, though. Maybe it has to do with Soul Of Place! Upstate south of Syracuse and Rochester IS the Appalachians! North Tompkins county sees "hills" of 2100 feet., for instance. There are lots of hollows with house trailers. Tompkins country, as well as Courtland county, are in the "Appalachian economic zone", for instance. my old Seneca country sees ridges

I’m doing a project for a psychology class in school and I’m looking for a male voice capable of pulling off a New York/Brooklyn and a standard Southern accent. The script isn’t any longer than 30 seconds. Would appreciate the help! I’m offering $15 for just two reiterations of the same script in the two accents.

Thank You!

Harry Potter n’ That There Fancy Rock

Well that Harry Potter sure did get himself in a pickle n’ made a case for having some damn good life insurance at the pig pimples castle his first year o’ scoo’. You’dve thought you could keep yourself safe with all that there magic but hell nah it just really stirred the manure right out of the ground til the flies started synchronized flyin’.

But near death experiences sure are worth havin’ a couple good friends, I guess — that ginger Ron and Her-Mi-Oh-Knee, or however you say it. It’s easy to remember when you slap your knee at the end. If her brain had britches they’d be about the size of that guy from the Subway’s ‘fore he started livin’ off all those sandwiches and everyone found out he was a per-vert. Sure got on your damn nerves though but if it ain’t a damn lesson you make a girl cry in the bathroom next thing you know’s some dinosaur sized ogre troll come strollin down draggin one o’ those big ass clubs. Oh lands. Harry looked down and shook his head — had he a hat he would’ve tipped it. “Oh me, so Magic’s real and now Mecha Shrek’s gotta be too. Now that’s somethin’ nobody once told me.”

Him knowin he was famous, for now in his opinion for no damn reason, he figured he ought to do somethin’ — after all his full name just had to be on all these spooky ass books. So he jammed his wand up the nose of the big booger himself and went about his way and without much chit chat or problem solvin’, he n’ Ron looked at that frizzy haired banshee nerd n’ said “Well damn, guess we ought to be friends.”

Now it’s too long a story to tell but it turns out that squirrelly Quirrell had some whole other man livin’ on the back of his head n’ tellin him to do all kinds of shit. You’re not supposed to say his name ‘cause all o’ Hogwarts been tryin’ to cancel that no-nose demon man, but it’s Voldemort. It didn’t matter if Harry could catch some flyin marble in the sky with wings, he was gonna have to find some crazy rock downstairs with his lil friends. But bein that there Harry Potter all he’d had to do was look in a mirror and that thing just showed up in his pocket like a big, shiny hard piece of lint. Oh brother. It didn’t take much for Harry Potter to find himself in some deep trouble — Harry ol’ trouble damn Potter. So that there snake lookin straight white man sure did fly right through him and end up wherever the hell.

Harry woke up in a daze wondering what the hell’d gone on when his principal come up and start tal

I’m just wondering what Brazilians would think of a foreigner/immigrant speaking with a southern/rural/fronteiriço gaúcho accent, would it illicit any negative reactions?

In particular, I just adore the old southern accent (rolled Spanish/Italian R, non palatalization of de/te/ti, dark L sound, e and i pronounced like in Spanish/Italian, local vocabulary and expression) and since I would like to move to Pelotas, in the Deep South of RS, I figured why not learning this accent? I’m just curious if people would take me seriously, haha?!

I want to note that I love all the different accents in Portuguese, the global lusophone varieties make the language a beautiful rainbow, that we all contribute to. The Northeast, Florianópolis, Portugal, the Azores, Angola, Uruguayan border Portuguese, etc, it is all beautiful sonnets of gorgeous sonority!

Thanks for all your input! Big hugs to you all!

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