Are You A Yankee Or A Rebel?

[prepstudinsc]

although that's not so bad, because when i travel south they never know what the heck i'm talking about and dismiss my 'northern accent' as undecipherable and unlearned. :biggrin1::tongue:

Depending on where a person lives in the north, I do have a hard time understanding their speech patterns. Parts of Brooklyn, Queens, northern NJ can be all but undecipherable to my ears. It's a combination of the accent and the rat-a-tat-tat quickness of the speech patterns. Down here, we tend to draw out our words and make short words have 14 syllables. LOL:biggrin1:

 

[RideRocket]

"65% Dixie. Just under the Mason-Dixon Line."

Makes sense since even though I moved around a lot, most of that time was in the south.

 

[D_alex8]

"31% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee."

If they say so ... I rather think my passport says otherwise, though.

 

[EnglishGentleman]

I am the Tshirt Rebel.

'Nuff Said.

:biggrin1:

 

[prepstudinsc]

"31% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee."

If they say so ... I rather think my passport says otherwise, though.

Are you from northern Germany? lol

 

[D_alex8]

Are you from northern Germany? lol

...deep in the south-west, disturbingly, and born even further south still...

 

[nitsud]

52% dixie. I guess that would be right since I live in the Midwest
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[AlteredEgo]

36% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.

A-Duh!

 

[invisibleman]

I'm 29% Dixie due to being college educated on certain things. I am a Yankee Doodle Dandy Andy! But I am black, live in North Carolina, love southern cajun fried chicken, grits with butter , cheese and Tony Chachare's Spices and Herbs Seasonings, and listen to Stax soul records (Yeah, I actually own a turntable!). I even play a Fender Telecaster guitar. I believe that Steve Cropper is THE guitar man for R&B soul guitar playing...hands down. How Southern can you get? So, I believe that tips me over towards more of a rebel "high" yell-er. I really would like to be both a Yankee and a Rebel.There are advantages and disadvantages for both. I love the South--the country, the people, and the ambience even though some in the South don't like me for being black( "Niger" or "Nigrah" ( racists spell this in the South), gay ("Fagit!" how Southern homophobes spell it), and/or invisible ("Ghost!" or "Spook"--how Southern invisiphobes dub me). Hehehe. I like the Northerners. Because they are drastically different than Southerns and I just like that. I like people generally.

 

[Shelby]

100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?

 

[tallguypns]

65% Dixie.
I figure not too bad for someone that has never been above the mason dixon line for more than a week or two.

 

[curiouscat9]

39% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.

Does it count that I love those "wild-eyed southern boys?"

 

[novice_btm]

71% Yankee Doodle Dandy

I got a hoot out of the Great Lakes ones.
TP'ing, Pop, and Devils Night - So True

79% Yankee Doodle Dandy.

I laughed out loud when I read "Devil's Night - Specific to Michigan!" :biggrin1:
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Born and bred in MI, now live in Cali

 

[novice_btm]

"31% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee."

If they say so ... I rather think my passport says otherwise, though.

Well, most "standard" American English, is northern midwestern (linguists say that Indiana had the most "standard" accent). So, if you're influenced by Amer. movies and TV, you wouldn't be exposed as much to southern speech. Actually, the most hysterical "American" accent I ever heard, was a Swedish girl that studied English in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

[ClaireTalon]

76% Dixie. Your neck must be a little pink!

DAMN!!! I thought I had gotten rid of it!

 

[Shelby]

In my experience the south may be overtly more racist than the north but actually more egalitarian. Northerners put up a front so as not to seem politically incorrect.

The most racist city I've spent time in is Boston.​

 

[Matthew]

Well, most "standard" American English, is northern midwestern

That's the lie they tell us when we're raised up there (Wisconsin here). When I got back from my first semester of grad school in North Carolina and turned on the TV in Madison, the weatherman's Norsky accent had me in stitches. My roomates used to save my mother's voice messages to play them back and laaaaaugh.

I'm a yankee and a rebel.

 

[D_alex8]

Well, most "standard" American English, is northern midwestern (linguists say that Indiana had the most "standard" accent). So, if you're influenced by Amer. movies and TV, you wouldn't be exposed as much to southern speech. Actually, the most hysterical "American" accent I ever heard, was a Swedish girl that studied English in Atlanta, Georgia.

*gasp* --- I'll have you know that my accent in English is thoroughly British, thank you very much! :biggrin1: ...as I've said to a couple of people on this board before, if I start trying to do an American accent, within 3 sentences I sound like I should be serving baloney in a New York downtown deli.

 

[RideRocket]

*gasp* --- I'll have you know that my accent in English is thoroughly British, thank you very much! :biggrin1: ...as I've said to a couple of people on this board before, if I start trying to do an American accent, within 3 sentences I sound like I should be serving baloney in a New York downtown deli.

I think that's because most English taught in the German schools is actually 'British English', not American. Most of my relatives have a british 'twang' to their German accent when speaking English.

 

[windtalkerways]

It's the same with French in Quebec,
compared to the French they speak
in France. They are not the same.