US kids speaking like Brits

[MC BumSlap]

I’d rather be American than French.

French are more racist.

 

[norcalAF]

Yeh, as much as I joke my experiences with people in France are exactly opposite of the stereotype. People were super friendly, even in Paris.

yep, we were invited to share a bottle of wine and some dessert with some locals last time my wife and I were visiting Paris. One of the guys who invited us over was French Army Vet, so him and I swapped some war stories, He was plastered lol.

 

[bojangle]

A few years ago there was a fantastic quiz in the NY Times that asked a bunch of questions about what words you use to say certain things, or how you pronounce various words. It was able to identify the specific county I grew up in.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

I'm really wondering what effect two years of living in NYS has done to mu accent. this place doesn't have a very perceptible accent but a subtle one. It'll be fun times when I get to see some friends and family in CA again and they'll all tell me I talk funny now.

I took this quiz a few years ago. Probably from a link on barf, I don't remember. Just took it again. I got Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Stockton as the three closest guesses of cities of origin. While I'm not actually from any of those cities, on a nationwide basis, that's pretty damn close.

 

[auntiebling]

A few years ago there was a fantastic quiz in the NY Times that asked a bunch of questions about what words you use to say certain things, or how you pronounce various words. It was able to identify the specific county I grew up in.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

I'm really wondering what effect two years of living in NYS has done to mu accent. this place doesn't have a very perceptible accent but a subtle one. It'll be fun times when I get to see some friends and family in CA again and they'll all tell me I talk funny now.

that's pretty fun
i grew up and still reside in the san jose area. my dad is from massachussetts and my mom from the sacramento area. the results said i'm likely from stockton, modesto or santa rosa so i guess i picked up much of my dialect from my mom!

 

[bcj]

The test put me in Rochester NY, Madison WI or Honolulu HI.
Never been to any of those.
Hmm. So that's why everyone goes "Huh?".

Did go to Maui for 2 weeks back in the mid 80's.

 

[Johndicezx9]

We don't got turnpikes out here...

My cousins back East call soda drinks "pahp"...

My Nikes are "kickers"...

 

[Bay Arean]

I can't stomach more than a few minutes a time, but whenever I zip by that awful "Alaskan Bush People" show, the rotten children have weirdly different accents. One kinda talks like a Brit. I guess the father is from Texas.
It's probably just Fetal Alcohol Syndrome with the kids.

I wanna stump that quiz but am at work so I have to wait. Kind of curious to see what it comes up with.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

I watched a lot of Monty Python as kid but this probably makes it far worse.

https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/ne...picked-up-british-accents-thanks-to-peppa-pig

Children in the U.S. have picked up British accents during the pandemic, parents say, because of how characters on the animated British preschool show “Peppa Pig” speak.

Pretty cool that the kids learned that the healthcare system is broken, but the British have a National Healthcare Service

like the clip says.

 

[TylerW]

We don't got turnpikes out here...

My cousins back East call soda drinks "pahp"...

My Nikes are "kickers"...

It was kinda wild moving out here and learning that the term "freeway" isn't a universal term. I've always used it for any high-speed limited access highway after a life lived in California, where toll roads are pretty scarce. Out here its all Throughways and Expressways and if I say Freeway they look at me like I have two heads.

I'm just glad I can use the term 'bodega' to refer to a corner store a little more easily here.

 

[Bay Arean]

It was kinda wild moving out here and learning that the term "freeway" isn't a universal term. I've always used it for any high-speed limited access highway after a life lived in California, where toll roads are pretty scarce. Out here its all Throughways and Expressways and if I say Freeway they look at me like I have two heads.

I'm just glad I can use the term 'bodega' to refer to a corner store a little more easily here.

They also have those Parkways too, like the Sawmill and the Taconic. Four lanes, ZERO shoulder, zero median. And the way they drive, man, I was sweating a breakdown there.

Package store is kind of funny to have heard. Not sure if used up where you are.

Do they still consider a coffee automatically creamed and sugared? So you have to say black to prevent it? That was amusing to learn.

 

[TylerW]

They also have those Parkways too, like the Sawmill and the Taconic. Four lanes, ZERO shoulder, zero median. And the way they drive, man, I was sweating a breakdown there.

Package store is kind of funny to have heard. Not sure if used up where you are.

Do they still consider a coffee automatically creamed and sugared? So you have to say black to prevent it? That was amusing to learn.

I haven't noticed much difference in the expressways here vs similar freeways back in CA, other than the occasional toll plaza. Having an EZ-Pass (this region's version of the fastpass) is a must to make sure you don't get caught out. I feel like parkways and turnpikes are more of a directly coastal thing, but I haven't been out that way much.

Never heard of a package store. Funny thing is, in the tiny town I grew up in Northern CA, the town bar had a sign out front that said "Liquor Off-Sale" which apparently meant that they had a small liquor store at the front of the bar where you could buy bottles and six packs to take home. Never seen anything like that anywhere else.

Liquor laws here are WEIRD. Grocery stores and bodegas can sell beer and ciders along with regular food and other goods, but otherwiuse you need to go to a "wine and spirits" store for... well wine and hard liquor. The weirder thing is that the "wine and spirits" stores can ONLY sell alcoholic beverages. No mixers, no sodas, nothing that won't get you drunk on its own.

 

[auntiebling]

re off-site sales: the bar attached to Duartes in pescadero, as of 10 years ago last time i was there, does it. it's the only one i've see outside of the east coast. i'm no expert thought.

only going by my experience as a kid visiting grandparents in Mass. liquor laws can vary by town on the east coast. some are completely, some don't sell on sunday... either way only increasing the proffit of the closest liquor store in the next town

 

[CocoLoco]

Have you been in France? Sure, generalizing isn’t good. Most people are decent in most countries I’m sure. I don’t know much about France. But it’s not at the top of my list for visiting at this time.

Yeah, I used to live in Germany about 80 klicks from France and Luxembourg. We used to go to France on the regular.

 

[CocoLoco]

It was kinda wild moving out here and learning that the term "freeway" isn't a universal term. I've always used it for any high-speed limited access highway after a life lived in California, where toll roads are pretty scarce. Out here its all Throughways and Expressways and if I say Freeway they look at me like I have two heads.

I'm just glad I can use the term 'bodega' to refer to a corner store a little more easily here.

Tell them to take their auto-translation devices in for a systems check, OS update, and recalibration.

 

[SM610]

New speach patterns that grind on my last nerve...

Impor ent = important
Mow ens = mountains
Bu ens = buttons
Cur ens = curtains
Ki ens =kittens

Obviously eliminating the "t" in words is new and hip or something. Admit it, you do it dont you? DONT YOU?!?!

I used to call it FESD or female effected speach disorder, but now i hear guys doing it all the time too. There probably an age limit, people over x age dont do it. Im guessing about 40 yrs old is the cut off.

 

[bcj]

The only freeways up here in BFE are I5 and I90.
The rest is mostly dirt roads. I5 isn't much better really.

 

[TylerW]

New speach patterns that grind on my last nerve...

Impor ent = important
Mow ens = mountains
Bu ens = buttons
Cur ens = curtains
Ki ens =kittens

Obviously eliminating the "t" in words is new and hip or something. Admit it, you do it dont you? DONT YOU?!?!

I used to call it FESD or female effected speach disorder, but now i hear guys doing it all the time too. There probably an age limit, people over x age dont do it. Im guessing about 40 yrs old is the cut off.

I notice the dropping of T's as more of a Black vernacular thing. A buddy of mine drops the T in button (he's white) and it always throws me.

One of my clients says "Yuge" when he's saying "huge". And while he's pretty conservative, it took me a bit to realize that's a NY thing, and not a trump thing.

 

[wazzuFreddo]

The only freeways up here in BFE are I5 and I90.
The rest is mostly dirt roads. I5 isn't much better really.

I remember all the west siders complaining about highway 27 when heading out to Pullman for the first time ever. I don't think a lot of them had ever been over the Cascades before.

But we also had I-82 down in the south eastern corner.

 

[Bay Arean]

I haven't noticed much difference in the expressways here vs similar freeways back in CA, other than the occasional toll plaza. Having an EZ-Pass (this region's version of the fastpass) is a must to make sure you don't get caught out. I feel like parkways and turnpikes are more of a directly coastal thing, but I haven't been out that way much.

Never heard of a package store. Funny thing is, in the tiny town I grew up in Northern CA, the town bar had a sign out front that said "Liquor Off-Sale" which apparently meant that they had a small liquor store at the front of the bar where you could buy bottles and six packs to take home. Never seen anything like that anywhere else.

Liquor laws here are WEIRD. Grocery stores and bodegas can sell beer and ciders along with regular food and other goods, but otherwiuse you need to go to a "wine and spirits" store for... well wine and hard liquor. The weirder thing is that the "wine and spirits" stores can ONLY sell alcoholic beverages. No mixers, no sodas, nothing that won't get you drunk on its own.

Yeah the latter are package stories or packies. I know they use the term in Connecticut at least. Ms. BA's kids all grew up in NY state and I've heard them use it.

 

[HappyHighwayman]

Some British accents do add a sound of class to someone's voice...others...not so much