A 'California Accent' Exists: Do You Think You Have an Accent?
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2012/09/20 19:00:00
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A California accent? Like, no way, dude. You can't be serious. Though Californians -- and other West Coasters -- often pride themselves in thinking that they are free of accents and speak in the purest linguistic form, a new study is here to tell us that that's all a load of crock. The California accent is alive and well!
Researchers found that California is actually home to a very distinct dialect and accent. Some examples? "Black" sounds like "block," "pen" sounds like "pin," and in general the Californian "a" is very nasally. So... whether or not you're from California, we've got to ask: Do you think you have an accent when you speak?
JEZEBEL.COM reports:
Researchers found that California is actually home to a very distinct dialect and accent. Some examples? "Black" sounds like "block," "pen" sounds like "pin," and in general the Californian "a" is very nasally. So... whether or not you're from California, we've got to ask: Do you think you have an accent when you speak?
JEZEBEL.COM reports:
A team of researchers is canvassing California to try and nail down some of the linguistic peculiarities native to its various regions. Conventional wisdom holds that, aside from garish movie caricatures like Spicoli and Cher Horowitz, the English spoken on the west coast is clean, accentless, and standard.
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Top Opinion
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Tunnel Vision 2012/09/23 00:14:16
anyway
I got lucky and don't have much of an accent at all I got comments I don't sound southern from people in new york, alaska and colorado. I was born and raised in texas
Were these researchers given grant money from the government and needed some crazy research project to work on to justify the free money - maybe they are smoking too much and hearing things ???
black sounding like block no i think thats still brittish
Also I'm assuming this is for the US only, because if we are going to talk about a standard for the english language, then I think England would say that Australian, Canadian, and American english accents are a derivitave of their own, thus making their varied accents the 'standard'.