• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There are different accents in the US. Talk to people from Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, and California, they all sound different with the person from Louisiana probably being the most incomprehensible.

    For that matter talk to someone from Dallas, TX and then someone from Tulsa, OK. That’s only a 4 1/2 hour drive. They will both sound different. I’m pretty sure there’s a different accent in Oklahoma City compared to Tulsa, and a different one in San Antonio compared to Dallas.

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      1 year ago

      youre thinking about Cajun English, which is getting less and less common, and really is found in the southern parts of Louisiana. most louisiana residents not from deep in the bayou speak relatively comprehensibly.

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      1 year ago

      Had to look up a Louisiana accent just to see, and it sounds a bit different in some unnameable way but still definitely just South. Aside from being able to pick out she must be from some nebulous southern state that wasn’t NC, I think we could have gotten along fine.

      Which I guess just means you and I wouldn’t be able to communicate in person if I played up my childhood accent even a little. Which is fair. The day I introduced my first bf to my dad, I still vividly remember having to stand in as translator between them and I still don’t understand how that happened. He was only one state up, and from a more rural area.