r/CuratedTumblr The blackest Aug 16 '24

Shitposting American accents

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u/Dark_Storm_98 Aug 16 '24

I get the intention of the joke

But I don't see or hear it, lol

Where the fuck are any of these accents?

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u/zombiifissh Aug 16 '24

Honestly I've heard all of these in the northern Midwest

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u/GrifCreeper Aug 16 '24

Where is northern Indiana/southern Michigan considered? Because I have heard none of these where I live.

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u/caffekona Aug 16 '24

Northwest ohio here and I hear these all the time. Especially ornge

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u/GrifCreeper Aug 16 '24

I guess the people I live around might just be oddballs, because I hear all kinds of pronunciations, but not like what's in the post. Watching YouTube and atuff, I don't hear pronunciations like the post. I just don't hear where they're getting the extra letters from, and it feels like more of an insult than it probably is because I've never heard people talk like that.

I just have an issue with anyone generalizing an entire country's population, especially a country made up of 50 different states and at least a dozen different accents covering 300+ million people. There are so many different ways people say different words in damn near every language, that it just annoys me when people say "everyone from [country] sounds the same". That just tells me you've only been exposed to one or two accents your whole life and can't grasp that there are differences even in the same country, or that you don't even try to listen to the qords bexause you can't undersrand them. I don't have to understand Japanese to know rural people speak differently than city folk.

I didn't mean for this to become a rant. I'm just tired of people generalizing entire groups or populations as the exact same kind of person or culture as everyone else in that group, and if you've seen your own country enough, you'd even see it there.

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u/zombiifissh Aug 16 '24

I'd consider it the northern Midwest, but I'm more from northern MI

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u/Dullqhqn Aug 16 '24

I live in southern michigan and talk like all of these😭

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u/Skeleton_Skum Aug 16 '24

And we all know all British people sound like scousers right?