Not directly on topic, but I had a Russian accent as a kid. My mother is from Pittsburgh and my father is from rural Pennsylvania. It went away after a while. Maybe I watched too much Rocky and Bullwinkle.
My DD does not have an accent, I do - (its gotten much softer since I moved). Now that DD is reading and practicing sight words she gets a big kick out of me using my accent. I'll say water ends in an "a" and she's squeal "nooooooo!"
Post by cinnamoncox on Oct 23, 2014 14:07:07 GMT -5
Oh, after seeing the princess and the frog, one of my girls routinely says "I'm getting dressed" like Lottie in a wicked southern drawl and I LOVE it. I could listen to a southerner talk all day long. It's so cool to me, as a harsh Bostonian. I can't even spell how she says it, it's like drayesed. It's darling.
Yes. I have noticed it more and more. the other day my son said "Mah, whose cah are we taking to the sto-ah" Translated Mom whose car are we taking to the store
No, but that's mainly because she still lisps sometimes. Right now, that's the most noticeable aspect of her speech.
My husband has a flat midwestern non-accent, too, which is part of it. I have a vaguely southern accent when I'm drinking, but otherwise am pretty flat/newscaster too. I also suffer from accent adoption syndrome, so L and O may also have this malady. In which case they'll have the same accent as the person nearest to them who has a strong accent.
I have the same affliction. It is super cute to hear dd speak with a sometimes German accent, she only uses it for certain words. "Is it dunkel outside?" dunkel means dark in German. or " I yike it, it's goot"
Yes. I have noticed it more and more. the other day my son said "Mah, whose cah are we taking to the sto-ah" Translated Mom whose car are we taking to the store
Yes. I have noticed it more and more. the other day my son said "Mah, whose cah are we taking to the sto-ah" Translated Mom whose car are we taking to the store
Post by CrazyLucky on Oct 23, 2014 14:46:51 GMT -5
We live in NC, and DS is definitely picking up the southern twang. Where is your coat? It's raht there! But, interestingly, four different people in three different states, none related to each other, have asked me where he gets his British accent. What? I have no idea!
Post by game blouses on Oct 23, 2014 15:01:32 GMT -5
The poor kid is Californian, through and through. Everything is SOOO cool, or SOOO fun, or SOOO yummy. The question marks haven't appeared at the ends of his sentences, but I worked hard to get rid of those in my own speech so maybe he'll be okay.
One of the (many, many, MANY) we left KY before having a child was because we do not want our child to sound like Forrest Gump.
She doesn't speak, yet, so I can't weigh in more than that at this point, lol.
Hey now! I used the term country bumpkin with all due affection. I hope your kid's accent is unintelligbily thick. Lol.
I didn't read your initial response, so I apologize if I offended. Hell, I grew up in WI, eh, so I'm not gonna poke fun at anyone's accent (and my H has a bit of a KY twang, since he spent part of his childhood there).
I draw the line at "ass"="ice" and "bray-yed"="bread." As I alluded, there were several hundred other reasons we hated living there, trust.
Hey now! I used the term country bumpkin with all due affection. I hope your kid's accent is unintelligbily thick. Lol.
I didn't read your initial response, so I apologize if I offended. Hell, I grew up in WI, eh, so I'm not gonna poke fun at anyone's accent (and my H has a bit of a KY twang, since he spent part of his childhood there).
I draw the line at "ass"="ice" and "bray-yed"="bread." As I alluded, there were several hundred other reasons we hated living there, trust.
Not offended. Just joking. :-) I think Pittsburghese was in the running for ugliest accent in some online contest I saw, so I can identify.
My kid is WICKED Bostonian. As in he has used the word WICKED before & knows used the bubblah to get watah.
The other day we were in the car & he said " mommy I pra-fuh the blue ones " I took me a few minutes to realize he was saying prefer & I have lived here my whole life.
Not in English, but DS1 cannot for the life of him speak Spanish without a horrendous American accent. To be expected for a five year old, I guess, but we speak it somewhat at home and I read to him in Spanish with a decent accent, so it cracks me up when he says "grassy-ass seen-yor-a!" And his ESL classmates side eye him like he's a tourist with a fannypack.
I can't hear it too much with my girls, though sometimes with K. I have a recording of me when I am 3 and I have a definite drawl to my voice. BUT, I was talking with my dad who had a strong southern accent, so there is a good chance I was just picking it up around him. I still tend to do this.
Post by aprilsails on Oct 24, 2014 11:46:22 GMT -5
I don't have kids but when I first started talking I had some pronunciation issues and a lisp and it basically added up to me having a vague Swedish accent.
I also had white blond hair, bangs and two braids all the time. My Mom called me Ilsa. I think she was embracing it.
I started speech therapy when I was 4 and my 'accent' went away by 6. All my pronunciation issues were resolved finally when I was 12 and got my braces off. My huge overbite was probably the main issue.
C's daycare room had a child from Morocco in his class this summer. C started calling us Ma-mah and Puh-pa, with emphasis on the second syllable, for a bit. Freaking adorable. I also remember taking my first train from London to Edinburgh years ago and heard this little boy playing "I spy with my little eye" in a British accent (can't place if english or scottish from memory, I was so new to it then). But again, adorable.
Yes. Three different accents. His DCP is from Great Britain and her H is from down here in the south. Then there is our Wiskaahnsin accent in there too. The poor kid.