What About Me 2014-02-28

[Fairportfan]

BTW - when did Tina take off her shirt?

[zachariah]

What do Americans consider to be a "Southern accent"? Tucson and San Diego and Miami are definitely south, but you never hear their residents being referred to as having a Southern accent (unless they moved there from Georgia or someplace). Texan accents seem to be set off in a category of their own, too.

For that matter, I wonder what sort of an accent Tina has, given that she's a collection of demons manipulating a body's lungs and larynx. I can imagine some paranormal sociolinguistics professor listening to her and declaring, "By Jove, is that a hint of south-eastern Demon Realm I hear in your voice?"

The southern drawl comes Georgia and Alabama mainly. It strong the further south you go until you hit Florida. Frorida has so many accents it is impossible to define one.
As you head west you get into Deep south until you get to the Mississippi. The strongest here is cajun but changes as you do north and hit Tennessee. Once across the drive you start getting into the western drawl of which Texan is the most well know. But this drawl, could be called cowboy, goes all the way north on the plains.
The west coast has no readily define accent sadly as it to has to many small one to ever become well named or know.

The smallest well know accent of course is Brooklyn. Youse Heer wat I(pause) saying! Soitently!

[kingklash]

Don't worry, Tina. I'll gladly hold your tentacle until the rest of the hen party restart Bud.

[sheik]

There there, Tina. They'll get to you. Especially now that you have said the magic word 'Bia'. They just have to sort things through, first. And get Bud's brain working again...

(I agree, Tina's been getting short shift here. There are plenty of mysteries about Tina 1.0 that nobody has dug into. Mainly because events in WS tend to be crisis driven, and there hasn't been a crisis involving Tina for a while. Now there is, and a potentially big one. I think we'll be finding out a lot about things pretty quick.)

That's short _shrift_, a reference to an abbreviated confessional.
Which in this case is quite apropos.

[Neveko]

I totally get how Tina feels. When you're the one always doling out information, people start thinking that you never need anyone to talk to because clearly you're able to solve every other problem. Though, to be honest, I don't really know what anyone there can do short of dragging Tina to see Bia. Which, with Shelly saying Bia's her mom, I suppose it shouldn't be *that* hard for them to do that much.

[Mark N]

Tina; "I wanna talk about ME!"

I think the Alan Parsons song Lets Talk About Me is more apropos to this one.

[Dave]

That's short _shrift_, a reference to an abbreviated confessional.
Which in this case is quite apropos.

Upon slight consideration I might suggest an alternative...

[Fairportfan]

The smallest well know accent of course is Brooklyn. Youse Heer wat I(pause) saying! Soitently!

Also heard (basically) in New Orleans - particularly the Nint' Wahd.

Related to Yat.

[AmriloJim]

zachariah, nice analysis of the Southern drawl. I've heard the Texas variant described as a "twang". Having grown up in Idaho and being in the radio biz when I moved to Texas, I have a fairly neutral accent, but I can drop into a twang when needed, y'all.

[Hansontoons]

Nor do I have an endearing Southern accent.

Say what? I thought that came natural to Texans...

Depends on where the said Texan was raised, from my observations. I have lived in the Houston area (with a few years in Hunstville, outside the Walls that is...) since 1973 and had opportunity to meet and get to know folks from the city and the edge of East Texas to central Texas. The accents are certainly different; city more laid back, somewhat slow (as in speed, not mind) and easy to understand with hints of SoCal at times (lived there too) and rural with the stereotypical mouth-full-of-marbles slow drawl to the nasaley whine. And DO NOT make disparaging remarks about the state to the natives, you WILL be asked to leave...

And I have relatives in Iowa, the accent to me is difficult to describe but I love the people enormously! Listen to the Music Man song "Iowa Stubborn" to get an idea of the way they can be. Also have relatives in Wisconsin, different again.

And to top it off, my city-raised with country relatives Native Texan daughter is engaged to a a young man that came to the USA from Russia at the age of 12, so he retained his accent. When they have kids, talk about the opportunity for some messed-up accents!

Uff da, y'all!

[Timotheus]

Let's see, there's Chicauga (sout' side), Dee-troit, Neu Jeu-sey, Up North Yankee, Deep woods Wisconsin/Michigan,Minnesotan (Ya sure), Central Illinois/Indiana/and points west, and western Pennsylvanian. That's the accents I can identify usually if they're pronounced distinctly, usually in the "r"s, "d"s, "e"s, and "u"s.

[Opus the Poet]

And then there's my accent Not From Here. Everywhere I go as soon as I talk people say "You're Not From Here, are you?" Nobody ever has any trouble understanding me, until I start with the Patois we learned as Military Brats, a little French, a little Italian, a little German, a dash of Japanese and spice it up with Arabic and Spanish curse words.

[Wyvern]

I know the feeling; I've got a friend who mixes Rhode Island and Hawaiian accents. She's perfectly understandable, but not quite like anyone else I've ever met.

[NOTDilbert]

BTW - when did Tina take off her shirt?

Before this picture. You're welcome.

[Sidhekin]

Assuming the thoom left her shirt intact (as yay! Tina is!), she probably had to take it off to shake the sand out.

[shadowinthelight]

Assuming the thoom left her shirt intact (as yay! Tina is!), she probably had to take it off to shake the sand out.

Thoom induced clothing removal? I knew drunk Bud likes to get naughty but that is pretty devious of her.

[Fairportfan]

zachariah, nice analysis of the Southern drawl. I've heard the Texas variant described as a "twang". Having grown up in Idaho and being in the radio biz when I moved to Texas, I have a fairly neutral accent, but I can drop into a twang when needed, y'all.

There's West Texas - exemplar: Mike Nesmith.

[zachariah]

Uff da, y'all!

This has to be a southern Swedish accent. Uff Da is the Swedish Oy Vey.

[jwhouk]

Oh fer criminy cripes sake.

[Bookworm]

Texas has four main accents.

East Texas, which is what you heard from the Sheriff of Marshall, Texas, during the Shuttle disaster recovery searches. He should NOT have been allowed near a microphone, to prove to everyone in the rest of the country that everyone in Texas sounds like an inbred moron. It's a slower drawl, and when they get irritated, it gets slower and deeper.

West Texas. This is more of a twang.

Houston. This is an amalgam of the East Texas and every carpetbagging northerner possible, mixed with a good leavening of Mexican and New Orleans.

Mexican - this is from San Antonio south, due to the enormous influx of illegals in the last 25 years.