What do people assume about you from your accent/dialect?

[terry78]

When you travel from your current place of residence, do people assume particulars about you from the way you speak, whether you have a certain accent or dialect regarding your voice? I remember going to L.A. for my family reunion back in July and ordering something at a fast food spot and the girl was like, "are you from someplace like wisconsin or something?" I said, close...Indiana. "Yeah, I can tell, you have like a midwest thing going on in your voice. Plus you asked for a pop instead of a soda." Go figure.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

That I am from the North and was not born in the South.

 

[AndThePickles]

Whoa, I had heard that some people still say pop but never actually met anyone who does.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Sometimes....I think for some reason that I have a NY accent. My Dad was born in Brooklyn. But other than that,nothing. I speak normal. No accent. Just that I'm hispanic.

 

[jimmy]

Good question. I live in Los Angeles, so most people have a spanish accent, mixed with a kinda weird surfer twang thing going on.

I've been told that I have no accent, and that I have a "slight" accent.

I took this accent test on the internet a while ago. The results showed that I had a north-east accent. Go figure.

I have no idea.

 

[terry78]

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have

I have a Midland accent.

 

[jimmy]

I got the West this time.

 

[Honey Vibe]

I speak very softly, so people assume I am weak-willed.

 

[SapphirePrima]

Whoa, I had heard that some people still say pop but never actually met anyone who does.

You've got a problem with that?

 

[gap5ewl]

well this is interesting..you see im originally from new york city but i moved around a lot. I lived in the central valley of cali and the ghetto middle of no where of new hampshire so no one can ever tell where im from. I always tell them nyc and they always freak out because i have absolutely no accent...just a normal one.

 

[AndThePickles]

You've got a problem with that?

Haha no, it's cute actually. Reminds me of the fifties.

 

[Master Chief]

I don't have a set accent.

If I'm reading, I'll throw in a British twang.
If it's quiet, I'll talk like Jigsaw [from the Saw movies]
If' it's loud, I'll talk in a light voice.

lol, either way, people assume nothing since I'm in friggin' Canada.

 

[enterthemadness]

When I was younger, a lot of people asked where I was from due to my speech problem. I still have a speech problem (because I wasted 14 or so years of speech therapy), but it isn't that bad. My senior year, only two people thought I wasn't american. They thought I was british I think, at least one of them did. I can, I think talk in a british accent if you annoy me and/or piss me off. I do know I ain't talking in my normal voice in the very least when that happens.

and I say coke instead of soda or pop.

Example...

Waitress: Pepsi. And what do you want?
Me: Coke.
Waitress: Pepsi okay, sexy? o ok, I added in sexy)
Me: Yeah.
*notices ring*
Me: damn.

 

[Hades]

What American accent do you have?Your Result: North Central


"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The Inland North

The Midland

Philadelphia

The South

Boston

The Northeast

The West


it's funny cause i am canadian.

 

[SapphirePrima]

Haha no, it's cute actually. Reminds me of the fifties.

lol
Philadelphia

The Northeast

The Midland

The South

The West

Boston

North CentralI've never been to Philly

 

[Master Chief]

I have a Midland accent according to the quiz, lol, cool.

 

[Catman]

People think I'm Puerto Rican. Everytime I go to New York everyone thinks I'm a local.

 

[ComicChick]

i live in va, and my mom's fam is from south carolina, and my dad's is from north carolina.

i have a slight country accent. sometimes i just sound 'normal' but then when i say certain words, you can definitely hear it

 

[heypapajinx]

i've been told i sound white, Puerto Rican, Southern, New York, and old.
i think it just really depends on who i'm talking to and where they're from.

 

[Addendum]

According to the quiz, I have a Midland accent, and I've lived in Memphis since 1981

 

[ComicChick]

i just took that quiz:

your result: the Midland

You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

next highest scores:

The South
The West
Philadelphia
The Inland North
Boston
North Central
The Northeast

 

[Catman]

i just took that quiz:

your result: the Midland

You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

next highest scores:

The South
The West
Philadelphia
The Inland North
Boston
North Central
The Northeast

Thats what I got as well.

 

[Yurka]

people think im a gangster when i first talk with them

 

[Honey Vibe]

i live in va, and my mom's fam is from south carolina, and my dad's is from north carolina.

i have a slight country accent. sometimes i just sound 'normal' but then when i say certain words, you can definitely hear it

do you call it a "dangalang" like Toto_Annihilation did?

 

[The Shredder]

Northeast.

Figures. Since I've been told here and there that I sound like a Yankee. And people in IL. seemed surprised I didnt sound southern, or cajun when I visited the state years ago.