Arrr, this be a foyne crop this year! ;)

[flyboy_fox]

You know what makes me laugh? Stupid assumptions. Like somehow, living in Weston-super-Mare means oi au'orrrmatically taaawk loik this 'ere. Hah! XD I happen to like the West Country accent, when it's subtle rather than overbearingly strong. It's friendly and warm. But really, less than 5% of the people I've spoken to here have any hint of it. And besides, I've been living here for only three months XD After 21* years of living in London, I don't think I'll be speaking in a Bristol accent for quite a while. But hey, if people want to assume that all people living in the West Country are country bumpkins, that's fine by me. I can think of plenty of stereotypes for them too :)

*okay not perfectly true. I spent about a year in Miami when I was a baby, but I don't remember it so it doesn't count :P

Comments

[moth-wingthane.livejournal.com]

Arr diddlin? You make I pee I draws! =D

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

XD ... Nope, sorry, I clearly lack the relevent experience to decifer that.

[psychicninja.livejournal.com]

XD So true.
Did you know that when I tell most people I grew up in the country, their first words are something like "You don't talk like a valley girl though." Or something to that effect.

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

People get such fixed ideas in their heads... I think they'd probably be horribly disappointed if they ever went to one of these 'out in the sticks' places and realized how perfectly normal people living there are XD

[psychicninja.livejournal.com]

They can come to the town where I grew up. There was a family there convinced that there was some sort of crystal deep in the mountains that our houses sat on. They had stocks, cases and cases of supplies for when the aliens came to take the crystal back. ^^;

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

Oh... wow XD

Far-go off a short Pierre.

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

Nitch: Ya, tere, Kodji. Ve didn't tink you'd have on axcent, don't ya know? ^on_~o^

Favre: That's supposed to be an Upper Midwestern accent, by the way. It's more how folks speak around Lake Superior than in the Twin Cities.

[sphix.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, don't get me started on Utahn accents. Moun-ens (mountains). Budder (butter). Hunner (hunter). I haven't noticed a great deal of change in accents around this whole part of the US, though. I can imagine that accent boundaries change pretty fast around London, though. XP

[shaboba330.livejournal.com]

I have a total Connecticut accent... we all talk really fast here and we tend to annunciate really wierd syllables. But yeah lol stereotypes tend to be really dumb and off-kilter.

[leonskennedy827.livejournal.com]

Dude, I don't even speak a Bristolian accent as you know, and I _AM_ Bristolian XD What does that tell you?