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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 04:22 PM
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16. I have a deaf accent, and most people don't know I'm deaf because
I speak well, so they assume that the accent is Eastern European in origin.
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  -What's your accent HEyHEY  Feb-20-04 03:58 PM   #0 
  - Bostonian  meegbear   Feb-20-04 03:59 PM   #1 
  - You've got a WICKED Lynn Accent, pal  RationalRose   Feb-20-04 04:01 PM   #2 
  - Lynn, Lynn city of sin. You'll never come out the way you went in!  maveric   Feb-21-04 03:00 AM   #94 
     - Did someone say "LynneSin"  LynneSin   Feb-21-04 06:26 AM   #101 
  - I gut a fucken pissah Boaston accent!  maveric   Feb-21-04 02:59 AM   #93 
  - Weird  JCCyC   Feb-20-04 04:02 PM   #3 
  - where i grew up....  flush_bush   Feb-20-04 04:02 PM   #4 
  - Texassippian  jchild   Feb-20-04 04:03 PM   #5 
  - I have no accent at all  Mass_Liberal   Feb-20-04 04:04 PM   #6 
  - A Northeast accent probably  RationalRose   Feb-20-04 04:08 PM   #11 
  - oops  JVS   Feb-20-04 04:51 PM   #33 
  - My dad could tell what neighborhood someone was from in Boston  RationalRose   Feb-20-04 05:02 PM   #36 
  - Same here. nt  caledesi   Feb-20-04 08:21 PM   #66 
  - you sure man  JohnKleeb   Feb-20-04 04:25 PM   #17 
  - Californian  ronnykmarshall   Feb-20-04 04:04 PM   #7 
  - Californian here also  proud patriot   Feb-20-04 06:43 PM   #49 
  - Yeah! Aloha, dudes!  rezmutt   Feb-20-04 08:04 PM   #57 
  - that's tripindicular, dude!  seekthetruth   Feb-20-04 09:03 PM   #77 
     - I have the one they want on television: expressionless in terms  roguevalley   Feb-20-04 11:53 PM   #91 
  - A combination of three Southern ones:  GainesT1958   Feb-20-04 04:04 PM   #8 
  - A flat Midwestern twang  DeposeTheBoyKing   Feb-20-04 04:06 PM   #10 
  - Southwest Ohio/ third gen. Deutscher.  sasquatch   Feb-20-04 04:05 PM   #9 
  - My parents say I have a Wisconsin accent now  Nikia   Feb-20-04 04:10 PM   #12 
  - I got me a Texas drawl...  VelmaD   Feb-20-04 04:11 PM   #13 
  - I am a Wisconsinite.  JonathanChance   Feb-20-04 04:11 PM   #14 
  - Also from Wisconsin  WyoMee   Feb-21-04 03:24 PM   #107 
  - Standard Chicago suburban one  eyesroll   Feb-20-04 04:20 PM   #15 
  - I have a deaf accent, and most people don't know I'm deaf because  slinkerwink   Feb-20-04 04:22 PM   #16 
  - well  Kellanved   Feb-20-04 04:25 PM   #18 
  - NE Prep School with "Texas" sort of starting to drift in  wellstone_democrat   Feb-20-04 04:25 PM   #19 
  - my friend from Calgary says I have a "Nanny (Fran Drescher)"  jonnyblitz   Feb-20-04 04:26 PM   #20 
  - WTF does that mean  JohnKleeb   Feb-20-04 04:34 PM   #24 
  - LOL  jonnyblitz   Feb-20-04 04:46 PM   #29 
     - I can flee to old country quicker than you can say guten tag  JohnKleeb   Feb-20-04 07:45 PM   #53 
  - he's probably messing with ya  HEyHEY   Feb-20-04 04:51 PM   #32 
     - That's more like Nova Scotia  RationalRose   Feb-20-04 05:03 PM   #39 
     - I think people use the wrong term  HEyHEY   Feb-21-04 03:34 PM   #110 
     - nooo...he says oooot and aboooot!!  jonnyblitz   Feb-20-04 10:42 PM   #85 
  - Sauthwesstern Ahia wit some Milwaukee in der too.  Whitacre D_WI   Feb-20-04 04:27 PM   #21 
  - The Valley One  bigwillq   Feb-20-04 04:29 PM   #22 
  - I suppose a little Minnesotan  breezygirl   Feb-20-04 04:29 PM   #23 
  - Me too  Lizz612   Feb-20-04 11:36 PM   #88 
  - WHAT'S YOUR ACCENT  VicariousDemocrat   Feb-20-04 04:35 PM   #25 
  - hey welcome to DU  HEyHEY   Feb-20-04 04:47 PM   #30 
  - hey trinbagonian!  seekthetruth   Feb-20-04 09:01 PM   # 
  - Floridians don't have accents  gyopsy   Feb-20-04 04:40 PM   #26 
  - Neutral American  Ramsey   Feb-20-04 04:41 PM   #27 
  - A fake brittish accent  corporatewhore   Feb-20-04 04:45 PM   #28 
  - South, Southern Ontario with a Buffalo overlay corrupted by British  TrogL   Feb-20-04 04:50 PM   #31 
  - That's Irv Weinstein  devilgrrl   Feb-20-04 04:55 PM   #35 
     - My dog attacked him once.  baldguy   Feb-20-04 07:57 PM   #54 
     - Hey, you "pistol-packing punks"!!!  July   Feb-20-04 09:38 PM   #81 
     - Right. I know what happened  TrogL   Feb-20-04 10:36 PM   #83 
  - A lot of people think I'm from Philly or Toronto.  devilgrrl   Feb-20-04 04:53 PM   #34 
  - I think mine is pretty normal, but thats what everyone thinks...  cqhayes   Feb-20-04 05:03 PM   #37 
  - I prolly groo up with an accent like the one in Farrgo  Lydia Leftcoast   Feb-20-04 05:03 PM   #38 
  - I'm not sure I *have* an accent.  Blue-Jay   Feb-20-04 05:05 PM   #40 
  - You don't sound a damn lick like a Springfielder,  Whitacre D_WI   Feb-20-04 08:05 PM   #58 
  - I have a vague Glasgow accent, but kind of posh sounding.  Screaming Lord Byron   Feb-20-04 05:25 PM   #41 
  - So, you sound like a Glaswegian aristocrat...  Whitacre D_WI   Feb-20-04 08:07 PM   #62 
  - Glaswegian Aristocrat is like Progressive Conservative  Screaming Lord Byron   Feb-20-04 08:16 PM   #63 
     - I'm just picturing the Rezillos at high tea.  Whitacre D_WI   Feb-20-04 08:18 PM   #64 
        - Edinburgh. Glaswegian bands include but are not limited to...  Screaming Lord Byron   Feb-20-04 08:29 PM   #67 
           - Oh.  Whitacre D_WI   Feb-20-04 08:40 PM   #70 
              - The Rezillos / Revillos were great.  Screaming Lord Byron   Feb-20-04 09:01 PM   #75 
                 - Nothing beats their cover of "I Like It."  Whitacre D_WI   Feb-20-04 09:08 PM   #79 
  - Posh Glasgow?  Thankfully_in_Britain   Feb-21-04 03:48 AM   #96 
     - I sound like Stuart, the singer from Belle and Sebastian, if that helps  Screaming Lord Byron   Feb-21-04 10:46 AM   #104 
  - Buffalonian Accent  cryfordawn   Feb-20-04 05:27 PM   #42 
  - Non-regional American  LuLu550   Feb-20-04 05:28 PM   #43 
  - One-third Minnesotan, one-third (Manitoba) Canadian, one-third gay.  northwest   Feb-20-04 05:30 PM   #44 
  - Generic American Mid-Western  VogonGlory   Feb-20-04 05:58 PM   #45 
  - Southern  camero   Feb-20-04 05:59 PM   #46 
  - I confuse a lot of people...Texa-bertan  fudge stripe cookays   Feb-20-04 06:32 PM   #47 
  - I sound like a fag.  pagerbear   Feb-20-04 06:37 PM   #48 
  - Memphis Accent. The more you know me,  kitkatrose   Feb-20-04 06:49 PM   # 
  - Oopsie. Dupe...  kitkatrose   Feb-20-04 06:49 PM   #50 
  - Boston. No r's where they belong. (I always pak my cah)...  notmyprez   Feb-20-04 07:30 PM   #51 
  - faint German, Ws go to Vs occasionally  MisterP   Feb-20-04 07:41 PM   #52 
  - Well,  aquaman   Feb-20-04 07:57 PM   #55 
  - Southern. All my Yankee friends call me "hillbilly"  BlackVelvetElvis   Feb-20-04 08:03 PM   #56 
  - Genuine by-God Southern!  dbaker41   Feb-20-04 08:06 PM   #59 
  - East Texas twang  Argumentus   Feb-20-04 08:06 PM   #60 
  - Born in Philadelphia, PA, raised in Miami, FL  RebelOne   Feb-20-04 08:07 PM   #61 
  - I'm from Arkansas, but my accent apparently is more midwestern.  elperromagico   Feb-20-04 08:19 PM   #65 
  - one parent from outside Boston (Woosteh) and one from  tigereye   Feb-20-04 08:36 PM   #69 
  - That's tough...N'Awlins some, some midwestern  new_beawr   Feb-20-04 08:35 PM   #68 
  - So-called "General American Dialect".  Spider Jerusalem   Feb-20-04 08:42 PM   #71 
  - I have the dumb ass accent  Eumenides   Feb-20-04 08:45 PM   #72 
  - North Georgia Mountain Accent  Gildor Inglorion   Feb-20-04 08:54 PM   #73 
  - a cross between  seekthetruth   Feb-20-04 09:00 PM   #74 
  - Wisconsin  dpbrown   Feb-20-04 09:01 PM   #76 
  - southern  brainwashed_youth   Feb-20-04 09:07 PM   #78 
  - New York (LI) x Appalachian/Mid-Atlantic.  rsammel   Feb-20-04 09:21 PM   #80 
  - Very weak southern  last_texas_dem   Feb-20-04 10:20 PM   #82 
  - Southern accent.  Endangered Specie   Feb-20-04 10:37 PM   #84 
  - South Florida.  kixot   Feb-20-04 10:54 PM   #86 
  - i sound like this...  Ysabel   Feb-20-04 11:32 PM   #87 
  - KGB Midwestern  BiggJawn   Feb-20-04 11:39 PM   #89 
  - Midwestern female soprano, also known...  populistmom   Feb-20-04 11:43 PM   #90 
  - "Pittsburgh," in theory...  Westegg   Feb-21-04 02:55 AM   #92 
  - Ontario Canadian  youngred   Feb-21-04 03:10 AM   #95 
  - Yep.  Ekova   Feb-21-04 05:00 AM   #99 
     - Odd thing is, I'm not Canadian  youngred   Feb-21-04 02:37 PM   #105 
  - generic mid-atlantic...  renegade000   Feb-21-04 04:28 AM   #97 
  - Hawaii  La_Serpiente   Feb-21-04 04:45 AM   #98 
  - Hawaiian accents are soooooo sexy!  Cuban_Liberal   Feb-21-04 03:31 PM   #109 
  - Campbell's Creek(krik)Rogue Brogue aka Hillbilly!  Hubert Flottz   Feb-21-04 05:19 AM   #100 
  - Pure Pennsylvania Dutch  LynneSin   Feb-21-04 06:27 AM   #102 
  - Ottawa Valley  Parrcrow   Feb-21-04 07:10 AM   #103 
  - Philly - but then again people from Philly...........  Oz   Feb-21-04 02:40 PM   #106 
  - Flat Midwestern with a Hoosier twang.  Cuban_Liberal   Feb-21-04 03:29 PM   #108 
  - Downeast and Middle Atlantic mixed together  GreenPartyVoter   Feb-21-04 03:43 PM   #111 
 

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