Is it me or are those friggin Gotti kids faking their accents?

[HEyHEY]

Seriously, they grew up in the burbs, go to expensive private schools, but talk like they're from fucking boystown or something. Even their mother doesn't have that thick a Jersey accent.

WTF?

[Maddy McCall]

1. That cross tatt was pretty hideous, wasn't it?

[HEyHEY]

2. Didn't see it

???

[Maddy McCall]

4. Last week the son got a tatt of a cross with J G on it...

in honor of his grandfather. It was hideous.

[HEyHEY]

6. His grandpa would smack the crap outta him in real life

[JohnKleeb]

9. why like him, they love the spotlight

ya know what I am sayin?

[roguevalley]

3. If those were my boys, I'd hit them with a chair. Are they retarded or

just pricks?

[HEyHEY]

8. Spoiled brats - why can't the maffia still be active?

Then there would be no cameras in that house except the FBI's

[JohnKleeb]

11. because people want to be gangsta not mafiaso assassins

:cry:
I applied for a job doing it once but they said non Italians need not apply :cry:, kidding but I really am intrigued by mafia culture amd morals.

[HEyHEY]

13. Head North to Boston

Get in the Irish Maffia - or try New York to get in with the Westies

[JohnKleeb]

16. dude I am only 25% Irish

I doubt they'd take me.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

5. To me they ALL have thick hideous accents

and this is going to sound REALLY horrible, so I beg forgiveness in advance, but that is a HARSH looking family!!! UG!

What is interesting about them? I watched the show twice and said "over it!"

Ug again.

[HEyHEY]

10. They fight - REAL interesting isn't it

I actually watch it just becaue they piss me off - kinda like a howard stern thing

[The empressof all]

7. The Burbs of Northern New Jersey is a whole different world

You have to grow up there to really understand and assimilate the visceral bizarreness of living there. Money or education does not necessarily inoculate oneself from New Jersey-itis. It is a gift as well as a curse.

[BlueMole]

12. Not a Jersey Accent

It's pure Long Island - Nassau County.

Even I can't understand some of it.

:beer:

[HEyHEY]

15. Even then - I'm sure they're playing it up

[Book Lover]

14. It's the culture

From one who knows: that accent wears down some after a few years. Plus, I am sure it's not that thick when the cameras are off.

[HEyHEY]

17. Why does it wear down?

[The empressof all]

18. When you leave the New Jersey cocoon

When you begin to talk and hear other folks who don't talk like that it mellows. Most people don't know where I come from anymore but if I'm back in Jersey- forget about it. I can't say it's put on but sort of just like slipping into an old comfortable shoe.

It's a dialect of Americanese-much like a Southerner could tell if someone is from Texas or the Carolina's by hearing them speak. To me that all kind of sounds the same. But I can tell if someone comes from Long Island, Brooklyn or New Jersey.

[BlueMole]

19. Exactly

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. Yes the NJ accent has different dialects

For example, I am from Central Jersey and go to school in South Jersey...and just by hearing a few sentences from people, I can easily tell what part of the state they are from. I've lived in other parts of the country so I can speak with a "normal" accent if I want to...but I find it very easy to slip back into my Jersey accent

[HEyHEY]

20. Same deal here

You can tell Canadian accents but they are very sutble till you really hit the East coast.

[Book Lover]

29. What Wubette said

If I'm back in Queens, it all comes back. Plus, I will admit to making my accent more pronounced while living out here in California if I think it's useful.

[The empressof all]

30. Me too-and I thought I was the only one....

I let my accent slip out more at certain times when I want people to remember me. I think it has helped me to get jobs here on the West Coast. It also helps me to have courage to speak out in uncomfortable situations. (sort of like another self)


Ooooooooh you people from Queens really talk weird.

[maveric]

32. When I go back to Boston, my accent comes back.

It got a bit watered down living in SoCal the past 25 years.

[NightTrain]

21. I got yer fake fuckin' accent right here!!!

:evilgrin:

[HEyHEY]

24. DOn't you Conn guys all talk like Dr. Winchester?

[Dookus]

22. I was born and raised on Long Island

yeah, people really DO talk like that.

[HEyHEY]

25. Even in their position?

[Dookus]

26. absolutely

ESPECIALLY in their position.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

31. Yep, especially there. They like to pretend they are

still put-upon while they live in their, what 6-8million dollar home.

[Reverend_Smitty]

27. It's not an economic issue

it's more of a cultural thing...rich and well educated southerners, still have a southern accent

[The empressof all]

28. Never confuse the Accent

with stupidity, lack of education or poverty. I know it's hard sometimes with such a strange cadence and pronunciation. It's another type of stereotyping and profiling.

Funny, I learned this from a Southern Woman who called me on my own mis-perceptions of where she came from.