What kind of accent do you have?

[JaniceM]

Canadian southwest coastal, noticeable for the uptick at the end of sentences. We tend to sound as if we are consistently questioning everything, lol.

Is THAT where it came from???

 

[Nemo2]

Is THAT where it came from???

I think SoCal is the leader there.

 

[Pepper]

Is THAT where it came from???

Yeah, thought that came from The Valley!

 

[JaniceM]

I think SoCal is the leader there.

Huh?
I was referring to the ending sentences like they're questions thing..

 

[JaniceM]

Yeah, thought that came from The Valley!

I've heard everybody blamed from Vals and Surfers to Australians... but it's CANADA!!!!

 

[Nemo2]

Huh?
I was referring to the ending sentences like they're questions thing..

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~aritchart/RitchartArvaniti_SpeechProsody2014.pdf

 

[JaniceM]

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~aritchart/RitchartArvaniti_SpeechProsody2014.pdf

In all the years I lived in Southern California I never heard anybody talk like that.
I don't think it's an accent or dialect, just another fad that's hopefully gone away by now.

 

[jimintoronto]

In all the years I lived in Southern California I never heard anybody talk like that.
I don't think it's an accent or dialect, just another fad that's hopefully gone away by now.

Ever hear the term "Valley Girls " ? It refers to teen age girls in the outskirts of Los Angeles. Jimb.

 

[JaniceM]

Ever hear the term "Valley Girls " ? It refers to teen age girls in the outskirts of Los Angeles. Jimb.

You're kidding, right?

 

[fancicoffee13]

Ferr shurre, we all have accents. No, you only think you don't. If you don't think you have an accent, that means your speech is exactly like all the people, who surround you. So, when you leave that area, low and behold, you have an accent. As a kid from Massachusetts, I had a "Boston" accent. Now I live in N.E. Pennsylvania, I talk like the locals. For "coffee", I say "cough-fee". Right across the river is New Jersey, they say "caw -fee", and they don't think they have an accent, either. I love accents. What kind of accent do you have? Got some favorites?
BTW, one of the weird things about accents is that we don't pick up the accents of our parents, or adults, we pick up the accent of the kids in our neighborhood. How they talk, we copy.

Senior Texan

 

[Nemo2]

You're kidding, right?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Valley girl

 

[JaniceM]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Valley girl

I meant I guess he didn't know where I was living back in those days.

 

[Nemo2]

I meant I guess he didn't know where I was living back in those days.

Maybe he figured you were in Berdoo?

 

[JaniceM]

Maybe he figured you were in Berdoo?

Heh. Nope.

 

[jimintoronto]

You're kidding, right?

Not at all. It is a well known type of speech, where the word "like " is used over and over in one sentence, and every sentence sounds like a question is being asked. link. Valley girl - Wikipedia JimB.

 

[JaniceM]

Not at all. It is a well known type of speech, where the word "like " is used over and over in one sentence, and every sentence sounds like a question is being asked. link. Valley girl - Wikipedia JimB.

I ALREADY KNOW THIS!! I WAS LIVING THERE AT THE TIME!!!

 

[DebraMae]

When I moved to Canada I sounded Texan. When I came back from Canada I sounded French. When I moved to eastern Oklahoma I heard them speak with a kind of "twang" that seems to come from the Ozark region. I don't notice that any more, so I guess that is where my own accent has landed, for a while......

 

[dobielvr]

Ever hear the term "Valley Girls " ? It refers to teen age girls in the outskirts of Los Angeles. Jimb.

Like..totally

 

[hollydolly]

I ALREADY KNOW THIS!! I WAS LIVING THERE AT THE TIME!!!

the word like is used every second or third word among certain types of people here in the UK

 

[JustBonee]

Midwest accent .... people like to guess Chicago or Cleveland mostly. That's where I'm from.

 

[Bellbird]

I have a Kiwi (NZer) accent, be whatever that maybe.