Sybil-
Please pawrdon my taridiness maa'm we have been at carnival awlll
weekend and have not had too much chance to be current on list. We call that
charmer type accent. I talked to Rose about it when we first met at
JoniFestNE. Her accent is very similar to the New Orleans charmer accent.
Many people try to emmulate our accents here and fail. My dear friend Dennis
Quaid did so in The Big Easy and as I recall there were several people in
that movie that bombed with the New Orleans accent. I am on my way to the
Bacchus Ball load in to hang out with dukes duchesses kings queens and
charmers. Happy Carnival to you all.
Paz
NP-Jacksonville Skyline-Oh Yea Like you Don't know
on 2/8/02 3:23 PM, Sybil Skelton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've really enjoyed reading all these posts about the various accents.
> Someone (sorry, I can't remember who) expressed surprise that there were
> accents within American accents. Often, there are many within a single state
> - I just love the variety in Louisiana. There is one in particular that I
> think is unique to New Orleans that almost sounds like a Brooklyn accent.
> What is that called? Paz?
>
> I'm born and raised in Texas and according to non-Texans, I have a Texas
> accent. When I was in high school, I went on a student trip to Europe, and
> one of the countries we visited was the Soviet Union. Now, this was about
> 1970, so everyone was kinda jumpy. Back then, no one we encountered spoke
> English other than our guides, so talking to the average Russian was
> impossible. But, one day while touring a museum in Moscow, my little group
> of 10 or so noticed we were being discreetly followed and eavesdropped on by
> a young woman. She finally got up her courage and introduced herself to us.
> She was an English teacher on holiday in Moscow, and she had been
> listening to our English trying to keep up with the conversation, but she
> was having difficulty. She said she realized we were American, but she
> seemed to be baffled by our "phonetics". It took us a minute to realize
> that she meant the Texas drawl!! We tried to explain as best we could that
> there were regional accents in the U.S., but I don't think she got it.
>
> Sybil
