Don't they watch national TV? Sorry but I think southern accents sound stupid.
2007-01-05 05:31:46 · 19 answers · asked by Wurm™ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
You just had to say the word stupid didn't you? It just totally takes the focus off of the main question and turns it into a senseless squabble. Calling the accent of southerners stupid is basically calling southerners stupid. Shame on you. Anyway...
Asking if "they", I am assuming you mean southerners, watch national TV is yet another low blow now isn't it? Gee wiz...*sigh*
Is the question even worth answering now? People here have already given you great answers concerning the "melting pot" and the culturally diverse America. That explains it. However, specifically for the south, it evolved from the Scots mainly. Do the research and you will see. Scottish settlements were going up all over the south from Kentucky on down and their accents were mingling with others in the area to give us pretty much what we have today. That does not account for the many grammatical errors some southerners tend to make, but its all good. Its a fun dialect and people get a kick out of it. So, there :-)
2007-01-05 05:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by Goober W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone on this earth who speaks has an accent, even you, Wurm. That includes the people on national tv in the US and elsewhere. You probably don't have an ear sensitive to various accents. Travel and life help with that. As a midwesterner with an accent that sticks with me where ever I live, I think southern accents are charming. There is no one southern accent, there are many. For example, people who live in the mountains sound different than people on the coast. I could listen to them all day long!
2007-01-05 05:39:52 · answer #2 · answered by Brenda P 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You sure don't know much. The United States way back in the day, had settlers from all over the world and certain immigrants live in certain regions of the country, and that my friend is why Americans from the East coast sounded different than Americans from the West coast,so on and so on. Southern accents are all like Aussie accents only slower and more American than English based.
2007-01-05 05:42:12 · answer #3 · answered by patricia w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Texas, and have to agree on the southern accents sounding stupid, but I'm from Cali, and they all think I sound stupid.. Oh well, as long we aren't... But American's have accents because no one is native to this land. Everyone is an immigrant at some point in their family tree, except American Indians, and Mexicans
2007-01-05 05:41:50 · answer #4 · answered by dork_mastr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Huh? Everyone has an accent.
On the contrary, Americans have fewer accents than most countries. If you went to the UK you would encounter as many accents but in a country smaller than California.
Brett Butler, southerner, had a great joke about her accent. She immitated a guy whom she ran into who said (in a very heavy Brooklyn accent), "Yuh, know, I cud neva liv in da Sout, cuz yooz people sound so f***'in stoo-pid".
2007-01-05 07:34:20 · answer #5 · answered by Breandan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because America has so many different people who come from virtually all the parts of the world. When I first came here, I had a an accent, as well. But, then, after many months of practice (and humiliation...lol) I got over it... and started speaking like " normal people"
2007-01-05 05:50:37 · answer #6 · answered by Sultan Cartman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to be so blunt, but I think your question reveals more about the asker's presuppositions than about Americans with accents, Southern or otherwise.
Ultimately, accents are vestiges of cultural colloquialisms, which are vestiges of other language groups, which ultimately are a consequence of the Tower of Babel.
Best to you.
2007-01-05 05:35:43 · answer #7 · answered by Timothy W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because America is a melting pot. The people of this country come from many others and the past concentration of originating accents had an effect on the future 'accent' of that region.
2007-01-05 05:33:31 · answer #8 · answered by Lucy_Fur 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure and I don't like southern accents too much either....especially if it's too heavy. I love people's accents from New York though!
2007-01-05 05:34:33 · answer #9 · answered by Trini-HaitianGrl81 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a huge country !!!
And it is God's Own Country.... this means:
There are many people living in America
and they are coming from every where in the
whole wide world... from Russia, China, Europe...
Imagine:
Germany is a very small, tiny little country,
but even we do have more than 21 different dialects.
So the guy from the coast speaks (and understands)
better English than his own relatives from the South
(which is very close to Switzerland) --- but what is
Germany compared to God's Own Country !???
Aaron & Namwahn.
2007-01-05 05:47:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋