do people from south think in a southern accent?

Question

cause like i have a voice in my head that i think in, and it sounds like my voice, so do southerners not ennunciate in thier thoughts?

Answer 1

I don't know, if you hear your voice in your head, like normal people, than they probably do. I think they do, because I think in MY head all the time (to myself of course ;)) and they proably do to, but I hear my voice when it's in my head.....

Answer 2

No, because they don't think. So how could they think in a southern accent. Okay, that's my smart-a-s-s answer, because I live in the south, but really only applies to some southerners. It could apply to some of any region in the world.

I'm not quite sure why you think in words. I find it very difficult to think in actual words. It's a lot more efficient to not use words when I think. If I use words, then I end up literally talking to myself rather than thinking them. I'm not really southern...so this answer doesn't really count. :)

PS-BTW Answer censors words like ***...so you have to write them differently...like a-s-s. Just thought I'd let you guys know that.

Afterthought....

When I replay in my head what has been said by someone else or myself, I "hear" it in the dialect of the person that said it. Oh, and when I write/type....I guess I "say" it in my head as I'm writing/typing the words...I talk out loud half the time when I'm writing or typing something. It's really annoying. At those times I "hear" it in my head just as I would say it out loud. I speak with a mostly midwestern dialect though. If it was a southern dialect, then it would be a southern dialect that I would be using. As far as general everyday thinking goes...I tend not to think in words.

Answer 3

Yes--- that "little voice" in our heads generally "pronounces" words however we do--- But here is an interesting thing (at least I find it interesting---) When I am reading a great deal and the book is written in 'accents' or dialects, I find my thoughts being expressed in those dialects too... Likewise when I spend lots of time with people who have accents different from mine-- I start picking up the accent in my head.
Now, when that 'little voice' sounds REALLY different from your own voice--- and starts telling you to do strange things--- SEEK HELP! ; )

Answer 4

Yes they do..........

Overview of Southern dialects
The range of Southern dialects includes the Confederate states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War, plus those that were divided by the conflict.

Southern dialects substantially originated from immigrants from the British Isles who moved to the South in the 17th and 18th centuries. The South was known for being largely settled by English from the West Midlands - the West Country. (The West Country dialect of Britain is also very similar to the Southern dialects.) Settlement was also made by peoples from other parts of the British isles, particularly by Protestants from Ulster and Scotland.

Others with mostly English roots usually settled along the Atlantic coast. Both strains combined with the African influences from the African Americans who were at this time enslaved in the South. Others brought accents from other cultural and linguistic traditions, and this diversity combined with the South's geographic separation and longtime use and familiarity with the King James Version of the Bible in religious life to produce a unique American dialect.

Southern dialects in some form can be found chiefly in the States of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, and the Ozark and Little Dixie areas in Missouri. The dialect found in the remaining rural areas of tidewater Maryland is similar to the dialect found in Virginia, and some experts have also suggested that the dialect found in two of Delaware's three counties is related to Southern.[citation needed]

There are also places in Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Montana, and the San Joaquin Valley of California where the prevailing dialect is Southern in character or heavily Southern-influenced, due to historical settlement by Southerners. Also, the speech patterns in the rural areas of the southernmost counties of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois - settled by Southerners and other groups - have strong Southern influences.

Southern dialects are also common in areas associated with the oil industry of Alaska. In the second half of the 20th-Century, concurrent with the development of the oil industry and pipeline, large numbers of Gulf Coast, Texas and Oklahoma petroleum workers moved to Alaska for high pay and adventure - and many stayed.

Answer 5

That is an interesting thought.

Well, I think like I talk, so I would imagine that southerners think like they talk. But it sounds normal to them, just like a northern accent sounds normal to us (if your northern of course).

Answer 6

Just because we speak with a drawl doesn't mean we are stupid. Thoughts are fleeting. Do you hear the voice inside your head when you are making a decision? Or is it just an instantaneous response to what is going on?

Answer 7

no one thinks in an accent because no one has an accent to themselves.

Accents are something that other people notice about them.

I am Canadian, I think and speak in English, yet many of my American friends say I have an amusing accent.

Answer 8

My thoughts sound like Colonel Sanders. This is an interesting revelation. I was not aware that Yankees had actual thoughts.

Answer 9

well if ur voice in ur head sounds like ur voice, wouldnt there voices in there head, sound like them?

Answer 10

I think it depends who they are around most of the time and what they hear. It affects the way they pronounce things.