Some people mistake a southern accent for a hillbilly-uneducated accent :)
But I was wondering who didn't like people with southern accents, and why.
2007-02-22 00:31:19 · 8 answers · asked by Ashley 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I was born and raised in Ohio. My grandparents lived in the south. Since I went to visit almost every month, I developed an accent. I used to get made fun of in grade and middle schools, but I discovered in High School that I could get my point accross better when I raised my voice a notch or two than I could with vulgarities when I am angry. Apparantly, there is something very effective about a southern drawl that calms people, even when those are angry. Even today, a barely raised voice has more affect than me cussing like a sailor when I am greatly irratated.
2007-02-22 00:44:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a native Texas drawl despite not having lived in the state for more than ten years. So of course I like a southern accent. What really grates on my nerves is that New York/New Jersey accent! Talk about a bastardization of the English language!
2007-02-22 00:47:29 · answer #2 · answered by Christopher H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a Southern accent growing up and got made fun of for it all the time. If it wasn't someone asking me to bring them a "cool glass of lemonade" or telling me I sounded like I'd never made it farther in school than finishing school, it was someone just teasing me about it outright. So when I got to college, I totally dropped it. I think people don't like it because they perceive it as fake and cloying. Think of what you've seen in movies: the controlling mother ALWAYS has a southern, ladylike accent and is seen as so caught up in the ways of the past she can't let her (usually) daughter do as she pleases. Sigh.
2007-02-22 00:36:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love southern accents, infact I like all of the accents that I hear
2007-02-22 17:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by micheleh29 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to have a very deep Southern accessory. Now that I stay interior the Midwest, that is basically about long previous. i'm a sprint happy unquestionably. they're alluring accents, yet maximum human beings will take 20 factors off your IQ while they pay attention it. upload the subtraction I already took for being blonde, and that i'm borderline retarded.
2016-09-29 11:21:15 · answer #5 · answered by faim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the guy above. Stephen Colbert had to do the same thing I had to do--and this has been my people's country for 10,000 years. Yet I had to lose an accent to please the aniyonega elites.
I'll never understand a country that hates its own people that way. Horrible, really.
2007-02-22 01:13:50 · answer #6 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't mind it at all, but people in the north do have a bias against southern people, so you have to drop your southern accent to be taken as a serious, educated person. it is a shame, but look at stephen colbert. he dropped the accent and changed the pronunciation of his last name just to please the liberal elites. now they think he is a genius. if he said y'all just once they would think he was an idiot again.
2007-02-22 00:50:57 · answer #7 · answered by Matt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is kinda nice accent.I was in eroupe and the people love the southern accent?
2007-02-22 00:36:51 · answer #8 · answered by Scott H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋