im from southwestern va. everyone keeps making fun of my accent?
2007-04-06 14:56:39 · 11 answers · asked by nobody's kid 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
lol...i use to make fun of people like it too..lol...then moved to the south and now I am the one with the accent..lol...what goes around comes around! But all my friends think it's cute!
Dont know why people make fun, not sure why I ever did..lol
2007-04-06 15:04:35 · answer #1 · answered by woohooo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well you would think they would get used to your accent but I guess not. I visited Alabama and they had a southern accent but it really was not something to make a big deal about. Most New Yorkers have an accent too so you could make fun of him back lol. I am from Illinois and i would like to think that we midwesterners do not have an accent.
2016-05-19 01:02:05 · answer #2 · answered by juliette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've also noticed that accents are very noticeable. If you move from the south to the north, the northern people will immediately ask you where you are from, due to your accent. If you move from north to south, they won't even speak to you because you don't have the local accent.
I've never had anyone make fun of me due to my accent (I have a Virginia accent), but I've had a few people ask me where I'm from. One lady even told me to never loose my southern accent (and I didn't even know I had one)!
I am one of those people who can pick up an accent within a few minutes of listening to people. I tell folks that I'm a Myna bird, because I can do that. If I hear a southern accent on the phone, within a couple words I sound like the person I'm talking to!
2007-04-06 15:05:02 · answer #3 · answered by nymormon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am also from Virginia (central VA) and people always make fun of the way I talk. They are just jealous that they don't have such a cute southern drawl.
I used to live in TX and when I talk to friends whom still live there they make me really mad when they try to say I have a northern accent, I am very proud that I am from the south, I think that we have more class. Just my opinion though
2007-04-06 15:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by insuringu 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they wish they too could speak like us...the southern way of speaking draws to mind lazy, summer days on a soft flowing river--not brisk wind on an ice cap...There is nothing sexier than hearing a Southern man call you "Mam"..and the children use "please" and "thank-you"..stand
proud and speak softly..I love being a Southern woman, accent and all!
2007-04-06 19:10:18 · answer #5 · answered by poopiewoo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually Virginians have the most attractive southern accents. It doesn't sound as twangy as say, an accent from Tennessee or Alabama.
2007-04-06 15:00:43 · answer #6 · answered by TJTB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love southern accents. Especially when it's coming out a girls mouth. It's so charming, sweet and innocent. I love it. (Wow that made me sound creepy.) I'm really not. I'm from the south anyway.
2007-04-06 15:01:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I did not even detect an accent.
2007-04-06 14:59:54 · answer #8 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love your accent!!
2007-04-06 15:00:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they wish they had one
2007-04-06 15:00:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋