I have been at FAMU two years, and even though I used to to come to Florida every year or two growing up, I didn't see much of what I have seen since I have been here. It seems like people take pride in bein extremely country. What I mean, is those who have horrible dredlocks and sometimes gold teeth, and just talk ignorant as hell as if it is tite. I don't have any problem with a country accent, but there are some people who completely over-do it, and who never talk proper, as if it is the thing to do. I was watchin grandaddy souf on TV, and he was talkin about "down here, we don't pronounce the th at the end of words. We don't say south, we say souf. We don't say north, we say norf" and I was lookin like man this guy's a idiot. I could see if a kid was raised to say souf and that's all he knew, but for somebody who knows how to say it right but chooses to say it wrong just sounds stupid as hell to me.
Now have things always been like this? Is it just a Florida thing? I definitely realize that all people down south are not like this, so I am not generalizing anyone at all. But for these select people who take pride in bein ignorant and never lookin presentable, is it somethin that they think is good? I don't get it...
lol..I think for the most part it's a south thing. I know when I first got to Florida I had the hardest time understanding what people were saying cause they're southern accents were soooo thick
Thank you for calling the accents "southern" instead of country. The midwesterners have as much country areas than much of the south, but you never hear their accents called country.
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Im from Chicago (the midwest) and when I go other places people ALWAYS say I sound country... I dont even think Im country, but hey thas what people say...
All ma cousins from California make fun of me and say I sound like Im from down south... And I dont hear it at all. I dont get offended or nothin, that ish just blows me!!
But believe me, when I need to sound professional... I can most definitely get ma "white girl" on!
People from Chicago do sound real country...and it is the oddest thing to me. How did a group of people from the midwest end up with a deep southern accent? :? It still continues to puzzle me to this day.
Because most people's families are originally from down south... One side of ma family's from Oxford, Mississippi...
But Yea alot of Black folks in LA sound super-white! I make fun of ma cousins cus they say Twister instead of Twista (when referring to the rapper of course!)....
I KNOW i gotta southern accent....i think its cute...i ain't thick or nothing...but dudes from up north kinda like it...they say i sound "innocent" :lol:
I KNOW i gotta southern accent....i think its cute...i ain't thick or nothing...but dudes from up north kinda like it...they say i sound "innocent" :lol:
I KNOW i gotta southern accent....i think its cute...i ain't thick or nothing...but dudes from up north kinda like it...they say i sound "innocent" :lol:
damn....if they only knew
SHUT DA HELL UP...they won't know if you dont say NOTHING
I KNOW i gotta southern accent....i think its cute...i ain't thick or nothing...but dudes from up north kinda like it...they say i sound "innocent" :lol:
I KNOW i gotta southern accent....i think its cute...i ain't thick or nothing...but dudes from up north kinda like it...they say i sound "innocent" :lol:
U INNOCENT??!! :roll:
you shut the hell up too!!! don't make me put you on blast....ms.i take pictures in "tube tops"
Bein country doesn't necessarily connotate ignorance. I hate it when people automatically deduct 100 IQ points because I have an accent. Like I'm slow or somethin. Fact of the matter is that I still use big words. I still pronounce everything. I just have an accent. I got most people BEAT as far as countriness... :roll: Can't wait to get to Louisiana though... 8)
And you damn straight its cool to be extra country...
Bein country doesn't necessarily connotate ignorance. I hate it when people automatically deduct 100 IQ points because I have an accent. Like I'm slow or somethin. Fact of the matter is that I still use big words. I still pronounce everything. I just have an accent. I got most people BEAT as far as countriness... :roll: Can't wait to get to Louisiana though... 8)
And you damn straight its cool to be extra country...
Bein country doesn't necessarily connotate ignorance. I hate it when people automatically deduct 100 IQ points because I have an accent. Like I'm slow or somethin. Fact of the matter is that I still use big words. I still pronounce everything. I just have an accent. I got most people BEAT as far as countriness... :roll: Can't wait to get to Louisiana though... 8)
And you damn straight its cool to be extra country...
and that's wassup right there that's what im talkin about...ignorant because i have a southern accent? f*ck outta here with that...sorry, not tryin to flame, but c'mon...seriously.
I had an English 100 professor...she and i were REALLY coo (about 2 years ago) and she spoke the most eloquent english you would want to hear, but when she and i were talking after class and what not she'd throw on the "country grammar" because that's what she was used to speaking like (or as most people say Ebonics-i hate that word as it implies that the only people that use it are Black).
Just because you can speak correct english, and you are able to blow people out of the water, doesn't mean it's the most comfortable way for you to speak. that's like an Aussie or a Brit trying to do an american accent just so they dont sound "Ignorant" to you......wont happen.
Bein country doesn't necessarily connotate ignorance. I hate it when people automatically deduct 100 IQ points because I have an accent. Like I'm slow or somethin. Fact of the matter is that I still use big words. I still pronounce everything. I just have an accent. I got most people BEAT as far as countriness... :roll: Can't wait to get to Louisiana though... 8)
And you damn straight its cool to be extra country...
and that's wassup right there that's what im talkin about...ignorant because i have a southern accent? f*ck outta here with that...sorry, not tryin to flame, but c'mon...seriously.
You CLEARLY did not take the time to read this thread in its entirety. :roll:
that's what im talkin about...ignorant because i have a southern accent? f*ck outta here with that...sorry, not tryin to flame, but c'mon...seriously.
I had an English 100 professor...she and i were REALLY coo (about 2 years ago) and she spoke the most eloquent english you would want to hear, but when she and i were talking after class and what not she'd throw on the "country grammar" because that's what she was used to speaking like (or as most people say Ebonics-i hate that word as it implies that the only people that use it are Black).
Just because you can speak correct english, and you are able to blow people out of the water, doesn't mean it's the most comfortable way for you to speak. that's like an Aussie or a Brit trying to do an american accent just so they dont sound "Ignorant" to you......wont happen.
