>these people think that they don't have an accent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tpyV1tjwQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwfuURAVBwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFvpzkuFUmQ
What say you, /int/?
Nobody here thinks we don't have an accent.
t. Minnesota
>the blue line touches the northern tip of my county
phew, made it.
People laugh when I say water though. The idiots think I say "WODER" when I clearly say "WHA-TER"
>>62286026
I'm from South East Michigan myself. Definitely some folks around here who're convinced we're somehow accent-less or otherwise the quintessential "generic American" accent. Only others I know of to have this delusion were some Arizonans I met once.
Anyhow, having been out of state and told I had a very pain and obvious Midwest accent, I know I have one, but I couldn't for the life of me describe just what it entails. These videos are actually somewhat helpful in that respect, so thanks, although they seem to have a more pronounced accent than anybody I know. Are these folks all from like Wisconsin or something?
>>62286393
Rochester, Grand Rapids and Chicago.
To me as a foreigner that's the easiest accent to understand.
I live on the green dot and I've been to the USA many times, every time I do go people instantly know i'm canadian when i speak at any time. People in Michigan and northwestern Ohio have these thick midwest/southern kinda sounding accents
I've talked to a few Buffalo NY natives and they sound canadian
>>62286026
Southern New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Wisconsin have HUGE accents.
Also, southern Michigan has a very noticeable Midwestern drawl
>>62286393
It was hilarious hearing Michiganers pronounce "Hamtramck" when I was visiting there.
I'm from Chicago, and I personally have an unholy combination of a Chicago accent and a southern accent.
As for where the quintessential American accent (as there's no such thing as "no accent") is based, I'd think it be around southern Iowa or eastern Nebraska.
>>62287544
"General American" isn't really an accent with a solid definition.
The term can essentially refer to any Northern or Western accent that's slow, easy to understand, and doesn't have too much of a "twang"
>>62286026
>st. louis
>accent
nigger you what
>>62286026
yooper accent best accent desu
I want a qt Minnesota gf to go to early morning football games with while wearing hoodies
>>62286026
Is this a good description of the shift for non-Northerners?
trap>trep
kit>kett
dress>dr*ss [* = About]
strut > strot
thought > thaught
cot > caht
>>62288462
>trap>trep
We (Chicagoans) tend to front our vowels, like
>I walked to the stahk mahrket today
IDK about the rest of the area, though.
>kit>kett
The pin-pen merger is only really in the south
>dress>dr*ss
?
>stut>strot
Not in Chicago, see above
>thought>thaught
We do have quite a bit of the cot-caught merger, but for me personally there's a slight subtle difference.
>cot>caht
Yes, see above.
>>62288570
>?
* = schwa, the first vowel from About.
Also, thanks. I'm trying to understand the whole shift.
>>62287672
Basically Southerners
The only people who don't have accents are us Iowans
>>62288462
I'm from Northern Illinois.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1M1VsyBisJu
I used different words to illustrate those vowel sounds, because some seem to bring out my accent more than others.
>Bag
>Milk
>Twenty
>Butter
>Awning
>Dot-com
Here is me trying to pronounce those same words "properly"
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1gZvtcdBEX7
You can tell this is thoughtfully made because of the peninsula extending to St Louis
>>62289720
That's Route 66.
I was born in Michigan and still live here but I worked on my accent and it sounds alot different than most people.
Basically I took out all the harsh sounds and made them more quick and light
Example the long r and the over pronunciation
