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noway2 said:
Good point. There is a difference between dialect and accent. If I take the Yankee - Dixie quiz (one can google it) using the words I now use, I score as a southern speaker. One thing that is curious is that a lot of the expressions in the quiz have commonality between the south and Midwest while being different in other areas. For example, a sub sandwich, which is used in both places in other areas it's called a hoagie or a grinder.
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If you are a native with the real accent and an education, you learn how to turn it off if you want a good job. Same thing with my buddy from the ghetto; nobody wants to hire Cletus or Trayshawn.
 
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Chuckman said:
While you lose the ability to 'gain' an accent in early childhood, you can dampen the quality of your accent if you go to an area where that accent is not prevalent (i.e., southern accent in Massachusetts). BUT, if you are around other accents when you are a child, you might code into that accent as an adult if you are around it. I have a flat/neutral accent, I don't know why. I suspect it's from growing up on a military base. My dad was from Wisconsin, my mother was a native North Carolinian with a thick accent. But even though I don't have an accent, my dialect, the words I use, etc., is from eastern NC.

When my wife is around people from western NY, her accent is much worse.
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My wife is from Western Pa but for years people asked if she was 'Dutch' to the point that it is a joke between us. Folks would come right out and say to her "are you Dutch?' She does have blonde hair so maybe that added to the Dutch image package. I never heard any kind of European type accent but we did live in Germany for 3 years when we were first married and she acquired a good enough command of German to work in a German retail store.
 
premise said:
If you are a native with the real accent and an education, you learn how to turn it off if you want a good job. Same thing with my buddy from the ghetto; nobody wants to hire Cletus or Trayshawn.
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"Turning off" an accent is hard, but definitely doable. Managing it is much easier. Even with an accent you can enunciate your words, drop neighborhood aphorisms, and speak intelligibly.
 
rdinatal said:
Can the 2nd revolution start soon? In 10 years I might be too old...
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wsfiredude said:
Already happened....

1861-1865
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I suspect the 3rd one may not be too far off. The divide between two groups that people are lining up under continues to widen. Even though there are factions within the groups, sometimes with stark differences, there definitely seems to be two sides forming up. The rhetoric is getting nastier and is turning violent and aggressive, on both sides. It is clearly a reflection of underlying feelings of hostilities. It's only a matter of time before some spark ignites things. On a side note, I wouldn't even call the groups or sides left / right, or Republican / Democrat. The schism seems a lot more base and fundamental, but both sides are fed up with the current "government" but for different reasons and want to see a different system put in place.
 
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rdinatal said:
Can the 2nd revolution start soon? In 10 years I might be too old...
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Edit to add: he did this with a flintlock smoothbore musket, two old French flintlock pistols, and was drawing a sword when he was shot in the face by a .69 caliber musket ball. They bayoneted him 13 times, beat him with the buttstocks of their Brown Besses, and left him in a pool of his own blood

When his family found him, he was trying to reload the musket to continue to fight.

Any Free Man or Free Woman who truly means to stay that way is plenty dangerous at any age.
 
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rufrdr said:
My wife is from Western Pa but for years people asked if she was 'Dutch' to the point that it is a joke between us. Folks would come right out and say to her "are you Dutch?' She does have blonde hair so maybe that added to the Dutch image package. I never heard any kind of European type accent but we did live in Germany for 3 years when we were first married and she acquired a good enough command of German to work in a German retail store.
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gc70 said:
The Amish speak what is often called "Pennsylvania Dutch."
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I recall reading somewhere that PA had a lot of German settlers - who referred to themselves as-, and spoke "Deutsch." Those who weren't familiar with German mis-heard it as "Dutch."
 
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