Southern Drawl, Accents in the Extreme

[K2WH]

What's happening with this band? #Use to be lots of northerners on the band and now, tuning around at night, I find mostly southerners gabbing away in southern drawl in the extreme either driving their 18 wheelers down the interstate or hogging a frequency like a CB channel forever. #South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and others of the same ilk, continue to crowd the band with their 5kw linears with signals rolling into the north east with 40, 50, 60 over 9 signals. #This is what the dumbing down of ham radio has brought.

And the accents! #There are some operators that have such a sharp accent I swear I cannot understand what they said. #Even the DX can't get it right. #Obviously there is no population control in these states and probably the # 1 movie down south of all time was "Smokie and the Bandit" and his habits.

We need to get more northerners on the air to counter this obvious co-opting of the 80 meter band by the south.

BTW, whats with all the Spanish stations coming on the air now? #What about Spanish only repeaters? #Then you got the Polish only nets and the Ukranian guys with their own way of doing things. #What about the guys who record your voice off the air without even asking. #What about the Hi-Fi guys with the stupid reverb and audio effects. #Where does this stop?

How much flaming do you think this will start?

K2WH http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[K9STH]

Probably the group from South Boston, MA.

Glen, K9STH

[KE5FRF]

This post is a joke, right?

[K8AG]

Yeah,

We should get rid of everybody on the air who dosen't talk exactly like me!
Darn foreigners cluttering up the band!

What did you expect to hear? #Radio waves go beyond your community.

JP, K8AG

[ne3r]

What a mess.

Well, the rules say, you have to ID in english, other than that, you can use pig latin if you want.

73
Joe
N3PAQ

[N1MLF]

ayuh chum..at'll fixer sum good it will.

I have a very pronounced "downeast" accent but in QSO's I do my best to hold it in check and NOT use the local slang & colloquialisms. Moreso on DX contacts where the english language is not the primary language of the other operator.
Maybe it's common courtesy or maybe it's common sense.
So far.. So good.
Then again perhaps some of the southern folks have got ahold of some antenna wax.
..JW..

[K6BTM]

Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Dec. 19 2005,11:43)]Where does this stop?

How much flaming do you think this will start?

K2WH http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Doesn't stop unless or until there's some sort of illegal activity. So far none has been detected here.

The amount of flaming will be in proportion with the amount you were looking for I'm sure. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[w5lda]

Are you on crack? What a moronic post.Must be related to kww:p

[KE5FRF]

Quote[/b] ]Whats happening with this band?
suggested grammar correction:
#What's happening with this band?

Quote[/b] ] Obviously there is no population control in these states and probably the # 1 movie down south of all time was "Smokie and the Bandit"and his habits.
suggested grammar correction:
#Obviously there is no population control in these states. Down South, the # 1 all time movie is probably "Smokie and the Bandit", and it shows with their radio habits.

Quote[/b] ]others of the sam ilk
spelling correction:
others of the same ilk

Quote[/b] ]Use to be lots of northerners on the band and now, tuning around at night, I find mostly southerners gabbing away in southern drawl in the extreme either driving their 18 wheelers down the interstate or hogging a frequency like a CB channel forever.
suggested grammar correction:
There used to be lots of Northerners on the band, but now, tuning around at night, I find mostly Southerners gabbing away in a Southern drawl to the extreme, either driving their 18 wheelers down the interstate, or forever hogging an amateur frequency much like they would a CB channel.

Edited courtesy of a Louisiana resident with a Southern dialect.

[WB2WIK]

"Why can't the English learn how to speak?"

-Professor Henry Higgins.

[K2WH]

Quote[/b] (kd5vsg @ Dec. 19 2005,09:37)]Are you on crack? What a moronic post.Must be related to kww:p
Oh boy, an Okey. #Same group of people.

Hey Larry just read your bio. #What's with the question marks? #Are you the Riddler or are you Batman or is it you just don't know how to put a sentence together?

K2WH

[n0iu]

You know, if we hadn't won the Revolutionary War, we would all be speaking English now!

But seriously, Hispanics are the fastest growing segement of the American population. Maybe you are the one who should be learning Spanish instead of the other way around!

Merry Christmas!
Scott NØIU

[KE5FRF]

Quote[/b] ]Are you the Riddler or are you Batman or is it you just don't know how to put a sentence together?


Quote[/b] ]Obviously there is no population control in these states and probably the # 1 movie down south of all time was "Smokie and the Bandit"and his habits.....?http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

Grammar: from .this URL (http://www.answers.com/topic/grammar)

The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.

The system of inflections, syntax, and word formation of a language.
The system of rules implicit in a language, viewed as a mechanism for generating all sentences possible in that language.

A normative or prescriptive set of rules setting forth the current standard of usage for pedagogical or reference purposes.
Writing or speech judged with regard to such a set of rules.
A book containing the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic rules for a specific language.

The basic principles of an area of knowledge: the grammar of music.
A book dealing with such principles

[K2WH]

Quote[/b] (KE5FRF @ Dec. 19 2005,10:13)]Quote[/b] ]Are you the Riddler or are you Batman or is it you just don't know how to put a sentence together?


Quote[/b] ]Obviously there is no population control in these states and probably the # 1 movie down south of all time was "Smokie and the Bandit"and his habits.....?http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

Grammar: from .this URL (http://www.answers.com/topic/grammar)

The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.

The system of inflections, syntax, and word formation of a language.
The system of rules implicit in a language, viewed as a mechanism for generating all sentences possible in that language.

A normative or prescriptive set of rules setting forth the current standard of usage for pedagogical or reference purposes.
Writing or speech judged with regard to such a set of rules.
A book containing the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic rules for a specific language.

The basic principles of an area of knowledge: the grammar of music.
A book dealing with such principles
Hey, are YOU on crack. #What are you talking about? Are you using educated aluminum?

K2WH

[kd7msc]

Y-all don't come back ya hear! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[WB2WIK]

Quote[/b] (n0iu @ Dec. 19 2005,14:12)]You know, if we hadn't won the Revolutionary War, we would all be speaking English now!
..and if it weren't for the Manhattan Project, we'd all be speaking Japanese; and if not for the Russians, we'd all be speaking German...and if....

What surprises me, regarding language, are only a few things:

1. We've had languages for several thousand years now, and there are still a lot of different ones, on such a small planet. (Think we'll ever create a unified international language besides the U.S. Dollar?)

2. Society is so incredibly tolerant of truly horrible communications that eventually it might be possible that entire conversations could be a series of grunts, and books could just be pictures of scribbles. If so, refer back to #1, above.

WB2WIK/6

[WB2WIK]

Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Dec. 19 2005,14:16)]Are you using educated aluminum?
Don't you remember the old Telrex ads? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[KE5FRF]

What am I talking about?

I am talking about your poor use of sentence structure and syntax. I am questioning why an individual with such terrible grammar would insult the Southern regional dialect.

[K2WH]

Quote[/b] (KE5FRF @ Dec. 19 2005,10:22)]What am I talking about?

I am talking about your poor use of sentence structure and syntax. I am questioning why an individual with such terrible grammar would insult the Southern regional dialect.

Another one here, from Louisiana. #Touchy aren't they? #Went from CB to Tech in about 5 minutes. #What we have here folks is another "Failure to Communicate". #Hey, buddy, don't insult me.

Your grammar stinks too using all those big words and things and other stuff. #Why I'll bet your are probably an and don't know it yet since thtat thing you call a brain is not in gear.

BTW - Merry Christmas to all from

<marquee><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" size="+2" color=green>K2WH</marquee>

[ky5u]

This has to be a troll. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif All I know is if you pinch off most northern women's nose, they would not be able to speak. ROFL!!

[KE5FRF]

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OK, man. Merry Christmas. No insult intended. I'm just keeping everything on the level. I earnestly hope the next time you get on 80 meters you won't have to put up with people from other parts of the nation contaminating your band. I am sure this was just an oversite by cousin Bubba and his friend Billy Bob. Sometimes they forget that Northern folks are listening and just speak naturally to each other. We'll take them out behind the woodshed and give them a whoopin', or maybe we'll just give them a jug of moonshine to calm them down.

I certainly hope this is a troll.

[K2WH]

How else am I going to get my "Views" count up. This works great you should try it sometime. Since I posted this little ditty, my count went up by a 45 "Views". I'm trying for 10,000.

K2WH

[n0iu]

Oh, and by the way, I am 100% Ukrainian. Tell me, what is our way of doing things?. If there is a special or different way I should be doing something, I never got that memo. Truth be told, my heritage is from the southern region of the Ukraine, but I have never been told I have a southern accent!

[KE5FRF]

Try looking up your callsign and hitting "refresh" on your browser until your count goes up to your goal.

[N4AUD]

I have a heavy Southern Appalachian accent. I've never been a CB'er but my brother does drive trucks, but he's not a ham.
I couldn't possibly care any less what anyone thinks about my dialect. If they think a southern accent makes the speaker stupid, it says more about their ignorance than about the speaker's IQ. I've had lots of friends from all over the US, and geography and culture have absolutely nothing to do with IQ. I like to hear different accents from around the country and it lends some flavor to a conversation. Regional accents are becoming rare, and there are classes in this area to help people get rid of it and replace it with the plain-vanilla boring TV newscaster non-accent. I think that stinks, frankly, and is condescending. Anybody who doesn't like my accent can kiss my rear.

[K9STH]

Back in the late 18th century (1700s for those in Rosalinda) there were about as many persons in this country that were speaking German as those who were speaking English. There was a vote in Congress as to which language should be the "official" language of the United States of America. English won by a single vote.

Glen, K9STH

[kj3n]

Quote[/b] (K8AG @ Dec. 19 2005,14:59)]Darn foreigners cluttering up the band!
That's "durn furriners", boy! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[KA3IGW]

I'm a transplanted yankee (damn yankee to some) from Pittsburgh to South Carolina. After thirteen years in the South some of the yankee accents now sound as foreign to me as the Southern ones! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[w5lda]

Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Dec. 19 2005,08:54)]Quote[/b] (kd5vsg @ Dec. 19 2005,09:37)]Are you on crack? What a moronic post.Must be related to kww:p
Oh boy, an Okey. #Same group of people.

Hey Larry just read your bio. #What's with the question marks? #Are you the Riddler or are you Batman or is it you just don't know how to put a sentence together?

K2WH
Well Mr.Einstein,,the question marks are because i edited my information.As to your original post,,do you think the bands are just for your side of the country? But then again when i realized your qth it came as no surprise. And since the emoticon didn't work on my first post,maybe you can see these so your panties don't wad up again http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif .Sentence enough for you?

[K2WH]

Quote[/b] (n0iu @ Dec. 19 2005,10:47)]Oh, and by the way, I am 100% Ukrainian. Tell me, what is our way of doing things?. If there is a special or different way I should be doing something, I never got that memo. Truth be told, my heritage is from the southern region of the Ukraine, but I have never been told I have a southern accent!
You probably did, but people didn't want to embarrass you.

K2WH

[K2WH]

Quote[/b] (KE5FRF @ Dec. 19 2005,10:47)]Try looking up your callsign and hitting "refresh" on your browser until your count goes up to your goal.
Yeah, but thats cheating. I'm letting others do it for me. It's called delegating.

K2WH

[KI4BNC]

whuddaya meeeean accent?!?!?
'Aint got no accent?!
'Yer jus' hearin' stuff you don't understand.
We use proper english down here in the south.The rest of th' country needs to speak proper english.
iffin ya come down heeeere to this here south,us sutherners might learn ya' a thing or two.



YALL' COME BACK NOW!!
YA' HEAR?

[AG3Y]

Quote[/b] (K9STH @ Dec. 19 2005,18:34)]Back in the late 18th century (1700s for those in Rosalinda) there were about as many persons in this country that were speaking German as those who were speaking English. #There was a vote in Congress as to which language should be the "official" language of the United States of America. #English won by a single vote.

Glen, K9STH
OK, so how come every time I get one of those auto-answering call-forwarding systems, the operators start out "If you would like to . . . ." and then a SPANISH operator comes on and says, ( in Spanish ) "If you would like to . . . "

Huh, Huh, how come, how come ? ? ? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

73 and Feliz Navidad !

[KI4CIA]

American by birth ... Southern by the Grace of God !!


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BTW - you weren't listening to 3965 were you? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[ka0gkt]

Back a few decades ago, I dated a Southern Belle. I remember telling her that I loved her accent. She said, "Accent? Ah don't have an accent. Y'All have the accent."

Later she was looking at houses and the realtor pointed to one in the multiple list and said, "Here's one without any flaws." She looked at him in puzzlement and said, "Then what Y'all walk on?" ;)

Did I mention that she is a blonde?http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

AS far as speaking German, up until the time of the First World War, there were many communities, specially in the midwest, where German was the primary language spoken. The great anti-german sentiment following the slaughter in the trenches caused many places to switch to English. Some polls taken in the United States before the institution of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare by Kaiser Wilhelm II showed heavy public sentiment toward entering the World War on the side of Germany and Austria. Many churches, specially Lutheran Churches, had Sunday services in German well into the 1950s, and even into the early 1960s.

Could German have been the national language of Mexico? If the Mexican army had not whipped the French in 1862, this might have actually happened. Napoleon III tried to set up a Hapsburg prince as the Emporer of Mexico.

Viva Cinco De Mayo, 1862.

At the time, the French were highly against the United States. Napoleon III was actively giving aid to the Confederacy, and control of Mexico would have made for an easy way to send troops and arms to the South, an end run, so to speak, around the Union blockade of Southern ports.

So, in five and a half months, we need to join with our Mexican neighbors in celebration of Cinco De Mayo, when our neighbors to the South opened a can of Whoop-Ass on the French army. Napoleon III's misadventure in Mexico allowed the Union to build a large enough army to defeat the Confederacy and preserve the union.

73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve

[W3MIV]

Quote[/b] (ka0gkt @ Dec. 19 2005,20:43)]Napoleon III's misadventure in Mexico allowed the Union to build a large enough army to defeat the Confederacy and preserve the union.
And just what makes you think that was a good thing?

[w8cbc]

I'm trying to recall if France has won a war on its own since Napoleon.

Hmmm.

Nope.

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As for accents, youse don' wan' me speakin' Brooklynese atcha. I doo dat when I'm gettin' exuhcised about sumtin'. It come from my fadda's sida da family. Bringin' on da Noo Yawk Charm, I call it.

[KI4CIA]

Quote[/b] (W3MIV @ Dec. 19 2005,18:53)]Quote[/b] (ka0gkt @ Dec. 19 2005,20:43)]Napoleon III's misadventure in Mexico allowed the Union to build a large enough army to defeat the Confederacy and preserve the union.
And just what makes you think that was a good thing?
Ah agree, Mistuh Albert.

We don' celubrate Cinco De Mayo here in thuh South. Ah can't bulieve Mistuh Steve would post such tomfoolery on this here board ...

And then he has the audacity to poke fun at southern belles!! Some people have no shame ...


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[nz3m]

I also read somewhere that German was "almost" our official language. Now, that would be funny, think about it. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Was herauf Hund!

Dave

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[w5ljm]

The fact that you have created this post will mean the beginning of the civil war all over again. #It's on now! And the South shall rise again.



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[KI4CIA]

yeeee haaaawww http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[w5ljm]

And Melinda shall be our General!
Lead us to battle, little lady.

[w5ljm]

I was listening to 40 meter CW yesterday and someone was sending with a yankee accent! #Honest!! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[AB6ND]

I'm a Limey, that's why I stick to CW.

AB6ND

[ky5u]

Quote[/b] (AB6ND @ Dec. 19 2005,20:31)]I'm a Limey, that's why I stick to CW.

AB6ND
The only accent on CW is the "Novice" accent...

[ai4ep]

Way back in the mid 1980 s I worked as a weekend DJ at a 2500 watt daytime ONLY am radio station ( whiy...Moulton, Alabama )...they used to play country music...what they play now I really dont know if they know ( ownership change)...no local commercials, no local dj s , etc....any way the boss told me I had a " twangy southern accent " and couldnt talk ON THE AIR too much since I didnt sound like the rest of their regular M - F ( Monday through friday ) dj s.....but I talked anyway ( weather, record intros, public service announcements, etc ). No listeners ever complained, but then they may have been happy to actually have a dj that talked like they did, even if he was only on Saturday afternoon and Sunday mornings.

I liked working there, and as soon as I win 2 - 3 lotteries, I might buy it back ( the am side anyway ), see about having a " comedy central " format ( Richard Pryer, george Carlin, Robin Williams, Jeff Foxworthy, etc ) and go in debt by several millions in 6 months or less.

The current owners bought both the am ( 1190 am ) and fm transmitters (103.1 fm )...they play rap music on the fm side and " african-american gospel music " on the AM side....what ever THAT is.

But I still have my " twangy southern accent " and I doubt if after 47 years that it is going away.

If I had a dollar for every time I give my FCC amateur radio call sign ( ai4ep ) and some person thinks I said the letter K instead of A, I would already have enough money to do what is mentioned earlier in this post. This is true on 2 meter repeaters, ssb on HF, ssb on 6 meters when I had that band....only band I dont have folks asking if my first letter in my call is either A or K is on cw. Those folks are smart enough to tell the difference. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

[KE5FRF]

Some interesting reads about regional dialects and the Appalachian Mountain variety of southern dialect.

Southern Mountain Dialect (http://www.angelfire.com/tn2/ScottCoTnMemories/SouthernMountainDialect.html)
Dialects of English (http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/dialectsofenglish.html)
Mountain Speech (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/8176/mtnspeech.html)

A common theme that I must agree with, in books that I have read, concerns the trend towards extinction of American regional dialects as we cross into the age of mass communications. No offense to midwesterners, but the flat, bland "accentless" English spoken by that region seems to be the preferred variety by the media in general. Some might say that is a good thing, but our regional dialects carry a lot of historical significance, and some accents, such as Southern Appalachian Mt., actually represent the purist forms of our ancester dialects, such as Scotch-Irish. A truly ignorant person can turn their nose up at regional dialects in disfavor, but an informed, inquisitive, and perceptive person will enjoy the nuances and melodies that accompany the various dialects of our great nation. I myself exhibit a "mild" mountain dialect that I inherited from my parents, and would not desire to lose it for anything. I've since moved and rooted myself in the Deep South, and have the privelage of enjoying the pleasant Southern/Acadian/Creole slave blend that is Louisiana. It is a further treat to return home to visit family, as I am tomorrow for Christmas, and hear the dialect of my upbringing.

Wether you hail from Brooklyn or Jersey, Wisconsin or Minnesota, Texas or Tennessee, the accents of our ancestors are not something to hide in shame, but something to recognize as a remnant of our nation's colorful history.

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (ai4ep @ Dec. 19 2005,22:06)]only band I dont have folks asking if my first letter in my call is either A or K is on cw. #Those folks are smart enough to tell the difference. # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
A? Dammit! I thought all this time you had been typing KI4EP!
Doh! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[kd7msc]

Quote[/b] (kf6rdn @ Dec. 19 2005,14:42)]Quote[/b] (ai4ep @ Dec. 19 2005,22:06)]only band I dont have folks asking if my first letter in my call is either A or K is on cw. #Those folks are smart enough to tell the difference. # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
A? #Dammit! #I thought all this time you had been typing KI4EP!
Doh! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
I didn't know CW was a band. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[kd7msc]

Quote[/b] (kd7msc @ Dec. 19 2005,14:44)]Quote[/b] (kf6rdn @ Dec. 19 2005,14:42)]Quote[/b] (ai4ep @ Dec. 19 2005,22:06)]only band I dont have folks asking if my first letter in my call is either A or K is on cw. #Those folks are smart enough to tell the difference. # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
A? #Dammit! #I thought all this time you had been typing KI4EP!
Doh! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
I didn't know CW was a band. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
CW McCall is a band. I forgot.

[ai4ep]

...according to the qrz callsign database, there is NOT a KI4EP.

Not me or any one else.

[N8CPA]

Quote[/b] (KE5FRF @ Dec. 19 2005,17:13)]Quote[/b] ]Are you the Riddler or are you Batman or is it you just don't know how to put a sentence together?


Quote[/b] ]Obviously there is no population control in these states and probably the # 1 movie down south of all time was "Smokie and the Bandit"and his habits.....?http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

Grammar: from .this URL (http://www.answers.com/topic/grammar)

The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.

The system of inflections, syntax, and word formation of a language.
The system of rules implicit in a language, viewed as a mechanism for generating all sentences possible in that language.

A normative or prescriptive set of rules setting forth the current standard of usage for pedagogical or reference purposes.
Writing or speech judged with regard to such a set of rules.
A book containing the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic rules for a specific language.

The basic principles of an area of knowledge: the grammar of music.
A book dealing with such principles
And studying Morse teaches one the grammar of Amateur Radio communications. In addition, it's a code of on-air behavior.

There's your flame fest!

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[N8CPA]

Quote[/b] (KI4BNC @ Dec. 19 2005,20:52)]whuddaya meeeean accent?!?!?
'Aint got no accent?!
'Yer jus' hearin' stuff you don't understand.
We use proper english down here in the south.The rest of th' country needs to speak proper english.
iffin ya come down heeeere to this here south,us sutherners might learn ya' a thing or two.



YALL' COME BACK NOW!!
YA' HEAR?
"Ya'all talk funny."

I cannot tell you how many times I've heard that when I travel down south. I like the variety accents, really. They make the voice a map to your home.

[KI4MBK]

I was born and raised in the southern parts of georgia in a real small town called Lily. Till I was 18 then I went to the marines and thats where I spent most of my years (22 1/2) of them! For southern accents, I know I have one of them but its not that bad but you can tell I have one. The ones I dont like are the ones who talk out the side of they're mouth's where you cant understand them. My son has one of them also he was born in New Hampshire but we moved to texas after 2 months of being stationed in new hampshire. thats where my son got his from is in texas. the place in tennessee where me, my wife and son live these people got some real bad southern accents, they speak words I never heard or imagine of being said to people. Like for instance like the world yantace? My son was like #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif when the guy asked him when we went to dinner, and even this word I never imagine of worldley? Like im worldley to be here? thats how I was told by this couple. My son heard this at a restraunt he was at, im beat like a tennesse fire cracker screamin up in the air burning fire? He busted out laughin about it

[N8CPA]

Have you ever noticed how you expect certain accents from certain faces? The next time you're at Dayton, stop by the MFJ booth and talk to the founder and owner of the enterprise. Oh, the incongruities of looks and dialect!

[ky5u]

Quote[/b] (KE5FRF @ Dec. 19 2005,22:21)]Some interesting reads about regional dialects and the Appalachian Mountain variety of southern dialect.

Southern Mountain Dialect (http://www.angelfire.com/tn2/ScottCoTnMemories/SouthernMountainDialect.html)
Dialects of English (http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/dialectsofenglish.html)
Mountain Speech (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/8176/mtnspeech.html)

A common theme that I must agree with, in books that I have read, concerns the trend towards extinction of American regional dialects as we cross into the age of mass communications. No offense to midwesterners, but the flat, bland "accentless" English spoken by that region seems to be the preferred variety by the media in general. Some might say that is a good thing, but our regional dialects carry a lot of historical significance, and some accents, such as Southern Appalachian Mt., actually represent the purist forms of our ancester dialects, such as Scotch-Irish. A truly ignorant person can turn their nose up at regional dialects in disfavor, but an informed, inquisitive, and perceptive person will enjoy the nuances and melodies that accompany the various dialects of our great nation. I myself exhibit a "mild" mountain dialect that I inherited from my parents, and would not desire to lose it for anything. I've since moved and rooted myself in the Deep South, and have the privelage of enjoying the pleasant Southern/Acadian/Creole slave blend that is Louisiana. It is a further treat to return home to visit family, as I am tomorrow for Christmas, and hear the dialect of my upbringing.

Wether you hail from Brooklyn or Jersey, Wisconsin or Minnesota, Texas or Tennessee, the accents of our ancestors are not something to hide in shame, but something to recognize as a remnant of our nation's colorful history.
Interesting links. I researched the Tennessee Dialects too and found they have little in relation to "redneck" southern. There are different southern accents in each of Tennessee, the Carolinas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Texas. In Mobile Alabama and some parts of Georgia, the "upper crust" southern accent is what you hear from bad actresses portraying "Southern Belles". The "Southern Belle" in Louisiana had no such accent.

Applachian accent does contain alot of valid but out dated words. Some "redneck" accents are just variations of modern language, but don't tell my wife I said so.... She always adds the intrusive "d" in important (impordant) and in her Baptist religion name (Babdist). She pronounces "of" as "ahhv" instead of "uhv". One of the best examples of Southern pronunciation is Brett Favre's last name. Favre is a french name pronounced "Fahv". The intrusive "r" is added to the proper pronunciation of his name and he is "Farve". (Like "warsh" for "wash").

The connotation of stupidity is added by the insecure. If we knock southern accents, what about accents from Minnisota or Chicago? Wisconsin? Boston? New York? What about the African American Accents? Or how about the new universal youth accent where "ah" is the fashionable sound. So your "friend" is really your "frahend", or "Best" is pronounced "Bahst" and "Atlanta" is "Ahtlahnta".

Or while we're at it, how about recording artists that take American money to sing songs in english but don't really try too hard. Have you heard the Celene Dion "Hot Wheel" song? I'ts from the Titanic movie. She sings the line "My hot wheel go on and on".

When all is said and done, there is no bigger "glass house" that could ever exist for rock throwing than to knock someone else's accent.

[k0ews]

One of my music theory teachers in college was from Dallas, TX. He just retired this year, and after living in Iowa for 30 years, still has his Texas accent. We used to tease him about it; he'd say, "I don't talk funny, I'm just DISPLACED." Actually, I like hearing a Southern accent. A guy I work with is from Kentucky. You can tell it when he speaks. Even though some don't consider Kentucky to be a "Southern" state, they certainly do sound that way to me.
Back to the point; I usually don't care HOW something is said on the radio, but more WHAT is said. If they are operating with good skill, and doing what they are supposed to, I don't care about accents. The other 90 percent of the time, I run CW. Of course, those who run with an extreme swing of the bug, and with poor character spacing on CW will draw my ire from time to time.

[w5ljm]

My mother-in-law moved here (TX) from Michigan back in the 60's. She believes she has adopted a southern accent. I've got news for her, she sounds more yankee than yankees do.
The word y'all is the only thing she gets out that sounds close to southern.
Poor misled soul.

[KA4DPO]

What I hear on this end sounds more like toothless hillbilly than southern drawl.

I suspect that many of the stations I copy aren't even licensed amateurs. They sound more like CBers than anything and it wouldn't surprise me if a number of them are operating with made up call signs.

[w5ljm]

The accents and/or dialect I enjoy listening to the most are from Australia and New Zealand.
I've watched "Crocodile Dundee" many times, not only because it was a good movie(s) but because I love the accent.
I hope to visit both countries before I'm called to my happy hunting grounds in the sky. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[K9STH]

When my youngest daughter was in high school (freshman or sophomore, don't remember which) my mother took her up to northwestern Indiana for a couple of weeks to the "olde home towne". Now my daughter was raised in Richardson, Texas, and the Plano Independent School District where most of the people talk with a midwestern accent and NOT a southern drawl. Frankly, she sounded more like she had been born in Chicago or Los Angeles and not in Dallas.

After she was there a day, or two, she discovered that if she "put on" a "Texas drawl" that all of the boys would just "swoon" over her. So, she did just that. My mother thought the situation was very funny and said nothing until my daughter was safely back in Texas. By that time Wendy had reverted to her normal accent.

My middle daughter, when she was working for Frito-Lay at their national headquarters in Plano, Texas, was sometimes asked where she was born. When she said Dallas no one would believe her because her "accent" was just like those who had come from California.

Potential broadcasters spend lots of money trying to acquire the midwestern / California accent. This accent has become pretty much the standard for the broadcast industry because it doesn't seem to offend anyone. Southern drawls, northeastern twang, and so forth offend someone so people are trained not to speak in such a manner. As such, midwestern accent has become "the" language of broadcast radio and television.

Glen, K9STH

[ky5u]

Quote[/b] (K9STH @ Dec. 20 2005,09:50)]When my youngest daughter was in high school (freshman or sophomore, don't remember which) my mother took her up to northwestern Indiana for a couple of weeks to the "olde home towne". Now my daughter was raised in Richardson, Texas, and the Plano Independent School District where most of the people talk with a midwestern accent and NOT a southern drawl. Frankly, she sounded more like she had been born in Chicago or Los Angeles and not in Dallas.

After she was there a day, or two, she discovered that if she "put on" a "Texas drawl" that all of the boys would just "swoon" over her. So, she did just that. My mother thought the situation was very funny and said nothing until my daughter was safely back in Texas. By that time Wendy had reverted to her normal accent.

My middle daughter, when she was working for Frito-Lay at their national headquarters in Plano, Texas, was sometimes asked where she was born. When she said Dallas no one would believe her because her "accent" was just like those who had come from California.

Potential broadcasters spend lots of money trying to acquire the midwestern / California accent. This accent has become pretty much the standard for the broadcast industry because it doesn't seem to offend anyone. Southern drawls, northeastern twang, and so forth offend someone so people are trained not to speak in such a manner. As such, midwestern accent has become "the" language of broadcast radio and television.

Glen, K9STH
Hillarious about your daughter. I met my wife in new Orleans and she had no noticable accent. I was with her once while we were dating when her mother called on the phone. I have never heard such a redneck accent in my entire life than my wife talking to her mother. ROFL!

[w8znx]

Hello W2WH

#don't know how long you have been a ham op

please note, that 75 fone has allways been
a good old boy band, chock full of w4's and w5's

this dates back to before WW II
when you had to have a class A tic.
to run fone on 75,

30's QST's even had a monthly article
by W4IR Dixey Jones " Squinch Owl "

big signal, good old boys on 75 fone is a 75 year old tradition

Bill
nice Hallicrafters lash up on your call sign page

Mac dit dit

[KD6NIG]

The funny thing about accents-My parents took a trip from California to Nashville, TN, via the southern states. #A few things they noticed:

1) People could tell they were from California by THIER "accent".
2) My father encounted one waiter that he simply could not understand because the accent was so "thick".
3) Upon entering the state of Texas and beyond, the service and politeness of people in the south was beyond reproach. #They had never been called Sir, etc that much in their lives, and they found that help especially in restaraunts was much more attentive.
4) An "appetizer" in the south constitutes an entire meal here. #At a Cracker Barrell in Nashville my father decided to have "Biscuits and Sausage" off the appetizer menu simply because he wasn't very hungry. #They brought him 4 FULL SIZED biscuits and sausage-and charged roughly $3.50 for it.
5) All of the rest areas on the highways upon reaching Texas (and further east) were clean, well stocked, and most had attendants there with free coffee and maps of the area if you needed them.
6) All of the highways east from Texas were clean, well paved, and the medians were GREEN and immaculately groomed. #

They regarded the trip as an amazing experience, and said that not only was the accent present in most of those areas, but the level of politeness and customer service was beyond anything they had ever seen.

Perhaps because of having to do all of this in life, they are rude on the air? #I dunno.

[K2WH]

Quote[/b] (w8znx @ Dec. 20 2005,06:46)]Hello W2WH

#don't know how long you have been a ham op

please note, that 75 fone has allways been
a good old boy band, chock full of w4's and w5's

this dates back to before WW II
when you had to have a class A tic.
to run fone on 75,

30's QST's even had a monthly article
by W4IR Dixey Jones " Squinch Owl "

big signal, good old boys on 75 fone is a 75 year old tradition

Bill
nice Hallicrafters lash up on your call sign page

Mac dit dit
37 Years and counting.

K2WH

[WB2WIK]

Regional accents are still part of the world, I guess, but they're pretty silly.

I grew up in the NYC area and while most people sounded like "Louie" (Danny DeVito, who actually is from NJ and lived close to me there) on the TV show "Taxi," I never wanted to, so I simply refused to let the accent catch me.

I lived in Boston a while, and most people sounded like they belonged in "Cheers" or "This Old House" (most of which is produced up there), I never wanted to, so I didn't use that accent, either.

When I spend time in the South, the accents I hear mostly sound silly. I wonder, after all this time and all these generations, haven't these people ever traveled anywhere to learn not to sound like that?

Then again, some people have been highly successful partly due to strange accents. Like Howard Cossell. Talk about a horrible voice -- he made it, anyway. Had I interviewed him when we was starting out in broadcasting, I would have pointed him towards the door the moment he opened his mouth.

WB2WIK/6

[KA3RFE]

What you tawkin ex-ant" Snowbody here tawk lak that.

We speak Bawlmerese. Hereza dickenshary.


Bawlmer Siddy: Big place where Oreirors en Ravins play.
Napliss Marlin: capiddle of Marlin.
Marlin: da state.
Siddy:Incororaded municipaldy.
Yoosnabee Cadamie: USNaval Academy
Far: rapid oxidifacttion of combudsibble material.
Farmin: guy who puts fars out.
Voluntary Farmin: doesn't get paid to put far out.
Farhidrine: Thing far hose is connected to to get warder.
Warder: stuff puts far out. Also to drink.
Pole Lease: Lawn forcemt ossifer.
Pleese: Many lawn forcemt ossifers.
Warshentin: Nashinal capiddle siddy.
Chezzpeek: Big boddy of warder.
Parmeddicts: Paramedics.
Hozzbiddle: Hospital
Armcher Rayo Operater: ham radio operator.

73

[N4AUD]

Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Dec. 19 2005,12:57)]Regional accents are still part of the world, I guess, but they're pretty silly.

I grew up in the NYC area and while most people sounded like "Louie" (Danny DeVito, who actually is from NJ and lived close to me there) on the TV show "Taxi," I never wanted to, so I simply refused to let the accent catch me.

I lived in Boston a while, and most people sounded like they belonged in "Cheers" or "This Old House" (most of which is produced up there), I never wanted to, so I didn't use that accent, either.

When I spend time in the South, the accents I hear mostly sound silly. I wonder, after all this time and all these generations, haven't these people ever traveled anywhere to learn not to sound like that?

Then again, some people have been highly successful partly due to strange accents. Like Howard Cossell. Talk about a horrible voice -- he made it, anyway. Had I interviewed him when we was starting out in broadcasting, I would have pointed him towards the door the moment he opened his mouth.

WB2WIK/6
When you are in the south, you sound silly. We are just too polite to make fun of you.

Why don't you learn to talk like us? Why is the way you talk better? Maybe everyone should adopt a southern dialect since it is quite often more expressive.

I have travelled quite a bit, and don't have a problem with anybody else's accent, and have no intention of changing mine. Like I said before, if someone thinks a speaker's accent indicates a lack of intelligence, it says more about that listener's ignorance than the speaker's IQ.

Dialects are linguistic spices, and keep language from being bland.

[kg4yus]

Quote[/b] (KA3IGW @ Dec. 19 2005,19:44)]I'm a transplanted yankee (damn yankee to some) from Pittsburgh to South Carolina. After thirteen years in the South some of the yankee accents now sound as foreign to me as the Southern ones! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
No, your a G_d Damn Yankee, Damn Yankees go back every summer. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[WB2WIK]

Quote[/b] (k1alk @ Dec. 20 2005,14:14)]Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Dec. 19 2005,12:57)]Regional accents are still part of the world, I guess, but they're pretty silly.

I grew up in the NYC area and while most people sounded like "Louie" (Danny DeVito, who actually is from NJ and lived close to me there) on the TV show "Taxi," I never wanted to, so I simply refused to let the accent catch me.

I lived in Boston a while, and most people sounded like they belonged in "Cheers" or "This Old House" (most of which is produced up there), I never wanted to, so I didn't use that accent, either.

When I spend time in the South, the accents I hear mostly sound silly. I wonder, after all this time and all these generations, haven't these people ever traveled anywhere to learn not to sound like that?

Then again, some people have been highly successful partly due to strange accents. Like Howard Cossell. Talk about a horrible voice -- he made it, anyway. Had I interviewed him when we was starting out in broadcasting, I would have pointed him towards the door the moment he opened his mouth.

WB2WIK/6
When you are in the south, you sound silly. We are just too polite to make fun of you.

Why don't you learn to talk like us? Why is the way you talk better? Maybe everyone should adopt a southern dialect since it is quite often more expressive.

I have travelled quite a bit, and don't have a problem with anybody else's accent, and have no intention of changing mine. Like I said before, if someone thinks a speaker's accent indicates a lack of intelligence, it says more about that listener's ignorance than the speaker's IQ.

Dialects are linguistic spices, and keep language from being bland.
You probably don't really mean any of that, but in case you do: Why doesn't everyone just revert to Valleyspeak? That's the native tongue of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, where such great expressions as "gag me with a spoon" started. Or, "I looooove sushi." Or, "Ohmigawd."

Thankfully, that was stupid enough that people recognized it, made corrections, and then made it go away. Nobody speaks like that anymore around here -- although I see some of it lingering in other places around the country, where I guess they wish to sound as stupid as possible.

WB2WIK/6

[kr2d]

My XYL spent a large part of her childhood in Texas. #She moved back to New Jersey at age 12, and had no accent when I met her. #We traveled down South a few years after we married, visited Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.

Our first morning in Texas, conversation went something like this:

Waitress (slowly): Haaa, how y'all doooin?
XYL (equally slowly): We're jes' faaaaahn, thank ye!
Me: #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif !!! Who are you and what have you done with my wife?

After we got back home, it was about a month before she spoke normally again.

[K9STH]

YUS:

My first day at Georgia Tech I was informed as to the difference between a "yankee" and a "damn yankee". Yankees come south for a visit and then go home. "Damn Yankees" come south and stay.

I informed them that Yankees were from Connecticut north and that I was a "midwesterner". Besides, half of the State of Indiana is located south of the Mason / Dixon Line (I didn't mention that I was from extreme northwestern Indiana). That seemed to calm them down.

There used to be a number of cars around Dallas sporting a bumper sticker that had "I (heart) NY" on them. It wasn't very long before there were a lot more bumper stickers that said "(heart) NY? Take I-30E". Most of the "I (heart) NY" bumper stickers disappeared in a hurry.

Also, there were quite a few bumper stickers that said "Texans don't give a damn HOW they do it in New York".

As NIG pointed out, people are generally more polite in the South than in California or in the northern part of the country. This is especially true when you get away from the masses.

Now around the tourist areas the locals do sometimes get a bit testy when it comes to outsiders. My parents had a summer house at Holiday Island, Arkansas, which is just north of Eureka Springs. Because of this my wife, children, and I drove up there several times a year. At that time I had an International Scout Traveller (the "big" Scout) and there weren't that many of that particular vehicle around. The result was that the locals got to know the vehicle and would wave whenever we passed them on the roadway even though we had Texas plates.

Once in a while we would take my wife's car instead of the Scout. When we were driving around in it we looked just like the rest of the tourists and not a single person would wave. Now if we were in a store (i.e. WalMart) the people recognized us and were very friendly. But, they didn't know my wife's car (it looked just like all of the rest of the tourists' cars) so they ignored it.

My wife's family is split between Georgia and California. Most of those in Georgia do have a drawl, California relatives do not. My family is split among Indiana, California, Florida, and Arizona. They don't have a drawl. My wife was born in California (as were her two sisters) but she was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, from the time she was 3 (her sisters were much older when the family moved back to Georgia). However, both of my wife's sisters do have a southern drawl but my wife doesn't (she has been away from Georgia going on 40 years but her sisters have not).

Anyway, one needs to be as proficient as Professor Henry Higgins to be able to tell exactly where someone is from just by listening to their pattern of speech.

Glen, K9STH

[ky5u]

I always said that Texas was the only state big enough for every citizen of the USA to visit there once to use a rest room on the way to someplace nice in another state. Or as my mother said, this would be a nice place if it weren't for all the Texans.

Is it true that the restraunt chain "IHOP" was started by a one legged Texas woman?

(Fuse lit, running away...)

[W3MIV]

Quote[/b] (K9STH @ Dec. 20 2005,16:50)]Besides, half of the State of Indiana is located south of the Mason / Dixon Line ...
As a native Marylander (yeah, and I have done lots of other things I regret, but I have yet to become a lawyer), Glen ol' chum, I would dearly love to know how in hell you got the Mason-Dixon Line stretched out to Indiana?

Funny, but most folks in the Deep South have absolutely no idea of where the Mason-Dixon Line is. Lots of them think it lies along the Potomac River (all of which is owned by Maryland, by the way; the Virginia state line follows the high-water line on the south bank of that famous stream).

[ky5u]

Quote[/b] (W3MIV @ Dec. 20 2005,15:01)]Quote[/b] (K9STH @ Dec. 20 2005,16:50)]Besides, half of the State of Indiana is located south of the Mason / Dixon Line ...
As a native Marylander (yeah, and I have done lots of other things I regret, but I have yet to become a lawyer), Glen ol' chum, I would dearly love to know how in hell you got the Mason-Dixon Line stretched out to Indiana?

Funny, but most folks in the Deep South have absolutely no idea of where the Mason-Dixon Line is. Lots of them think it lies along the Potomac River (all of which is owned by Maryland, by the way; the Virginia state line follows the high-water line on the south bank of that famous stream).
He was talking about the "Perry-Mason" line. It runs through Indiana but only because it is scared...

[K9STH]

MIV:

Although the Mason-Dixon Line is nothing more than the boundry between Pennsylvania and Maryland those in the "olde south" consider it to be extended all the way west to at least Texas. Thus the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma are considered to be "south of the Mason-Dixon Line". Also included are parts of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas.

If you extend the line farther you take in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California.

Now we students of history know what really encompasses the Mason-Dixon Line. However, NEVER try to tell a "true son or daughter of the South" that the Mason-Dixon Line does NOT go all the way through to Texas. First of all, he/she won't believe you. Second, "them's fightin' words"!

Glen, K9STH

[N0KLT]

Quote[/b] (AG4YO @ Dec. 20 2005,16:01)]I always said that Texas was the only state big enough for every citizen of the USA to visit there once to use a rest room on the way to someplace nice in another state. Or as my mother said, this would be a nice place if it weren't for all the Texans.

Is it true that the restraunt chain "IHOP" was started by a one legged Texas woman?

(Fuse lit, running away...)
Yeah, it is. Her name was Ilean Daily. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[WB2WIK]

"I can't wait to return to Tara, Rhett..."

Can't help it, we were talking about Mason-Dixon lines and the Old South. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

"Frankly, Scarlett, if you weren't so damned cute I'd have probably let you burn in the fire." (my favorite slightly re-written line)

[K9STH]

Several years ago my wife found a large metal diecast plaque that she bought and is mounted on our porch right by the front door. It looks like one of the historical markers that are found along the highway. However, this one reads as follows:

First of all, there is a circular border around a map of the State of Georgia which says "State of Mind Histerical Committee"

Then the map of Georgia.

Finally the following has been cast into the metal:

In 1864 General W. T. Sherman burned Atlanta and started his march to the sea. Cotton was king, "Gone With the Wind" was Georgia and this ain't Tara.

Although Tara was supposed to be in Clayton County, pretty near to where my wife and I bought our first house (Jonesboro was the county seat that Scarlett kept referring to in the book and movie), the actual movie set (which I believe is still there) was west of Atlanta out near Villa Rica. One of my wife's uncles had a business just a few miles from the movie set.

My wife's mother and father attended the premier of the movie "Gone With the Wind" at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in 1939 although they didn't actually move back to Atlanta until 1944.

Glen, K9STH

[KL7FZ]

You are ALL south of here!

KL7FZ Alaska

[ai4ep]

kl7fz...dont tell all those folks north of here that they are southerners.....they may get upset. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Mad Yankees and wet cats are nothing to mess with.....or was it mad cats and wet yankees ?

:0

[KC0KBH]

Quote[/b] (N1MLF @ Dec. 19 2005,07:33)]ayuh chum..at'll fixer sum good it will.

I have a very pronounced "downeast" accent but in QSO's I do my best to hold it in check and NOT use the local slang & colloquialisms. Moreso on DX contacts where the english language is not the primary language of the other operator.
Maybe it's common courtesy or maybe it's common sense.
So far.. So good.
Then again perhaps some of the southern folks have got ahold of some antenna wax.
..JW..
I must really sound like the sterotypical "minnesotan" on the air. I hate it in commercials with the "Oh ya" and "You Betcha". It is not like that around here. The only person around here I have ever heard with a thick accent simaler to that is my Grandpa. His parents came from Germany. I can't even understand him on the phone. It doesn't sound really anything like that accent on TV that all minnesotans are portrayed to have. It is just a thick German accent. I do say "Betcha", as in "I betcha that what is wrong with my four wheeler is...", but not, "Oh ya, you betcha". I do saw ya from time to time, but not often. When my mom worked for a resturaunt supply company, especially when Fargo came out, she said people around the country on the phone would ask her all the time if people really said "you betcha" around here. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif One time Fargo was on. I watched about 2 minutes of it, got disgusted, turned off the tv, and did something productive. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[WB2WIK]

Quote[/b] (KL7FZ @ Dec. 20 2005,20:14)]You are ALL south of here!

KL7FZ Alaska
A friend of mine, Dave Porter, K2BPP (SK), had two amateur radio expeditions to the North Pole. National Geographic, Coleman and others sponsored his activities and the radio actually worked on the second trip (it failed on the first one, at -70F or so).

When he returned, I just had to ask, "Dave, when you're at the North Pole, what's your rotator indicator read? Is it South-South-South-South?" http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

WB2WIK/6