I've driven towed or raced or traveled all over the North American continent
tip of Baja-Mexico to the West coast of Alaska thru, Canada Yukon & BC
a few others in Canada too, the Calgary area, a bit in around Ontario,
across the bridge from Detroit, & a lil' in Newfoundland, getting my 1st lab...
Not much in Maine or Vermont, in north America, just never had a good reason
But;
The deep south, Ala., Georgia, Miss., S. Carolina some,
some northern Fla. in the sticks mostly all away from the cities
(in bigger cities, they speak almost normal "Merican")
rural areas is/are the best accents, like different from co. to co.
Especially when it's an attractive ladies giving you directions,
or a hot lil' waitress giving me food advice at a restaurant...
Just sounds so sweet, & Texas ladies have a cool drawl...
Not so much the men, in the south, sounds sort of ignorant
(
sorry not meaning to offend anyone)
don't know why I couldn't understand 'men that well', they didn't talk as slow maybe...
Boston or NE area in general was kind of crazy 2 blocks one way,
a different dialect, slang etc.
Virginia, Tenn. same deal, right across the borders completely different
when not by a big city...
Wisc. & Minn. was sort of strange too, almost like Canadian speaking American
the N or S Dakotas seemed like they didn't have a much different accent
a lot of transplants I assume, didn't notice too much accent in Michigan either
(except for the Muslims/Serbians refugees)
until you were by the northern border, then it was heavy on the R's
Montana & Wyoming wasn't too much accent either,
but closer to the border, a few Canadian type slang...
California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona (if American),
New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, none of them have much of an accent difference,
nothing or not like the East coast does...
I had a roommate from Homa, La. a total Cajun, (Paul) P.K., a USAF officer,
renting a room from me (my sister friends boyfriend) in Palmer, Alaska
& it took me a while to pick up his accent...
I had to have him repeat himself many times, or talk slowly, I eventually got it...
I'm born & raise Californian,
IMO we don't have accents,
most born & raised here just talk normal "Merican",
Not like areas back east, east of the Mississippi,
all do have accents seemingly
Yea some here in Calif. like in the south, use some clicky slang stupid *** words,
or surfers etc.
Usually more the teens, then adults, but nobody understands them
but;
foreigners or southerners or northerners all alike, don't seem to have
any issues understanding
US at all,
(most Queens English countries, have no problems too)
but we (or I) have a hard time with theirs accents...
New Zealand & Aussies have a different Brits accents, than the old English do
I have a hard time at 1st, but longer I listen I get better at it, their slang
or names for different regular things or tools, we have a different name for
that is what throws me off big time...
Some of their slang is a hoot, cracks me up, too funny...
only;
After they explain what it is they were referring to, then I understand it...
I'm sure it goes both ways too...
My great grand parents/both (dad's & my mom's parents, parents great gramma's,)
(mom's mom mostly was German English & French) spoke fluent German, fluent French
& (dad's mom mostly a dialect of Norwegian) spoke German/Norwegian a lot,
fluently, fast talking too, had been since they were kids, their parents spoke it too
they
were also born here in the USA, (families here since the early 1800s)
it was just their way, to speak
the old language (even if they weren't born there)
unless in town they spoke "Merican" & completely different dialect it seemed,
neither was born over there...
but,
The language was still spoken here, even in Calif. SF Bay Area, East Bay
I used to do well, with it, as a younger kid, but been so long
I don't remember most of it...
My Uncle Tink (my dad's mother "grammies brother") he used to say his was
a Minn./Norwegian accent
he was 1/2 German, l/2 Norwegian, their father (my great grandfather John Joseph ___)
patriarch, that I could research best was 100% German, fresh of the boat in St Louis,
just never got back on, they left him here & he became a citizen, moved to Calif.
their mother Augusta was 50% Norwegian/50% German, her family was from Northern Ca.
coast, inland & Klamathton
(defunct city, burned down, by the Klamath River, they had thousands of acres)
since the later 1790s, Russian Fort Bragg
ship builders, loggers, engineers, carpenters, soldiers, so she had a different dialect
from the others too, (Great Grammie) Augusta she spoke sort of a hybrid language,
a mixture of a few, but they all could talk back & forth,
talked really fast too...
