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slaveluci -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 9:35:57 AM)
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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou
I love to hear true coonasses talk (coonasses are what we call Cajuns in the South by the way). Hollywood never gets their accent right, they always give them the New Orleans accent in movies. They sound like they are singing when they talk almost
Cajun is my favorite "accent" as well. My last partner was a true Cajun - born and raised in Terrebonne Parish, LA (a few miles from his home you just drive right into the Gulf of Mexico). Now, he was a true Cajun through and through. Authentic "accent" and could speak lots of French too[:)] and cook? OMG, the shrimp dishes he could craft! Long before knowing him, I always thought Cajun-speak was the best.
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I noticed the same thing among Appalachian folk. My dad was from West Virgina, and there is a musical tone to the way they talk
I was born and raised in WV and come from a long line of native WV'ians. I never realized what an accent I had until I'd hear myself on the radio/on tape. I guess I don't appreciate that accent as much since I'm so used to it but it is nice, for sure. Now I live in Arkansas and love the southern accents here (though Master doesn't have one at all. How He lived in the Deep South His whole life and doesn't have an accent, I can't figure. Maybe He really is superhuman[;)])...............luci
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