The video actually, authentically begins, "Ahrightythen.." Geeze, y'got that right. Love it. This video is wonderful because it proves the very thing the poor guy sets out to disprove.
There's no need to get touchy. Hollywood is a joke period so if a film makes a joke of a particular accent and dialect understand it's a joke. Everyone has some kind of accent. Chill.
you have a subtle but definitely noticeable MN accent, but only noticeable due to the fact that i'm from texas, so there is definitely a contrast there. but you're right you don't sound like the stereotype, like, im frohm minnesoooohta doohnt cha knooohw.
@cashmoney21892 I live about 25 miles away from the guy in this video and I have a friend from Arlington, Texas. She says I don't really have an accent and she doesn't really have an accent to me either. Its just the dialect is a little different with some words like horrible, bag, and roof.
I'm from Minnesota. We have the hardest accent to immitate in the entire country. I have been called the accent king by my peers, meaning I can do nearly any accent. Easy shit, dere guy.
Hi! I came looking for a Minnesotan accent because I am in a play, but I didn't want to copy some actress doing an accent and I really like your accent because it's subtle but with character! However- it would be great (from my point of veiw) if it was a little longer AND if you could read a piece of text so that the range of your accent is highlighted and it becomes easier to pinpoint what makes the Minnesotan accent different from other accents.
WOW!! I'm from Kato too!! But no longer there and i can defiantly here it will your a's! I love it because I'M TOTALLY SURE I SOUND LIKE THAT!!! WHY TO GO!! I hate hearing those people that don't sound at all like MN people! They sound Canadian! GET IT RIGHT!!!
I come from Detroit, another part of the country where folks are oblivious to the fact that they speak with a strong regional accent, so I understand where the OP is coming from. So it is with fondness that I say this video is unintentionally hilarious.
If you speak as you do here to folks from any other part of the country, 99 people out of a 100 will hear your strong North-Central accent. And the jerks among them will mention Fargo. Guaranteed. And there is nothing to be ashamed of here.
You hit the nail right on the head. When I lived in Seattle, I was always able to differentiate the locals accent from those who were from North Dakota or Minnesota and other North Central accents. Same with Chicago, and the other Inland North Accents. However if someone was from North Dakota or Wisconsin I may have guessed Minnesota at first, or if someone was from Cleveland or Detroit I may have guessed Chicago first-
@ohso41 Exactly. And it's not like the original poster speaks near General American with some North Central features... It's full-on North Central.
In fact, I work for IBM with a lot of folks from the Rochester, MN lab. These folks tend to be from Rochester and Mankato. The OP's accent is the strongest from southern Minnesota I've ever heard.
Question! What are the other videos on youtube that are authentic? I'm in a play that is set in Minnesota, but I'm from Boston and have the "Bahstun" accent. I'm looking for more videos that I can learn from rather than learn the over exaggerated accent.
Did I use profanity in my comment. Act like a mature human being please, don't hide behind mommy's computer acting big. I've traveled all over the country and people from the Twin Cities have extremely thick accents compared to the rest of the country.
@ohso41 nahh thanks, maturity isnt in my nature. this isnt my mommys laptop, thanks :) and ill use profanity in my comments if i want. bitch bitch fuck fuck damn shit whatever. it doesnt matter. I dont care where you've been, and i said 'DONT REALLY HAVE IT" k? which insinuates they have it. just not as much. so fuck off.
It's very disturbing that you have to express yourself this way- "I don't" and can't have a nice friendly discussion- "I can" . Perhaps you find this funny, I would feel terrible if I ever responded towards someone the way you did, it's just the wrong thing to do.
Agree that imitated, exaggerated Minnesota accents can be pretty annoying. However, you definitely do have a pretty noticeable accent. I didn't used to notice the accent until I spent time in other states, but its definitely there.
Dude it's the weirdest thing but I'm Hispanic, born in Miami and live in north Carolina right now and I talk JUST like you. And I have NEVER been to Minnesota. It's scary. O.O
@SakuraHaruno824 same here dude, hispanic from Miami, never been up in the MN area and i always get that "dude are you from MN, what's with the accent???"
@SakuraHaruno824 bahaha! i blame movies and tv, but it's better than that irritating miami accent (especially because of the use of the word "guy" in every sentence) XD
Thank you man, you never really notice the accent you have untill you pay attention to it... my favorite part about living in Minnesota? Listaning to the tourists and new movers say how cold it is, when i'm wearing a T-shirt.
in northern minnesota, you hear a lot of the "fargo" style accent, but in the suburbs among the youth you get a subtler, more whiny jock sounding minnesota accent, that still has the drawn out oh and elongated vowels, but a little more spoiled sounding, and slurring depending on how much gum or alcohol is being used. most of the kids in my class had this silly whiny minnesotan accent and were not aware of it. know what i'm talking about?
Southern Minnesota has a distinct register, sounds "calmer", and a different timing on certain words, Northwest MN (Fargo-Brainerd) is more sing-songy and sharp
your accent sounds exaggrated from mine and i live an hour and a half away from Mankato.... so weird how there are so many different accents in Minnesota
See and your accent sound exaggerated to me, but it's probably because I'm from 'the cities" or more specifically a first ring suburb. I think it's really interesting how accents vary even within a state.
RED FLAG. Possible 'white terrorist' attack in Minnesota. Northern white state. They closed the state government and sent the employees home. Maybe to plant explosives. False flag. Illuminati.
people..all mimicked accents are overexaggerated..it just happens. im from upstate ny and were not nearly as nasally as people make us sound, but i dont get mad about it but its based in subtleties, which you notice more with someone who speaks differently than you. as far as the maker of this vid, your right you dont have the incredibly overexaggerated "fargo" accent, but listening to your dialect i can see where the influence came from
I moved from Boston to Minneapolis 3 yrs ago and you have the strongest Minnie accent I have heard so far! Maybe you weren't the best choice for this experiment just saying. Don't worry, I'm sure you'd be busting on my Bawston accent too, it's kinda bad.
I used to live in Rice County and moving back to Cali I swear I have an accent. Just like the way he enunciates his "s"s I have the same thing sort of like a slow and mellow slur
It's the same thing with us Canadians. Everyone thinks we say "aboot" and "eh" & play hockey, drink beer, eat moose meat, ride around on polar bears (and snow mobiles) and live in igloos. Some canadians (in the east) may say "aboot", but that's the only true stereotype! Actually, Canada is the same temperature as most of the northern states.
@skaterbabe1997 That's not a 'Canadian' accent. It might be slightly like the accent is SOME parts but Canada is bigger than the US. You have different accents there. See the connection? Use your brain kid.
They really do seem to exaggerate the accent. If I pay attention and listen to your accent I can hear it... there is like a faint accent there. Like a scandivian/german that has worked hard to get rid it but hasn't been 100% succesful. xD
Alot of people can't differentiate accents- If you ask most people from New York how many accents there are in the US- they'll tell you three- Regular (those from the NYC area), Boston (anyone from New England) and Southern, Hick or Hillbilly (the rest of the country)
@ohso41 Fair point, though I do hear an accent on this guy while I'm Minnesotan. If I did have this typical Minnesotan accent I wouldn't notice it so I suppose there is differenciation.
That's absolutely incorrect. The benchmark for the "news reporters" accent was Walter Cronkite- he was from St Joseph MO, just north of Kansas City. He always stated that he never had to alter his accent. The classic newscasters accent is based on the Kansas CIty MO area as well as the Indianapolis IN area because those are considered the most neutral accents in the country.
I've lived in MN my entire life and when I'm at home I'm told I have an accent. When I travel I'm told I have an accent. Even In Europe, other Americans wouldn't think I was American at first. Strangest thing... for a second I worried I may have a speech impedement.
Actually, when people imitate dialects, what upsets people are the stereotypical THINGS they say. Like for example, people imitating the Wisconsin/Minnesota accent always use "yeah dontcha know" and Boston imitators often use "car park and "fuckin" amongst other things. They get the actual accent, the way the words are pronounced, correct. When someone from these areas gets upset and says "we dont sound like that"...well, yes you DO. You just dont SAY THOSE CLICHES.
You sound like my uncle who lives in Saint Paul though he's originally from Winnebago, Iowa. I watched Fargo for the first time the other day and I was like, "This is not what Minnesotans sound like."
A lot of my family lives in Waseca. And yes, the accent is horribly exaggerated by people outside the state. It depends on where you live here... if you grew up away from the cities, it's worse, but never that bad.
What I thought was hilarious is that I met people from Minneapolis who actually think that people from Iowa and Kansas have southern accents, their accents are actually the most neutral of the midwestern accents.
I miss this sound. You sound like all of my friends from back home. I am deployed to Korea and I am surrounded by a bunch of boys from the south. I even slipped up and said "y'all" yesterday. Lord help me.
@paulie4star I sympathize with you. I'm working on an oil rig in North Dakota right next to Montana. Most of these guys are southern. I've never been this homesick. I'm watching the MN Wild on tv right now, and the game is at the Xcel. That's making me miss home a lot. But you have it worse because if I wanted to I could drive home in 10 hours. You'll always be a Minnesotan and your way of talking will probably always follow you to some degree, no matter where you live.
People in Iowa sound like they have southern accents to me. The only place that sounds normal to me is in Minnesota. I'm from the northern suburbs of Minneapolis and am currently living in the northwest portion of North Dakota. Even here the accent is a bit western. It kind of reminds me of what I've heard in Colorado. I kind of want to get home to where everybody sounds like the dude in this video. He sounds like a friendly snowmobiler/ice fishing type.
Funny that you think people in Iowa have southern accents- you can go even further south to Kansas CIty and even THEY don't have southern accents. If you told someone from Alabama or Mississippi that people from Iowa or Kansas City had southern accents- THEY WOULD LAUGH AT YOU.
The only reason why people from Iowa sound southern to you is because the Minnesota accent is SO EXTREME COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
you have a pretty strong accent. Can definitely hear it.
The thing is, hollywood gets the accents right but they stereotype WHAT the people say. Its not hard to get an actual accent correct, just imitate it. Its getting the local regionalisms right without resorting to cliche terminology that Hollywood struggled with. But then again, if they didnt do that most people would not necessarily recognize the specific accent a movie is going for.
By the way I was just in Minnesota and North Dakota last year and yes- that's how everyone sounded to me- like the actors in the movie Fargo- you want a neutral midwestern accent- go to Kansas City- that's as neutral as it gets.
You do have a Minnesota accent.... it's seems moderate, not extremely thick. If you had not said it, I would have guessed you were from Minnesota. It's not irritating and you don't sound like an asshole - just a Yankee ;) I'm from TN and for whoever commented that we are in denial of having an accent. That has me LMAO! I can't leave the south, even call outside the south without someone commenting on my accent! I coundn't deny it if I wanted to, not that I do. I'm proud to be from TN!
Yes, most folks from south will laugh and say "we don't have accents" but know they really do. What's funny (almost sad) is that folks from the Northern Midwest/Great Lakes really don't think they have accents, get insulted when people think they do but when they hear people with more neutral midwestern/yankee accents such as from Kansas City, will insist that THEY have a southern accent!
I get tired of people trying to overemphasize accents, whether Southern or Northern, and they wind up making cartoony sounding messes. Yes, you've got a definite northern accent but it isn't over-the-top. Iowa is a good place to compare and contrast accents. the nortern two or three tiers of counties: mostly northern. The middle tiers: nearly newscaster. Southern tiers start to trend to southern accents
I get tired of people trying to overemphasize accents, whether Southern or Northern, and they wind up making cartoony sounding messes. Yes, you've got a definite northern accent but it isn't over-the-top. Iowa is a good place to compare and contrast accents. the nortern two or three tiers of counties: mostly northern. The middle tiers: nearly newscaster. Southern tiers start to trend to southern accents
I disagree about the southern tier- ask anyone from Alabama or Mississippi if people from southern Iowa have southern accents and they would laugh at you- they would tell you that they sound like a bunch of $%&$ Yankees.
Kansas City is about as neutral (newscasters) midwestern as you can get- that's where Walter Cronkite was from (he was the benchmark for the newscasters accent)- and he always said he never had to change his accent
I agree with the irritation of the far fetched Minnesotan accents. We don't sound nearly as idiotic as they do trying to impersonate us. Perhaps it's just me, but it seems that you have quite the strong northern accent. I don't know, usually I can't hear an accent. Are you from further up north?
@PsYcHoTiCsPoRk i agree with you. We dont talk like that. sure, we say uff da and stuff like that, but we dont draw out this stupid crap people impersonate us with
@creamyfilling102 I just thought it was funny the way you said that whole line, I just laughed out loud when I heard it because I know exactly what you mean. I've lived in MN for 8 years now, from CA originally. but yeah, I wasn't knockin' on ya, just thought it was funny. cheers
I've been to the Twin Cities many times and there is an obvious accent. When I was down In Des Moines and Kansas City I just head a midwestern neutral accent down there- even as far south as Wichita- and I'm not even from the midwest or the south.
It depends on where you are in MN. I'm from Rochester, MN which is in south eastern Minnesota and we kind of have an accent but its not as thick as a northern Minnesotan accent. And I hate how everybody says that we are in denial about our accent which is so not true! I'm not afraid to admit that I'm proud of my Minnesotan accent. My aunt lives in North Carolina and she has a thick southern accent, so if anybody is in denial about their accent, its the south eastern states, not Minnesota!
The difference is people in the South know they have an accent and will joke around and say "no you're the one with the accent" people in the Northern Midwest and Great Lakes states take offense when they're told they have an accent when in fact their accent is just as strong as accents in the south.
If you want a neutral midwestern accent- Omaha and Des Moines is about as neutral as you're going to get.
@ohso41 But still not everybody in the midwest is in denial. One person does not represent the whole state of Minnesota. Just because one or a few people from Minnesota are in denial about their accent, does not mean the whole state is like that! It's not really fair to just judge all of us like that! Yes, there are a ton of Minnesotans that deny their accent, but that DOESN'T MEAN THE WHOLE POPULATION IN MINNESOTA DENIES THEIR ACCENT! and I was just kidding about the south.
Dude, if you sound like an asshole, I wouldn't be listening to you lol. I know a lot of people from Minnesota, so it kinda sounds ordinary to me, and I now realize how authentic the accent really is. Thanks for posting the vid!
Central Minnesota here-Bloomington. You pretty much got the same accent as i do,i lived in norway for a couple of years also,and the strange thing is that after being there,my accent is penetrated with alittle texas accent. Makes no sense,weird,
OMG i'm from Minnesota too..and i'm sooooo sick of the sterotype of our accents.. i can honestly say i express my O's and stuff.. but nothing like ppl make it out to be.. but then i wonder if we do have a distinct accent and we just don't notice it!
I'm from South Minnesota and I can hear you're accent. So far down, we don't have a thick accent. Getting north of the cities I can start to hear it though.
Thanks for that perfect display of the accent you don't think is noticeable...:D!
BTW there ARE lots of people throughout the northern Great Lakes region( not just MN) who speak like the "Fargo" characters. I've known them all my life.
I never understood why ppl have such a problem with minnesotan accent. I think East- European accents spoken in Chicago as well as Italian New York accent.is ten times more irritating
@cornelia695 Who are these people who have a problem with Minnesotan accents. I am certainly not one of them. I like Minnesota accents, but I do wish Minnesotans would acknowledge that they have accents (like everyone who isn't mute).
One way to tell if someone's genuinely from northern Minnesota is if 'out' and 'about' ryhme with 'boat'. Also 'merry', 'Mary', and 'marry' all sound the same. 'Cot' ryhmes with 'caught'. 'Tock' sounds exactly the same as 'talk'. 'Collar' is the same as 'caller'. 'On' ryhmes with 'dawn' and 'Don'. 'Horrible' will have the same o sound as 'whore'. 'Feel' sounds completely different from 'fill'. 'Bag' ryhmes with 'Vague'. Also most Minnesotan's rarely say 'dat' or 'dis'. That's Minnesotan 101
One way to tell if someone's genuinely from northern Minnesota is if 'out' and 'about' ryhme with 'boat'. Also 'merry', 'Mary', and 'marry' all sound the same. 'Cot' ryhmes with 'caught'. 'Tock' sounds exactly the same as 'talk'. 'Collar' is the same as 'caller'. 'On' ryhmes with 'dawn' and 'Don'. 'Horrible' will have the same o sound as 'whore'. 'Feel' sounds completely different from 'fill'. 'Bag' ryhmes with 'Vague'. Also most Minnesotan's rarely say 'dat' or 'dis'. That's Minnesotan 101
omg iam from florida miami ! and i speak like that !!! if never been to minnesota though lol and i took this quiz and its saus i have a minnesota accent !!! and i do i swear i speak like that !! why is that ?? can someone explain please ! :)
GIGGITY!?!? Dude you are my hero, shout out from Le Sueur here, thought this hilariously accurate.
SuicidalFurby 3 days ago
The video actually, authentically begins, "Ahrightythen.." Geeze, y'got that right. Love it. This video is wonderful because it proves the very thing the poor guy sets out to disprove.
There's no need to get touchy. Hollywood is a joke period so if a film makes a joke of a particular accent and dialect understand it's a joke. Everyone has some kind of accent. Chill.
thecyclist59 6 days ago
you have a subtle but definitely noticeable MN accent, but only noticeable due to the fact that i'm from texas, so there is definitely a contrast there. but you're right you don't sound like the stereotype, like, im frohm minnesoooohta doohnt cha knooohw.
cashmoney21892 1 week ago
@cashmoney21892 I live about 25 miles away from the guy in this video and I have a friend from Arlington, Texas. She says I don't really have an accent and she doesn't really have an accent to me either. Its just the dialect is a little different with some words like horrible, bag, and roof.
cutexinu 5 days ago
Northern and southern minnesotas have accents,by minneapolis they don't.
missmillerlight 2 weeks ago
I'm from Minnesota. We have the hardest accent to immitate in the entire country. I have been called the accent king by my peers, meaning I can do nearly any accent. Easy shit, dere guy.
lemmywhinks 3 weeks ago
This is true! Haha this is what we sound like.
#RealMinnesotan
Haha
jadude114 3 weeks ago
minnesotans have no accent!!!!! now canada is a different story
hatchman890 4 weeks ago
Hi! I came looking for a Minnesotan accent because I am in a play, but I didn't want to copy some actress doing an accent and I really like your accent because it's subtle but with character! However- it would be great (from my point of veiw) if it was a little longer AND if you could read a piece of text so that the range of your accent is highlighted and it becomes easier to pinpoint what makes the Minnesotan accent different from other accents.
Anyway, I really liked it :)
jageaoa 1 month ago
WOW!! I'm from Kato too!! But no longer there and i can defiantly here it will your a's! I love it because I'M TOTALLY SURE I SOUND LIKE THAT!!! WHY TO GO!! I hate hearing those people that don't sound at all like MN people! They sound Canadian! GET IT RIGHT!!!
paiger4e 1 month ago
I'm from Minnesota, about 40 minutes from your area & I sound exactly like you.
6emma6 1 month ago
I'm from northern MN and sound exactly like you. :)
cheerfulyank 1 month ago
I come from Detroit, another part of the country where folks are oblivious to the fact that they speak with a strong regional accent, so I understand where the OP is coming from. So it is with fondness that I say this video is unintentionally hilarious.
If you speak as you do here to folks from any other part of the country, 99 people out of a 100 will hear your strong North-Central accent. And the jerks among them will mention Fargo. Guaranteed. And there is nothing to be ashamed of here.
numberonealcove 2 months ago 3
@numberonealcove
You hit the nail right on the head. When I lived in Seattle, I was always able to differentiate the locals accent from those who were from North Dakota or Minnesota and other North Central accents. Same with Chicago, and the other Inland North Accents. However if someone was from North Dakota or Wisconsin I may have guessed Minnesota at first, or if someone was from Cleveland or Detroit I may have guessed Chicago first-
ohso41 2 months ago
@ohso41 Exactly. And it's not like the original poster speaks near General American with some North Central features... It's full-on North Central.
In fact, I work for IBM with a lot of folks from the Rochester, MN lab. These folks tend to be from Rochester and Mankato. The OP's accent is the strongest from southern Minnesota I've ever heard.
numberonealcove 2 months ago
You betcha the only time I do the"Minnesota accent" is when I tell someone i'm from Minnesota
macWWACK 2 months ago
I live in kato bro!
CODEBLUE0000 2 months ago
@ohso41
I think you must need some pity to hide here on freaking youtube and post your shit!
toffiecoffie 2 months ago
@toffiecoffie
I think you meant to send this comment to the other person
ohso41 2 months ago
I'm from Saint Paul and I've noticed people from the Twin cities don't have very strong accents. We have them but they aren't as BAM!
olexia07 3 months ago
your imitation is great! best William H. Macy I've heard so far
MustafaBalbi 3 months ago
Question! What are the other videos on youtube that are authentic? I'm in a play that is set in Minnesota, but I'm from Boston and have the "Bahstun" accent. I'm looking for more videos that I can learn from rather than learn the over exaggerated accent.
Ginger0287 3 months ago
@Ginger0287
I have some local Twin Cities commercials that may help
ohso41 2 months ago
hey dude, im from minnesota too. did you notice that if you go up more towards the like saint paul and around there, they dont really have it? lol jw
bella2750 3 months ago
@bella2750
Yes they do- I hear it when I visit
ohso41 2 months ago
@ohso41 keyword visit. :p bitch. your not from here, you dont know shit.
bella2750 2 months ago
@bella2750
Did I use profanity in my comment. Act like a mature human being please, don't hide behind mommy's computer acting big. I've traveled all over the country and people from the Twin Cities have extremely thick accents compared to the rest of the country.
ohso41 2 months ago
@ohso41 nahh thanks, maturity isnt in my nature. this isnt my mommys laptop, thanks :) and ill use profanity in my comments if i want. bitch bitch fuck fuck damn shit whatever. it doesnt matter. I dont care where you've been, and i said 'DONT REALLY HAVE IT" k? which insinuates they have it. just not as much. so fuck off.
bella2750 2 months ago
@bella2750
It's very disturbing that you have to express yourself this way- "I don't" and can't have a nice friendly discussion- "I can" . Perhaps you find this funny, I would feel terrible if I ever responded towards someone the way you did, it's just the wrong thing to do.
ohso41 2 months ago
@ohso41 after awhile your conscience fades. dont tell me whats wrong and whats right, prick.
bella2750 2 months ago
@bella2750
I feel very sorry for you.
ohso41 2 months ago
@ohso41 do i sound like i need your fucking pity?
bella2750 2 months ago
i live in Minneapolis - and have lived in Duluth - and am from WI. Dude --- you have a Minnesota accent haha.
hilga007 3 months ago
ummm alot of people dont talk like people say they do
alexrage76 4 months ago
Agree that imitated, exaggerated Minnesota accents can be pretty annoying. However, you definitely do have a pretty noticeable accent. I didn't used to notice the accent until I spent time in other states, but its definitely there.
crazedminnesotan 4 months ago
You sound like Michelle Bachmann.
SecretQT1 4 months ago
"yaah ice fishin" hahaha.
Bubbly00 4 months ago
Dude it's the weirdest thing but I'm Hispanic, born in Miami and live in north Carolina right now and I talk JUST like you. And I have NEVER been to Minnesota. It's scary. O.O
SakuraHaruno824 5 months ago
@SakuraHaruno824 same here dude, hispanic from Miami, never been up in the MN area and i always get that "dude are you from MN, what's with the accent???"
Spazerrific 4 months ago
@Spazerrific LOL i get the same thing all the time! Thats so weird. I wonder where we got it from?
SakuraHaruno824 4 months ago
@SakuraHaruno824 bahaha! i blame movies and tv, but it's better than that irritating miami accent (especially because of the use of the word "guy" in every sentence) XD
Spazerrific 4 months ago
Thank you man, you never really notice the accent you have untill you pay attention to it... my favorite part about living in Minnesota? Listaning to the tourists and new movers say how cold it is, when i'm wearing a T-shirt.
LastHazzerd 5 months ago
I swear I was still listening to Fargo here.
MrCrazyAlligator 5 months ago
in northern minnesota, you hear a lot of the "fargo" style accent, but in the suburbs among the youth you get a subtler, more whiny jock sounding minnesota accent, that still has the drawn out oh and elongated vowels, but a little more spoiled sounding, and slurring depending on how much gum or alcohol is being used. most of the kids in my class had this silly whiny minnesotan accent and were not aware of it. know what i'm talking about?
kautle 5 months ago
I don't know what your talking about in this one, but any way, your still wierd.
Riddla187 6 months ago
Is American English your second language? LOL Just Kidding! Enjoyed your video and your accent is very nice and non-irritating.
7t8h4z 6 months ago
Southern Minnesota has a distinct register, sounds "calmer", and a different timing on certain words, Northwest MN (Fargo-Brainerd) is more sing-songy and sharp
fluidicmethod 6 months ago
"little bit of something" ya?
sloppyviewer 6 months ago
your accent sounds exaggrated from mine and i live an hour and a half away from Mankato.... so weird how there are so many different accents in Minnesota
ashypooh400 6 months ago
See and your accent sound exaggerated to me, but it's probably because I'm from 'the cities" or more specifically a first ring suburb. I think it's really interesting how accents vary even within a state.
LunaZola 7 months ago
RED FLAG. Possible 'white terrorist' attack in Minnesota. Northern white state. They closed the state government and sent the employees home. Maybe to plant explosives. False flag. Illuminati.
Agustason 7 months ago
Hahah notice I dont sound like an asshole . Ahh love it ! Go minnesota :)
Hal3y96 7 months ago
you sound like a indian immigrant who grew up in da yoop.
ghettokhanacademy 7 months ago
people..all mimicked accents are overexaggerated..it just happens. im from upstate ny and were not nearly as nasally as people make us sound, but i dont get mad about it but its based in subtleties, which you notice more with someone who speaks differently than you. as far as the maker of this vid, your right you dont have the incredibly overexaggerated "fargo" accent, but listening to your dialect i can see where the influence came from
nyk811 7 months ago
Now you know how southerners feel...
katg18 7 months ago
I moved from Boston to Minneapolis 3 yrs ago and you have the strongest Minnie accent I have heard so far! Maybe you weren't the best choice for this experiment just saying. Don't worry, I'm sure you'd be busting on my Bawston accent too, it's kinda bad.
shadow49100 7 months ago
Giggity goo.
KillerHelix 7 months ago
MINNEAPOLIS 4 LIFE <3
ryanneuman1 7 months ago
My friend keeps saying that us northerns talk so fast, people from the south can't understand us. I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'
squeeky95 7 months ago
this is awesome, im norwegian so im a viking, pluss im from minnesota so im yea tht
sophialanwes 7 months ago
:D I'm from Minnesota. About 40 minutes from Mankato ^.^ winter sucks >.>
painxloveable 7 months ago
@painxloveable WINTER.SUCKS. in Minnesota. GAHH!
squeeky95 7 months ago
@squeeky95 agreed!
painxloveable 7 months ago
You must be from northern Mn?
CactusJackFF 7 months ago
@CactusJackFF nope. mankato. southern part.
creamyfilling102 7 months ago 2
@creamyfilling102 I'm from Mankato and don't have an accent like you
Brenpaulson 7 months ago
@creamyfilling102
im from mankato and i havent heard anyone talk like this ha
Brenpaulson 5 months ago
@creamyfilling102 Welll u have a northern Minnesotan accent
ItsCaine 2 months ago
@CactusJackFF
ItsCaine 2 months ago
omg i kno huh we minnesotan nd we talk normal nd ya other ppl dont kno shit thank u showing love from Minneapolis MN
RedLakeNation2009 8 months ago
I used to live in Rice County and moving back to Cali I swear I have an accent. Just like the way he enunciates his "s"s I have the same thing sort of like a slow and mellow slur
IsraelHampster 8 months ago
It's the same thing with us Canadians. Everyone thinks we say "aboot" and "eh" & play hockey, drink beer, eat moose meat, ride around on polar bears (and snow mobiles) and live in igloos. Some canadians (in the east) may say "aboot", but that's the only true stereotype! Actually, Canada is the same temperature as most of the northern states.
CarTours101 8 months ago
people from minnesota do have a slight accent in the middle region, our T's turn into D's and we have long A's and D's, some people sound irish
chasealdrich 8 months ago
Haha okay, I listened to this (I'm from MN) and now I think I can pinpoint what the accent sounds like..
-A little bit like Irish
-A little bit like people from Liverpool (a city in England)
-A wee little bit like Norwegian/Swedish (the way he kind of "sings" when he talks)
Vierhuizen 8 months ago
yeah, it's a bunch of crap! we don't sound like leprechons..hahah giggity.
happyfruit101 8 months ago
Thats a canadian accent! not minnesotan i would know i live there
skaterbabe1997 8 months ago
@skaterbabe1997 That's not a 'Canadian' accent. It might be slightly like the accent is SOME parts but Canada is bigger than the US. You have different accents there. See the connection? Use your brain kid.
Euterpe001 8 months ago
i dont get why ppl think we have an accent. everyone that doesnt have a true accent exaggerate way too much.
ponycasey 8 months ago
They really do seem to exaggerate the accent. If I pay attention and listen to your accent I can hear it... there is like a faint accent there. Like a scandivian/german that has worked hard to get rid it but hasn't been 100% succesful. xD
GongLove 8 months ago
Thanks for the video. I enjoy listening to real accents instead of the fake hollywood versions of them.
SwingDancer61 8 months ago
This guy lives in Waseca, but feel like people in the cities have more of a "mid-western" accent.
SkipperXZ 8 months ago
@SkipperXZ
I disagree- go to Kansas City or Indianapolis to hear a more "midwestern accent" even into Wichita-
ohso41 8 months ago
@ohso41 I've been to Kansas City, and I noticed no difference.
SkipperXZ 8 months ago
@SkipperXZ
Alot of people can't differentiate accents- If you ask most people from New York how many accents there are in the US- they'll tell you three- Regular (those from the NYC area), Boston (anyone from New England) and Southern, Hick or Hillbilly (the rest of the country)
ohso41 8 months ago
@ohso41 Fair point, though I do hear an accent on this guy while I'm Minnesotan. If I did have this typical Minnesotan accent I wouldn't notice it so I suppose there is differenciation.
SkipperXZ 6 months ago
I was born and raised in California and now live in Colorado, anyways, I can clearly hear the accent in your voice!
themendezes 9 months ago 2
News reporters are trained to speak with a minnesota accent cuz they're the easiest to understand. So everyone else can suck one
kippage59 9 months ago
@kippage59
That's absolutely incorrect. The benchmark for the "news reporters" accent was Walter Cronkite- he was from St Joseph MO, just north of Kansas City. He always stated that he never had to alter his accent. The classic newscasters accent is based on the Kansas CIty MO area as well as the Indianapolis IN area because those are considered the most neutral accents in the country.
ohso41 9 months ago
Right on.
CMloveify 9 months ago
Ok random question, but do people from Minnesota say mom or mum?
koolios123abc 9 months ago
@koolios123abc mom.
CMloveify 9 months ago
*know
Kentuckywildcatfan13 9 months ago
Does he knoe people over do accents on purpose? Its a joke, and people eouldnt understand a subtle accent, so its exaggerated.
Kentuckywildcatfan13 9 months ago
I've lived in MN my entire life and when I'm at home I'm told I have an accent. When I travel I'm told I have an accent. Even In Europe, other Americans wouldn't think I was American at first. Strangest thing... for a second I worried I may have a speech impedement.
sevanderwood 9 months ago
Actually, when people imitate dialects, what upsets people are the stereotypical THINGS they say. Like for example, people imitating the Wisconsin/Minnesota accent always use "yeah dontcha know" and Boston imitators often use "car park and "fuckin" amongst other things. They get the actual accent, the way the words are pronounced, correct. When someone from these areas gets upset and says "we dont sound like that"...well, yes you DO. You just dont SAY THOSE CLICHES.
innotech 10 months ago 2
waseca county! i was born and raised in waseca! still live there!
bevem399 10 months ago
you're poppin your "p's" in the microphone ;) don't do that. lol
doctortalk121 10 months ago
You sound like my uncle who lives in Saint Paul though he's originally from Winnebago, Iowa. I watched Fargo for the first time the other day and I was like, "This is not what Minnesotans sound like."
shannonjordan94 10 months ago
A lot of my family lives in Waseca. And yes, the accent is horribly exaggerated by people outside the state. It depends on where you live here... if you grew up away from the cities, it's worse, but never that bad.
instantpestering 10 months ago
It's okay. I have a southern accent and I pretty much sound like a dumb ass 90% of the time. Yours is significantly cooler.
GreyAlaska 10 months ago
@GreyAlaska Ha! I love it! Although sometimes I wish I had a southern accent instead of a MN one.
instantpestering 10 months ago
@instantpestering
What I thought was hilarious is that I met people from Minneapolis who actually think that people from Iowa and Kansas have southern accents, their accents are actually the most neutral of the midwestern accents.
ohso41 10 months ago
I miss this sound. You sound like all of my friends from back home. I am deployed to Korea and I am surrounded by a bunch of boys from the south. I even slipped up and said "y'all" yesterday. Lord help me.
paulie4star 11 months ago
@paulie4star I sympathize with you. I'm working on an oil rig in North Dakota right next to Montana. Most of these guys are southern. I've never been this homesick. I'm watching the MN Wild on tv right now, and the game is at the Xcel. That's making me miss home a lot. But you have it worse because if I wanted to I could drive home in 10 hours. You'll always be a Minnesotan and your way of talking will probably always follow you to some degree, no matter where you live.
jbjindra 11 months ago
People in Iowa sound like they have southern accents to me. The only place that sounds normal to me is in Minnesota. I'm from the northern suburbs of Minneapolis and am currently living in the northwest portion of North Dakota. Even here the accent is a bit western. It kind of reminds me of what I've heard in Colorado. I kind of want to get home to where everybody sounds like the dude in this video. He sounds like a friendly snowmobiler/ice fishing type.
jbjindra 11 months ago
@jbjindra
Funny that you think people in Iowa have southern accents- you can go even further south to Kansas CIty and even THEY don't have southern accents. If you told someone from Alabama or Mississippi that people from Iowa or Kansas City had southern accents- THEY WOULD LAUGH AT YOU.
The only reason why people from Iowa sound southern to you is because the Minnesota accent is SO EXTREME COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
ohso41 11 months ago
you have a pretty strong accent. Can definitely hear it.
The thing is, hollywood gets the accents right but they stereotype WHAT the people say. Its not hard to get an actual accent correct, just imitate it. Its getting the local regionalisms right without resorting to cliche terminology that Hollywood struggled with. But then again, if they didnt do that most people would not necessarily recognize the specific accent a movie is going for.
innotech 11 months ago
you still have a thick fargo accent sorry.
elitestar 11 months ago 2
I was really offended by the way the actors spoke in the movie Fargo, it was insultive.
snowgirl1052 11 months ago
@snowgirl1052
I'm insulted by shows like Jersey Shore and the Sopranos- No one in the NYC area talks like that- I know I'm from there!
ohso41 11 months ago
@snowgirl1052
By the way I was just in Minnesota and North Dakota last year and yes- that's how everyone sounded to me- like the actors in the movie Fargo- you want a neutral midwestern accent- go to Kansas City- that's as neutral as it gets.
ohso41 11 months ago
You do have a Minnesota accent.... it's seems moderate, not extremely thick. If you had not said it, I would have guessed you were from Minnesota. It's not irritating and you don't sound like an asshole - just a Yankee ;) I'm from TN and for whoever commented that we are in denial of having an accent. That has me LMAO! I can't leave the south, even call outside the south without someone commenting on my accent! I coundn't deny it if I wanted to, not that I do. I'm proud to be from TN!
bilbrey98 11 months ago
@bilbrey98
Yes, most folks from south will laugh and say "we don't have accents" but know they really do. What's funny (almost sad) is that folks from the Northern Midwest/Great Lakes really don't think they have accents, get insulted when people think they do but when they hear people with more neutral midwestern/yankee accents such as from Kansas City, will insist that THEY have a southern accent!
ohso41 11 months ago
@ILOVEGACrew
Yes- strong ones too- listen to folks from Des Moines or Kansas City- if you think they sound southern then yes you have an accent
ohso41 11 months ago
I get tired of people trying to overemphasize accents, whether Southern or Northern, and they wind up making cartoony sounding messes. Yes, you've got a definite northern accent but it isn't over-the-top. Iowa is a good place to compare and contrast accents. the nortern two or three tiers of counties: mostly northern. The middle tiers: nearly newscaster. Southern tiers start to trend to southern accents
rgjraccoon 11 months ago
I get tired of people trying to overemphasize accents, whether Southern or Northern, and they wind up making cartoony sounding messes. Yes, you've got a definite northern accent but it isn't over-the-top. Iowa is a good place to compare and contrast accents. the nortern two or three tiers of counties: mostly northern. The middle tiers: nearly newscaster. Southern tiers start to trend to southern accents
rgjraccoon 11 months ago
@rgjraccoon
I disagree about the southern tier- ask anyone from Alabama or Mississippi if people from southern Iowa have southern accents and they would laugh at you- they would tell you that they sound like a bunch of $%&$ Yankees.
Kansas City is about as neutral (newscasters) midwestern as you can get- that's where Walter Cronkite was from (he was the benchmark for the newscasters accent)- and he always said he never had to change his accent
ohso41 11 months ago
I agree with the irritation of the far fetched Minnesotan accents. We don't sound nearly as idiotic as they do trying to impersonate us. Perhaps it's just me, but it seems that you have quite the strong northern accent. I don't know, usually I can't hear an accent. Are you from further up north?
PsYcHoTiCsPoRk 11 months ago 14
@PsYcHoTiCsPoRk nope. down by mankato.
creamyfilling102 11 months ago
@creamyfilling102 before i even read your comment "im from mankato" i could tell you were from southern. It's just different dielects
MNWA2011 8 months ago
@PsYcHoTiCsPoRk
From an outsider's perspective- this is quite mild compared to the accents I hear in the Twin Cities when I visit.
If you want to hear a more "neutral" midwest accent you would have to head down to the Des Moines Iowa or Kansas City MO area.
ohso41 11 months ago
@PsYcHoTiCsPoRk Im from st cloud...i thought he sounded a bit northern too
kippage59 9 months ago
@PsYcHoTiCsPoRk i agree with you. We dont talk like that. sure, we say uff da and stuff like that, but we dont draw out this stupid crap people impersonate us with
MNWA2011 8 months ago
The only Minnesotan that really has a super thick accent is Joe mauer
monkey7ben 1 year ago
@monkey7ben
I hear super thick accents whenever I visit Minnesota- even in the Twin Cities.
ohso41 1 year ago
I've lived in MN my whole life and just moved to Maine and the only difference I can really tel about the words
We say is like they say "bag" and we say "beg" and most "ag" word differently
monkey7ben 1 year ago
I live in Virginia but my friends always tease me because I have a Minnesotan accent because my family is from Minnesota. Also, I love your voice :D
shannonjordan94 1 year ago
@shannonjordan94 there is a town called virginia in MN
lacore1988 11 months ago
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greendayluver523 10 months ago
@lacore1988
I am aware of the town of Virginia, I've yet to have visited it yet though.
shannonjordan94 10 months ago
"You can hear my voice, notice..see the way I'm talkin'.. ya notice I don't sound like an asshole."
kewell01 1 year ago 28
@kewell01 ok, good point. maybe i do a little lol.
creamyfilling102 1 year ago
@creamyfilling102 I just thought it was funny the way you said that whole line, I just laughed out loud when I heard it because I know exactly what you mean. I've lived in MN for 8 years now, from CA originally. but yeah, I wasn't knockin' on ya, just thought it was funny. cheers
kewell01 1 year ago
@TehCreator7
I've been to the Twin Cities many times and there is an obvious accent. When I was down In Des Moines and Kansas City I just head a midwestern neutral accent down there- even as far south as Wichita- and I'm not even from the midwest or the south.
ohso41 1 year ago
It depends on where you are in MN. I'm from Rochester, MN which is in south eastern Minnesota and we kind of have an accent but its not as thick as a northern Minnesotan accent. And I hate how everybody says that we are in denial about our accent which is so not true! I'm not afraid to admit that I'm proud of my Minnesotan accent. My aunt lives in North Carolina and she has a thick southern accent, so if anybody is in denial about their accent, its the south eastern states, not Minnesota!
iTALiANH00kA 1 year ago
@iTALiANH00kA
The difference is people in the South know they have an accent and will joke around and say "no you're the one with the accent" people in the Northern Midwest and Great Lakes states take offense when they're told they have an accent when in fact their accent is just as strong as accents in the south.
If you want a neutral midwestern accent- Omaha and Des Moines is about as neutral as you're going to get.
ohso41 1 year ago
@ohso41 But still not everybody in the midwest is in denial. One person does not represent the whole state of Minnesota. Just because one or a few people from Minnesota are in denial about their accent, does not mean the whole state is like that! It's not really fair to just judge all of us like that! Yes, there are a ton of Minnesotans that deny their accent, but that DOESN'T MEAN THE WHOLE POPULATION IN MINNESOTA DENIES THEIR ACCENT! and I was just kidding about the south.
iTALiANH00kA 1 year ago
@iTALiANH00kA
I'm not from the South. I'm from the Northeast, but be that what it may, I like the Minnesota accent!
ohso41 1 year ago
@ohso41 :) me too and I never said you were from the south lol
iTALiANH00kA 1 year ago
nobody realizes that they themselves have an accent...because to them they have NO accent, and everybody else has an accent. it's all relative
benman876 1 year ago
Dude, if you sound like an asshole, I wouldn't be listening to you lol. I know a lot of people from Minnesota, so it kinda sounds ordinary to me, and I now realize how authentic the accent really is. Thanks for posting the vid!
TheOz91 1 year ago
ill make a video myself
Archirvion 1 year ago
Central Minnesota here-Bloomington. You pretty much got the same accent as i do,i lived in norway for a couple of years also,and the strange thing is that after being there,my accent is penetrated with alittle texas accent. Makes no sense,weird,
Archirvion 1 year ago
OMG i'm from Minnesota too..and i'm sooooo sick of the sterotype of our accents.. i can honestly say i express my O's and stuff.. but nothing like ppl make it out to be.. but then i wonder if we do have a distinct accent and we just don't notice it!
ccbrooks18 1 year ago
I thought that was a canadian accent...
1trueNRG 1 year ago
Yeah....you have a thick accent man....Minnesota girl, born and raised, right here.
You can really hear it with the vowels and words that have "th" in them.
TehAnnahFoo 1 year ago
I'm from South Minnesota and I can hear you're accent. So far down, we don't have a thick accent. Getting north of the cities I can start to hear it though.
limetree89 1 year ago
Whatever people may say, I find this cool and easy to understand. BTW, I was born overseas.
jldeguzman68 1 year ago
hate to break it to ya bro, but your voice DOES sound like an asshole...lol
SocialFever 1 year ago
I can hear it in your voice.
And I'm from Northern Minnesota.
BrettDixonMusic 1 year ago
Can you please explain why no one in Minnesota know what a frappe is? They all keep saying "You have to go to Starbucks for that".
Clarinerd617 1 year ago
@Clarinerd617 well don't you have to go to starbucks to get a frappe or like any coffee place?
whatsupbuttercup95 1 year ago
@whatsupbuttercup95 You'd better be trolling.
Clarinerd617 1 year ago
Thanks for that perfect display of the accent you don't think is noticeable...:D!
BTW there ARE lots of people throughout the northern Great Lakes region( not just MN) who speak like the "Fargo" characters. I've known them all my life.
MikieDaC 1 year ago
"You'll notice I don't sound like an asshole". Hahaha
VNVNation2006 1 year ago
lol 'ya, ice-fishin'
mobl90 1 year ago
Your accent sounds the same as "Fargo" except it's subtle.
They exaggerated the accent for comedic effect.
KutWrite 1 year ago
I never understood why ppl have such a problem with minnesotan accent. I think East- European accents spoken in Chicago as well as Italian New York accent.is ten times more irritating
cornelia695 1 year ago 16
@cornelia695
No one speaks with the "Italian NY Accent" any more- it doesn't exist - the only place you'll here it nowadays is in Hollywood
ohso41 1 year ago
@cornelia695 Who are these people who have a problem with Minnesotan accents. I am certainly not one of them. I like Minnesota accents, but I do wish Minnesotans would acknowledge that they have accents (like everyone who isn't mute).
yurismir1 9 months ago
@yurismir1 *accents? :)
yurismir1 9 months ago
One way to tell if someone's genuinely from northern Minnesota is if 'out' and 'about' ryhme with 'boat'. Also 'merry', 'Mary', and 'marry' all sound the same. 'Cot' ryhmes with 'caught'. 'Tock' sounds exactly the same as 'talk'. 'Collar' is the same as 'caller'. 'On' ryhmes with 'dawn' and 'Don'. 'Horrible' will have the same o sound as 'whore'. 'Feel' sounds completely different from 'fill'. 'Bag' ryhmes with 'Vague'. Also most Minnesotan's rarely say 'dat' or 'dis'. That's Minnesotan 101
WavelandAvenue24 1 year ago
One way to tell if someone's genuinely from northern Minnesota is if 'out' and 'about' ryhme with 'boat'. Also 'merry', 'Mary', and 'marry' all sound the same. 'Cot' ryhmes with 'caught'. 'Tock' sounds exactly the same as 'talk'. 'Collar' is the same as 'caller'. 'On' ryhmes with 'dawn' and 'Don'. 'Horrible' will have the same o sound as 'whore'. 'Feel' sounds completely different from 'fill'. 'Bag' ryhmes with 'Vague'. Also most Minnesotan's rarely say 'dat' or 'dis'. That's Minnesotan 101
WavelandAvenue24 1 year ago
~goo!
mjplisek 1 year ago
i used to live in waseca. :)
mandakuoppala 1 year ago
Are you by chance from the Twin Cities area? Cause that's where there sound like this guy I've heard
southernboygonebad 1 year ago
Minnesotan people sound like they have cocks in their mouths
pantiesniffer 1 year ago
@pantiesniffer i am from minnesota and you need to shut up...
briannarox1213 1 year ago
@pantiesniffer lol nahhh we dont. (: you're just jealous, cause us minnesotans are legit as fuck, and youre not.
mandakuoppala 1 year ago
omg iam from florida miami ! and i speak like that !!! if never been to minnesota though lol and i took this quiz and its saus i have a minnesota accent !!! and i do i swear i speak like that !! why is that ?? can someone explain please ! :)
jose1477 1 year ago