lol I was watching your video and my dad walked by my room and hear your voice and thought it was his! We're from Ct so I guess that proves a point, although I think he sounds a tad more New York to me!
I'm from south central Connecticut (New Haven area) and do personally use these particular inflections. I also pronounce orange "arenge", ball as bawl, coffee as "cawfee" and I do occasionally drop the r's from the end of some words and I will often add another syllable. For example, if I'm mad "Get over here!" might become "Get ovah he-ah". The Connecticut accent is a funny one, thank you for taking a closer look at it.
@alfredklek Good to hear from ya. Those are all also how I say them, except for "arenge." That's something, incidentally, that's shared w/ typical New York accent -- but as I often stress (to people who say it is), doesn't necessarily mean the CT is derivative of NYC. There seems to be lots of funny little pockets of accents in CT. Still trying to figure out how my mom's and dad's accent are very different, tho they were both brought up in the same town (Enfield)!
@hultonclint I lived in Connecticut for some of my elementary school years. I have somewhat of a Connecticut accent. My dad is from New York so I have some of that accent and my mom is from Wichita, so my accent is pretty unique ha ha.
@devioussf Why's it nonsense? It notes that some people in CT pronounce this way.The "some" is very clear, since it asks where specifically -- if it *can* be pinpointed (that is the question -- those people do. If you don't, and you have never heard this, then you have no info to contribute. The least you can do is say where specifically you are from, and perhaps give a sense of your age, social class, or ethnicity. Otherwise your comment is about as credible as "Eskimos don't wipe their bums."
@hultonclint No need to get all petulant. I'm from Norwalk but have traveled all throughout the state and New England. I just don't hear an accent in your pronunciation of street, and think any accent from CT is going to be similar to either Mass or NY, depending on where one is from. I no longer live in CT and some people think I have an accent. But compared to anyone from NY or Mass or even RI, it's nominal at best.
Please, everyone "has an accent". Accent is like color; you don't ask IF something has a color, you ask WHAT color/shade. This is not about whether Joe Blow will hear the accent of person from place X and say, "My God, you sound different to me!" It is about the *description* of phonological features -- observations of speech from some people, and hoping to discover where/among whom those features are shared. There is no comparison here, except to "standard broadcast" English as a baseline.
And I have no idea why I do...it's weird. I am wondering if there is anything regional about it (i.e. *some* certain people in CT consistently do it), or if it is completely haphazard.
If you haven't already, maybe check out my other CT accent videos in the "Related Videos". Thanks for the comment!
I used to study phonetics for German dialects. In our field studies, we let Franconian farmers say words and whole sentences like here, until they questioned our sanity.
This is a quite a special "shtreeyt" and "shtrong" here. It's an hour's work for three to find out the diacritical marks for the sh-sound :)
lol I was watching your video and my dad walked by my room and hear your voice and thought it was his! We're from Ct so I guess that proves a point, although I think he sounds a tad more New York to me!
Courtmello 5 months ago
@Courtmello ha, hilarious...
hultonclint 5 months ago
@Courtmello ha, hilarious...
hultonclint 5 months ago
i live in CT you sound completely normal there was no accent there sir
DIPwhenyourSICK 11 months ago
My father was born, and grew up in Connecticut, and he had a New York accent. :) I have a slight accent because of that. XD
jaevees 11 months ago
I'm from south central Connecticut (New Haven area) and do personally use these particular inflections. I also pronounce orange "arenge", ball as bawl, coffee as "cawfee" and I do occasionally drop the r's from the end of some words and I will often add another syllable. For example, if I'm mad "Get over here!" might become "Get ovah he-ah". The Connecticut accent is a funny one, thank you for taking a closer look at it.
alfredklek 11 months ago
@alfredklek Good to hear from ya. Those are all also how I say them, except for "arenge." That's something, incidentally, that's shared w/ typical New York accent -- but as I often stress (to people who say it is), doesn't necessarily mean the CT is derivative of NYC. There seems to be lots of funny little pockets of accents in CT. Still trying to figure out how my mom's and dad's accent are very different, tho they were both brought up in the same town (Enfield)!
hultonclint 11 months ago
@hultonclint I lived in Connecticut for some of my elementary school years. I have somewhat of a Connecticut accent. My dad is from New York so I have some of that accent and my mom is from Wichita, so my accent is pretty unique ha ha.
IWonTheIntarwebz 9 months ago
@alfredklek I'm from the same part too and when I am in NC Ive had people tell me I sound like Fran Dresser! lmao
Courtmello 5 months ago
I'm from CT, and find this to be nonsense.
devioussf 1 year ago
@devioussf Why's it nonsense? It notes that some people in CT pronounce this way.The "some" is very clear, since it asks where specifically -- if it *can* be pinpointed (that is the question -- those people do. If you don't, and you have never heard this, then you have no info to contribute. The least you can do is say where specifically you are from, and perhaps give a sense of your age, social class, or ethnicity. Otherwise your comment is about as credible as "Eskimos don't wipe their bums."
hultonclint 1 year ago
@hultonclint No need to get all petulant. I'm from Norwalk but have traveled all throughout the state and New England. I just don't hear an accent in your pronunciation of street, and think any accent from CT is going to be similar to either Mass or NY, depending on where one is from. I no longer live in CT and some people think I have an accent. But compared to anyone from NY or Mass or even RI, it's nominal at best.
devioussf 1 year ago
Please, everyone "has an accent". Accent is like color; you don't ask IF something has a color, you ask WHAT color/shade. This is not about whether Joe Blow will hear the accent of person from place X and say, "My God, you sound different to me!" It is about the *description* of phonological features -- observations of speech from some people, and hoping to discover where/among whom those features are shared. There is no comparison here, except to "standard broadcast" English as a baseline.
hultonclint 1 year ago
I'm from Connecticut and I personally don't say use the sh/sch sounds.
soaringyak 1 year ago
And I have no idea why I do...it's weird. I am wondering if there is anything regional about it (i.e. *some* certain people in CT consistently do it), or if it is completely haphazard.
If you haven't already, maybe check out my other CT accent videos in the "Related Videos". Thanks for the comment!
hultonclint 1 year ago
I used to study phonetics for German dialects. In our field studies, we let Franconian farmers say words and whole sentences like here, until they questioned our sanity.
This is a quite a special "shtreeyt" and "shtrong" here. It's an hour's work for three to find out the diacritical marks for the sh-sound :)
wolfgpunkt 2 years ago
Funny: "Normal" English has 's' sound... German has "sh"/"sch" sound. Maybe it comes from my Pennsylvania German roots :)
hultonclint 2 years ago