Dialects Meme--Minnesota/Northern Midwest US

[kittenlover229]

hey can u make another minnesota accent video I love it:)

[TwilightsSerenity]

ohohoho your accents so different from mine xD

[Peaches70380]

I'm from the DEEP south...we say,

"You want a Coke?"

"Sure"

"What kind you want?"

"Sprite"

Yes, we're strange but I've never known anything different. lol

[TayoEXE]

I live in Nevada, and we always called it Soda, sometimes called Pop if you want to sound older. :P Also, no one seems to understand the question "What do you say to address a group of people?
". It's asking you pretty much which pronoun you use. Like how in Mexico, they just use Ustedes while they use Vosotros in Spain. In English, it is technically just "you", but it used as "you guys", "y'all", "yous", etc. Here, I say "you guys", even if there are girls. :P

[greiteneis]

Finally, someone finally said Pill bug!!!!!!!!

[russianmerc]

clearly clearly.. in mn we say "house" "boat-house" "couch" way way different. from kato. and POP!!! not soda.!

[abbynormal0ne]

@russianmerc Lol, I only say "soda" instead of "pop" because I like to be different. :D

[Brenpaulson]

@russianmerc im from kato too. i dont think i have an accent but i posted one of these videos ha

[CheckM8King2]

@russianmercIn Michigan soda is something you make with ice cream and soda water. POP is Pepsi, Coke etc

[Eopyk]

Interesting to hear you speak :) I know so much that the Minnesotan dialects have been influenced by Scandinavian languages and by German a whole lot :)

All love from me Jasmine

[abbynormal0ne]

@Eopyk Yes, there's a *lot* of Scandinavian decedents up where I'm from, and you can definitely hear it :D

[dospook]

Had to replay your vid over 'both'. Because i was busted by someone from Houston saying Bolth... I think you said bolth also :) maybe not. Maybe you said bOth

[abbynormal0ne]

@dospook No way did I have an "l" in my both. *shudder*

[connerjd]

I like weirdos. He!He!

[GrouchoMarxist22]

Ahahahaha this was awesome! "Carmel" .. ahahaha.

[abbynormal0ne]

@GrouchoMarxist22 Haha, you knew I said it that way :P

[DamnedIntrovert]

piano man is angry as he has no fingers, so, he is throwing the piano away out of frustration... oh and you can say 'both', both ways! :)

[abbynormal0ne]

@DamnedIntrovert Lol, are you insinuating that I go both ways? :P

[DamnedIntrovert]

@abbynormal0ne Lulz.. I'm not incinerating anything.. How many ways are there anyway? What are these 'ways'? They sound intriguing :))

[blackblues1984]

Carmel? Norlans?

[abbynormal0ne]

@blackblues1984 Yes, "carmel" is very much part of the midwest dialect, but "n'orleans" is a little closer to how they say it in New Orleans.

[LJonYT]

I like this. I might have to do a response.

[abbynormal0ne]

@LJonYT Please do!

[achtungcircus]

Actually your pronunciation is sooo good it's nearly (dare I say it?)... Canadian.

[NatashaWong92]

I bet that you can't resist visiting my channel ;-p

[Brianswers]

Sounds like I say most things similar to you. I should do this sometime. :)

[abbynormal0ne]

@Brianswers Yes, you should.

[LicoriceLain]

Abby being all cute and saying random words? Meow! :D

[abbynormal0ne]

@LicoriceLain Lol, thanks.

[theheinzification]

in german:

if someone is drunken he/she is blue.

if one relaxes/doesnt work (like that) he/she makes blue.

if one is broke, he/she has had come to the dog.

if one is broke he/she nibbles on the hunger rag.

if we sacrifice someone (not in a religous sense) we let him/her jump over the blade.

in burgenland (1 hour from my place) a girls vagina is called "the shame", a boys penis "the pride" (dont think they use that still nowadays tough)

and so on

[Albukhshi]

@theheinzification

you should see the Arab world:

male=dhakar (lit. penis)

atatloh neelah: he was killed/(may he) suffered a misfortune (lit. he was grabbed by a catch/murder)

genius: 3abqari (lit. a demon/jinn). a lot of Arabs though don't realize that-a dictionary always helps

also, a way of saying "go to hell" is ru7 if sitteen alf dahia, which lit. means go into 60,000 misfortunes.

[abbynormal0ne]

@Albukhshi Thanks for all that! So awesome to learn that stuff!

[nerdlass]

@ItsTheSuperFly I grew up in Texas. In the panhandle, you have high winds and less rain in the summer, so dust picks up and will whirl about in the wind. I think, with devil's rain, it's called that because it's freaky phenomena for there to be rain and sunshine happening at the same time.

[oldclown]

What do you call it when the sun is shining while it is raining?

"The devil is beating his wife."

Yes, I grew up in the deep south.

[abbynormal0ne]

@oldclown Wow, that's crazy! Never heard of these sayings.

[oldclown]

@abbynormal0ne

I couldn't begin to tell you the origin of that expression, but just like there is a "grit line" running across America, below which you will always be served grits at breakfast, there seems to be a similar demarkation nearby that delineates where you begin to hear that strange description of the meteorological anomaly of rain falling in sunshine.

But I am impressed that your "pecans" are spoken of with a soft southern caress of the vowels and not the hard bite of yankee jawing.

[abbynormal0ne]

@oldclown I really do like grits. They're lovely. My accent is the way it is because I take the things I like from accents I've heard and use them in my own speech. It's why I have a weird way of pronouncing New Orleans and why I say Soda :)

[TheSH1N1GAM1]

@oldclown So the devil just goes along with the neighborhood trend?

[abbynormal0ne]

@kcpackerfan I only use "y'all" when I'm being silly. They say "bubbler" in WI?

[abbynormal0ne]

@quinnmcguee Hahaha, I forgot Bostonians called them that!

[abbynormal0ne]

@ItsTheSuperFly Ah, yeah, I can see that.

[ProfMTH]

They call soda "juice" there? Hmm. Interesting. Never heard that.

In the western part of New York State, which, as some say, is more Midwestern than New-Yorky, people call soda "pop" too.

[abbynormal0ne]

@ProfMTH Yeah, I was confused with that too. I keep getting the strangest looks when I call it "soda." They don't really know what that is, so I now call it a drink or juice.

[ProfMTH]

@abbynormal0ne What do they call juice?

[V0r4xiz]

By the adress-people thing the original poster intended to know how you adress them in terms of which pronoun you use or what you name them. Guys, people, folks but most importantly if you say Y'all or not :>

[abbynormal0ne]

@V0r4xiz I see. Thanks!

[dameon692002]

The right way to pronounce "aluminum" is "alminimiumnacht"!

[abbynormal0ne]

@dameon692002 Hahaha, I like it.

[steelhamster]

My ears hurt when you guys say the word Aluminium ;-)

[abbynormal0ne]

@steelhamster It's pronounced as it's spelled: aluminum.

[steelhamster]

@abbynormal0ne It is spelled AluminIUM... you best check the periodic table ;-)

[abbynormal0ne]

@steelhamster I have. It's spelled "a-l-u-m-i-n-u-m"

Made in USA

[steelhamster]

@abbynormal0ne everyone else spells it the way I do.... only you pesky americans have to be contrary '-)

[RenOfEl]

Aluminium = Most of the Common Wealth

Aluminum = American

There, dispute settled. XD

(Nottingham, England born and bred)

[Meiklelodians]

I am sure this was a fun video...if I had been able to hear you over the constant drilling about my house...grrr arg just doesn't cut it. :)

[abbynormal0ne]

@Meiklelodians Why are you drilling into your house? Does it have a toothache?

[Illuminatta]

This is fun...I've seen several of them. I, too, do not sound like a normal New Yawkah. LOL

[abbynormal0ne]

@Illuminatta I don't really sound like the typical MinneSOHHHHtan. hehe.

[flyingfisbeefilms]

What does "meme" mean?

[abbynormal0ne]

@flyingfisbeefilms It's a cultural measurement of behavior.

[mchance27]

lol, you're just as "difficult" as me.

[abbynormal0ne]

@mchance27 I like being difficulte.

[GodlessManitoban]

Aunt = ant (my pronunciation)

I call it pop. But when I talk to U.S. citizens I say Soda or Coke (depending how far South you are).

Rain/Sun = Sun shower

[abbynormal0ne]

@GodlessManitoban Cool. Thanks for the info :)

[GodlessManitoban]

@abbynormal0ne

You're welcome =]

[debbieomi]

LOL I actually recorded this...saw it on some random video of someone I'm not subbed to but a "friend" liked. I never uploaded because I didn't finish it with graphics. I also wanted to make a tag out of it and named only Don (because he always makes fun of the way I say anything with a long i sound but he said he wouldn't play along..the weasel!)

Maybe I will re-record this weekend and join in.

:-)

[abbynormal0ne]

@debbieomi pleeeeeease upload it, dear!

[PJsCreed]

Also being from the Midwest, our lists are unsurprisingly similar. The only real differences are "Aunt" is pronounced the same as "ant" (not sure why. the is a 'u' in there after all.) and we say "drinking fountain".

[abbynormal0ne]

@PJsCreed Yeah, I think I'm a posh midwesterner.....

hehe.

[PJsCreed]

@abbynormal0ne What constitutes being posh in rural Minnesota? Eating moose with one pinkie extended? :-P

[Jimb0can]

Thingie lol :D

[abbynormal0ne]

@Jimb0can Hey, it's a well-rounded word!

[verodefacto]

Abby!!! It's been a while.....hope you doing good there in the uk! *hugs*

[abbynormal0ne]

@verodefacto Hello, mate! I'm alright. Hope you're well. Hugs.

[Untemperedsteel]

What? no "Ya, ya, ya bet ya"? ;)

[abbynormal0ne]

@Untemperedsteel OH, HECK no.

[Albukhshi]

1-tp-ing 2-I don't know. 3-pop 4-sneakers 5-you guys 6-daddy long legs 7-grandma and grandpa 8-grocery cart 9-an impossibility (srsly, that shit happens?) 10-all sorts of names 11-a spicket (did I spell that right?). (sometimes a tap, rarely a faucet)

[Albukhshi]

@Albukhshi

oh, I just realized: yeah, pillbug/rolly polly and daddy-long legs.

[abbynormal0ne]

@Albukhshi cool, cool, thanks. :D

[Foxcanine1]

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? Rainshine.

[abbynormal0ne]

@Foxcanine1 See, I've never heard it called anything before :)

[YesIamJames]

I like getting people who don't pronounce their Ts to say ratatouille.

[abbynormal0ne]

@YesIamJames Wait....how do you NOT?

[StanMarsh1]

A breastfeeding guide is the promoted video. :\

[Meiklelodians]

@StanMarsh1 Then dammit man..LEARN!!!

[abbynormal0ne]

@StanMarsh1 So did you pick up any tips?

[StanMarsh1]

@abbynormal0ne Yea, to never point out a breastfeeding video again. :P

[Hythloday71]

I hate accents. They are the greatest expression of human weakness. The neediness to belong to social groups, to be accepted, to conform. When i was 16 i worked down the mine, i spoke l gradually more and more in a thick working class accent. My father noticed and advised against because of difficulty loosing. I was outraged. I was proud to be A MINER, salt of the earht working class. But looking back i see he was right and i was just trying to fit, swearing lots too.

[abbynormal0ne]

@Hythloday71 Well, everyone has an accent. Unfortunately, some accents also have social implications attached that give some people pause and cause to discriminate. It's wrong, to be sure, but in all actuality, I love hearing accents.

[Hythloday71]

@abbynormal0ne - so do i, to a degree, they are kind a quaint. the problem is with extreme distortions where u can't tell what people are saying, so don't get me wrong i'm not advocating completely homogeneous society, but the feeling of 'the other' is deeply bound in (to much so) in the social identity of these deep distorted accents. Accusations of snobbery and other straw men are not usually far behind.

[Eopyk]

@Hythloday71 Linguistic variance is a wonderfull thing that tells us alot about humanity individual culture . history and ways of thinking and describing a reality the same holds for dialect varaince. And even so how much problem do you have communicating with most americans ?

All love and respect from a none-native speaker of English.

[TheIrishlonewolf]

daddy long legs... the ultimate spider exterminators :P

[abbynormal0ne]

@TheIrishlonewolf Lol, I love daddy long leg spiders :)

[Larvemannenz001]

Wait, you're still in Scotland?

[abbynormal0ne]

@Larvemannenz001 Yes, I sure am.

[NoNiceNameFound]

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? A malfunction in the weather control system. It's Obama's fault.

[abbynormal0ne]

@NoNiceNameFound Yes, the weather modulators should be more efficient.

[nerdlass]

@ItsTheSuperFly I always heard it as devil's rain. And the curl of wind that picks up dust from the ground is called a dust devil.

[timeofwonder2009]

Hm, do you maybe have beneficial pronunciation mutation?

;-)

[abbynormal0ne]

@timeofwonder2009 You know, that could really be true because my dialect and inflection change depending upon who I'm talking to at the time, and I don't realize it's happening.

[AGodlessProgressive]

I call it pop but what's funny if you go to another part of the country and call it pop, everyone looks at you like shot someone. Apparently, the midwest is the only part of the country that calls soda pop.

[abbynormal0ne]

@AGodlessProgressive Yeah, but if you go to the south, everything's called "coke."

[pi3p142]

To me a daddy long legs is a crane fly and a long legged spider is a harvestman. With the crane fly I've even heard the female referred to as a mummy long legs.

[abbynormal0ne]

@pi3p142 I have never heard of a crane fly before. I love learning things like that!

[theheinzification]

fischers fritz fischt frische fische, frische fische fischt fischers fritz.

[abbynormal0ne]

@theheinzification Lol, now you're just trying to tongue-tie me.

[theheinzification]

@abbynormal0ne sure :) give it a try on cam (with a german sounding "r")

austria is a small country. i live near vienna. if i drive to vorarlberg, would take about 5 to 6 hours by car i guess, i wouldnt be able to understand a bit of their dialect. nearly as impossible to understand is the tyrolian version of the austrian version of german.

but anyway, wont take long and german contains more english words than german ones. some of them made up, but still english-ish,

[RONLAST]

But can you say ""It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht."?

[abbynormal0ne]

@RONLAST I'll try to remember to say that sometime while I'm recording. What does it mean?

[achtungcircus]

@abbynormal0ne

a very bright moonlit night.