people from somewhere in Kankakee County north sound like Chicago but south of there we're either just flat Midwestern dialect or slightly "drawlish" especially when you get south of Iroquois county
idc its old just want u to now!!! XDwe talk flat not shicoogo and ya! dude talk flat wit ur a's like chicaaago try that (although that can b sorta stereotypical) and dog is super flat like daaag say agggg ya and dnt forget the the's and that's we say da and dat like wen we speak fast and like pull words that hav o sounds far but not too far so make another vid wit this accent! XD
Honestly, living in Chicago all my life, I have only hear one guy sound like this, and I can tell you exactly when and where it was because it was so rare.
@danthemanfresno2006 they dont sound like you. i know that as a fact. you sound like like your from iowa or something. but that wasnt funny that was offensive. smh asshole.
@MzJess2011 You are an idiot.You have heard under 1% of the population of ILLINOIS and under 5% of the population of Chicago.You have no idea if anyone sounds this way.
Nice try? I'm from Chicago and I don't sound anything like this. I hate the Bears and Michael Jordan was good in his days. As for your accent you fail in talking "Chicagoan", sounds something corney white people in illinois suburbs would sound like
@FuckingFaggotFuck Are you saying you have heard more then 5% of the population speak?That would probably be a lie.What is shit is your intelligence level.You have not heard everyone speak in Chicago.You have not even heard most people speak in Chicago.
@FuckingFaggotFuck What would this country be without ignorant idiots like you.You started off saying nobody from Chicago talks like that.You have not heard everyone from Chicago.You have not heard most people from Chicago.You are just assuming how thousands of strangers speak that you have never heard before.Take your own advice.You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Shut your mouth, son.
@smcm1492 And yet you still did not answer my question.Answering it will prove you are ignorant.I am not trying to be an ass but you should not assume how thousands of strangers speak that you have not heard before.
@mychannel1994 They are ignorant just like you.You have no idea how many different accents are from Chicago.The reason is that you have heard under 5% of the population speak.You do understand math right?
Its funny but the accent is fading due to influx of immigrants and population that has moved in from elsewhere. how many puerto ricans , mexican, indians, etc talk like that? huh?
@Chaos2ThaWorld1 : Nah, it's way too strong/stereotypical. I know relatives that talk sort of like that, but nowhere even near as nasally or as strong as that.
For example, we do cut our th- sounds closer to a d- sound, but a good majority of Chicagoians will never say 'there' as 'dare'. It like a way more subdued d- or th- d- hybridization.
I have a hard time explaining this, but trust me when I say it. Live just blocks away from the city limits and all that. :P
@julian111993 Under one percent of the population can be many people but that is still lacking a large amount of the total evidence.Explain how this does not really sound like an accent to you?It sure sounds like one to me.Even the girl who replied to my video said she was trying hard not to let her accent break through but she sounds like a more mild version of what I did.I was told that the accent I was doing is a rare accent from the south side that some old timers have.
@danthemanfresno2006 might be true for the south side, i never really was there for a while. but in that case i wouldnt call ot lower class.
I know that some of the worst parts from chicago are in the south side, but there are higher class people there too.
it doenst sound like an accent, cause (could very well be that im wron but thats the way it sounds) the pronounciation of the individual word isnt different than the standard american one, its more the sound of your voice that changes.
@julian111993 In my opinion all accents have class and that the one this is based on is low class.I don't think every accent from Chicago is low class.
It is impossible to say actual words without an accent.I talked to people from Chicago who gave me a list of some of the pronunciation difference.Watch the root beer video lol.That is unusual pronunciation to me.
@danthemanfresno2006 could sure be that you're right. the most of the time i was in la grange oder oak park, and im very sure that theres no real accent there. im not so sure about the far ends of chicago though.
all i know is that the people i know talk standart american. but im sure that there is that accent if the people there gave you a list for the pronounciation im sure youre right.
As i was born and raised, and still live in Chic-ah-go. Watching ppl try to get the whole Chicago accent down, why do they all imitate the famous old SNL skit's of
Bill Swerski's Super Fans. WE DO NOT TALK LIKE THAT PPL!!
All i am saying is, people from across the states think that people living in and around the city of Chicago, talk like a caricature of a old SNL TV skit.
@DJhiphouse I have heard and read evidence that some do.I don't imply all or most do but that some do.You said "WE DO NOT TALK LIKE THAT PPL!!" but explain to me who is we?
You have not heard everyone speak there and if you told me the percent you have heard it would make the we comment even more ridiculous.
@danthemanfresno2006 I'm from the south side where the accent comes from and i gotta say you're way off man, besides everyone imchicago gtows up in a segregated neighborhood so everyone talks a little differently, i.e. b;acks italians irish polish ukranian mexican chinese puerto rican etc.
@sofaKingFlossin You have not heard 100% of the people speak in Chicago.Watch the mr chicago, chicago accent video and there is multiple comments that imply it is close or realistic to how some people there speak.Most accent videos do not represent how everyone there speaks.
@italiantwins69 You have not heard everyone speak in Chicago.You wouldn't have any idea how many accents were actually from there unless you had.Saying we makes you sound ignorant.
@mexican4269 Why do you say WE?You don't represent all of ILLINOIS.The girl who replied to my video is doing the accent and she says she is from Chicago.
@mexican4269 Well I live in Wisconsin.. and I'm originally from Oklahoma and it kinda sounds like this with some people, mostly older ones. But not as nasally.. but yeah, does pretty much sound like that to me.. lol
I have lived in the north suburbs my whole life and I am very familiar with chicago since i live in a bordering suburb and i have never heard anyone in the city or the surrounding areas that sounds like this.
Pretty much nobody from Chicago sounds like this. I lived here my whole life and honestly a Chicago accent is so faint people barely notice it. It took me forever to figure out what the Chicago accent even was.
ok i live in the south suburbs and i don't talk like that nor do most people i know but i do know some people who really do have that accent and you don't really notice it after a while. it doesn't really depend on where in chicago you're at not many people have that accent
that is an exaggerated accent. I am from chicago and in order for it to sound more like the majority of Chicagoans you should accent your a's. Apparently that's what we do.
I grew up in deep northern small town WI and of all of the people I have ever seen up there I have not met anyone that sounds that extreme. I had an internship in Racine WI (just N of Chicago) and of all the people Ive met,I havent heard anyone sound that extreme. You sound like you are doing an impression of the Superfans SNL skit. Ditka....Bears...Polish Sausage....Bulls
at the same time as the NFL Superfans accents, Mike Meyers did an impression of his Jewish New York mother in law "Linda Richman" of course no one really sounds like that in NY. It was just an extreme exaggeration. Same thing with the TV show the sopranos- no one really talks like that- at least not anymore.
i live in illinois,& i sound nothing like that,& have never met someone who sounds like this & i live pretty close to chicago,like a half hour to an hour away depending on traffic.i thought that was a new york acent?
You could also look at ohso41's channel (on YouTube of course). He has accents from many places in America on there. The same goes for "cotcaughtmerged". If you're really interested in this stuff, there is a whole field called linguistics. You might be most interested in the branches of dialectology, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology. But then again, maybe not. But just keep in mind that there are people who devote their lives to studying this stuff.
And if you're just doing these videos for the hell of it then I'm sorry I told you all this shit. You can just ignore it. There's nothing wrong with doing accents for fun. :)
Seriously, you can answer a lot of your questions if you just look stuff up online. I dont have time to answer all of them. I also recommend watching YouTube videos with people from the Great Lakes area. Type in Chicago accent and see what comes up. You could also use a web site called International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) and another called Speech Accent Archive. Also try accent help and Paul Meier dialect services. I think theyre very helpful.
I dont think its "Da Bears". I would just say "I'm going to go watch the bears." But i would say it so fast that that "watch the Bears" turns into "watcha bears."
The issue is that many folks from Chicago don't think they have an accent and don't think that Chicago has an accent in general, but at the same time, when they listen to someone from Springfield Illinois which is considered a neutral midwestern accent by most linguists, they'll dismiss that accent as being "southern" when it actually isn't.
I live in Rhode Island, however I'm originally from Long Island. Only a 3 hour drive but WOW it's like a completely different Language here. And what's funny is I have a very typical and distinctive but not overly strong Long Island accent yet everyone here in Rhode Island thinks I'm either from the south or the midwest.
@ohso41 But also keep in mind that Springfield is along that I-55 corridor, though I don't know how much of an effect that's having on their speech at the moment. I have heard a few people in Springfield that sound a bit like Chicagoans I think. Champaign or Decatur might be a safer example.
Unless they were faking it 24 hours a day, then no, it's very real. Not only that but the accent is alive and well. I've heard it in "general conversation among strangers" every single time I've visited Chicago as well as other cities in the Great Lakes vicinity including Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and Rochester. On the other hand Milwaukee has a very odd "Super Fans-Fargo" hybrid- which turns all "Fargo" in the rest of the state.
It was real at one point. A few generations back. but it is extremely rare you' ll hear anyone under the age of 75 talk like that.
I have a bunch of friends from Chicago and they all have the same accent that was "made famous" on the old SNL skit- Bill Swerski's Superfans. And I used to work with people from Minnesota and North Dakota that could have been straight out of the movie "Fargo"
I know what you mean. I'm originally from New York, I grew up there and still have connections there yet I never heard (and have still yet to hear)
anyone in Long Island, Brooklyn, New Jersey etc that sounds like the characters on the TV Show the Sopranos. NO ONE , I REPEAT NO ONE SOUNDS LIKE THAT. And if anyone tells you otherwise, they're pulling your leg
Way too true...shitty when people shut out the possibility or likelyhood of something based on their limited experience, so it never hurts to let 'em know.
the Chicago accent is mainly heard in certain southside hoods like bridgeport & beverly & in the northwest side hoods of norrwood park & edison park. but this accent may be dying off like the dinosaurs but i think its evolving too.
Growing up in NYC, I get extremely offended when people in other parts of the country think that everyone in NYC or New Jersey sounds like everyone from the show the Sopranos. The truth is, NO ONE sounds like that anymore. It's an archaic "dead" accent that you may have heard a few generations back- but it doesn't exist anymore.
Central Illinois has a generic "midwestern" "newscasters" accent. Definetely not a Southern accent. I knew someone from Springfield IL who everyone from I knew from Chicago thought that they sounded "southern" however my other friend who'se from Alabama thought he sounded like (in his words) a $%(($% Yankee
Im northern illinoian and to me you kind of sound like your almost doing a canadian accent...do we sound canadian to you? You also sound like your talking through your nose way too much. I know we do say, at least were im from, some words weird. I've been told i sound canadian when i say coach, go, about(a-boat), or you know.
ok dere (there) buddy
PupuTheClown 2 weeks ago
I'm from the south side of Chicago
well done, my friend.
chainsawz1 3 weeks ago
sounds like ya need to do a sheboyganise accent
Mr12roundstofred 3 weeks ago
,,is that jewish or polish ?
PupuTheClown 2 weeks ago
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Bubbles8078 3 months ago
people from somewhere in Kankakee County north sound like Chicago but south of there we're either just flat Midwestern dialect or slightly "drawlish" especially when you get south of Iroquois county
RENFEMikado 4 months ago
you sound like you're from wisconsin or minnesota or something. I'm from Chicago, and neither my friends or I have an accent like that.
saarahannee 6 months ago
idc its old just want u to now!!! XDwe talk flat not shicoogo and ya! dude talk flat wit ur a's like chicaaago try that (although that can b sorta stereotypical) and dog is super flat like daaag say agggg ya and dnt forget the the's and that's we say da and dat like wen we speak fast and like pull words that hav o sounds far but not too far so make another vid wit this accent! XD
XDluvzukoluvXD 6 months ago
Honestly, living in Chicago all my life, I have only hear one guy sound like this, and I can tell you exactly when and where it was because it was so rare.
dccoulthard 6 months ago
@cytchicagorocks1 You are an idiot.You have no idea how everyone from Chicago sounds.
danthemanfresno2006 7 months ago
@danthemanfresno2006 i live in chicago :)
cytchicagorocks1 7 months ago
@cytchicagorocks1 That doesn't mean anything.You have heard under 5% of the population of Chicago speak.You have no idea how everyone there sounds.
danthemanfresno2006 7 months ago
I have only heard people sound like that in movies.
sooperdoopershortpea 7 months ago
The only chicagoans I've heard speak this way was when we are dipicted in movies, ya unnastan me?
1slugboi 7 months ago
@amandsa22 Don't say we.You have no idea how everyone sounds.
danthemanfresno2006 7 months ago
@danthemanfresno2006 they dont sound like you. i know that as a fact. you sound like like your from iowa or something. but that wasnt funny that was offensive. smh asshole.
MzJess2011 7 months ago
@MzJess2011 You are an idiot.You have heard under 1% of the population of ILLINOIS and under 5% of the population of Chicago.You have no idea if anyone sounds this way.
danthemanfresno2006 7 months ago
Do you have a hearing/speech problem?
OstrichesEverywhere7 8 months ago
LOL you sound like Sarah Palin. hahah
TheIslandHoney 8 months ago
Nice try? I'm from Chicago and I don't sound anything like this. I hate the Bears and Michael Jordan was good in his days. As for your accent you fail in talking "Chicagoan", sounds something corney white people in illinois suburbs would sound like
lilraycq 8 months ago
low class?
thats im offended
TheSchubbe842 9 months ago
i can see your trying for the exaggerated southside chicago accent, but it almost sounds like how they talk in the movie fargo hahaha don cha know?
jman40194 9 months ago
Nobody from Chicago talks like that you dumb ass.
FuckingFaggotFuck 9 months ago
@FuckingFaggotFuck Haha that is funny coming from someone who has heard under 5% of the population speak.
danthemanfresno2006 9 months ago
@danthemanfresno2006
And you think that why? More BS from you. Your video is shit.
FuckingFaggotFuck 9 months ago
@FuckingFaggotFuck Are you saying you have heard more then 5% of the population speak?That would probably be a lie.What is shit is your intelligence level.You have not heard everyone speak in Chicago.You have not even heard most people speak in Chicago.
danthemanfresno2006 9 months ago
@danthemanfresno2006
I have heard way over 5% of the population speak. You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Shut your mouth, son.
FuckingFaggotFuck 9 months ago
@FuckingFaggotFuck What would this country be without ignorant idiots like you.You started off saying nobody from Chicago talks like that.You have not heard everyone from Chicago.You have not heard most people from Chicago.You are just assuming how thousands of strangers speak that you have never heard before.Take your own advice.You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Shut your mouth, son.
danthemanfresno2006 9 months ago
yeahhh no one in illinois sounds like that never mind chicago....we have a drawn out a not what ever your trying to imitate here
smcm1492 9 months ago
@smcm1492 So many ignorant people comment on this video.What percent of the population have you actually heard speak in Chicago?
danthemanfresno2006 9 months ago
@danthemanfresno2006 i live on the south side of chicago....
smcm1492 8 months ago
@smcm1492 And yet you still did not answer my question.Answering it will prove you are ignorant.I am not trying to be an ass but you should not assume how thousands of strangers speak that you have not heard before.
danthemanfresno2006 8 months ago
wow. it if i was so dumb like you say so i dont think all the comments below would say to try again! dumb with your 5% shit.
mychannel1994 9 months ago
@mychannel1994 They are ignorant just like you.You have no idea how many different accents are from Chicago.The reason is that you have heard under 5% of the population speak.You do understand math right?
danthemanfresno2006 9 months ago
assuming im from the southside of chicago.! dumb ass.
mychannel1994 9 months ago
@mychannel1994 You are the dumb ass.You have probably heard under 5% of the population speak.
danthemanfresno2006 9 months ago
wow.! dummb! we don't like that.
and it's not called low class you dumb mofo' its called "GHETTO".
mychannel1994 9 months ago
@mychannel1994 Who is we?i assume you have heard under 5% of the population.
danthemanfresno2006 9 months ago
-__- .Um try again.
KiddLatoria 10 months ago
@ledfarmer100 What percent of the population have you heard?Stop being ignorant.
danthemanfresno2006 10 months ago
This sounds like a nasal brooklyn accent.
xojackxo 10 months ago
this sounds like fucking peewee herman or somethin
ainticute56 11 months ago
Go throw ur conolli tru da window..
soyuski 1 year ago
idk if u deleted my comment or what but i have lived here my entire life and maybe 1% talk like that. u sound minnesotan
mrsfreak2you 1 year ago 19
@mrsfreak2you The 1% of Chicagoans that come from minnesota talk like this...
kpwillson 7 months ago
@mrsfreak2you If 1% talk like that then it is an Illinois accent.
danthemanfresno2006 2 months ago
DA BEARSSS!
JesusManson323 1 year ago
i thought so
Chaos2ThaWorld1 1 year ago
Its funny but the accent is fading due to influx of immigrants and population that has moved in from elsewhere. how many puerto ricans , mexican, indians, etc talk like that? huh?
chitown1966 1 year ago
chicago people talk like that?
Chaos2ThaWorld1 1 year ago
@Chaos2ThaWorld1 : Nah, it's way too strong/stereotypical. I know relatives that talk sort of like that, but nowhere even near as nasally or as strong as that.
For example, we do cut our th- sounds closer to a d- sound, but a good majority of Chicagoians will never say 'there' as 'dare'. It like a way more subdued d- or th- d- hybridization.
I have a hard time explaining this, but trust me when I say it. Live just blocks away from the city limits and all that. :P
ChickenLeg91 1 year ago
@Chaos2ThaWorld1 no
schaumton 1 year ago
I think the point was to be yourself , not to do an impression.
Xing500 1 year ago
@AmaieSweet yep, I see it the same way, and im from chicago to.
i can't tell u what percentage of the population, i've heard, but i've sure talked to many people from many different classes and neighbourhoods,
and ive never heard that before. @ dantheman It doenst really sound like an accent either.
but im not a hater, i love most of youre otehr vids ^^
julian111993 1 year ago
@julian111993 Under one percent of the population can be many people but that is still lacking a large amount of the total evidence.Explain how this does not really sound like an accent to you?It sure sounds like one to me.Even the girl who replied to my video said she was trying hard not to let her accent break through but she sounds like a more mild version of what I did.I was told that the accent I was doing is a rare accent from the south side that some old timers have.
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
@danthemanfresno2006 might be true for the south side, i never really was there for a while. but in that case i wouldnt call ot lower class.
I know that some of the worst parts from chicago are in the south side, but there are higher class people there too.
it doenst sound like an accent, cause (could very well be that im wron but thats the way it sounds) the pronounciation of the individual word isnt different than the standard american one, its more the sound of your voice that changes.
julian111993 1 year ago
@julian111993 In my opinion all accents have class and that the one this is based on is low class.I don't think every accent from Chicago is low class.
It is impossible to say actual words without an accent.I talked to people from Chicago who gave me a list of some of the pronunciation difference.Watch the root beer video lol.That is unusual pronunciation to me.
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
@danthemanfresno2006 could sure be that you're right. the most of the time i was in la grange oder oak park, and im very sure that theres no real accent there. im not so sure about the far ends of chicago though.
all i know is that the people i know talk standart american. but im sure that there is that accent if the people there gave you a list for the pronounciation im sure youre right.
ok, i'll watch it =)
julian111993 1 year ago
@AmaieSweet What percent of the population have you heard?
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
As i was born and raised, and still live in Chic-ah-go. Watching ppl try to get the whole Chicago accent down, why do they all imitate the famous old SNL skit's of
Bill Swerski's Super Fans. WE DO NOT TALK LIKE THAT PPL!!
DJhiphouse 1 year ago
@DJhiphouse You say we like 100% of the population speak like you do.What percent have you heard?
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
@danthemanfresno2006 I never said anything about any percentage, you did.
All i am saying is, people from across the states think that people living in and around the city of Chicago, talk like a caricature of a old SNL TV skit.
DJhiphouse 1 year ago
@DJhiphouse I have heard and read evidence that some do.I don't imply all or most do but that some do.You said "WE DO NOT TALK LIKE THAT PPL!!" but explain to me who is we?
You have not heard everyone speak there and if you told me the percent you have heard it would make the we comment even more ridiculous.
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
@reesee02 You say we like 100% of the population speak like you do.What percent have you heard?
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
@danthemanfresno2006 i can guarantee you've heard far fewer people from chicago talk than someone who's lived in chicago his or her whole life
thatmelindakid27 1 year ago
@thatmelindakid27 I would agree but that doesn't mean people who live in chicago have heard 100% of the population speak.There is rare accents also.
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
@danthemanfresno2006 I'm from the south side where the accent comes from and i gotta say you're way off man, besides everyone imchicago gtows up in a segregated neighborhood so everyone talks a little differently, i.e. b;acks italians irish polish ukranian mexican chinese puerto rican etc.
sofaKingFlossin 1 year ago
@sofaKingFlossin You have not heard 100% of the people speak in Chicago.Watch the mr chicago, chicago accent video and there is multiple comments that imply it is close or realistic to how some people there speak.Most accent videos do not represent how everyone there speaks.
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
I've lived a half an hour away from Chicago my whole life and not once have I ever heard anyone talk like this...
AceyCamui 1 year ago
@AceyCamui What percent of the people in Chicago have you heard speak?
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
I'm from the south of Chicago and I don't talk like that at all! We say our a's as ah, the as da, but your really over exagerating it.
deevinix03 1 year ago
@deevinix03 Why does everyone keep saying "over exaggerating"? It's exaggerating! You don't need to put "over" in front of it.
yurismir1 1 year ago
we deff dont sound anything like that!
italiantwins69 1 year ago
@italiantwins69 Who is we?
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
@danthemanfresno2006 people in chicago? who else !
italiantwins69 1 year ago
@italiantwins69 You have not heard everyone speak in Chicago.You wouldn't have any idea how many accents were actually from there unless you had.Saying we makes you sound ignorant.
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
born and raised on the South Side, never heard anyone talk like this
NIULesley 1 year ago
wtf... who talks like that not me
latanya06terrell 1 year ago
wow what an exxageration
4149stonepony 1 year ago
Oh my gosh, we DO NOT SOUND LIKE THAT!!!!!
mexican4269 1 year ago
@mexican4269 Why do you say WE?You don't represent all of ILLINOIS.The girl who replied to my video is doing the accent and she says she is from Chicago.
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
@mexican4269 who is we? everyone i've met from the chicagoland area sounds like this. obviously this guy is exaggerating this to some degree.
austinm05 1 year ago
@mexican4269 Well I live in Wisconsin.. and I'm originally from Oklahoma and it kinda sounds like this with some people, mostly older ones. But not as nasally.. but yeah, does pretty much sound like that to me.. lol
rejectedchik89 1 year ago
I have lived in the north suburbs my whole life and I am very familiar with chicago since i live in a bordering suburb and i have never heard anyone in the city or the surrounding areas that sounds like this.
albrown34 1 year ago
@albrown34 It is based on the south side.The girl who replied to my video is doing the accent and she says she is from Chicago.
Does her accent sound like yours?
danthemanfresno2006 1 year ago
Sounds more like Latka from 'Taxi'.
residualbill 1 year ago
@residualbill hahahahaha yes!
ryacus 1 year ago
sounds Canadian haha
2010Niamh 1 year ago
Haha you said "Not everyone"
Pretty much nobody from Chicago sounds like this. I lived here my whole life and honestly a Chicago accent is so faint people barely notice it. It took me forever to figure out what the Chicago accent even was.
speedycolt 1 year ago
lol it's more like a steve urkel accent
CMPunkFan1121 1 year ago 29
@CMPunkFan1121 lol what's funny is the show's setting "Family Matters" (where Steve Urkel originated from) is in Chicago :D
Jellybeaner1991 1 year ago
yea, its a really exagerated Chicago accent. I would know, Ive lived in Chicago.
joshhay90210 1 year ago
ok i live in the south suburbs and i don't talk like that nor do most people i know but i do know some people who really do have that accent and you don't really notice it after a while. it doesn't really depend on where in chicago you're at not many people have that accent
littleprettyone1895 1 year ago
sounds more like a wisconsin/yooper accent to me. you seem to be hitting more of the upper midwest than the inland north.
Brettwbeyer14 1 year ago
Yes, I live in Chicago and we all speak like that....and we also have hot dog cloning plantations too :P
ccricers 1 year ago
North suburbs... Someone from my class speaks like that and it makes me cringe. Like they have something stuck inbetween their nose and mouth..
DarthYoungling 1 year ago
Da, is mostly said on the northside or north suburbs
bleachno9 1 year ago
@danthemanfresno2006
It is. I live in the south suburbs by Joliet and the only ones I know that talk like that are my dad and coworkers who grew up in the city.
JonnyLightning 1 year ago
I've lived in the suburbs all my life and I have never heard anything remotely like this. LOL
Immy318 1 year ago
I *honestly* have never heard anyone talk like this. Ever.
femmefatale1990 1 year ago
that is an exaggerated accent. I am from chicago and in order for it to sound more like the majority of Chicagoans you should accent your a's. Apparently that's what we do.
equoslover 1 year ago
@danthemanfresno2006 Okay let me correct myself then.
I grew up in deep northern small town WI and of all of the people I have ever seen up there I have not met anyone that sounds that extreme. I had an internship in Racine WI (just N of Chicago) and of all the people Ive met,I havent heard anyone sound that extreme. You sound like you are doing an impression of the Superfans SNL skit. Ditka....Bears...Polish Sausage....Bulls
Slotten68 2 years ago
at the same time as the NFL Superfans accents, Mike Meyers did an impression of his Jewish New York mother in law "Linda Richman" of course no one really sounds like that in NY. It was just an extreme exaggeration. Same thing with the TV show the sopranos- no one really talks like that- at least not anymore.
ohso41 2 years ago
i live in illinois,& i sound nothing like that,& have never met someone who sounds like this & i live pretty close to chicago,like a half hour to an hour away depending on traffic.i thought that was a new york acent?
ASHASHXD 2 years ago
You could also look at ohso41's channel (on YouTube of course). He has accents from many places in America on there. The same goes for "cotcaughtmerged". If you're really interested in this stuff, there is a whole field called linguistics. You might be most interested in the branches of dialectology, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology. But then again, maybe not. But just keep in mind that there are people who devote their lives to studying this stuff.
awefhiwefiuwafiuhai 2 years ago
And if you're just doing these videos for the hell of it then I'm sorry I told you all this shit. You can just ignore it. There's nothing wrong with doing accents for fun. :)
awefhiwefiuwafiuhai 2 years ago
Seriously, you can answer a lot of your questions if you just look stuff up online. I dont have time to answer all of them. I also recommend watching YouTube videos with people from the Great Lakes area. Type in Chicago accent and see what comes up. You could also use a web site called International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) and another called Speech Accent Archive. Also try accent help and Paul Meier dialect services. I think theyre very helpful.
awefhiwefiuwafiuhai 2 years ago
I dont think its "Da Bears". I would just say "I'm going to go watch the bears." But i would say it so fast that that "watch the Bears" turns into "watcha bears."
tater21127 2 years ago
peppers. Put more emphasis on the r. and its not DA bears. Its more of a TUH bears. And bears is bare-sss. long s sound
iSCREEMx 2 years ago
The issue is that many folks from Chicago don't think they have an accent and don't think that Chicago has an accent in general, but at the same time, when they listen to someone from Springfield Illinois which is considered a neutral midwestern accent by most linguists, they'll dismiss that accent as being "southern" when it actually isn't.
ohso41 2 years ago
i have family in chicago...they have strong accents..its not true that only octagenarians have accents...
and quit crying kkkatiie.. i have a rhode island accent and im not whinging on those videos
jamesaresvik 2 years ago
I live in Rhode Island, however I'm originally from Long Island. Only a 3 hour drive but WOW it's like a completely different Language here. And what's funny is I have a very typical and distinctive but not overly strong Long Island accent yet everyone here in Rhode Island thinks I'm either from the south or the midwest.
ohso41 2 years ago
@ohso41 Thanks for pointing that out ohso. You are "ohso" right. That's exactly what they think.
awefhiwefiuwafiuhai 2 years ago
@ohso41 But also keep in mind that Springfield is along that I-55 corridor, though I don't know how much of an effect that's having on their speech at the moment. I have heard a few people in Springfield that sound a bit like Chicagoans I think. Champaign or Decatur might be a safer example.
awefhiwefiuwafiuhai 2 years ago
Unless they were faking it 24 hours a day, then no, it's very real. Not only that but the accent is alive and well. I've heard it in "general conversation among strangers" every single time I've visited Chicago as well as other cities in the Great Lakes vicinity including Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and Rochester. On the other hand Milwaukee has a very odd "Super Fans-Fargo" hybrid- which turns all "Fargo" in the rest of the state.
ohso41 2 years ago
It was real at one point. A few generations back. but it is extremely rare you' ll hear anyone under the age of 75 talk like that.
I have a bunch of friends from Chicago and they all have the same accent that was "made famous" on the old SNL skit- Bill Swerski's Superfans. And I used to work with people from Minnesota and North Dakota that could have been straight out of the movie "Fargo"
ohso41 2 years ago
I know what you mean. I'm originally from New York, I grew up there and still have connections there yet I never heard (and have still yet to hear)
anyone in Long Island, Brooklyn, New Jersey etc that sounds like the characters on the TV Show the Sopranos. NO ONE , I REPEAT NO ONE SOUNDS LIKE THAT. And if anyone tells you otherwise, they're pulling your leg
ohso41 2 years ago
yea, u sound like wisconsin. ppl don't talk like that lol I think uve seen one too many chris farley impressions! ;)
dindypie64 2 years ago
This sounded like more of a Minnesota or Wisconsin accent. =\
NoodleRama 2 years ago
Way too true...shitty when people shut out the possibility or likelyhood of something based on their limited experience, so it never hurts to let 'em know.
prolapstriumph 2 years ago
i don't really sound like this but people say i have a strong accent.
CallMeTipps 2 years ago
the Chicago accent is mainly heard in certain southside hoods like bridgeport & beverly & in the northwest side hoods of norrwood park & edison park. but this accent may be dying off like the dinosaurs but i think its evolving too.
26Deacon 2 years ago
Growing up in NYC, I get extremely offended when people in other parts of the country think that everyone in NYC or New Jersey sounds like everyone from the show the Sopranos. The truth is, NO ONE sounds like that anymore. It's an archaic "dead" accent that you may have heard a few generations back- but it doesn't exist anymore.
ohso41 2 years ago
@OBzwan123
Central Illinois has a generic "midwestern" "newscasters" accent. Definetely not a Southern accent. I knew someone from Springfield IL who everyone from I knew from Chicago thought that they sounded "southern" however my other friend who'se from Alabama thought he sounded like (in his words) a $%(($% Yankee
ohso41 2 years ago
I am speaking more of southern Illinois. further south than Springfield. It is especially prevalent on the Kentucky and Indiana border.
OBzwan123 2 years ago
it sounds like a ny accent
416Khmer 2 years ago
@416Khmer
I grew up in NY- sounds nothing like a NYC accent- however it DOES sound like a Buffalo or Rochester accent
ohso41 2 years ago
@ohso41 nah thats no where near a NY accent cause the NY accent is much worse & retarded.
26Deacon 2 years ago
In know, same here. It's kinda offensive : P
videosgohaha 2 years ago
my cousin sounds like dis when hes drunk haha
XxTHUGLUV1390xX 2 years ago
is this really what us chicago people sound like?? damn, lol. :)
recklesss182 2 years ago
No they don't, I'm from chicago, I don't sound a thing like that
videosgohaha 2 years ago
yes we do i live n chicago and we talk so crazy ppl frm chicago just talk funny
MzConeja1 2 years ago
So where are you from and what's your accent?
tater21127 2 years ago
this is so awesome, the end is funny
Sophie28123 2 years ago
Um, ok, so we all have allergies and sound slighty retarded and canadian............. that's what I got from this.
itaintmebabe1003 2 years ago
Haha, thats great. The illinois-canadian accent.
tater21127 2 years ago
I think we talk really fast so it just sounds like rutbeer.
tater21127 2 years ago
Im northern illinoian and to me you kind of sound like your almost doing a canadian accent...do we sound canadian to you? You also sound like your talking through your nose way too much. I know we do say, at least were im from, some words weird. I've been told i sound canadian when i say coach, go, about(a-boat), or you know.
tater21127 2 years ago
but you have pictures of chicago..not illinois.
coldplayjp 2 years ago
uhhh i dont think i sound like that at all. you sound like you have a stuffy nose
coldplayjp 2 years ago
ok.,.. well u kind of added a bit of a nerdy voice in there.. makes us sound weak.. lol
Chasep25 2 years ago
lol... we dont sound like that bro...
Chasep25 2 years ago
lmao!
altargirl89 2 years ago
lol, that sounded weird
zhihao1 2 years ago