Worldwide Accent Project- (North) Georgia, USA

My North Georgia (Southern Appalachian) accent. I am from Mount Airy, Habersham County, Georgia, United States and this is my accent for the Worldwide Accent Project.

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The passage:

See above those clouds, near where the blue sky appears to fold? Some say it is the entrance to the floating isles where pirates still rule the air and dragons choose to live. Only the most skilled pilots can sail their craft close enough to even glimpse the light coming from within. You can't find those who know the way; they find you. Rather, you four lazy tourists must learn from your books and be ready, so that you may not miss an opportunity to travel to that mysterious place. It would be an adventure that you would never forget. Now, I think that's enough with this pleasurable story telling. Go home and join your aunt - she's cooking fine food!


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[TheDaltonboii]

im from dalton and i have to admit i do have an accent

[gestalt100]

@TheDaltonboii My dad lived in south Atlanta during the 50s and 60s and he doesn't have a discernible accent to other southerners, however, to someone from outside the south, he sounds southern. Isn't it funny how we discern a lack of an accent? There's always an accent. Our accentless American English comes from the news media.

[TheDaltonboii]

anyway i have a video of one of these on my profile u should go check it out and see if u can tell anything

[gestalt100]

@TheDaltonboii lol Your accent is really strong. I'd have to say that my accent was muted when I was at college because it's college, there're people from all over. I can keep an accent for a day. I was talking to these British people on Skype all day and when I started talking to my friends again my southern accent melded with the British and became..... Australian. That's as southern as you can get. lol

[TheFiestyhick]

@elgozador haha--yeah, u are definitely right. that bull they pull in movies like Streetcar are like from another planet cuz no one talks like that and in the movies they seem to make it seem like people talk like that.

[TheFiestyhick]

i don't mean to be mean but what was the point of that? U were reading that trying to sound "neutral"...haha....that aint how folks in N Georgia talk?? they sound like that guy TheDaltonboli.

U were not just sounding neutral while reading but u seemed like u were being graded for a speech class or something..hahaha..it wasn't even natural, man...lol...i aint sayin u sounded bad, just saying u didn't represent N Georgia.

[elgozador]

Another interesting thing about educated southerners is a strong awareness of the southern "i" diphthong. People will pronounce a standard diphthong in monitored speech (like in your reading). However, in unmonitored speech, you hear the typical "nice, bright lights shine at night" southern "i" sound that sounds like "nass, brat lats shan at nat." This is one of the only things that the average educated southerner turns on and off depending on environment.



[elgozador]

I'm from southwest Georgia and I have a master's degree in linguistics. South Georgia sounds nothing like Gone with the Wind. Perhaps south Georgia used to sound like that, but modern south Georgia English is more redneck / white trash sounding... :) I wish people really did talk like Tennessee Williams or Scarlet, but nobody sounds like that. It's much uglier and more foolish sounding. The truth hurts! ;)

[TheDaltonboii]

@gestalt100 haha alright

[TheDaltonboii]

@gestalt100 yea like whenever i just regularly talk i dont hear an accent or when other people from the south talk i dont hear it but if i record my self and play it back i can hear it a lil bit