 Hey guys, welcome to our show today. My name is Olivia, and we're here with Akeela and April. So guys, what are we talking about today? I don't know, what are we talking about? I don't know, what are we talking about? Akeela, what are we talking about? We're talking about accents today guys. So as you can see, when we just said the same sentence, it came out a little bit different with each of us. So we're gonna talk about, you know, some of the little dips in channels and our own dialects and how we can sound different speaking the same exact language. Is that? Yeah, take us away, Avery. I guess one question, this one's kind of basic, but just kind of like to start off the conversation, where were you born, I guess? I'm originally, I was originally born Tanzania, but my parents from Congo though. Okay, my family is from Louisiana, but I was born in Georgia. I live here in Vermont, but I was born in Tucson, Arizona. You give me Arizona vibes, actually, wow. Give me Vermont vibes. I think I got it. It's the first time I've ever heard that. Do you guys think it's rude when somebody talk and they ask them, like, yeah, where you from? I think it can be rude, it just depends. I feel like if you were so obviously infatuated with somebody, either how they look or how they speak and you're like, oh, where are you from? I feel like it just depends though, because I think people can be really condescending or just like, it can be disrespectful undertones to it. And not genuine interest. What do you think, Avery? I agree with that and I feel like it also just depends on how it comes off, you know, it's like, it's very different. I'm like, oh, where are you from? Versus, hey, where are you from? Yeah. How you feel about Olivia? Yeah, I should go with you guys. So yeah, I feel like it depends in the situation, I guess, yeah. Has anybody ever like talked to you and been like, oh, you have an accent? Yeah, that happened to me multiple times. Avery? I cannot say that's happened to me really. What were you? Ever, besides like the Vermont accent. Okay, yeah. Versus Arizona, Yeehaw. People have definitely asked me, where am I from? People do, they ask. Welcome back, guys, and we're one more person here. Hey, guys, I'm Andrew. All right, now that we have everybody present, I'm gonna go on with my question. Oh, Andrew, we asked our initial question, which was where are you from? So, do you wanna tell us where you're from? Yes, I'm from Jackson, Mississippi. I'm from the capital of Mississippi. You're a Southern, a Southern person like me. Yes, I'm a Southern. Don't say that too loud. I'm sorry, y'all, I cracked jokes. So, I was asking Avery and Olivier, if when they go back home, do they notice differences in accents, even within people from the same community? I know, when I'm in Atlanta, there's a difference between how people talk on the East Side versus the West Side of Atlanta. Even though it's all the same to some degree, but how they go about it is a little bit different. What are your thoughts, opinions? I would say yes, from my experience. I feel like that's what we're talking, that's what other people are talking about, different place, way different, yeah. Even the same language, too. I don't know, I feel like in Mississippi, everybody talks kind of the same in the whole state. So, but I don't know, I haven't explored the northern parts of Mississippi as much as the southern parts, because I'm just a Southern there, so, yeah. I've actually never been to Tucson, Arizona in recent time, only when I was really young, but my best friend went to Colorado there for a little bit, oddly enough. So, from what I heard when I would FaceTime her, yes, the accent sounds different than here, so, yeah. That's a, do you have a question for us, Andrew, possibly? Involving accents, does the range of accents, like in being in Vermont, is there a range? Do y'all notice there's a range of accents, like from northwestern or midwestern to east coast accents? I will say maybe I'm tone deaf, because I feel like people here sound very similar to me. I feel like, yeah, for the most part, everybody sounds pretty much the same. I hate to say it. I know that there is a townie accent, like people who are born and raised here, they kinda, but I don't think it's their accent necessarily, I think it's just their, like, overall way of approaching life, that you can tell that they're a Vermonter. But I have met some, like, country people here who have, it's not a southern accent, but they still have, like, a drawl, and their accent that you can tell that they're not from, like, a city at all, or they're not, yet, they've been in a country all their life. From my experience, like, my school's, like, with a lot of different people from different, like, everywhere, so I've, like, yeah, it's like a lot of different accents, yeah. I've definitely, like, in Vermont, just met a lot of people with a lot of different accents, and then also there's, like, the Vermont accent that I mentioned earlier, does anyone know what that is? The Vermont accent to me sounds like the Minnesotan accent. Yes, it sounds like Ohio, or Utah. Like, it kind of sounds like the Midwest region. It's kind of, it's not, it's like, it's not southern, but it's kind of country, but it just, I'm sorry, it gives cold a little bit. It's just, like, a very isolated, like, I don't know, way of talking. Yeah, that's, like, the only people here have. Fair enough. Do you guys think, like, people's accent being different is, like, a cool thing, or people just think that just having the same accent? I mean, it definitely is unique, like, it's a unique feature about Vermont, and just, like, the northern part of the States, and, like, I definitely notice people, like, communicate differently. So I feel like it just helps, you know, with that communication when people, like, have different accents. What about you, Gary? There are, I definitely find, like, different accents cool and unique, but I often feel weird, like, vocalizing the accent, I don't know, I just feel like it'd be kind of strange approaching someone and be like, hey, nice accent. It is, it's good, yeah. Yeah, so that's a thought I kind of keep to myself for a little simplest of the person, but, you know. How about you? I feel like, of course it is, I feel like English is, like, such a, like, a flat language for the most part, so, like, having people who, English isn't their first language, or maybe not even their second language, like, they have a certain drawl in, like, the way that they pronounce words that, I feel like, kind of, like, gives life to a language that's otherwise very dead to me. Yeah, and I notice people here, they say, like, how's it going a lot? Like, there are certain, I guess, like, euphemisms, or, like, just slang that, like, people in New England specifically use. Trafalic is just so interesting, and I think it does, like, kind of shift and change the way you think about language, like, how you communicate with people, because that's, like, people in Europe, they say the same thing, like, how's it going? It's, like, good, how's it going with you and you? But they mean it, like, hey, like, it's just, it's not really, yeah, it's not interpreted the same way. So I feel like that's interesting, and then the accent on top of it, just, it's cool, yeah. Two thumbs up. Have y'all heard of a word that in this, like, atmosphere of Vermont, that, like, that means something totally different in other places? Example. So I've heard of this word, like, recently called Pittle, and I was, like, have y'all heard that word before? Pittle. Go ahead. Like, I'm gonna use it in the sentence. So someone was, like, can I come in the house and Pittle real quick? And, like, Tinkle? Same thing. Okay, okay, yeah, I say Tinkle because I'm about sparkles and rainbows. Also, the word urine makes me wanna throw up, it makes me wanna gag, and pee is, I don't know, it reminds me of dogs. So, I say Tinkle, or use the restroom. But Pittle? Pittle, yeah, I was just recently been put onto that, and I'm like, that's so Vermont, like, I've never heard that word before. I heard people use it to describe when they're dogs pee though, they're like, oh, you took a Pittle, I've heard that, but I don't know what was happening. I mean, like, in that person's, well, like, why they used it in that context, but yeah, that's new. Have y'all had, like, an example of a word like that? I wouldn't say exactly like that, but I've heard the term a landslider before. Is it a landslider or a landslider? I can never remember. Or a flat lander? Or, it might be that. Yeah, it actually might be a flat lander. Which, from my understanding, is just someone who wasn't born Vermont, so I guess I'm a flat lander. Flat landers unite! We're all flat landers here. This is, we are an inclusive community, okay? Flat landers are welcome. Yes. Runs off. We miss! What about a flat lander's cliff? We're back with one last guess, or the same amount, depending on how you're doing the math. Yeah. All right. Which I'll talk about, what we talking about? We were talking about crazy words that we've heard in Vermont. Pitle. Pitle. I wish I could erase that from my brain. Flat lander. Flat lander. Derogatory. I think so, I don't know. Do you have any that you can think of? Okay, I will say. The last time when the high schoolers were here or whatever, I had one of the girls tell me, oh, you went to KKDs. KKDs. And I was so confused because I really, I was really trying and hoping that she wouldn't talk about the KKK, all right? I was like, what are you talking about, girl? The KKDs! And so I was like, oh no, I'm not from here. I'm from Atlanta. And she was like, she looked at me, she looked at me like, I was absolutely insane. And I was like, that's not what she asked me, did you? She was like, that's not confusing. Literally, I had to like take it out and blow it. What a vacuum. You too, I'm sorry. She was like, country cart deli. I was like, oh. I like that place. I love KKDs. Now that I know it's called KKDs, I'll be saying that. I have been using it, but just a little nicknames like Ruben James is RJs, which, you know, that makes sense. But I was not prepared just to hear KKD in a random sentence and know what it was meant to be. Yeah, too many Ks. Two, one, too many Ks, please. I've heard the old North Indian called the one, which I really like. I've never heard the North Indians. That sounds cold. North Indians. Really? I be telling people all the time, I stay in the one. That's why I stay in the one. That reminds me of zones. I'm gonna start doing that. That, you know. This is ridiculous. That does remind me of Atlanta and we have like, our neighborhoods are zoned. They're zoned by police precincts, ACAB anyways. But, and we call them zoned. So like, I'm from zone four. But the one sounds like the plot of the 100. Like, do y'all know what the 100 is? The movie, this show about like the kids that get crash-landed on the planet to see if it's inhabitable and it's called the 100. That's what it gives the same. It's, it was really good the first three seasons. After that, it just. Well, they still got multiple seasons. How many seasons are there? It's like six. They always, Netflix always gives us the shows that don't need six seasons, nine. Which we didn't ask for. Just resurrecting them for a while. Yeah. No. Gotta run it out somehow. That's true. What do you guys feel like is something that people from other places tell you that you sound funny saying? Like, because of your accent? I think sometimes people tell me that I mumble when I talk and like, or I talk too fast. I get out talk too fast. And like, I just be like, no, I'm just excited. So I just like really trying to say what I'm trying to say like really fast. So it's not like mumbling. It usually is just like when you get comfortable usually with people you start speaking in your like your normal pace. So it's like, yeah. I like pace it up sometimes, I don't know. Pace it up. I don't think this really has to do with my accent or it's kind of way into the pronunciation, but two words that I definitely say uniquely are seagull and syrup. Say both of them five times fast. Seagull, seagull, seagull, seagull, syrups, syrups, syrups, syrups, syrups, syrups. I was thinking more like seagull, syrups, seagull, syrups, syrups, syrups, syrups, syrups. Seagull, syrups, syrups, syrups, syrups, syrups. Yeah, you're saying. Wait, this is gonna be great at 3 a.m. I feel like you talk about you talk too fast, I get often too is like so weird being from the south because we're told that like we're associated with talking very slow because we draw everything. Yeah. But yeah, I think it's funny because I'm like, I don't talk slow like in pace. If I got to talk really, really fast, but people always get on me when I say y'all. Because they're like, who's it like? Where are you from? Because you're obviously not from New England saying y'all. I do say y'all. Because I don't even think that's necessarily a southern thing like saying y'all. I just feel like that's again like a country thing. I feel like that's an American thing. I don't think it's an American thing. I cannot imagine a Valley girl saying y'all unless she was at cheer camp. She was like, hey y'all, but I still feel like that's like Southern still. Like I feel like that's like a Valley girl moves Georgia. Yeah, her parents are like, yeah. Yeah, her parents are from the south. Yeah. I learned that. That and when I say in the video, they talk about double negatives, like I'm not finna be saying, especially Finna, like just using like AAV, they be like, you're not from here. You're not from here. Are you? Where are you from? Yeah, people, they do. You sound country and not like New England country. Yeah, I've caught myself at times. Like I'll say something in like my normal voice and then I'll be like, all right, let me vermod it up a little bit. So you can like understand me, like, yeah. For me, I'll do that, but not with like my accent. I'll just make my voice sound less dead inside because I think it sounds dead inside now. I am actively like slightly pitching it higher because I sound otherwise. Like I'm uninterested and just do not want to be here. Like of my best friend, we sound like we hate each other. Like, what are you doing? And to make things more perfect, both of our like natural faces are like just resting dead inside faces. So it's literally it's like. Not sure I've got a case of RBF. How's it going? That's why I rehabbed some of the glasses. So we won't see that he's actually staring into our souls right now. It's definitely a perk. I love that, you know. I love the response to people when people say, how's it going? I'd be like, it's going. Me too. Like, yeah, it's going. I don't know. How's it going for you? You know, my responses, existing or functional. I like functional. I think, oh, how are you doing today? I can't look functional. That's it. That's all I have. Nothing, not enthusiastically functional. Just, just there. That sounds like you by the leaf. Well, I said functional. I didn't say, what is it called? Like functional until five o'clock. Just letting you know. I love that. Do you guys have like any like, I don't know, superstitions about like language or anything like that that you guys know of? Superstition in language? Yeah. I always try to watch my words because I feel like we just speak spells all the time. I don't know. I mean, if you, a spell is like literally the spell link words, so I don't know. Yeah. Watch what you say. I don't know. But. Abracadabra. I'm hoping my wish will come true. I gotta spell it out. No, but that's serious. Definitely like, I don't think that's even, I don't think it's a Southern thing, but like when you grow up in like a mildly religious or like consciously religiously conscious household. That was definitely me in the Southern. That sounds like it's not specific to the South, but I know like that's definitely like some black grandma. Yeah, your tongue is powerful. They be like, watch your words. Your tongue can be a knife. So watch how you say things. We were not allowed to say can in my house. Oh boy. Like, oh my gosh. I'm like, no, I can't do it. Yes, you can. Don't say that. So that was like, not even a superstition, but again, like words are powerful. So don't say that you can't do anything. You be like, I can't though. Now I just say I don't want to. Cause that's really what I want to say. When you a kid, you can't, you can't get out of something that you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to be doing. I can't do it. Your whole life is regulated. I am unable to can. I don't have the bandwidth at this particular time to address these concerns. But when I update my status, maybe I'll be able to revisit this. What'd you talk about? Imagine a four year old comes up to you and you're like, go get their remote. They're like, actually, at this time, I'm unable to. You ever seen The Prodigy? The Prodigy? Yeah. No. I feel like we should just get into movie talk. All right. It was an average. Access to movies. Okay, let's go. They have terrible. That wasn't good. Access in movies, especially, we can talk about Little Mermaid. I don't even watch it, but I know that the freaking Sebastian had a terrible Jamaican accent. They religiously do terrible Jamaican accents or Caribbean Island accents on films. It's atrocious. That and African accents. They like, mix up the dialects. I don't like that for them. Yeah. Sorry, I had to say that. What's your spiel on the accents in movies? One that comes to mind, this isn't a movie, but a game. It actually does lead to one of the things I wrote down. In the original Resident Evil 4, because there's the 2005, one of the 2003 remake. It's set in unknown European country, it's Spain. I don't know why they don't say it's Spain. And so everyone, like, there, all of the, like, yes, everyone's like their character pretty much. You talking about the village people? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're all speaking Spanish. God knows. Yeah, they all speak Spanish, but they use the wrong dialect of Spanish. They use the Mexican dialect verses. The Spanish version. Although I will say this in their defense, it's a Japanese company trying to make a game set in Spain for mainly Japanese and English for audiences. You said that in a defense style, like you just throw on them under the bus. They throw the nuts under the bus. I'm just a messenger, okay? Oh, man. In defense, jeez. Yeah, I don't know much about Spanish, but maybe they clear it up in the remake, I don't know. Maybe we could do some more intense research on the dialects before they, before they, yeah. I'll get back to y'all on that. Y'all. See? You know who else had a freaking tear. Have y'all watched After Earth with Will Smith and Jaden Smith? I love that movie. That movie, okay, the movie itself, mid, whatever, the accents, however, were absolutely abysmal. Why did they have, this is 100,000 years after Earth has already been left in the dust, and they come back with fake British accents. I was so confused, I was so confused. I'm like out of all the accents that were available to use. They picked a random, weird British accent, and it wasn't consistent throughout the movie either, which also kind of made me more epist me off. Oh, no. Wow. And I'm sorry to Jaden, but your accent, it was terrible, it was terrible. I mean, the acting in that movie was terrible. To wrap up, the acting gotta be better with the accents and the whole just trying to mesh them together. The accents deserve respect. The accents deserve respect. So do your research. I will say British slash Australian actors, it's not fair how easily they can do an American accent and we can't do the reverse. Well, America stopped trying to colonize, then maybe we will be able to learn different dialects of English and not have everybody conform to ours. So I'm the American people. Please. And that's a wrap. Yes, a wrap.