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  • @jaydisqus3353
    @jaydisqus3353 3 года назад +463

    They speak an entirely different language in Louisiana. He didn't use enough French/English words, you'll get lost talking to cajun.

    • @jch6809
      @jch6809 3 года назад +37

      yeah my grandma made my head spin sometimes 😂

    • @jaydisqus3353
      @jaydisqus3353 3 года назад +34

      @@jch6809 I worked with a guy who would use cajun talk randomly. We both got a kick of out what I thought he said. Dude was a solid guy. Cajun folk are alright by me.

    • @artsysabs
      @artsysabs 3 года назад +23

      Even if I can't understand half of what they are saying, the Cajun accent is so fun!

    • @jaydisqus3353
      @jaydisqus3353 3 года назад +5

      @@artsysabs So true. But I liked the challenge. Have a great evening!

    • @jaydisqus3353
      @jaydisqus3353 3 года назад +1

      @MARK WARDS I think a lot rural areas do the same thing. My dialect told me I was from the Carolinas, I'm Ohio born and breed.

  • @24-karat-plonker
    @24-karat-plonker 3 года назад +190

    As someone living on a Native American Reservation I'm pleasantly surprised that the rez accent was included here. You don't hear rez accents as strongly with younger people but you definitely hear it more with older generations.

    • @williampacheco7767
      @williampacheco7767 3 года назад +22

      I think there was a large shift by parents in 1980s/1990s to have their kids “speak better English” by losing accents. A lot of it is the stigma placed on having accents by the majority population. I personally think we should embrace our accents as it makes us who we are and our connections to our heritage languages.

    • @marywebb_22
      @marywebb_22 3 года назад +5

      @@williampacheco7767 I agree!

    • @24-karat-plonker
      @24-karat-plonker 3 года назад +6

      @@williampacheco7767 Definitely, I agree that we should keep it since it's now very much a part of our identity.

    • @brandonrempel1025
      @brandonrempel1025 3 года назад +10

      As a white person who doesn't really know much about it, I think it's fascinating hearing about that and it leaves me wanting to know more.

    • @leejesson3368
      @leejesson3368 3 года назад

      LeeJESSON

  • @chesterparish3794
    @chesterparish3794 3 года назад +164

    I love how he's loosing his mind over some of these accents while I'm just sitting here confused at why he is until I remember he's british.

  • @bob_._.
    @bob_._. 3 года назад +380

    The Minnesota settlers were mostly from Scandinavia, so that is the big influence on the accent.

    • @chrispowell7055
      @chrispowell7055 3 года назад +19

      Ya sure, you betcha! (Swedish/Danish/German/Irish/English descendant from the Dakotas near the Minnesota border. LOL) I hope you know the difference between Uff-da and Ish-da.

    • @Duke00x
      @Duke00x 3 года назад +17

      With a little Canadian thrown in also.

    • @oodlemynoodle3753
      @oodlemynoodle3753 3 года назад +3

      For sure. I tend to sound swedish on some words

    • @you_can_call_me_T
      @you_can_call_me_T 3 года назад +3

      Yes. Rose Nylund taught me that 😊😋

    • @bcurve
      @bcurve 3 года назад +23

      The Minnesota accent is so strange because there's such a massive difference between rural and urban speakers.

  • @JL-bm2sp
    @JL-bm2sp 3 года назад +231

    Who is watching this and forgetting how you normally speak? 😂

    • @maddwitch
      @maddwitch 3 года назад +21

      The opposite for me. I tend to think that I don't have much of a Chicago accent and then I realized that I pronounce my vowels all shifted like he says we do.

    • @marywebb_22
      @marywebb_22 3 года назад +2

      @@maddwitch haha nice

    • @stephenhouse5129
      @stephenhouse5129 3 года назад

      Whatcha talkin aboot?

    • @David-un4cs
      @David-un4cs 3 года назад +1

      As someone from Buffalo my mind was blown. I realized my A's are kind of weird lol

    • @wolthigamezmc1496
      @wolthigamezmc1496 3 года назад

      @@maddwitch I'm over here thinking I don't have much of a New Orleans accent, but then I find myself saying "Dat" and "Yat" alot

  • @SeanShimamoto
    @SeanShimamoto 3 года назад +109

    The grim look on Luka face when he hears about the European effects on the Native American people breaks my heart. The lad seems like a really good guy who has a lot of empathy for others.

    • @monember2722
      @monember2722 3 года назад +3

      That's the problem guilting white people the world over. You saw his body language when the first black woman came on talking about kidnapped africans and colonizers??? Purposeful accusatory language used.

    • @SeanShimamoto
      @SeanShimamoto 3 года назад +41

      @@monember2722 Funny that I saw empathy and you saw a problem. 😜

    • @jdice6868
      @jdice6868 3 года назад +11

      @@SeanShimamoto I think Luka is surprised at some of the problems from our past that are not widely known, even here. Imagine if he were told about the Japanese Americans put in internment camps (A euphemism for concentration camps used since we didn't intend genocide which does not change what they were.) during WWII. We have far more people of German heritage, but they were trusted. Whatever Mon says, it's not about guilting people. My ancestors were being abused by the English (including being told not to speak Gaelic, and only English) when the Tribal Americans were driven off their land onto the least valuable unfarmable land. That doesn't mean I should ignore that as I consider how they are currently fighting new laws that require street addresses, not PO Box addresses on official IDs (like a driver's license) to vote. They don't have a mail truck go around the reservation delivering mail. They are understandably untrusting of any kind of government vehicle roaming the reservations. So the mail is dropped off at one place, Thus the PO Box addresses. Your license should be a confirmation of your mailing address when needed. Since they police themselves, a state id should not tell those off the reservation where each member lives. This would once again (for the zillionth time) break the deals we made with the Tribes. When I vote I want to keep that in mind. I consider the logic of honoring our agreements, not my white guilt over President Andrew Jackson's genocidal policies. While sad, I wasn't there. I can only inform myself through reading and raise my children with the same curiosity and scruples that my parents instilled in me.

    • @SeanShimamoto
      @SeanShimamoto 3 года назад +14

      @@jdice6868 I’m not sure what you perceived my original comment to be, but judging by your response, it was very different from my perception of my own thoughts.
      Firstly, Luka has remarked, on many occasions, how awful Europeans have been to the rest of the world...and each time he watches one of these videos, he makes those comments when he sees the horrible effects of European colonization, and i would never even suggest that it was his first time learning that fact, or if his reaction is because the video was just a reminder of something he had already known. All I know is that in the current state of our country, where there seem to be so many bad Caucasian Americans...when I see a Caucasian person exhibiting what I perceive as empathy, I’m going to point it out. This is a 19-year old man who regularly exhibits compassion, keeps an open mind, and wants to learn about everything and anything...and he’s the kind person I want to keep encouraging, and hopefully when he has kids of his own, he’ll pass on those positive traits. BTW, I never even remotely implied anything about guilt...and I’ve never gotten the impression from Luka that he harbours any guilt from his ancestors’ actions...you and Mon brought that up.
      Secondly, I don’t know what kind of person you think I am, but judging by your response, it’s definitely not the kind of person that I actually am. I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i...and on the weekends I was raised by my mom’s best friend, who was Native Hawaiian, and she taught me and my brother about Native Hawaiian traditions, culture, cuisine, etc. and I took it upon myself to learn about Hawaiian History, the history that isn’t taught in American History...including the atrocities that Caucasian Americans committed, including staging a coup and taking down the Hawaiian Gov’t and Hawaiian monarchy, and imprisoning Queen Liliuokalani and illegally annexing the Hawaiian Islands in 1898. And my learning continued with Native American History and African American History...all three histories have left me in tears, so I know that the pain that all three have is vastly and unimaginably worse.
      Thirdly, as a gay 5th gen Japanese American, I’ve always hated when people treat all gay men as a monolith, and hated when people treat all Japanese as a monolith. So I don’t do that to other groups and races. Yes, Caucasian people have done horrific things in the past, and there are still a lot of horrific Caucasian people in this world...but there are also a lot of really good Caucasian people in this world, friends that I know would give their lives for me. While I think it’s very important to call out the worst Caucasians, I also think it’s very important to point out and support the best Caucasians...if I can do that with my own people (I went months w/o talking to my own grandma after she made a racist comment about my African American gf at the time...and I only started talking to her again AFTER she took the time to get to know my gf. Spoiler alert: she ended up adoring my gf), I do that across the board.
      Lastly, I wasn’t exactly thrilled to have someone telling me about concentration camps as though I had never heard of them...after all, my last name is Japanese, and I’m 100% Japanese, and my last name is so Japanese that it’s the name of a town in Japan...but on top of that, my relatives were rounded up and put in those concentration camps.

    • @nigelholland1714
      @nigelholland1714 2 года назад +3

      @@monember2722 but that’s what happened though? It’s history and it’s documented. Ain’t no more sugar coating.

  • @MrsStanislavYanevski
    @MrsStanislavYanevski 3 года назад +79

    I’m from the Midwest, and my fiancé is from New Zealand. He’s literally always saying I have all my vowels swapped around wrong and I’ve always said I don’t. Then I watch then and he says I have my vowels all swapped around and I do sound like that lol

    • @mimimonster
      @mimimonster 3 года назад +6

      This guy has a video on those accents also - and NZ pronounces their vowels are super weird and unique even from Aus. So, you may not have them swapped at all ;)

    • @elbruces
      @elbruces 2 года назад +1

      Thing is, Kiwi accents have a chain swap going on too, so neither of you do it right.

  • @dudermcdudeface3674
    @dudermcdudeface3674 3 года назад +161

    I'll spoil the southern california one a little: You've definitely heard all of them in movies. The names differ, but you can call them "dude," "valley girl," and "cholo."

    • @m.m.i.9586
      @m.m.i.9586 3 года назад +16

      And “ranch”! Don’t forget “ranch“ “Or shewd I seh reanch?” (Central Valley CA ag accent).

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 3 года назад +10

      @@m.m.i.9586 OMG 😳 That sounds like a bad merger of a North Carolina and a Wisconsin accent

    • @dudermcdudeface3674
      @dudermcdudeface3674 3 года назад

      @@nicomars7836 Yeah, there are lots of people, and it's pretty big. Get out more.

    • @seaneendelong8065
      @seaneendelong8065 3 года назад +5

      Edward- it's Okie in the CV, particularly in the Southern end, but somewhat blurred since the Dustbowl great migration during the 1920s-40s.

    • @promontorium
      @promontorium 3 года назад +7

      @@m.m.i.9586 I'm from the Central Valley. There's no such accent. Hollywood and TV like to pretend people in the Central Valley are somehow southerners planted in the middle of California. The only "Central Valley ag accent" is Mexican.

  • @poohbearsmom2964
    @poohbearsmom2964 3 года назад +57

    I’m so glad you’ve continued to react to this series.
    It’s a such a more accurate portrait of American English than that 50 people video that so many you tubers react to.

  • @deltajukejoint1561
    @deltajukejoint1561 3 года назад +164

    There is a Part 3 coming he says. I am glad you found it.

    • @leejesson3368
      @leejesson3368 3 года назад

      146🎂🗼

    • @mholtebeck
      @mholtebeck 3 года назад +2

      I'm waiting for the Northern California accent.

    • @leejesson3368
      @leejesson3368 3 года назад

      LeeJESSON🇺🇸🇺🇸🍰

    • @nataliehunt3443
      @nataliehunt3443 3 года назад

      @@mholtebeck I've seen a few videos by this linguist, and he touched briefly on NorCal in one of them. It was honestly difficult to hear it as anything but normal to me since that's what I grew up with. My parents were from California as well (Oakland and Bakersfield), and from before modern Western Valley or City accents were much of a "thing" as they are today. But when I moved to Alaska in my senior year of high school everyone claimed I had a "Californian" accent; I just couldn't hear it! Slang and grammar differences, perhaps, but not particularly an accent. So strange to be nearly blind to your own sound!

  • @alyssabrolsma3854
    @alyssabrolsma3854 3 года назад +52

    Every once in a while my Minnesota accent pops out - surprises even me 😂

    • @Ruffio1977
      @Ruffio1977 3 года назад +8

      From Mn but have been in NC for over 15 years and when I drink it comes out. My friends make me say bag and vague over and over again.

    • @Cory_Springer
      @Cory_Springer 3 года назад +1

      I wouldn't trade my MN accent for anything

  • @Mahan07
    @Mahan07 3 года назад +85

    It’s funny how some US accents can develop characteristics and sounds similar to UK and Irish accents

    • @anastasia10017
      @anastasia10017 3 года назад +30

      of course. America used to be part of Britain and the british/irish/scottish emmigrated to the new world in droves. They say the southern accent is what the british accent sounded like in the 17th century. Europeans who settled in the Minnesota area came from Scandinavia and have retained scandinavian type accents. Louisiana was a french colony and people there still speak creole french.

    • @sylamy7457
      @sylamy7457 3 года назад +17

      @@anastasia10017 Yup, it's crazy to think about it but American accent is closer to colonial accent than British. The rhoticity has been lost in Britian, a huge factor that makes up the Bri'ish accent.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 3 года назад +5

      @@anastasia10017 I've heard reconstructions of 17th Century English and colonial accents and they sound like the Down East / Hoi Toider accents prevalent in far east NC and Okracoke, Tangier, and Smith Islands ... and used to be heard among lobstermen in Eastern coastal Maine.

    • @anastasia10017
      @anastasia10017 3 года назад +8

      There is a small island in the chesapeake VA area that is rather remote and I have heard that because they are so cut off, that the small population there has retained a 17th century British accent. I have heard that language specialists study the folks from that island. The Australians will also have retained the british accent from centuries past due to the british colonization and their habit of shipping all their criminals down under. Although the aussies seem to have developed a twang that the americas did not.

    • @anastasia10017
      @anastasia10017 3 года назад +7

      American Southerners also retain a lot of british turn of phrases, idioms and expressions that are commonly used in England today but are not heard in Northern US states or used by yankees.

  • @promontorium
    @promontorium 3 года назад +185

    This dude laughing at southern accents like Brits don't say "You wot? That's somfink innit" and think they're still speaking English.

    • @JustMe-dc6ks
      @JustMe-dc6ks 3 года назад +17

      That f for th sor’afing (sort of thing) in some British accents really sticks out to me ever since I watched the britcom ‘Chef’.

    • @allenhuling598
      @allenhuling598 3 года назад +24

      Cracks me up how Brits from some areas really cannot seem to pronounce 'th' but rather use that 'f' sound or even more often, the 'v' sound, as in brover (brother) or anover (another)!

    • @autumnmoon4460
      @autumnmoon4460 3 года назад +1

      IKR😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Bacontats
      @Bacontats 3 года назад +3

      @@allenhuling598 True. I remember watching an old DanIsNotOnFire video where he was calling for Phil, and the l became a "w" like "Phiiiwwwwl". Threw me off for a hot minute.

    • @anastasia10017
      @anastasia10017 3 года назад

      @Reynz J seems you missed English class.

  • @Bob-jm8kl
    @Bob-jm8kl 3 года назад +38

    Luka says, "Bro...where were the words?" I understood it.

  • @bryndrson8289
    @bryndrson8289 3 года назад +32

    Utah has a incredibly high English ancestry. Many of which came from England in the mid-1800s.

  • @shadysubject06
    @shadysubject06 2 года назад +3

    As a Louisianian I'm glad to see the Cajun accent get some attention! It's a beautifully unique accent, if not absolutely unintelligible to those unfamiliar with it.

  • @ashleyortega8667
    @ashleyortega8667 3 года назад +50

    They should have talked about the Spanglish, it's hilarious. My mom says mcdonal instead of McDonald's😂

    • @jeffwithheldforsafety8359
      @jeffwithheldforsafety8359 3 года назад +7

      Probably will in part 3

    • @randomgamerdude98
      @randomgamerdude98 3 года назад +2

      I speak fluent spanglish 😂

    • @AstridNyx
      @AstridNyx 3 года назад +2

      My mom once macdonald and it threw me in for a loop 😂

    • @NostalgiCrazy
      @NostalgiCrazy 3 года назад +1

      @Brandon Esquivias Don't worry that should be noticed in California's part lol.

    • @jofox339
      @jofox339 3 года назад +3

      My grandparents say wal-mar and forget the "t" entirely. We're from Colorado too so we don't use hard "t" in our words up here either. It might be Spanish influence.

  • @fastttFreddie
    @fastttFreddie 3 года назад +29

    That term you were thinking of I believe is “drawl” commonly referred to in pop culture as Southern drawl. Maybe 🤔 haha - btw you’re effin awesome !!

    • @christina113704
      @christina113704 3 года назад +3

      It is. However, the more east you go, the thicker the accent is. Like Southeast Texas? Sometimes it is a serious challenge.

  • @awphooey2u519
    @awphooey2u519 3 года назад +50

    Well, he nailed the cajun accent prevalent here in new orleans. Louisiana accents change by county and area.

    • @complexdevice
      @complexdevice 3 года назад +8

      You mean "Parishes" right? Louisiana doesn't have counties.

    • @Another30
      @Another30 3 года назад +1

      @@complexdevice that’s kinda like how Alaska’s are called Boroughs

    • @Meso504
      @Meso504 3 года назад +5

      New Orleans accent isn't Cajun. There are some influences due to migrations, but the New Orleans dialect is primarily French Creole, derived from the early French settlers and later Haitians. New Orleans also has a distinctive Black dialect which defers from the general Yat dialect.

    • @nunyabailey
      @nunyabailey 3 года назад +2

      Our “counties” aren’t called counties they are called parishes.

    • @dittoroxursox1o1
      @dittoroxursox1o1 3 года назад

      @@complexdevice Yeah its a French hangover, that originates from the Catholic church. We have Parishes, not counties.

  • @simplyepic3258
    @simplyepic3258 3 года назад +6

    That Utah mountain and button thing is also very common in Colorado. Sometimes we also replace single t’s with a d sound to make “water” sound like “wadder.” In extreme cases we might even drop the t from “water”, making it sound more like “wa-er”.

  • @RiverParish
    @RiverParish 3 года назад +35

    I'm from Louisiana and my grandmother has that type of accent where she pronounces words like "work" as "woik".

  • @Vortex1988
    @Vortex1988 3 года назад +63

    Minnesota accents are similar to Scandinavian accents.

    • @naimahussen7480
      @naimahussen7480 3 года назад +1

      I’m from Minnesota and I didn’t know I had an accent until I went to New York for a trip

    • @MeusChapeus
      @MeusChapeus 3 года назад +2

      Love their accent lol. I'm from NY

    • @bcurve
      @bcurve 3 года назад +1

      @@naimahussen7480 Same here. I moved to Texas two years ago and I get a lot of people asking me where I'm from based off my accent. Never really thought about the way I spoke until moving down here.

    • @Vortex1988
      @Vortex1988 3 года назад

      @@naimahussen7480 Yeah, I'm from the Chicagoland area, and I've never thought of myself having an accent, but my relatives in Tennessee would disagree. I don't know if I can say that I have a Chicago accent though. I think the true Chicago accent is dying out in favor of just a general Midwestern accent like you'd hear on TV.

    • @dcesar117
      @dcesar117 3 года назад

      @@Vortex1988 very true. It does seem to be a dying accent

  • @jenniferdugas947
    @jenniferdugas947 3 года назад +53

    I'm from New Orleans and whenever I visit other states they think I'm from New York. It's weird because not all parts of the state speak with that accent, just the New Orleans area. So it probably does have to do with being major port city like New York with a similar mix of immigrants.

    • @shadow1sd
      @shadow1sd 3 года назад +2

      Nice to meet another person from my city! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @VivaCohen
      @VivaCohen 3 года назад +3

      My mom's from New Orleans and sometimes she sounds like she's from New York 😛

    • @Dhi_Bee
      @Dhi_Bee 3 года назад +5

      Yeah, for YEARS I thought Emeril Lagasse was from Brooklyn & when I found out he was from Louisiana my mind was like 😱🤯

    • @artsysabs
      @artsysabs 3 года назад +4

      Meanwhile I'm a born and bred new yorker and I've had people ask me a few times if I'm from the south. Like Tennesse or even Texas. I'm like ???? no??? Why would you say that?

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 3 года назад +2

      @@Dhi_Bee actually he grew up in Fall River MA so he might have a Providence area accent.

  • @ivancervera3360
    @ivancervera3360 3 года назад +24

    As someone from california, our accents are all over the place 😂

    • @corvus1374
      @corvus1374 3 года назад +1

      My cousins, who live up in the northwestern part of California, say "crick" instead of creek. They actually lived in Willow Crick.

    • @Jzombi301
      @Jzombi301 3 года назад

      yee

    • @sarahmchugh4169
      @sarahmchugh4169 3 года назад

      Uh, I don't really agree. I am not the most well traveled, but I wouldn't say the differences are enough to be recognizable accents.

  • @Bob-jm8kl
    @Bob-jm8kl 3 года назад +39

    "Check it oot here." He outed himself as a Canadian.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 3 года назад

      You mean "oat" and oated

    • @Bob-jm8kl
      @Bob-jm8kl 3 года назад +3

      @@edwardmiessner6502 Yeah, I guess "oat" is what he said...more general Canadian and Minnesotan. "Oot" is thick Canadian.

    • @raynemichelle2996
      @raynemichelle2996 3 года назад +2

      @@Bob-jm8kl no one in Canada says oot or aboot. Those are features of some Scottish accents. The only people who do say that in Canada are making fun of the stereotype. Canadian raising is more like a cross between saying oat and aboat and the way an American might say out and about.

    • @Bob-jm8kl
      @Bob-jm8kl 3 года назад +5

      @@raynemichelle2996 No one is a lot of people not doing something. I've heard the oot from Canadians I know. I've also heard oat and out. I'm in MN and oat and out are both common. A lot of dialectical difference nowadays is urban vs rural or older vs younger.

    • @raynemichelle2996
      @raynemichelle2996 3 года назад

      @@Bob-jm8kl I don't believe you have heard oot "seriously" from a Canadian. Not that I've met every Canadian, but most of the people I know are Canadians and the only time I've heard it said that way is in making fun of the stereotype, like JJ McCullough does, for example. Perhaps the people you know are just taking the piss.

  • @LordVysh
    @LordVysh 3 года назад +10

    And in Austin, TX we don't have a southern accent whatsoever. Part of why people from elsewhere refer to Austin as "not Texas".

    • @itsmonique9732
      @itsmonique9732 3 года назад

      I agree! I’m from Dallas and my friend is from Austin and she always says I have an accent but she doesn’t haha

  • @SMC.Hammer
    @SMC.Hammer 3 года назад +10

    I was massively surprised when you picked up the “Minnesota” (also Milwaukee-ish) accent close to an Irish accent as they share some features in common. I spoke to a lovely woman from Dublin, then moved to Manchester, and she quite enjoyed spending time in the city. Manchester English is also said to be a near-American sounding accent to people that live in this area :D

  • @krisleigh2005
    @krisleigh2005 3 года назад +4

    This was so fun watching you experience this. I'm from Utah. Utah had a huge emigration movement from Britain, so that's why we sound similar. Also, you're spot on thinking Minnesota sounds Irish. A lot of Irish immigrated to that area.
    I found it incredibly interesting that you couldn't understand that Cherokee English. No judgment from me because there are definitely English accents I can't understand, but that one was super clear for me.

  • @leahkotlarchyk679
    @leahkotlarchyk679 3 года назад +29

    Me, from Rochester: Shhhiiiiit, he's right. My vowels are WEIRD....

    • @1000g2g3g4g800999
      @1000g2g3g4g800999 3 года назад +3

      Me, from Syracuse: I've heard maybe two people talk like that in my life.

    • @fnjesusfreak
      @fnjesusfreak 3 года назад

      @@1000g2g3g4g800999 Me, grew up near Syracuse and lived most of my life near Buffalo...nah, don't hear it.

    • @David-un4cs
      @David-un4cs 3 года назад

      I think I have a very mild version of it here in Buffalo. My As are definitely longer and I have a tendency to turn Es and Os into As. Like "lot" is "laaht" "egg" is "ayeg"

    • @fnjesusfreak
      @fnjesusfreak 3 года назад

      @@David-un4cs Hm, it's possible. A friend of mine who moved to WNY from Alabama pronounces "Don" and "Dawn" the same, such that I used to confuse the former for the latter - while I, a lifelong upstate New Yorker, pronounce the former very clearly like "Dahn".

    • @josha9723
      @josha9723 3 года назад +1

      Yeah Im suprised they even mentioned rochester in this series.

  • @trinitymurley2116
    @trinitymurley2116 3 года назад +3

    I just felt so dumb cuz I’m Texan and was like is he even doing an accent? He sounds normal? AND THEN REALIZED THATS BECAUSE ITS OUR ACCENT BAHAHAHAHA god I’m impressed really

  • @matthewmayfield8095
    @matthewmayfield8095 3 года назад +8

    Oklahoma representing! That voice clip that you couldn’t understand is definitely Okie 😂. I love this land. However, the land run brought a bunch of Irish settlers because it was during the same time they were losing their land so the Oklahoma dialect is a mix of Native American and Irish.

  • @SeiferAlmasy8787
    @SeiferAlmasy8787 3 года назад +12

    Born and raised in New Orleans, LA and my parents were born in FR. Cajun is very difficult, but there are many more variations of cajun french accents with a southern twist.

  • @brittywren2877
    @brittywren2877 3 года назад +29

    Most cajuns aren't gonna say there they will say Der instead. Like hey han me dat pole from ova der. Hand me that pole from over there. Grew up in Louisiana cajun French is beautiful.

    • @F28aj
      @F28aj 3 года назад +3

      "Shoot dat gata right der between da eyes."

    • @brittywren2877
      @brittywren2877 3 года назад +1

      @@F28aj choot em

    • @brittywren2877
      @brittywren2877 3 года назад +1

      Lol

    • @F28aj
      @F28aj 3 года назад

      @@brittywren2877 thank you for having a damn sense of humor

  • @bradjbourgeois73
    @bradjbourgeois73 3 года назад +10

    I'm from south Louisiana and when I was in the military a lot of people thought I was from New York. My roommate correctly heard the French influence and told me I had the thickest French accent he'd ever heard. People south of us have a way thicker accent than we do though, lol.

    • @brandonrempel1025
      @brandonrempel1025 3 года назад +1

      I remember thinking that watching The Green Mile. Of course, that's just a movie, so who knows how accurate it is.

  • @graceyang9022
    @graceyang9022 3 года назад +5

    When Erik Singer did the Minnesotan lip movements, it brought me back to my childhood when I would just watch how much the pastor’s lips would move while I didn’t pay attention to the sermon, lol! And these pastors were old, white Minnesotan men so them and the rest of the congregation really had the accent, which was always charming to hear.

  • @djkeiser6963
    @djkeiser6963 3 года назад +9

    I’m from Milwaukee, we sound much more like Minnesota in this video than Chicago...the vowel shifting is wild!! I never thought of it like that

    • @seamus2
      @seamus2 3 года назад

      Most people in Chicago sound more like the guy in the videos main voice/accent

  • @esquire3230
    @esquire3230 3 года назад +12

    My family is from New Orleans by way of Donaldsonville and Lemannville, LA. My mom pronounce Oil...Earl. and my wife family is Fench Creole from Lafayette LA. He is pretty spot on with the Louisiana accents

    • @neonoires
      @neonoires 3 года назад

      Lol and call points “pernts”

    • @dittoroxursox1o1
      @dittoroxursox1o1 3 года назад

      You ever hear the good old "hey dea paadna" meaning "hey there partner"

  • @bessc3358
    @bessc3358 3 года назад +25

    seeing my accent (chicago) explained and analyzed this deeply is so weird omg lol he's doing a pretty strong chicago accent but that's how most of my vowels sound especially a and o

    • @jacklewis5452
      @jacklewis5452 3 года назад +11

      it also depends on what side of the city you live.........southern parts of Chicago are much stronger in the pronunciation than the northern parts.

    • @cheeseninja1115
      @cheeseninja1115 3 года назад +4

      and then you have me with the Michigan accent looking at this and going "we have that, and that, and that..." here we have so many different parts of every flavor of English no wonder no one understands us

    • @bessc3358
      @bessc3358 3 года назад +3

      @@jacklewis5452 oh for sure, i come from big southside irish families on both parents sides so a lot of my relatives really sound like that lol

    • @pigboy69420
      @pigboy69420 3 года назад +5

      @@bessc3358 “oh for sure”, definitely a midwesterner...

    • @bessc3358
      @bessc3358 3 года назад +1

      @@pigboy69420 lmao u got me

  • @ryanprichard8480
    @ryanprichard8480 3 года назад +8

    The movie Drop Dead Gorgeous, with Kirsten Dunst and Amy Adams, has some great Minnesotan accent parodies with varying degrees of accuracy if anyone wants a laugh.

  • @bell1337
    @bell1337 3 года назад +6

    Saw the original video in my feed, waited for the this reaction to see it through 😁.

    • @strpdhatldy
      @strpdhatldy 3 года назад +2

      Totally! It is way more fun to watch this stuff on this channel than the original sources.

  • @Hey_Jamie
    @Hey_Jamie 3 года назад +23

    I’m really intrigued with how the dialect coach positioned his book ends in the shelves behind him. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it done that way before. His bookends are hands seemingly pushing the books. Normally, you’d have left bookend/books/right bookend. But he has on one shelf, left bookend/books/divider, and on the shelf below it’s divider/books/right bookend. That’s interesting I like that

    • @anti-ethniccleansing465
      @anti-ethniccleansing465 3 года назад +2

      Autistic for noticing?

    • @Hey_Jamie
      @Hey_Jamie 3 года назад +14

      @@anti-ethniccleansing465 ignorant for saying something so stupid?

    • @edaj1990
      @edaj1990 3 года назад

      @@anti-ethniccleansing465 wth man

    • @kyleobrien3383
      @kyleobrien3383 3 года назад

      Wth are u doing here?

    • @raindrop2417
      @raindrop2417 3 года назад

      @@anti-ethniccleansing465 Seriously dude? Why?

  • @NOLAgenX
    @NOLAgenX 3 года назад +17

    Man, it’s not a mystery about New Orleans’ accent. The white accent at least (with about 12 variations in the 60 mile radius) comes primarily from the Italian and Irish combinations which flooded New Orleans around the same time as NYC. They were the two largest concentrations of those populations in the late 1800’s.

    • @Amy-bl8sp
      @Amy-bl8sp 3 года назад +2

      No kidding. I lived in Chalmette when I was very young. I never acquired the accent, but if I hear it anywhere out in the wild I will stop the person and ask "Chalmette?" and I've never been wrong lol

    • @NOLAgenX
      @NOLAgenX 3 года назад

      @@Amy-bl8sp my ex-wife was Chalmatian, but she would always tell people outside the area she was from New Orleans. There is no mistaking that distinct sound, you’re right!

    • @Amy-bl8sp
      @Amy-bl8sp 3 года назад +1

      @@NOLAgenX I can usually guess NOLA area accents in general, but Chalmette is the only place I can nail down exactly. I wonder why it's so distinctive. I have many relatives from around NOLA but I can't pick out a specific neighborhood/suburb except Chalmatian.

    • @mimimonster
      @mimimonster 3 года назад

      What does it sound like if you take an Irish accent and mix it with an Italian accent = New York City! ;)

    • @NOLAgenX
      @NOLAgenX 3 года назад

      @@mimimonster it’s also a matter of time and development, as he says in the video for part 1. Included in this 3 city compilation is also Providence, and he lists the exact same background.

  • @jackgimre431
    @jackgimre431 3 года назад +19

    I think a lot of people who watch your videos are American, like me, and I think it would be cool to see the differences between different areas in Britain.

    • @nh3028
      @nh3028 3 года назад

      Jimmy Carr does some good British accent videos.

    • @anti-ethniccleansing465
      @anti-ethniccleansing465 3 года назад +2

      I saw a video some time ago (which I really wish I could direct you to, but I would have no way of easily tracking it down all this time later) which went over English accents…
      But what was very interesting about it is that it went over these old-ass archived vinyl recordings of people talking in their different dialects from around England from ~100 years ago, compared to today.
      If memory serves me right, these recordings were taken of men enlisted in the military in World War I.
      The video not only went over the nuances between the accents, but also _WHY_ they talked differently...
      For example, one accent would be of someone from a region that was very cold and windy, so they had to talk with their mouth as closed as possible to keep the air warmer inside their mouths for their lungs to breathe in. This caused them to barely move their mouths, and obviously made their words much more difficult to make out for outsiders.
      Some accents were/are much more sing-songy than others - the range was phenomenal.
      What is really sad about it is that so much of these different accents/dialects are very watered down or disappearing altogether now, and some are downright _GONE,_ as globalization has marched on. :(
      The King’s/Queen’s EngIish (it depends on who is sitting on the throne atm as to which version it is called - currently it would be the Queen’s English with Queen Elizabeth on the throne) is one of such dialects that is dying out fast.
      Perhaps, if that video sounds interesting to you, you might be able to track it down using key words that I have mentioned (i.e. “old English/British accents of military men/WWI enlisted historical archived vinyl recordings” etc). I’m too lazy to try and do it atm lol; especially if I don’t know if you’d even care that much to bother watching 😉).

    • @jackgimre431
      @jackgimre431 3 года назад +3

      @@anti-ethniccleansing465 That's really cool. I wish I could see that. And it would be interesting to see Luka do a video on something like this.

    • @anti-ethniccleansing465
      @anti-ethniccleansing465 3 года назад

      @@jackgimre431
      I just took forever editing my comment… right after I finished, I hit refresh, and you had already responded haha. You’re quick!

    • @jackgimre431
      @jackgimre431 3 года назад

      @@anti-ethniccleansing465 Haha, thanks

  • @Thhrhshrgsh
    @Thhrhshrgsh 3 года назад +1

    I’ve been waiting for part 2 to drop for a long time! I’m glad you finally glad you got to watching, now I can’t wait for part 3!

  • @greendragonpublishing
    @greendragonpublishing 3 года назад +3

    Love this series. There's a podcast called the History of English that goes into a lot of this as well, but it starts in Proto-Indo-European, and three years on it's still only up to the great vowel shift in Shakespearean times that this guy spoke of.
    I heard a theory that a lot of people who settled in the southern US came from a certain area of England which still used the old Anglo-Saxon dipthongs of AE in their pronunciations, and that's why the southern accents pronounce words with the long A sound like AE.

    • @tophers3756
      @tophers3756 3 года назад

      Areas of Appalachia conserve aspects of earlier, pre-Received Pronunciation British accents.

  • @barbarawilson9862
    @barbarawilson9862 3 года назад +1

    I love this series too. It really is interesting. My dad was actually originally from Indiana and moved to California when he was little. So his accent was influenced by his parents and his environment. My husband was raised in Texas but went through speech therapy as a child by someone not from Texas so he is the only one in his family without a Texas or Louisiana accent. His father was raised by Louisiana parents in Texas. My husband and I have moved from California to Iowa as adults so it doesn’t really affect our accents but has changed some of our phrases and terms for certain things. Most people probably don’t move around the country so much but I’m sure movements like this also affect individuals’ accents. Keep it up! 👍🏻

  • @inyokutse
    @inyokutse 3 года назад +5

    I'm from Los Angeles and I just realized I say mountain and button without pronouncing the T 🤯🤯

  • @alyssamartinez5374
    @alyssamartinez5374 3 года назад +2

    I'm dead, i saw this right around when you posted this and thought 'oh luka will have a reaction to this soon!', the timing is incredible 😂

    • @mimimonster
      @mimimonster 3 года назад

      I thought the same thing! Lol

  • @lukasthelucario6938
    @lukasthelucario6938 3 года назад +6

    One of the other things that us michiganders tend to do is add s's to everything. Kroger's, meijer's, family video's for some odd reason we add a lot of possessives to business names.

  • @jonathanprime1507
    @jonathanprime1507 3 года назад +25

    They really use the word latinx 😂

    • @seaneendelong8065
      @seaneendelong8065 3 года назад +7

      Gives away why she is so fluff and no substance in her segments- totally disconbected from REAL NORMAL AMERICAN LATINO CULTURES.
      You want to earn a hard side eye and disgusted sounds? Say Latinxxxxxx around anybody in the real world.

    • @raynemichelle2996
      @raynemichelle2996 3 года назад +1

      @@seaneendelong8065 normal? Get lost, bigot

    • @Cory_Springer
      @Cory_Springer 3 года назад +2

      Whats wrong with saying latinx?

    • @ivetterodriguez1994
      @ivetterodriguez1994 3 года назад +3

      @@Cory_Springer It's just messing with grammar. "Latino" is term that comes from the Spanish word for "Latin American". And the plural is in the masculine form even if there is only one guy in the entire group of Latino people. Itall comes down to grammar and English speakers not understanding that all other languages use gender for their nouns. They could just call us Latin-American, Hispanic, or people with meso-American blood and other stuff with parents from Spaniosh-speaking countries.
      Just translate "Latino" to English and presto! Gender-neutral "Latin-American", "Hispanic", English speakers forgetting their own language is genderless.
      You shouldn't have to put "Latin" and replace the o with a latin plural x. That's simply moronic and unnecessary. We already have a word for Latino and it's Latin-american, where it derived from. And it's mostly those from the Spanish speaking countries. who still live there presently, that make a bigger fuss over this because how much "Latinx" is used is blown out of proportion to them compared to those of us who were either born here and raised here and those who've actually lived here.

    • @stonent
      @stonent 3 года назад +6

      LatinX is just some people with masters degrees or higher say. Regular people with tan skin and north/south american spanish speaking heritage don't use it unless they're really trying to appear woke.

  • @hugoat_21
    @hugoat_21 3 года назад +4

    Luka thanks for always making my day.

  • @xeuxixiliak8417
    @xeuxixiliak8417 3 года назад +9

    FYI, if you want you can get your own dialect / ideolect analysed, and a vowel chart can be produced just for you

    • @dianem8544
      @dianem8544 3 года назад +1

      WHAT?! From where?

    • @0piumaeternum
      @0piumaeternum 3 года назад

      how?

    • @mbdg6810
      @mbdg6810 3 года назад

      Explain more :)

    • @JayEdgar0409
      @JayEdgar0409 3 года назад

      yes i wanna know too

    • @xeuxixiliak8417
      @xeuxixiliak8417 3 года назад +3

      @@mbdg6810 There's a program called Praat that is used to analyze formants and stuff using speech samples. Someone skilled in the program can take the samples of your speech, specifically vowels in this case and analyze the spectograms and other graphs to get a detailed picture of the formants in each vowel sound. Using some math and phonetics one can use a program called R to produce a vowel chart using that data. Both praat and R are free, but you'd need someone that knows what they're doing with it to get anything out of it. I'm most definitely not that person, but I might know some people who could be able to do that.

  • @brandonmayo650
    @brandonmayo650 3 года назад +3

    Love your channel bro! Supporter for life, about to set up patron

  • @theblackbear211
    @theblackbear211 3 года назад +1

    I enjoy your reactions a great deal.
    This guy is great. I especially like that he can explain things and then vocally demonstrate.
    I'm looking forward to part 3 - because there are so me very interesting regional variations in the west.

  • @Taliesyn42
    @Taliesyn42 3 года назад +8

    Living in Michigan my whole life and working in Detroit, I don't typically hear the vowel shift he says is so strong in Detroit. When he was doing that accent, it just sounded like upstate New York to me, and a bit like a Yooper.

    • @ianthompson3628
      @ianthompson3628 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, I live in Grand Rapids and while I do hear occasional examples of this, especially with words like bag, it isn't particularly prominent, though I guess I hear it enough to not be too surprised that it is happening.

    • @alboyer6
      @alboyer6 3 года назад

      Yes, I don't think it is very strong in Michigan. Maybe the word bagel in a few people. Or maybe fir inplace of for. I have caught myself saying "I'm using that fir.."

    • @Taliesyn42
      @Taliesyn42 3 года назад +1

      @@alboyer6 Yeah, that particular one is pretty widespread around here, too. I think it's less replacing the o sound with an i sound, however, than just leaving the vowel out altogether.

  • @MyKirbyBlue
    @MyKirbyBlue 3 года назад

    I have never noticed a similarity between the Minnesota and Irish accents but you are so right about that! As soon as you said it I heard it and now I can’t stop hearing it!

  • @obake6290
    @obake6290 3 года назад +14

    That 'ae' symbol is called 'ash' and represents the "trap vowel" Erik talked about - as in trap, cat, ash.

  • @impishinformation7237
    @impishinformation7237 3 года назад +4

    I never really thought about how weirdly people from where I’m from pronounce certain words, like mountain. We pronounce it as moun-in. I think we also tend to drop t’s or d’s at the end of words.

  • @captainteeko4579
    @captainteeko4579 3 года назад +3

    I’m from san antonio in Texas but I’m hispanic so while I say ya’ll I have that more “generic american” with an occasional “tex mex” way of speaking that has combined southern Texan English with Mexican Spanish

    • @MomoBearXO
      @MomoBearXO 3 года назад

      Same ! Kinda disappointed they didn't go over that in their video

  • @ohifonlyx33
    @ohifonlyx33 3 года назад +11

    I am literally in the "vowel shift" region and I'm not sure I've ever heard it to the extent that this guy was saying... But I have heard people say "beg" instead of "bag" and "baggle" instead of "bay-gull" for "bagel" ...And I hate it. I am begging you not to put the "baggle in the beg" please just put the bagel in the bag.

    • @Counterpoint1951
      @Counterpoint1951 3 года назад +1

      I live in the vowel shift region, too, and no one around here has an accent as thick as his. I don't know if I've heard "bag" as "beg," but I have heard some people pronounce "egg" as "aig." I also know someone who puts Ls in words that don't have it (e.g. saying "drawling" when they're actually talking about "drawing").

    • @ohifonlyx33
      @ohifonlyx33 3 года назад +1

      @@Counterpoint1951 I'm pretty sure I've heard "drawring" and "drawling"along with "warsh"

    • @Counterpoint1951
      @Counterpoint1951 3 года назад +2

      @@ohifonlyx33 One of my old teachers said "warsh," too; as a kid I found that pretty funny. I encountered it again many years later at my job.

    • @mementoargentum7733
      @mementoargentum7733 3 года назад

      I'm in that area too and was worried that I just lived in a weird outlier since I've Never heard it the way he was doing it before. I did see some other comments claiming that they spoke exactly like that, although I'm hoping they're from closer to the east coast for it since I'm solidly midwest and rarely encounter those kinds of pronunciations.

    • @1000g2g3g4g800999
      @1000g2g3g4g800999 3 года назад +1

      I'm pretty sure the only people who talk like that are senior citizens.

  • @pimppengu7645
    @pimppengu7645 3 года назад +13

    The Utah one is similar to your British accent maybe because the majority of Utah is English descending

    • @caterpillakilla
      @caterpillakilla 3 года назад +2

      funny cuz im from upstate ny, not far from where mormonism started, and we say mount in and butt in. wedont have a hard stop though in between, its just pronounced as if its spelled “mountin’ and buttin’ “

    • @simplyepic3258
      @simplyepic3258 3 года назад +3

      @@caterpillakilla That’s interesting. The Utah/Colorado region has that weird pronunciation all over the accent. Mountain sounds like mou-in with the guttural stop at the “-“, and even in extreme cases water can sound like wa-er with a slight, but not nearly as distinct guttural stop.

  • @ChannelName66
    @ChannelName66 3 года назад +1

    In Colorado we have a mix of very small features but are mainly monotonal. We don't pronounce our Ts ad will also say things similarly to Midwesterners like ope. But if you say MounTain here, it's weird because we just say moutin. (I purposefully misspelled that mountain to get how it sounded across)

  • @LolliPop2000
    @LolliPop2000 3 года назад +4

    That "New York" accent is actually Astoria, Queens, (Archie Bunker from All in the Family) as well as Hoboken NJ, and New Orleans (Confederacy of Dunces). Why so far apart? It's derived from Irish sailors.

  • @Red-cm3ho
    @Red-cm3ho 3 года назад +1

    I love your videos! I feel like i’m watching these educational and fascinating videos with a pal! lol

  • @JoseyWales8178
    @JoseyWales8178 3 года назад +9

    That lady in the beginning looks effing crazy

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 3 года назад +7

      The lady who refers to Latino and Latina as Latinex, right?

    • @warriormasterdeath7093
      @warriormasterdeath7093 3 года назад +8

      She has the crazy eyes. Thats a red flag and also "latinx" sounds like a tissue brand.

    • @JoseyWales8178
      @JoseyWales8178 3 года назад +4

      It looked like she was going to lose it at any second

    • @user-uh3hd3io3z
      @user-uh3hd3io3z 3 года назад +3

      I thought the same thing! I had to skip her stuff because I just couldn't withstand her extreme facial expressions.

  • @justinsublett5880
    @justinsublett5880 3 года назад

    The fact that this guy can transition so quickly and easily from an Ozarks accent to a Chicago accent is killer. Wow.

  • @neonoires
    @neonoires 3 года назад +3

    I kind of wish they cut to Black accents in New Orleans because Black people from there have a totally different accent than white people from there. Like... it’s a huge difference if you look it up lmao. A lot of South central and southeastern/south Atlantic accents are heavily inspired by French, British, and other European accents.

  • @teigenb829
    @teigenb829 3 года назад +2

    Took a course that briefly covered English's development. You should look up the great vowel shift. It's partly why middle English (pre shakespeare) is so difficult to read and understand
    Also in Washington state, my instructor noted that we tend to to use ā when pronouncing egg. Not sure if I do that though

  • @fd2444
    @fd2444 3 года назад +8

    I just roll my eyes every time someone uses the term latinx

    • @sylamy7457
      @sylamy7457 3 года назад +6

      Its cringey attempt at being PC

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 3 года назад +6

      Me too. I just think it's stupid and I heard the Latinos/Latinas hate it too.

    • @stanncie
      @stanncie 3 года назад +4

      @@edwardmiessner6502 Miami girl here and yes! No one here likes it! It's so dumb

    • @aquilescastro1794
      @aquilescastro1794 3 года назад +1

      @@edwardmiessner6502 Latino/ latina is a stupid term.

  • @primeminister66
    @primeminister66 3 года назад +1

    This dude is freaking amazing...genius

  • @waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaluigi
    @waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaluigi 3 года назад +14

    That girl in the red sweatshirt is WAY to facially expressive when she speaks. Very intense

  • @quinnd6273
    @quinnd6273 3 года назад +2

    He said that you really only hear the dropping of the Ts (like in mountains) in Utah and parts of California, which isn't entirely true. A younger person from Colorado here and everyone I know who grew up here drops the T. My parents don't because they're from Wisconsin and New Jersey, but the entire younger generation in Colorado drops their Ts as far as I've seen.

  • @kevindie
    @kevindie 3 года назад +29

    *_I don’t think I’ve ever watched a RUclips video with no dislikes. I almost want to click it just to know it was me..._*

    • @fun_police8011
      @fun_police8011 3 года назад +11

      Well there’s one now. I blame you.

    • @jameslazarus8991
      @jameslazarus8991 3 года назад +3

      This comment aged well

    • @mbdg6810
      @mbdg6810 3 года назад +2

      I see this comment right after 2 dislikes are shown

    • @anti-ethniccleansing465
      @anti-ethniccleansing465 3 года назад

      I see such videos all the time, man. You must only subscribe to large channels.

  • @jacksonhstudios4421
    @jacksonhstudios4421 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for checking this out man!

  • @Benmarkk2009
    @Benmarkk2009 3 года назад +14

    "know it" is a very native american thing to say. my grandma (navajo) said it all the time.

    • @dianem8544
      @dianem8544 3 года назад +1

      Sorry, I can't watch these Wired videos because of the lady with the horrible speech impediment. What's the context for "know it"? So curious, but obvs, I don't want to bug you.

    • @avian1
      @avian1 3 года назад +5

      @@dianem8544 Which lady has the speech impedient? Maybe I'm just not very observant, but I don't recall any of them having a noticeable speech impediment.

    • @dianem8544
      @dianem8544 3 года назад +1

      @@avian1 Nicole Holliday.

    • @avian1
      @avian1 3 года назад +3

      @@dianem8544 ...I listened to her speak in the video again, but I really can't notice any speech impediment. I don't know what you're on about.

    • @cocoapuff_x
      @cocoapuff_x 3 года назад +2

      judging someone for a speech impediment in which they can't control is a pretty asshole thing to do anyway..

  • @oliviaraymond8084
    @oliviaraymond8084 3 года назад

    I watched the first and say you reacted. So happy to watch both reactions and hope he continues. Your videos are great to watch during this pandemic!

  • @shawnperry5983
    @shawnperry5983 3 года назад +20

    The Chicago accent is a bit off. We say bag how he was saying it at first, not the lower a.

    • @maryannebrown2385
      @maryannebrown2385 3 года назад +2

      I thought the Chicago accent was off as well.

    • @dcmc7383
      @dcmc7383 3 года назад +2

      I thought several of his accents were off or he only addressed one accent in an area where there are a large number of accents. I’m from Charlotte, North Carolina, and there are seven distinct accents between the two Carolinas. Even the word egg is pronounced three different ways just in the greater Charlotte area alone.

    • @raynemichelle2996
      @raynemichelle2996 3 года назад +3

      I think he was exaggerating for effect, which is so unlike him. Usually he is good with the subtle changes from place to place. I thought both Chicago and Minnesota were a bit off.

    • @raynemichelle2996
      @raynemichelle2996 3 года назад +1

      @@dcmc7383 I don't think he has time in these videos to learn and detail every single American dialect, but general differences region to region.

    • @JcKramer1991
      @JcKramer1991 3 года назад

      Same. I feel like they watched the SNL super fans skit and based all their observations on that.

  • @Luckalos
    @Luckalos 3 года назад

    Oklahoma resident here. Love how many different accents there are over the course of a quick drive

  • @brettg274
    @brettg274 3 года назад +22

    “Latinx” is a ridiculous term.

    • @nattymo7835
      @nattymo7835 3 года назад +1

      "Crazy eyes"

    • @LeonelMacedo1
      @LeonelMacedo1 3 года назад +2

      It makes me cringe

    • @warmfridge856
      @warmfridge856 3 года назад

      Mhm

    • @RexFuturi
      @RexFuturi 3 года назад +4

      Basically only universities use the term. Actual Hispanic people hate it. You can tell the expert gets all her information only on campus from a select circle(jerk) of like-minded academics.

    • @ivetterodriguez1994
      @ivetterodriguez1994 3 года назад +1

      Spanish is a gendered language and "Latinos" is the plural for a group f people of mixed genders. If they just called us Hispanic r Latin-American, r from parents f that descent instead f the shrtened version "Latino" we'd be fine. Or just part meso-american native and wh knws what else thrown in from a Spanish speaking country.

  • @briannunez721
    @briannunez721 3 года назад +1

    You should do the part 3!!!

  • @starryyynightzzz4691
    @starryyynightzzz4691 3 года назад +4

    I never realized the thing about “mou-in” & “bu-in” but now that I said it out loud he’s totally right -Californian

    • @missouriluv
      @missouriluv 3 года назад +1

      My mom is from California and does this, and I sometimes do this, even though I grew up in Missouri, because she does it.

    • @anthonygreen7763
      @anthonygreen7763 3 года назад +2

      I'm from NorCal and I say it like that too. I've had a few people say I have an accent sometimes and now I think I know what they were talking about haha

    • @mimimonster
      @mimimonster 3 года назад +2

      I picked them up growing up in Cali, but it’s wayyy worse in Utah I noticed after living there also. My Texan family have friends that were very intrigued by my “accent” (which of course, they’re the ones with the accents) 😂

  • @halicarnassus834
    @halicarnassus834 3 года назад +1

    18:25, I was so glad Thurnston picked up that his speech also removes the " T" sound in Norwich.

  • @ThomasBarbarossa
    @ThomasBarbarossa 3 года назад +3

    I like how people try to shove the term Latinx down our throats even though in a way it’s kinda bigoted against the Spanish language and culture to conform English language culture to the gendered language of Spanish.

    • @sylamy7457
      @sylamy7457 3 года назад +2

      Because they're trying to make a language politically correct, this has gone too far.

    • @aquilescastro1794
      @aquilescastro1794 3 года назад

      Latino is already a wrong term but whatever.

    • @sylamy7457
      @sylamy7457 3 года назад

      @@aquilescastro1794 How so?

    • @isd4154
      @isd4154 3 года назад

      @@aquilescastro1794 where are you from? Is that your actual name?

  • @miguelrivera055
    @miguelrivera055 3 года назад

    Finally been waiting for part 2! Thanks

  • @rofyle
    @rofyle 3 года назад +6

    Or you could just watch every Coen Bros movie and hear each region represented. They focus on a different region for each movie.

  • @jillbristol3999
    @jillbristol3999 3 года назад +1

    As a native Oklahoman, I also want to add that pretty much the ENTIRE state is Native reservation land. In the Tulsa area alone, we have a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino run by the Cherokee Nation, the River Spirit Hotel and Casino run by the Muscogee Creek Nation and the Osage Nation Million Dollar Elm Casino. Also, we are a huge melting pot, so in the cities the accents can be all over the place. :) Sorry...geeking a bit hard...🤣

  • @Blynat
    @Blynat 3 года назад +4

    I always thought Oklahoma looked like a rusty cleaver.

  • @oof5021
    @oof5021 3 года назад +2

    18:55 I guess I'm part of that "some California speakers"

    • @arcanask
      @arcanask 3 года назад

      That's basically the entire southern half of the Central Valley.

  • @lazyidiotofthemonth
    @lazyidiotofthemonth 3 года назад +17

    His Minnesota Accent is very off he is trying to emulate William H marcy's Accent in Fargo(he is not a native of the region) and his voice is was too high and his timing is to fast, Minnesotans have a sort of laconic pace when they speak.

    • @molsongrrrl
      @molsongrrrl 3 года назад +1

      Agreed. I'm from Minnesota and I've never heard anyone talk like that.

    • @jacklewis5452
      @jacklewis5452 3 года назад

      What about Rose Nyland on Golden Girls?

    • @jeffburdick869
      @jeffburdick869 3 года назад

      Agreed. I've several friends from Minnesota and he sounded nothing like them. I'm starting to lose faith in the authenticity of this guy.

    • @zombiebunnyposse4273
      @zombiebunnyposse4273 3 года назад +2

      I’m sure that your opinion is more accurate than a trained dialectic linguist.

    • @lazyidiotofthemonth
      @lazyidiotofthemonth 3 года назад

      @@jacklewis5452 Betty White is not from Minnesota, she is from Illinois, and was mixing a lot of Iowan and Wiscansin patois into her acting, at no point did she ever say anthing remotely correct for Minnesota aside from Scandanavian lutheran culture.

  • @Mercury6_
    @Mercury6_ 3 года назад +2

    on a side note. people of Hispanic descent do not use Latinx, that term is being pushed on us by young white people. our language and culture uses Latino and Latina

  • @brookestevens5810
    @brookestevens5810 3 года назад +3

    my dad was born and raised in northern utah and my mom was born and raised in southern california....I thought everyone pronounced mountain and button the same way where the t isn't enunciated because they're from such different areas with different accents
    though, I've moved to a new state every 3-5 years so my accent itself is pretty muddied lol

  • @hecticgloww
    @hecticgloww 3 года назад +1

    Fun Fact: I'm from the norf-east of England and took English Language with an accents module for my A-Levels. Loads of Brits absolutely use the glottal stop for our 'T's, you're right! We're getting meme'd to fuck about it about the moment though lmfao ('Bri'ish!') I wonder if there were a lot of English settlers in Utah or something.

  • @benjaminhammel2520
    @benjaminhammel2520 3 года назад +3

    I've lived in Chicago half my life and I've never heard someone talk like that. Just sounds like Minnesota to me lol

    • @coreytaylor447
      @coreytaylor447 3 года назад +1

      we dont even sound like that either in minnasota

    • @benjaminhammel2520
      @benjaminhammel2520 3 года назад

      @@coreytaylor447 I'm probably just thinking of the over-the-top stereotypical accent then, maybe I was thinking of a Canadian accent idk

    • @TheJasonbking
      @TheJasonbking 3 года назад +2

      At least up until a couple of years ago, whoever did the pre-recorded announcements for Midway Airport could have come straight from The Super Fans.

    • @smoothyoda3581
      @smoothyoda3581 3 года назад +3

      I live in the Chicagoland area and I've never hear any talk like this.

    • @benjaminhammel2520
      @benjaminhammel2520 3 года назад

      @@smoothyoda3581 Yeah, the strongest accent i've heard here is like a faint Italian one

  • @siobhan7157
    @siobhan7157 Год назад

    I'm pretty late to commenting on this, but this guy is amazing. I live in southern Illinois in the Midwest. I'm closer to St. Louis, and my father is almost in Wisconsin, with a best friend in Chicago, and my step mother's family is from Minnesota. He is really amazing with the different accents and dialects. I love it.

  • @noahlim
    @noahlim 3 года назад +3

    Im from chicago and i dont know what a haaaaat paaaaat is

    • @jacklewis5452
      @jacklewis5452 3 года назад +3

      its not as pronounced as he was vocalizing but when I said hot pot, it was on the border between hot pot and haaat paaat. In other words, i could hear both if I wanted to.

  • @Fridge56Vet
    @Fridge56Vet 3 года назад

    Glad you like this series; can't wait for Part 3!

  • @maddied4669
    @maddied4669 3 года назад +4

    I’m a Marylander but I go to college in Rochester and I’ve noticed I’ve started doing the vowel shift on some words since everyone says it that way. Crazy!

    • @deafilynormal
      @deafilynormal 3 года назад

      I'm a Marylander too living in Chicago. Hearing their accent is wild but how I pronounce words is starting to shift as well. Question, what do you think our Maryland accent sounds like?

    • @1000g2g3g4g800999
      @1000g2g3g4g800999 3 года назад

      How old are the people you're talking to who sound like that?

  • @XanderWhat
    @XanderWhat 3 года назад +1

    Erik's videos are so great, they legitimately make me wish I studied linguistics in college.

    • @dancer004
      @dancer004 3 года назад +1

      I have a friend who is a dialect coach for movies and yeah when we get on this subject it’s just fascinating

  • @Alex-kd5xc
    @Alex-kd5xc 3 года назад +11

    Everyone knows the valley girl accent (aka the most annoying accent in the US) is coming in part 3

    • @seaneendelong8065
      @seaneendelong8065 3 года назад +1

      Like, I mean, re-ally, SOOOO Rude!
      -Smugly comments the Northern California coastal girl lol!

  • @ryanprichard8480
    @ryanprichard8480 3 года назад +1

    The Minnesotan accent is strongest in the small towns and up north, closer to the border. I’m in southern MN and people will point out or poke fun of my accent when I say words like “bag," "boat," or "gosh" with a stronger MN accent.

    • @shawnanderson6313
      @shawnanderson6313 3 года назад

      You don't really hear the accent in Minneapolis or Saint Paul.