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accents
I'm not sure I buy the whole "Seattle accent" thing--I've never been able to discern one, but maybe that's because it's the same as the "Willamette Valley accent" I grew up with. For sure it's not Vancouver inflected--we had a client in Vancouver, and every person I ever talked to on the phone there talked FUNNY, and when I was on hold the people on the radio talked FUNNY too.
I think the most annoying accent is rural Utah--not just fark when you mean fork, fail when you mean fell and vice versa; there's also a weird Scandinavian-inflected lilt, and glottal stops, kind of like Minnesoootan without the flattened vowels. The name's not Hansen, it's Hantsen. Bleah. I'm just thankful growing up in Oregon saved me from any genetic predisposition to talk this way.
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