Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by leagleaze

I don't know if this is an accent, but people end sentences with at drive me crazy. I.e. Where you taking your vacation at? Where's he at? Where's that at. First why are you ending a sentence with at? Second, the at is redundant, you already said where.

Not the same thing but I can't stand it when someone tells you that so-and-so is "out to lunch". "Out to lunch" means they're crazy, doesn't it? It does where I come from. I have asked my secretary to tell people I am "at lunch" not "out to lunch".

Also, "out of pocket" means out of money/broke, not unavailable. At least it does in my world.

It makes my ears hurt when someone says "route" as "rowt" not "root". And "roof" pronounced "ruff".

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic



DC accents bug the hell out of me - flat, blatting, nasal.

Is "DC accent" a euphemism for ebonics? BC almost nobody is from DC except for the black population. Or so I have been told. This nasal thing you speak of sounds like the rural Pennsylvania accent. An ex had this and it came out when he drank. That twang was almost enough to drive me away. .

I also do not like ebonics. The word axed as in I axed you a question really really bugs me.

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by spookyfish

Country boy:
"Okay, then. Can you tell me where the library is at, asshole?"

WOW. Scary.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
If mentioned to a a real long islander, or person within 100 miles of NYC, the convo would go like this:

LI: Where you taking your vacation at?

Timmy: Don't end a sentence with a preposition, end it with a noun.

LI: OK. Where you taking your vacation at, asshole?

Go ahead and mock Long Islanders, CtD, but at least do so accurately. This joke makes no sense, because Long Islanders do not generally make that particular verbal error. In fact, I never heard anybody end a sentence with "at" in that way until I went south.

Edited to add: not everybody from LI talks like Rosie O'Donnell, and Joey Buttafuoco ... unless they're pissed off.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
An ex had this and it came out when he drank. That twang was almost enough to drive me away. .

I can't even do my old accent when sober because I've tried so hard to lose it, but when I'm drunk it comes right out - I can't control it. It's like an evil beast lurking within.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by leagleaze
My accent annoys me sometimes. Normally I don't have a heavy accent but every now and again I'll say watah. I actually responded to someone a while back when he said hi with, Yo, how you doin, in a really heavy accent. He just broke up laughing as did I. I have to wonder where the hell this comes from since we moved when I was 4.

So I'll have to go with the Long Island accent.

I don't know if this is an accent, but people end sentences with at drive me crazy. I.e. Where you taking your vacation at? Where's he at? Where's that at. First why are you ending a sentence with at? Second, the at is redundant, you already said where.

As an aside, I don't think you mean ebonics ABBA, isn't ebonics a form of language? Someone who knows more on that can perhaps speak to it.

Accents I find amusing:

(1) South side of Chicago: The SNL Da Bears skit is NOT a caricature. It is not hyperbole. It is dead on.
(2) Southeastern (Charleston, Savannah): dignified and sexy. Good stuff.
(3) Louisiana: My great uncle chews ice while he speaks cajun. I can't understand a word he says. My dad has to translate. It's great.

Accents that suck:
(1) Cincinnati(sp?) area: When someone doesn't hear what you say, instead of saying "excuse me?" or "what?", they say "please?". It's annoying.
(2) Maryland: it's just weird.
(3) Long Island.

[Atticus Grinch]

Worst (Men): Philly. I mean South Philly, not Louis Winthorpe III's Philadelphia.

Worst (Women): West Virginia.

Best (Men): Midwestern. I'm not a fan of hardcore Minnesota, but the chirpy, helpful, dead-honest quality that's just too much in women generally works in men. Note that the definition includes Missouri, but excludes Missoura. Runner up: Maine.

Best (Women): Charleston, S.C., or Tidewater Virginia. I'm a connoisseur of southern accents, and there's an eerie parallel between these two, at least among the upper-crust women of each region. The languid pace, and honey-dripped tones. "Why, that'd be soo-pah." The drawn-out vowels are dripping in sex.

Edited to add: Coltrane is right; Savannah should be included in the Best (Women) category.

Originally posted by evenodds It is representative of that distinct subculture of people of any race who would appear on the Ricki Lake show.

That would also be my vote - anyone speaking "trailer."

In general, accents don't bother me so much as incorrect usage of language. Irregardless, it's just something one learns to deal with.

I have an neutral accent, but will very proficiently do a Texan drawl to fit in with clients etc. if need be and will lapse into a mild proper British accent if I'm with my family for too long.

-TL

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
This confuses me. What is a DC accent? Most people here are transplants. When you say flat, blatting, and nasal, it does make me think of Sandra Bullock, who grew up in Arlington, Va, but I have never thought of that as a DC accent.

I'm not aware of a DC accent either. It's not possible, given all the out-of-towners. There is a Maryland rural accent, particularly from the eastern shore/DelMarVa area . . . as in Bal-mur.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Is "DC accent" a euphemism for ebonics? BC almost nobody is from DC except for the black population. Or so I have been told.

No, it seems to be pretty white-specific. I associate it with mid-level bureaucrats & civil servants - the lifers, who are just staff and so aren't important enough or disposable enough to come and go every few years. They may or may not be from the immediate area, but they sure pick that shit up and it bugs the hell out of me. Maybe it is just a jumbled wash everyone else's accent acquired by listening to accents from all over all the time. Anyhow, it is much more whiney than Sandra Bullock's accent appears to be (I haven't heard her interviewed that I can remember to know if she uses her "real" accent or not).

GWNC, do you know what I mean when I say it is like the Ottawa accent? Just sort of flat and affectless?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by TexLex

In general, accents don't bother me so much as incorrect usage of language. Irregardless . . .

Funny.

Not surprisingly, I find most northeastern accents grating.

Speech habits that annoy me are insistence on using the absolutely correct term at all times, particularly if they attempt to force it on other people. For example, correcting people who call bubbly wine from California "champagne."

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Go ahead and mock Long Islanders, CtD, but at least do so accurately.

Why should post differently than I practice law?

This joke makes no sense, because Long Islanders do not generally make that particular verbal error. In fact, I never heard anybody end a sentence with "at" in that way until I went south.

Unless they raised you in a basement with no sunlight or television, like that freaky pale kid in powder, I find that hard to believe.

Edited to add: not everybody from LI talks like Rosie O'Donnell, and Joey Buttafuoco ... unless they're pissed off.

yeah but Rosie O'Donuts and Joey Buttafuoco are annoying enough for the rest of the Island.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is it stealing if he took it from one of his own movies? This is taken almost directly out of Do the Right Thing, it's just more inclusive and instead of having different people rant on a specific race, he has Norton do it for everyone. It worked, but I liked it better the first time I saw it.

I think I saw this comment in a review on Salon, but the conclusion was different. The reviewer indicated that the gimmick seemed like Lee's thinly-veiled racism in Do the Right Thing, but was a much more honest, self-loathing character portrayal in 25th Hour.

I think it worked better in 25th because of the final line in the rant where he gets down to what's really bothering him: himself.

Anyway, I loved the show. It's in my top 5 list.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I can't even do my old accent when sober because I've tried so hard to lose it, but when I'm drunk it comes right out - I can't control it. It's like an evil beast lurking within.

So, when you get drunk do you say things like
"Zed Zed Top" and "That's a nice Zed28 you got there."
and "Rush is the best fucking rock band of all time, you hoser!"*

Eh


*Not intended to personally comment either way on Rush.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I can't even do my old accent when sober because I've tried so hard to lose it, but when I'm drunk it comes right out - I can't control it. It's like an evil beast lurking within.

Mine as well. And when dealing with my own kind. I scared the crap out of a friend of mine who came to visit me a few weeks ago. We knew each other when I lived in California, and she'd never heard me in my natural habitat. I started negotiating with an antique dealer, and I could see her trying to figure out who the hell was talking with such long vowels.