to truly sound like the Bard?

[acroyear]

move to North Carolina, it seems.

Comments

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. :grin: I love language, and the story of how it developed and is developing.

That Carolina accent is a lovely one. Not the twang, the soft genteel one.

[sunnidae]

Did you listen to the audio clip? That doesn't sound like NC to me ...

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

oops, no I didn't. There's an audio clip?

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

Ok, I listened...and while it made sense to me (I could understand it), I agree that it isn't your stereotypical NC accent. Hm. I haven't been in all parts of NC--wonder if it's closer to something that I haven't heard? Or if it's just that the NCians can interpret it better, even if it isn't a real NC accent?

[sunnidae]

Maybe. I remember reading a while back that the closest you could get to that accent was Appalachia ... do you remember that?

[kiltboy]

With family in the hills o' Carolina, I can hear the Southern in it, but with English word pacing. To be actual southern you'd have to slow it down a good bit more, and accent it differently, but the basic pronunciations are similar enough to the "real southern", but at an English pace.

Odd. But fully understandable to me.

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

Yup! I remember that study.