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[CybrFire]

Originally posted by Alphawolf
Yeah...faggetabowtit. You's got a dolla ta spare?

BTW, when I lived abroad and worked with Candians (bastards), they had great fun knockin' on my accent.

We put an 'awe' where flat 'ah''s should go.

I was given a verbal quiz as follows:

1) What is the sound a crow makes?

K-AWE K-AWE

2) What is the thing you use to cut wood?

S-AWE

3) What do you put on pasta to make a nice flavor?

Sa-AWE-U-ce

...can't recall the others.

Watch Seinfeld for proper understanding.

You just can't win. Even after a year+ somewhere else the native folks will still pick up on your accent, but when ya come home people then proceed to make fun of the accent you picked up. I was told I sounded 'funny' and like a Candian.

When I say "coffee" properly...it was hysterical to people. Of course, the proper NY way is Cawwwwwwwfee.

Oh- one of the words I just cannot say corrctly enough to make a friend of mine from Croatia understand is "draw". I just couldn't make that word flat enough even after my candian influences.

I had to specify- "That thing you pull out over there..." then get up and show him.

What really bugged the hell out of me (sometimes) was moving here to the south, with my half assed accent from beaing around too many Italians back home, was people here looked at me and couldn't understand me at times. And why is it that some or alot more people here in the south seem to think everyone from NY state is ALWAYS from NY city? Ahh well...one of those perpetual annoyances I guess huh?

Then again that southern "drawl" got the best of me too at the start of all this!