just now i thought

[goatschool]

MOTW people and associates don't seem to have the AH vocal affect. or act like they are from Boston, really.

why?

 

[xfer]

I don't think any of us are really from Boston.

I bet a lot of us do the only thing I have noticed that Connecticut claims as an accent..."mou-ehn" instead of "mountain", "cli-ehn" instead of "Clinton", etc. I can't say a T in the middle of a word like that.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

I'm from Baltimore pal.

 

[goatschool]

that's interesting, i was never aware of a T deficiency -- and ESPECIALLY weird considering that there are two featured in the name of your state.

HUH.

also, i would assume the Bostonisms would just eclipse regularspeak after living there for more than a few years...

 

[goatschool]

Bahstahn Takes The Oriole Out Of The Bird, Dude.

 

[Baliset]

i mean of the motw people you met nick, toby and i are from CT which has no real accent except for the little things which alex is pointing out.

however, by going to school in RI and living in boston for two years i have developed the "AH" accent slightly and when i am around people from CT you don't notice it but get me around my RI friends or get me on the phone at work and i slip into it without really thinking about it.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

I say wicked without irony

 

[goatschool]

ihowever, by going to school in RI and living in boston for two years i have developed the "AH" accent slightly

AHA - i knew it.

 

[xfer]

I think immigrants to Boston are generally really resistant to developing the accent. I mean, if I moved to England I would totally let the accept influence my speech, but the Baahhhston accent is kind of...lame.

 

[goatschool]

see, there's the no linebreak think again.

 

[xfer]

oh yeah, I say 'wicked', too...I don't see anything strange about it. My new-yorker gf has called me on it like six times, and I'm always like "Uh...so?"

 

[goatschool]

so i'm assembling a picture of a group of outcasts banding together in a strange new city and making stuff better than the natives ever dreamed of doing.

that is television-worthy, guys

 

[goatschool]

oh, and you too xfer.

 

[xfer]

 

[Baliset]

AHA - i knew it.

and you know what, none of you fucks will ever hear it because once i realize it is there i can turn it off instantly.

i am deeply shamed by it as you can tell

 

[xfer]

Toby, please write some lyrics on the new album for Greg to sing..."Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd thereon".

 

[FuSoYa]

Mia and her brothers lived in Boston all their lives, and they speak the clearest and least adulterated English I have ever heard. Their parents have deep Japanese accents and I can only assume that their perfect speech was a deliberate measure out of extreme hatred for the Boston accent.

I mean, they talk the way the nerdy little blond, bespectacled kid on "Step By Step" used to talk.

 

[Static]

You guys should get yerselves New York accents...

They farkin rool.