awomse. Wrote that post before I viewed my sign. Can't wait to go. Hope to see everybody their. I"ll be the New Yorker witht he Iowa talk :-)

 

LOL...well I'll be the super tall girl from Texas with no accent. :-P

 

Woooooooo I love Texas

 

wooot!!

proud texans!

 

ill be the one w/ a slight ny accent....til i get drunk, then a gets a little thicker
yanamean?

 

so your accent is redneck? lol?

lol, i guess that would be more like knowaddumean

 

there u go. although i did punch myself once, cuz something came out the wrong way while i was at home (nyc). that never happend again. ew, indiana.
thanks for the bad memories, jerk!
:D

 

When I was in the service, one of my guys was from Queens, NY, and another from the middle of a swamp in Louisiana. They got along just fine, but I couldn't put 'em on a detail together unless there was someone else on it to translate - they just could NOT understand each other. Really!

Regional dialects are interesting. :D

Tomas

 

I'm from AZ...we don't really have any kind of accent down there, and I haven't picked up a texas one yet.

 

All places have a dialect, be it words, use of language, sounds, pronuncation, etc . . . you just have to look closer and you wil see the difference . . . i.e. ohio doesn't sound any different, but my buddy from ohio calls his vaccuum a sweeper . . . . claims that's what all ohioans (is that the word??) call it . .

 

MO has it little touches too, Scott - at least parts of it.

For example, "Dabodiyus goin' t' Miami, Scott?" (Adapted from another of my guys in the service.) :D

Probably the most neutral language use in the United States is Nebraska. People from there seem to be accent free to more folks than those from any other area. (Johnny Carson is often used as an example of the perfect Nebraska "accent." Very neutral.)

I tend to be fascinated by such things since studying them back in the '60s, when I was a radio announcer. (Personally, I still have disagreements with the "NBC Handbook of Pronunciation" we were required to use.)

Tomas

 

being a former air force brat, I grew up everywhere, but had a southern drawl when I moved to the pnw and it still comes back from time to time, after 34 yrs, lol.

 

^^ yup... heard that (at least before shipping jobs off to other countries) Nebraska had more telemarketing jobs than any other state because of their lack of a noticable accent....

 

i want to slap people from boston when they talk, is that bad?

 

whats the thing we get when we know they've recieved our fax?

 

well they usually dont let you know unless you do what some did... ask them to fax you back a confirmation that they received your fax.

 

someone mentioned we got something next to our names on the winners page when they recieved it

 

lol oooo yea.. you get the little (R) thingy

 

Yes, but the ® doesn't happen until the BMG folks manually send an updated list to Darren and he manually puts it in the post. There is no immediate or automatic notification.

Tomas

 

I think Darren cleaned up the list, and the '(R) thingy' is now a thingy of the past......they're all gone.