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Several in the 1883 thread and maybe someone in this thread "complained" often about Elsa and her fake southern accent narrating. I just thought it was funny she's back.

"I’m trying to figure out if there’s another season if we’re going to have to endure her terrible monologue accent from the grave?"

"I was glad she died, made for a happy ending."

"I think her over the top accent attempt slowly made me more and more furious"

"I like the show but the girls fake over exaggerated southern accent, like a dramatic Forrest Gump performing a Shakespearean soliloquy, is at times unbearable."
 
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Behr said:
Several in the 1883 thread and maybe someone in this thread "complained" often about Elsa and her fake southern accent narrating. I just thought it was funny she's back.

"I’m trying to figure out if there’s another season if we’re going to have to endure her terrible monologue accent from the grave?"

"I was glad she died, made for a happy ending."

"I think her over the top accent attempt slowly made me more and more furious"

"I like the show but the girls fake over exaggerated southern accent, like a dramatic Forrest Gump performing a Shakespearean soliloquy, is at times unbearable."
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Accent seemed fine to me. At least in this trailer...and it was hardly extreme or over the top. I guess i'd have to see/hear what they are talking about.
 
#2,778
#2,778
I think most people are confused with modern southern accents and historical southern accents. The SC accent which is what this reminds me of used to be used much more broadly....in Virgina etc. Truth of it is is also closer to the English accent of Shakespear era, accents change in regions. SC> IS a time capsule for southern and older English accent. People sound completely different today then they did then.
 
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Behr said:
Several in the 1883 thread and maybe someone in this thread "complained" often about Elsa and her fake southern accent narrating. I just thought it was funny she's back.

"I’m trying to figure out if there’s another season if we’re going to have to endure her terrible monologue accent from the grave?"

"I was glad she died, made for a happy ending."

"I think her over the top accent attempt slowly made me more and more furious"

"I like the show but the girls fake over exaggerated southern accent, like a dramatic Forrest Gump performing a Shakespearean soliloquy, is at times unbearable."
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I thought it was hot!
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
I think most people are confused with modern southern accents and historical southern accents. The SC accent which is what this reminds me of used to be used much more broadly....in Virgina etc. Truth of it is is also closer to the English accent of Shakespear era, accents change in regions. SC> IS a time capsule for southern and older English accent. People sound completely different today then they did then.
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Shoulda heard my grandmother from S. GA. Oh lawd. Water was wawtuh.
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
I think most people are confused with modern southern accents and historical southern accents. The SC accent which is what this reminds me of used to be used much more broadly....in Virgina etc. Truth of it is is also close to the English accent of Shakespear era, accents change in regions. SC> IS a time capsule for southern and older english accent.
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Lots of French descended people in the low country. Huguenots in Charleston and Lutherans in Savannah. I always figured their accent was a patois.
 
#2,787
#2,787
My grandmother was born and raised in Tupelo MS. Her accent was like molasses on a cold January morning. She never swore, including never saying "I swear": when quivering with fury, it was "Well, I swan", pronounced something like "Weh-yuhl, Ah swon."
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
Spy detected.... We got us a Bama-Jawjaw man......
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My aural sensibilities are more attuned to rhythm than pronunciation. My dad’s family lit out of Panola Co. MS after the war and landed in west Texas. Slow-talking cowboy drawl (whatever linguists call that) was most influential on my own learned speech pattern. Deep south warble has similar rhythm and just sounds ‘right’ to me, even if pronunciations are divergent. Nasally East TN sound alot like Yankees to me due to their fast, sometime staccato, speech.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
If I tried to speak with a southern accent, it would probably trigger a bunch of those complaining about 1883.
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I still laugh about the black guy in the gas station in south Florida when the Hispanic lady couldn't understand me. "I understand him, I got you man, I understand mountain talk "🤣
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
My aural sensibilities are more attuned to rhythm than pronunciation. My dad’s family lit out of Panola Co. MS after the war and landed in west Texas. Slow-talking cowboy drawl (whatever linguists call that) was most influential on my own learned speech pattern. Deep south warble has similar rhythm and just sounds ‘right’ to me, even if pronunciations are divergent. Nasally East TN sound alot like Yankees to me due to their fast, sometime staccato, speech.
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I agree with most of this but E TN accent doesn't sound Yankee at all. You may be talking about some of the affected speech patterns of the city dwellers but go to the real E TN and make that statement and you might not be seen again.
 
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So I was thinking on this. And trying to make a list of quintessential East TN accent celebs. It was harder then I thought. I think Archie Campbell maybe wins the most recognizable accent of the men I used to hear at the local barbershop talking SEC football...


David Keith sounds like a lot of guys I grew up with and a little more deeper version of the accent,


And Samuel Jackson for African American East Tennessee, and also a lot like the guys I went to school with. (my school was in the same building as his though the name was changed)
I used to always tell people I had his locker, and when they'd say how did you know it was his locker. I'd say cause it said..."B.M.F." in it.


Dolly has that near stereotype women's Tennessee accent but it's almost a product. But it's absolute sevierville.


It's hard to find any younger women with classic East TN accent you hear a little in a young Reese Witherspoon, but Christina Hendricks and Megan Fox completely lost their accents.

Old interview with Dottie West is also good.


Maybe the best overall for East TN women's accent is Pat Summit. She sounded like every mom in my neighborhood that put the fear of god into you and you never forgot to say "yes mam" and "no mam" to.


I would never dared to put a dirty footprint in Pat's home.
 
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Just finished re-watching Yellowstone S4E9 and 10. Just started S5E1.

Tge Rookie Feds probably ain't gonna get a second chance. The chick it's revolved around is like a unfunny Melissa McCarthy. Annoying af.
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
So I was thinking on this. And trying to make a list of quintessential East TN accent celebs. It was harder then I thought. I think Archie Campbell maybe wins the most recognizable accent of the men I used to hear at the local barbershop talking SEC football...


David Keith sounds like a lot of guys I grew up with and a little more deeper version of the accent,


And Samuel Jackson for African American East Tennessee, and also a lot like the guys I went to school with. (my school was in the same building as his though the name was changed)
I used to always tell people I had his locker, and when they'd say how did you know it was his locker. I'd say cause it said..."B.M.F." in it.


Dolly has that near stereotype women's Tennessee accent but it's almost a product. But it's absolute sevierville.


It's hard to find any younger women with classic East TN accent you hear a little in a young Reese Witherspoon, but Christina Hendricks and Megan Fox completely lost their accents.

Old interview with Dottie West is also good.


Maybe the best overall for East TN women's accent is Pat Summit. She sounded like every mom in my neighborhood that put the fear of god into you and you never forgot to say "yes mam" and "no mam" to.


I would never dared to put a dirty footprint in Pat's home.
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Ya left out Dinah Shore, Park Overall, Diana Dickey, and Johnny Knoxville.
 
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#2,798
Before I moved to East Tennessee, the phrase "I don't care to" had always meant "You can stick bamboo slivers under my nails and poke out my eyes, but there's no way I'm gonna do THAT." I was confused for a couple of years before I finally figured out what it meant in ET.

Later, when I was training new Girl Scout leaders, and especially those from other parts of the country, I made sure to tell them that if they told troop parents that they needed a cookie sales chair, and someone said "I don't care to," grab them - you now have someone to handle the cookies.
 
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