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Can you understsnd a Yooper?

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by Backwoods Savage, Jul 22, 2020.

  1. Backwoods Savage

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    What in the AF is a Hoi Toider accent !!!!!!???????????
     
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    I had to look it up. Screenshot_20200722-211249(1).png
     
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    "High Tider"..... North Carolina, Outer Banks dialect. Basically southerners that speak English like their ancestors that came from England, Ireland and Wales did.
     
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    The list is a bit vague. Midwesterners are usually sought out for tv and radio because of a lack of accent. Now, there's some areas that have super thick accents. It's all over the place really. Pockets depending on the nationalities that ended up settling in that region.
     
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    Lower Midwesterners ie Chicago. Watch Charlie Berens or Manitowoc Minute and you'll quickly realize thats not an accent you heard anywhere else. the link but he I can't get the link to copy has a video of a midwest to English trannslator. Nails the Wisagan accent.
     
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    Nope. That guy talks like a Fargo-an. It's a fake accent, and he's not from Manitowoc. That guy and his fake accent is an abomination and is a disservice to the people in my state.

    Sorry, but that guy and his dumb fake accent just grinds my gears.

    As I said before, there's some people that have thick accents, no matter where they are from, due to pockets of nationalities as well as some of those people working on themselves to talk differently.
     
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    I've worked with several Yoopers and only 1 spoke like that. She was from outside Escanaba. The rest of the Yoopers didn't really have a discernible accent and they were from all over the UP from the Soo to Esky to Houghton
     
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    Exactly my point.
     
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    It does depend a lot of where the yooper lives as to the accent. But we still like to say Ya to da UP, eh!
     
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