What is wrong with having a Southern accent?

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Mah uncle has been tryin' to quet alcohol, but ah think he's been BS-in' me and mah family!

My son has the Boomhauer down pat,when he works out of this area people have a hard time understanding him. He got aggravated in Detroit because people kept asking him if he was from Texas.

My uncle gets ticked off very easily whenever people ask him if he's from Texas. He actually lives in the Kansas City area.

When I joined the military I initially thought they had sent me to the wrong Air Force, a Confederate one by mistake. Nearly all my flight and the instructors spoke all these southern accents like I had only heard on TV and in the movies.

But I always liked it and the different sounds and was eventually stationed or spent time in many parts of the south. The only real problem I had was when the accent was so thick I had difficulty understanding it, and sometimes just nodded and pretended to understand. But I imagine the rapid northern city accents were as unintelligible to them.

I think I know what some mean, as sometimes a southern accent can be delivered with a certain style and finesse that doesn't really have a northern equivalent. It is especially interesting to listen to then.

I've noticed some of the tv shows now have captions when someone from the South is speaking.A couple times when I've made telephone calls to order something out of state people had trouble understanding me.Mostly I think becuse we run some of our words together,barb wire is bobware,coal oil sound more like coloal,not sure if I can even print that the way it sounds.Plus we have our own words,like tump.Used like"I tumped the beer over."

I hate to say this but accents have particular connotations about them which sucks. There is something about those twangy tight "type" southern accents that just sound a little dumb and racist (?) that makes it difficult to appreciate the persons intelligence.

But of course this isn't true.. John Nash spoke with a southern accent and he was brilliant. Andrew Wakefield (vaccines cause autism guy) speaks british Received Pronunciation and is an absolute idiot.

Absolutely nothing is wrong with a Southern Accent.

Of course, I'm biased, since my dad is from Texas and never lost his accent and almost everyone else on his side of the family is from the there.

I love Southern accents. There's just something so friendly and down-to-Earth about them. I remember visiting Georgia several years back, and the people were just so kind and welcoming, I'd argue they were more hospitable than Canadians.

Anyway, here's Applejack. Even though her voice actor is from BC, she nails a Southern accent pretty well.

There's nothing wrong with having one, people have all kinds of accents and dialects, It would be boring if we all sounded the same. Although I sometimes have difficulty understanding accents or they're too bouncy, nasally, throaty, choppy... ugh, that made me sound worse than Archie Bunker.

There is nothing at all wrong with having a Southern accent. People who assume we are stupid because of them are ignorant bigots and I inform them of that directly. I got a lot of flack for my accent when we lived in DC, and I told quite a few people off for assuming things. I hate it when people make assumptions about someone based on how they speak. I don't assume everyone with a Boston accent is a stuck up as*hole or that everyone who has a Chicago accent is a douchebag who insults everyone or that everybody with a California accent is a New Age airhead or that everyone with a Canadian accent is a spineless socialist. Those are simply stereotypes of people from those places and while it can be true that there are some people from there who are like that, there are many people from different places who are like that too. Most of the people I've met from those places are nothing like the stereotypes, and I don't stereotype people based on where they are from. I judge them based on their actions and what they say, not how they pronounce it. How you are doesn't depend on where you are from. I know plenty of uneducated racists but I know plenty from other places who are uneducated racists as well. We don't have a monopoly on it down South.

What I hate about Southern accents is the fake ones on TV and in the movies. I feel that if an actor or actress can't go to the trouble to do a little research and find out that there are different kinds of Southern accents then I don't feel like taking the time to watch them work.

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I like accents, except for the obviously fake, exaggerated ones on television and in movies.

I f*****g love southern metal. No problem with southern accents here.





And of course that time Pantera played infront of 1.6+ million people and Russian military.