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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    dankind said:
    rgambs said:
    My region of Ohio doesn't have a dominant accent, we have a few.  We have the Pennsylvania Dutch accent and we have redneck, and our average non-Amish, non-redneck either has a Cleveland accent or none at all.
    Midwesterners have less accent than most, but way more made up and alternate words.
    Do they say perteneer where you live? My grandmother/mother/uncles/great aunt and all those other dumbass family members of mine from bumfuck Ohio say this, and I want to run my head into a wall every time they do so.
    I haven't heard that one much.  I'm far enough east to be on the edge of "yinz" territory, there's a strong streak of "ope", and people like to relax and get "cumpterble".
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Judging by the context in which the hicks in my family use it, I think it means "pretty near."

    "That motorcycle perteneer crashed into that car."
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,041
    My how the Queens engish has been bastardised


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    dankind said:
    rgambs said:
    My region of Ohio doesn't have a dominant accent, we have a few.  We have the Pennsylvania Dutch accent and we have redneck, and our average non-Amish, non-redneck either has a Cleveland accent or none at all.
    Midwesterners have less accent than most, but way more made up and alternate words.
    Do they say perteneer where you live? My grandmother/mother/uncles/great aunt and all those other dumbass family members of mine from bumfuck Ohio say this, and I want to run my head into a wall every time they do so.
    I don't even know what "perteneer" is supposed to be. 
    Pretty near
    Pertty near
    Pert near

    Never heard it as one word but pert near is common here.
    We also measure distances with estimated driving time (often with the route provided for reference)
    We call the median a "curb strip"
    Too many people say "wershed", more than "warshed" around here.
    The most outrageous is that diabetic people often say they "got the sugar(s)"
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,041
    Too much sugar


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,033
    dankind said:
    Judging by the context in which the hicks in my family use it, I think it means "pretty near."

    "That motorcycle perteneer crashed into that car."
    oh my god I fucking laughed out loud at my desk. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    edited March 2018
    lastexitlondon said:
    My how the Queens engish has been bastardised
    Hahahaha I don't think anyone in the UK has a right to make that claim, nobody has bastardised your language more than yourselves lol
    Entire regions that add R's to the end of any word ending with a vowel.
    All the "shire" words lol 
    Accents so heavy that pronunciations across the board are technically incorrect.

    Classier bastardisations than we redneck though, that's for sure.
    Post edited by rgambs on
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,033
    rgambs said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    dankind said:
    rgambs said:
    My region of Ohio doesn't have a dominant accent, we have a few.  We have the Pennsylvania Dutch accent and we have redneck, and our average non-Amish, non-redneck either has a Cleveland accent or none at all.
    Midwesterners have less accent than most, but way more made up and alternate words.
    Do they say perteneer where you live? My grandmother/mother/uncles/great aunt and all those other dumbass family members of mine from bumfuck Ohio say this, and I want to run my head into a wall every time they do so.
    I don't even know what "perteneer" is supposed to be. 
    Pretty near
    Pertty near
    Pert near

    Never heard it as one word but pert near is common here.
    We also measure distances with estimated driving time (often with the route provided for reference)
    We call the median a "curb strip"
    Too many people say "wershed", more than "warshed" around here.
    The most outrageous is that diabetic people often say they "got the sugar(s)"
    and come to think of it, I've heard my mom and her family say "perteneer" sometimes as a joke (grew up in rural manitoba along with her mother who said warsh). I didn't put it together until you explained it. I'm still laughing. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,041
    rgambs said:
    lastexitlondon said:
    My how the Queens engish has been bastardised
    Hahahaha I don't think anyone in the UK has a right to make that claim, nobody has bastardised your language more than yourselves lol
    Entire regions that add R's to the end of any word ending with a vowel.
    All the "shire" words lol 
    Accents so heavy that pronunciations across the board are technically incorrect.

    Classier bastardisations than we redneck though, that's for sure.
    Shire? I live in Hertfordshire .  R on the end of a vowel?im confused which is normal!


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,041
    Although cockney rhyming slang bastardised it best
     Any of you wanna learn some?


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,033
    lastexitlondon said:
    rgambs said:
    lastexitlondon said:
    My how the Queens engish has been bastardised
    Hahahaha I don't think anyone in the UK has a right to make that claim, nobody has bastardised your language more than yourselves lol
    Entire regions that add R's to the end of any word ending with a vowel.
    All the "shire" words lol 
    Accents so heavy that pronunciations across the board are technically incorrect.

    Classier bastardisations than we redneck though, that's for sure.
    Shire? I live in Hertfordshire .  R on the end of a vowel?im confused which is normal!
    Like the name "monica" is pronounced "moniker" in the UK. 
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    edited March 2018
    Spell out phonetically how you say Hertfordshire.
    You haven't noticed the R added to the end of words???
    You guys have that weird non-rhotic R that screws everything up, but then you also have heavy use of intrusive R's in your rhotic dialects.

    Thus, in some regions of the UK "tuner" would be pronounced "tuna" and in other regions "tuna" would be pronounced "tuner".
    Post edited by rgambs on
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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    rgambs said:
    Spell out phonetically how you say Hertfordshire.
    You haven't noticed the R added to the end of words???
    You guys have that weird non-rhotic R that screws everything up, but then you also have heavy use of intrusive R's in your rhotic dialects.

    Thus, in some regions of the UK "tuner" would be pronounced "tuna" and in other regions "tuna" would be pronounced "tuner".
    Always cracks me up when I hear that Oasis Champagne Supernova song. Supa Nover in the sky.

    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    jeffbr said:
    rgambs said:
    Spell out phonetically how you say Hertfordshire.
    You haven't noticed the R added to the end of words???
    You guys have that weird non-rhotic R that screws everything up, but then you also have heavy use of intrusive R's in your rhotic dialects.

    Thus, in some regions of the UK "tuner" would be pronounced "tuna" and in other regions "tuna" would be pronounced "tuner".
    Always cracks me up when I hear that Oasis Champagne Supernova song. Supa Nover in the sky.

    A perfect example!  Both of their R issues in one phrase.
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  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Americans lack of geographical knowledge as a whole is both amusing and sad.
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    You never really had to begin with.


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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    northerndragon said:
    Americans lack of geographical knowledge as a whole is both amusing and sad.
    Amusing for you, sad for us lol 

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  • Longueuil
    Longueuil Posts: 2,224
    dankind said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Do people from Quebec look down on fellow Canadians when you talk English instead of French?
    I'm not Canadian, but I've been to Montreal and its surrounding towns enough to say that I think it depends on the person and where his/her loyalties lie. I'd say it's about half and half where I've been.

    For example, I'd walk into a store in Longueuil to purchase a two-four, and the clerk would say, "Bonsoir." I'd answer, "Hello." After which the clerk would either speak to me in English or continue speaking to me in French. If the latter, I'd take my business elsewhere, knowing that, by law, that motherfucker knows how to speak English and is just being an asshole.
    Were you not able to answer "Bonsoir"? Did you expect a big, long and deep conversation with the clerk and it broke your heart that he didn't care? You see, we expect the minimum, just that you are trying to speak the langage because we do care about it. You didn't give a shit, he dind't either. I don't know if you travel in none anglophone country but wherever you go, it's the basic to learn to say "hi", "how are you?", "thank" and "good day" in the local langage. Why would you think we are different?
  • Longueuil
    Longueuil Posts: 2,224
    jeffbr said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Do people from Quebec look down on fellow Canadians when you talk English instead of French?
    Quebecois have no room to look down at anyone for language. The French people I know say that it is like nails on a chalkboard listening to them speak French. They basically butcher both English and French. 
    French no longer speaks french anymway. They use english words with french accent and think that sooo cool. The French people you know are probably from Paris, unable to understand Breton or Marseillais. To give you an idea, when we go there, they think we are German and when they come here, they are suprise to see that we don't live in igloo. 
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    my gradmother from rural manitoba also said warsh. 
    So did my grandmother, and she was originally from North Vancouver. Granted, North Van wasn’t very cosmopolitan in the 1920s, and she moved to northern BC after she married, so maybe it was that influence. 
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  • Longueuil
    Longueuil Posts: 2,224
    edited March 2018
    mcgruff10 said:
    Questions for my Canadian friends:
    1. Molson or labatt?
    2. What is the province that no Canadian wants to visit unless you have relatives living there?
    3. What Canadian city is most like Las Vegas?
    4. Have you ever stayed in an ice hotel?

    1. Water will be fine
    2. In this time of year, Iqaluit
    3. Toronto maybe?
    4. Nope,
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