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OT: 112th Obsequious Banter Thread: Nearing the Halfway Point of the Year

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mja said:
These are my people. I grew up down at Cottman and Frankford and I still take (took?) that ramp down to visit family.

This dude's accent is particularly strong, though he reminds me of a bunch of dudes I grew up with. Mine is extremely faint and my father's is even fainter, but he grew up next to NE Philly, not in it. Oddly, my mother, brother, and especially my sister all have more pronounced accents.
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Grew up in SE PA and N. Delaware, but I never had a particularly strong "Hoagiemouth" (great word, by the way) accent. Lost it entirely in the early 1980s. I wanted to be a news anchor, like Walter Cronkite. He had just retired and was being interviewed by someone who asked if he had any advice for someone looking to get into the biz. Uncle Walter responded in his prototypical stilted cadence: 'The first thing you have to do is lose your accent. You have to sound like you could come from anywhere in the country." I deliberately altered my enunciation (dropping "wooder," for example) until I lost the accent entirely. Now, I find it almost impossible to mimic the accents of my own back yard.
 
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BernieParent said:
I don't believe that this is truly Pat Sajak saying this. The only way I will accept such a statement is by avowal.
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mja said:
These are my people. I grew up down at Cottman and Frankford and I still take (took?) that ramp down to visit family.

This dude's accent is particularly strong, though he reminds me of a bunch of dudes I grew up with. Mine is extremely faint and my father's is even fainter, but he grew up next to NE Philly, not in it. Oddly, my mother, brother, and especially my sister all have more pronounced accents.
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I grew up in Mayfair near Frankford and Harbison but my accent is NOWHERE NEAR as strong as this guys. He sounds more Delco than NE Philly. For some reason the Hoagiemouth is particularly strong in that region.
 
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