tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131651065707503982.post3373332794780484851..comments2023-06-03T11:49:07.352-04:00Comments on Because That Is What My Life Is Like Right Now: "Can't Get the Colorado Out of the Girl"Masasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00783902610798734846noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131651065707503982.post-61521533592746805672009-05-01T00:03:00.000-04:002009-05-01T00:03:00.000-04:00Oh, Sara, your post made me think of my favorite w...Oh, Sara, your post made me think of my favorite word...favorite, that is, when it is said with a Canadian accent: "Process."<br /><br />Pro-cess.<br /><br />Yummy. I love that word so much I could eat it.Masasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00783902610798734846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131651065707503982.post-54613080450403752182009-04-29T22:29:00.000-04:002009-04-29T22:29:00.000-04:00I actually heard "brown bag lunch" a lot too, but ...I actually heard "brown bag lunch" a lot too, but later I read somewhere about some racial undertones to that term and even though I am not sure that is actually true or accurate, I haven't used the term since.<br /><br />sara, the culture is really different here. There is definitely more pressure to "blend in" moving from west to east than east to west...that's for darn sure!Masasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00783902610798734846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131651065707503982.post-39186493588603760882009-04-29T21:03:00.000-04:002009-04-29T21:03:00.000-04:00You shouldn't have to assimilate! People who move...You shouldn't have to assimilate! People who move frequently keep their regional accents and terms, and I think most people think it is cute. <br /><br />And, BTW, I grew up calling it a "brown bag lunch", but people make fun of the way I say "baggie" (somehow I got a little Canadian accent on that one word). So, now I do it on purpose. "Put it in a baggie".Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07884797351411470248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131651065707503982.post-90012351069220266002009-04-28T18:59:00.000-04:002009-04-28T18:59:00.000-04:00P.S. hopalong, I do believe I don't have an accen...P.S. hopalong, I do believe I don't have an accent...I am pretty generic, and I had no trouble taking the quiz at all. However, I *pick up* accents very easily, even just by thinking of them. G was mortified the first time she brought me out to MA because I started talking with a Boston accent before we even got to the Denver airport to fly there. I have more than once been asked if I am from Minnesota. I guess I just like the way that accent sounds LOL.Masasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00783902610798734846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131651065707503982.post-73555222338517211772009-04-28T18:53:00.000-04:002009-04-28T18:53:00.000-04:00hopalong, you are right, "Carriage" is definitely ...hopalong, you are right, "Carriage" is definitely a New England thing...actually, probably a MA thing. <br /><br />boatbaby, here is my related tantrum of the day...but I don't want to change how I talk!!! Can't people just figure out that by sack I meant bag?! ;-)<br /><br />LOLMasasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00783902610798734846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131651065707503982.post-11130196203705980892009-04-28T18:44:00.000-04:002009-04-28T18:44:00.000-04:00I was born and raised in Chicago and my 2 brothers...I was born and raised in Chicago and my 2 brothers who never left there tell me all the time, "You talk like an east coaster now."<br /><br />whatever.<br /><br />;)boatbabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11497671329115915673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131651065707503982.post-50972501114266274232009-04-28T17:15:00.000-04:002009-04-28T17:15:00.000-04:00Those online quizzes about your accent are so hard...Those online quizzes about your accent are so hard to take accurately because it's so hard to self-evaluate -- I always find myself saying, "Wait, how <I>do</I> I say that word?" I think on a recent one it said I had a midwestern accent? Didn't seem so accurate for me...<br /><br />I've only rarely heard "carriage" for grocery cart -- maybe it's more a New England thing than an east-coast thing?chickadeescouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03838414915351079179noreply@blogger.com