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Do you have an accent?

GeorgiaGuyinAtlanta

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The Southern accent is fading out of existence, unfortunately. Even native southerners are speaking with less and less of a twang each generation. Television and mass movement has a lot to do with it. The same thing is occurring to the New England accent and the Midwestern accent where old codgers have more of an accent than younger generations.
 
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And there is a difference.

I'm always amused to watch movies that take place in the South where everybody has a different accent.

"Steel Magnolias" was a perfect example of this.
 
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Yes. I have an accent and mine also gets heavier around some people more so than others.
Lol, at least I know it's not just me, when I have to work in Tennessee for any amount of time I come home right back on square 1.
 
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I can sound like Jerry Clower in an instant-- though I perfer Lewis Grizzard. I love the Southern Jargon and nothing is sexier than a man with a southern draw--
 
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