How come some NY natives don't have new York accents
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FunkDoc1112
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Brooklyn has the rougher, more gravelly "sterotypical" black New York accent. You walk down Fultan or Nostrand you'll hear like 20 variations of it. My brother and everyone from my mom's side of the family talk this way.
But Brooklyn also has the more West Indian-influenced dialect too (IE my father's side of the family from Guyana)
Harlem/Bronx have the more latino-influenced accent ie Cam'Ron. They talk faster and snappier up there.
And then Queens as already mentioned is a little more refined and "softer". Has more of a drawl.
But Brooklyn also has the more West Indian-influenced dialect too (IE my father's side of the family from Guyana)
Harlem/Bronx have the more latino-influenced accent ie Cam'Ron. They talk faster and snappier up there.
And then Queens as already mentioned is a little more refined and "softer". Has more of a drawl.
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It depend on where you're from. Look at Fran Drescher. She has a thick accent. Not many New Yorkers sound like that. Only small pockets of people in certain areas. It's like Texas. Not everyone sounds like Stone Cold Steve Austin. Especially nowadays. A lot of younger Texans don't even have much of an accent
Cave Savage
Feminist
They think everybody tawks like youse guys like an Italian or Irish mobster.Even when that accent was prominent, Black people from NY didn't sound like that.
Even most white people didn't sound like that (and nobody below Gen X age sounds like that today). Hollywood distorted people's perception of how the average New Yorker sounds.
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Rell Lauren
Banned
They think everybody tawks like youse guys like an Italian or Irish mobster.
I disagree. I have a traditional, stereotypical accent with the cawfee, watah, brotha type pronunciation.
Never you. You’re good. I only maintain a dossier and Intel on the violaters, Canadians, UKaks and white people.
Where are you from? In all my years, I've never heard a black person from NY that sounds like Curtis Sliwa.
Wear My Dawg's Hat
Superstar
Eddie does so many characters and voices that his natural accent isn't as apparent as it used to be.
Plus, he hasn't lived in New York for decades.
But Eddie and Charlie Murphy had very distinct New York accents.
Rell Lauren
Banned
Spent my entire life in Brooklyn. I never thought anything of it until I went away to college and people would notice how I said certain words.
Wear My Dawg's Hat
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Prominent NYC area accents (to the trained NYC ear)
Congressman Charles Rangel
Stephen A. Smith
LL Cool J
Eddie Murphy
Kenny Smith
Mark Jackson
Nicki Minaj
Cardi B
Remy Ma
Chris Rock
Metta World Peace/Ron Artest
DMX (RIP)
Jay Z
Sammy Davis Jr.
Diana Sands
Spike Lee
Jadakiss
Chuck D
Congressman Charles Rangel
Stephen A. Smith
LL Cool J
Eddie Murphy
Kenny Smith
Mark Jackson
Nicki Minaj
Cardi B
Remy Ma
Chris Rock
Metta World Peace/Ron Artest
DMX (RIP)
Jay Z
Sammy Davis Jr.
Diana Sands
Spike Lee
Jadakiss
Chuck D
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