MTR Admiralty Posted May 8, 2010 Share #1 Posted May 8, 2010 Just a question: anyone here know how to speak with a REAL New York accent? Like I just want to get a description of how certain words are pronounced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted May 8, 2010 Share #2 Posted May 8, 2010 I still have a slight one, MTR Admiralty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
error46146 Posted May 8, 2010 Share #3 Posted May 8, 2010 ive been told i speak with a weird accent, i dont think its completely what would be called the "NY accent" though lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bveguy Posted May 8, 2010 Share #4 Posted May 8, 2010 The word idea is said like idear... And the word saw is said like sawr... The rest is hard to explain. I still remember the good ol' days in 8th grade when I had plenty of teachers with a New York accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTR Admiralty Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted May 8, 2010 I still have a slight one, MTR Admiralty. Can I get a description of the sounds and a comparison of them to General American? I hear some of my teachers speaking with one. For example, the h sound in human is lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted May 8, 2010 Share #6 Posted May 8, 2010 It's like this: New Yawk City. Hot dawg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTR Admiralty Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share #7 Posted May 8, 2010 Coffee is kwawfee, right? Or something similar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted May 8, 2010 Share #8 Posted May 8, 2010 Yeah, MTR Admirawlty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransitStop Posted May 8, 2010 Share #9 Posted May 8, 2010 lol guys and girls im not going to lie if someone from NY comes to canada or vice-versa i and my friends notice a slight accent from people from NYC lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTR Admiralty Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share #10 Posted May 8, 2010 lol guys and girls im not going to lie if someone from NY comes to canada or vice-versa i and my friends notice a slight accent from people from NYC lol Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted May 8, 2010 Share #11 Posted May 8, 2010 I'll try. In certain words, er is replaced by oi. I have a bad habit of spelling "certainly" as it sounds (soitenly). In this example, "certain" would be spelled soiten. Another bad habit I have is pronouncing "Houston" (both street and city) as House-tun knowing that the Manhattan Street was named for Mr. William Houstoun and that the second u was dropped. Certain words are pronounced as "contractions": i.e. Greenwich (Street or Village sounds like Gren-itch (or Gwen-itch); Gloucester sounds like Glou-ster). Other examples: * Long Island (pronounced) Lawnguylon * New York (pronounced) Noo Yawk * Southern (pronounced something like) Sudawan * Square (pronounced) Squair * Dark (pronounced) Dawk * Park (pronounced) Pock * Mark (pronounced) Mock * Coffee (pronounced something like) cough-ee In another case, d takes the place of th so that this sounds like dis; these sounds like dese; those sounds like dose; that sounds like dat and them sounds like dem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2Julio Posted May 8, 2010 Share #12 Posted May 8, 2010 Coffee is kwawfee, right? Or something similar?That's a Bostonian accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTR Admiralty Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share #13 Posted May 8, 2010 That's a Bostonian accent. Actually I kinda meant kaw-ahfee. Typed it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeystoneRegional Posted May 8, 2010 Share #14 Posted May 8, 2010 Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNIGHTRIDER3:16 Posted May 8, 2010 Share #15 Posted May 8, 2010 Yeh it's me Joey numbers:p and I protect the numbers Burger bob's :Give me your f n order tough guy That's how I talk NY milky lickers:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted May 8, 2010 Share #16 Posted May 8, 2010 Canarsie is pronounced something like Ca-naa-see; Harlem is pronounced something like Haa-lem And we have our shorthand: * Lex for Lexington * Tribeca for TRIangle BElow CAnal (Street) * Metro for Metroplitan * DUMBO for Down Under (the) Manhattan Bridge Overpass * Ya for You (as in "Jeezus, can't ya come home to me soba, Barney?") * Box for Intersection (as in "Don't block the box!") * On Line for waiting ( as in *I hadda stand on line at Macy's) "Watcha closin' dawrs!" "Fuhgeddabouit!" The Wizard Of Oz (1939) is a great movie - listen carefully to the Cowardly Lion as he pronounces words with the New York accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTR Admiralty Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share #17 Posted May 8, 2010 Canarsie is pronounced something like Ca-naa-see;Harlem is pronounced something like Haa-lem And we have our shorthand: * Lex for Lexington * Tribeca for TRIangle BElow CAnal (Street) * Metro for Metroplitan * DUMBO for Down Under (the) Manhattan Bridge Overpass * Ya for You (as in "Jeezus, can't ya come home to me soba, Barney?") * Box for Intersection (as in "Don't block the box!") * On Line for waiting ( as in *I hadda stand on line at Macy's) "Watcha closin' dawrs!" "Fuhgeddabouit!" The Wizard Of Oz (1939) is a great movie - listen carefully to the Cowardly Lion as he pronounces words with the New York accent. The Cowardly Lion was a mockery of Wall Street, according to my AP American History teacher. So the New York accent is indeed appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeystoneRegional Posted May 8, 2010 Share #18 Posted May 8, 2010 Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTR Admiralty Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share #19 Posted May 8, 2010 This is more like a lazy accent typical for young 'gangsta' teenagers, ... I don't feel it is really a New York accent, ... What are you talking about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeystoneRegional Posted May 8, 2010 Share #20 Posted May 8, 2010 Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Local Posted May 8, 2010 Share #21 Posted May 8, 2010 This is the way New Yawkaz Tawk. Going to school in Arizona for over 3 years now, I stand out like a saw thumb 'ova hea'. Kawfee, Butta.. I can go on forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted May 8, 2010 Share #22 Posted May 8, 2010 What are you talking about What else is new..? :sigh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PATCOman Posted May 8, 2010 Share #23 Posted May 8, 2010 Even though I was born and raised in New York, a lot of people tell me I don't have a New York accent. Maybe it is because my parents were born and raised in Pittsburgh and they moved to New York a couple years before I was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous85 Posted May 8, 2010 Share #24 Posted May 8, 2010 I have the more "urban" NYC accent that's laced with slang (blame South Jamaica), I also have some Southern mixed in according to a lot of people I talk to. Lol @ Brighton Local, you hit it right on the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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