My accent - Midwest

I did that meme about accents...and it's correct, BUT way too simplistic.  I don't really believe that you can know your own accent by answering a few questions.  My mother is from northern West Virginia, but has a much more midwest accent than her brothers and sisters did---they all sounded like hillbillies.  She does says "tagger" when asked to pronounce "tiger," but she can't hear a bit of difference when I say the word and when she says it.  Other than that, she sounds perfectly Midwest non-urban..

My brothers both have more pronounced, but not authentic north Louisiana accents, since they grew up there from ages 8 and 3 and still live there (god help em).  I was already 10 when we moved there, so my accent from my WV mother and MD father stuck.  I still get, "but you don't sound Southern"...well ah ain't!  Ah've lee-uved innuh Southwest for 31 yeahs an' ah ain't fixin' to move bah-yuck eny tahm soon!

I love the study of regional dialects and linguistics and the changes from generation to generation that happen and all the nuances involved.  In a bigger sense, the 100s of languages that developed in Native Americans is a good case in point for what time does to language, since they mostly came from the Bering Strait migration originally and scattered to the winds over the whole continent.

At least we Euro-Americans can USUALLY understand each other's words here, if not always the intent or meaning.

My accent - Midwest

I did that meme about accents...and it's correct, BUT way too simplistic.  I don't really believe that you can know your own accent by answering a few questions.  My mother is from northern West Virginia, but has a much more midwest accent than her brothers and sisters did---they all sounded like hillbillies.  She does says "tagger" when asked to pronounce "tiger," but she can't hear a bit of difference when I say the word and when she says it.  Other than that, she sounds perfectly Midwest non-urban..

My brothers both have more pronounced, but not authentic north Louisiana accents, since they grew up there from ages 8 and 3 and still live there (god help em).  I was already 10 when we moved there, so my accent from my WV mother and MD father stuck.  I still get, "but you don't sound Southern"...well ah ain't!  Ah've lee-uved innuh Southwest for 31 yeahs an' ah ain't fixin' to move bah-yuck eny tahm soon!

I love the study of regional dialects and linguistics and the changes from generation to generation that happen and all the nuances involved.  In a bigger sense, the 100s of languages that developed in Native Americans is a good case in point for what time does to language, since they mostly came from the Bering Strait migration originally and scattered to the winds over the whole continent.

At least we Euro-Americans can USUALLY understand each other's words here, if not always the intent or meaning.