Question: Are regional accents dying out?

[BlackCat]

You know that way of speaking where every sentence sounds like a question? I notice lots of the local youngsters adopting that accent. Maybe it's just my neighborhood or maybe they're not native Brooklynites. Anyway I hear the same thing on Youtube. It seems more like an age specific thing instead of a regional thing.
Has anyone noticed this in their area?

 

[Tiltsta]

I was back in New Hampshaaa over the summahh and I can fricken assure ya that the regional accent is still as strong as the winds on Tuckermaans fricken raaavine. Evvaannn the kids still got it, wicked bad, like strong as evvaahh.

 

[yabba]

"uptalk" is a trend that's been around for a couple decades now. linguistic trends/fads happen, and I'm sure ye olde interwebs help them to spread farther/faster, but I don't think they'll ever get rid of regional accents.

 

[GilmourD]

You know that way of speaking where every sentence sounds like a question? I notice lots of the local youngsters adopting that accent. Maybe it's just my neighborhood or maybe they're not native Brooklynites. Anyway I hear the same thing on Youtube. It seems more like an age specific thing instead of a regional thing.
Has anyone noticed this in their area?

I read something somewhere about how it's something that started in the LA region and my believe is that it's so popular because of the amount of kids that are trying to emulate the Kartrashians.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

I talk to people all over the country, every day. No.

 

[reverend1]

I talk to people all over the country, every day. No.

Same

 

[BlackCat]

I'm happy to hear it's not as prevalent as I thought because that uptalk stuff is really annoying.

 

[frunobulax]

Not mine.

 

[DFB]

I moved out of The Bronx in '81.
I still have to change my accent to talk to others.
The accent isn't gonna go away.


The uptalk,and vocal fry thing are just morans ,trying to be trendy.

 

[GilmourD]

I moved out of The Bronx in '81.
I still have to change my accent to talk to others.
The accent isn't gonna go away.


The uptalk,and vocal fry thing are just morans ,trying to be trendy.

You should hear me when I get angry. I sound like a Jersey mobster about to put a .22 to the back of your skull. LOL

 

[rickenvox]

I read something somewhere about how it's something that started in the LA region and my believe is that it's so popular because of the amount of kids that are trying to emulate the Kartrashians.

goes back before Zappa's Valley Girl

 

[rickenvox]

I'm happy to hear it's not as prevalent as I thought because that uptalk stuff is really annoying.

It's creaky voice now. And while it used be mostly women, I hear men and women speaking in creaky voice. And then suddenly one day at work I noticed I myself was talking in creaky voice. Hopefully I just needed a glass of water. It's contagious.

 

[Honkridge]

Not in fucking Tennessee

 

[Jbird]

Let me axe you a question...

 

[rickenvox]

Let me axe you a question...

tell me where you were raised and I'll tell you all of the words you pronounce incorrectly

 

[tiger roach]

Aye, laddie, that they are.

 

[miguel]

Let me axe you a question...

All of the grandkids, save one, axe. They think I am the one who can't 'talk right'.

 

[shoeless]

Uptalk, vocal fry (creaky voice), overuse of "like" and ending sentences with "so..." are all very common (in my experience) with today's 20-somethings, especially with young women.

 

[jp_nyc]

The uptalk and vocal fry mix sounds nuts to me. What are they trying to convey other than how stupid they sound? And how confusing is it to people whose native languages use uptalk to indicate a question?

 

[CBHScott]

Regional accents/dialects are not dying out, but they are moving around. Seems there are a lot of transplants everywhere I go around the Midwest, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin, where you don’t get as much of the local accents as you would expect, and a lot of those people moved there from other parts of the country.