GBS mega-fandom strikes again

[annathepiper]

Okay, I think I've gotten the Newfoundland accent down in my head now. As I type this, I'm watching an old second-season episode of The X-Files, "Dod Kalm", which just started off with a mutiny on a Navy destroyer somewhere in Norwegian waters. The men who've fled the boat are found by a Canadian fishing vessel--and the captain of same was speaking with a suspiciously familiar accent. He was pronouncing "three" as "t'ree" and "there" as "dere". And my brain went "HEY! I know who talks like that!" Hee!

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[avram]

Classic Brooklynites?

[annathepiper]

*giggles merrily* Them too--though I think there are differences in the Brooklyn accent vs. the Newfoundland one I'm used to hearing from at least one or two of the members of GBS (since they do have different accents). But if I think about it, my brain wants to find relations between the Brooklyn accent and the Canadian/Newfoundland one. It would be an interesting linguistic study. :)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

ahhh.. but 't'ain't just the newf's that talk like that!

capers (NS) & north shore folks (from NB) also talk like that!

but yeah, it's an east-coast-ISM fer shur :)

bb - our dar on da east coast dar :)

[annathepiper]

Ahh, I didn't know that at least some portion of the Newfoundland accent rolls over into other parts of Eastern Canada as well! Cool.

That captain character sure sounded like a Newfoundlander, though, at least for the few seconds he was on camera at the beginning of the episode. ;) His ship was only identified as "Canadian", though, so I guess he could also have been from Nova Scotia or New Brunswick!

(Ooh, nice RDA icon there!)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

at least part of the accent overlap is being an atlantic canadian (yes PEI folks ahve the same drawl on the go), but part of it is the acadian heritage, and it leeches thru even to folks who aren't of that ilk, and spreads it's way around QUITE nicely!
heck, even folks from the fair state of Maine have been known to drawl up like us sometimes too!

and i love the icon, angellemyst made it for me :)

bb

[annathepiper]

*grins broadly* Thanks for the new information--I rather groove on hearing about origins of accents and stuff. It's cool to know that there's that range of variance in Canada as well as the U.S.!

angellemyst did a good job! Yay!

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

if you like that info on how the accent migrates, then you MUST look into the entire cultural migration patterns that evolved into the Cajun culture... it's easily 250-ish yrs of stuff going on there, from the initial expulsion of the Acadians from Atlantic Canada, when the British won the area from France, to Louisiana, and then back; marinated (and i use that word advisedly) with the entire Spanish/Hispanic influence that was already spreading thru to Louisiana from Texas & Mexico and the Caribbean.
as much as the linguistic distinctiveness evolved, so did the cooking, and now it really IS a true melange of several cultures, that each of the parent cultures feels QUITE at home with :)
bb
(and angellemyst has made other icons, but this was a ME icon, cuz i kinda helped her out in a pinch when the doodoo was hitting the rapidly oscillating air circulatory device for her a while back... she's a good kid... :))

[annathepiper]

That migration back and forth sounds intriguing indeed. :) I have just had the barest glimpse of connection, just because of one of Tami Hoag's books set in Louisiana has a passing reference to zydeco music and that made me think of La Bottine Souriante.

And yay, icon gifts! ^_^

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

Minnesooootans do as well. You should'a heard my grandfather Stanisich talk...idiots was "idjits", batteries was "bat trees".

:) It's all aboot the o's.

[annathepiper]

I think that happens in the Upper Peninsula region of Michigan, too. amethyst_dancer used to tell me that the accent there is very Canadian! I'm not surprised that there's some overlap across the border.