I've been living in Connecticut for 40 years but my Brooklyn accent is still inside me. You can take the girl out of Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn out of the girl.
Manchester Wine it is slowly dying out. Not quite as fast as the Non Rhotic southern accent, but if you take a trip out on the south shore of Long Island you'll pretty much be surrounded by it.
I’ve noticed that it tends to be older generations (40s and older) who still sound like this; younger people tend to have more of a standard American accent. I have heard younger people speak with prominent NY accents, but it doesn’t seem to be as common.
So true that this is dying out. I don’t really talk like this, but my family did/does. Must have passed away. But my aunt and cousins still sound like this. I grew up with this accent and it’s like being bilingual. It’s like my second (or maybe first) language. I feel like I lost some of my identity when I moved to CT back in 1972. I’ve noticed that my every day speaking voice now has more “Brooklyn” in it. I think I have been hiding my true accent for a long tone to fit in. Now I’ve embraced it!!
Most people under 40 don't have much of an accent and that's true everywhere. Where I live in Alabama, most 20-somethings could pass for California. Sad to see. I like to hear just about any accent.
Love this accent, just had to come listen to some of it :) In a novel I'm working on, I had one underling of the antagonists repeatedly refer to them as "Bossman", and now I can't hear her voice as anything else but Brooklyn accent when I read it back :P
The fact I'm from Brooklyn and Canarsie blows my mind. Even within Brooklyn and just New York in general. We all have accents. I don't sound like you but it's still very much Brooklyn. lol it's amazing. I love it.
It's amazing i starterd laughing as soon as you said I'm 43!!!! lmao But your CT accent just came off like a relaxed Brooklyn girl not over elongated words like we normally do
LMAO ! Love that ! Thanks for posting ! Coming from west Texas, ANY accent that tends to de-emphasize "R's" fascinates me. Southerners use extra "R's" One of my favorite NY accent words is "coffee" (cooufie)
I’m a 6th generation native Texan and I’ve never heard one of us say warsh! I have heard northerners do it. I wish we would all keep our native accents. I rarely hear a Texas accent anymore. Sadly.
@@Sabbathissaturday Texans are known for phrasing. Like “here while back”, “yonder it lays” and “I’ll get to it directly”. “Whir bouts” is common too lol
I'm from New Haven Connecticut, and I honestly hate my accent sometimes cuz I have a weird switch from CT accent to NY accent from all the time I spent in both and it's so funny to see how people treat me when I'm speaking with one or the other.
Don't hate your accent! When I'm in Brooklyn people comment that I have a CT accent. My real accent is CT plus a hint of Brooklyn. I use the CT accent to sound smart! But the Brooklyn accent is more fun and more me. Don't hate your accent. Just be yourself. It's cool to speak with a combo of both.
Brooklyn Mama aww thanks, I live in England now because that's where my family is and everyone jokes around about how my CT accent sounds weird cuz I'm from inner city New Haven haha but I'll start being proud of it. Thank you!
love it,i'm from oregon and live in texas! people ask me if i'm from the east coast,i say no from oregon,, lately i find myself saying you all,lol,,you do not look 43 in video,30's!! sometimes i wish i was in my 40's again or 30's take that too,,thanks for sharing very cute video,love the hair!
I am Ca-NAY-dian being a goof with my own daughter and “put on” a New “Yohk” accent, particularly the word “tired”. I said to her that it sounded mostly “like Brooklyn” and searched here straight over to you. This is cute and such a treasure as the little guy who made this would be 22 (!) now? Anyway, I do wish you’d said “ti-ahed” in your talk but I love it. Now I need to actually take her to Brooklyn!
Hi! What a nice comment! Yes, I wish you could hear how I say “tired.” It’s more like “tiyud.” My son was 10 when he filmed this and now he is 20 in college studying to be a doctor and pianist. I have 3 other kids as well, 18, 17 and 15. I will always miss my old neighborhood in Canarsie, Brooklyn. That neighborhood from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s doesn’t exist anymore. I’m sure the new 2023 neighborhood is great too.
Ahhh man, I love that Brooklyn accent, and I aint even from America. I could imagine its not that common anymore. I wark an I tawk um frum brooklyn nu yawk, lol
I live in southern Louisiana and I had the pleasure of speaking with a lovely woman from New Jersey; she asked where I was from I said New Orleans she said she was surprised that it sounded like I was from New York.
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this is exactly how my relatives sound. very strong brooklyn accent, my grandparents and their siblings grew up together in the same neighborhood. if anyone is wondering how there are multiple different new york accents, its divided between Italian, Irish, and German immigrant populations. Brooklyn is influenced by Irish, and while there are still pockets of Irish immigrant neighborhoods in new york, theyre starting to be taken down and people are moving away. the more "stereotypical" new york accent is influenced by Italian, which has been the case since The Godfather released.
Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Da Bronx accents are unfortunately starting to disappear with the influx of Foreigners into the Boroughs…Being Italian from L.I. With Roots in Brooklyn meant something special with family reunions. Listening to my Uncles & Cousins Tawk was like being Cradled in a Big Loaf of Bread dipped in Sunday Sauce…The Accents, Food, Music & Culture are quickly Passing Away like ALL of my Uncles, Aunts, Parents and Cousins…. Moving to South Florida seemed to have Ripped the tastebuds out of my Mouth and the ears from my Head…. When people say, “The World is One Big Melting Pot”…I Cringe and say, “I Liked it More when it was a Salad of Different Taste”…. J-E-T-S !!!!!
I agree. It’s a dying accent. Older people had it, like people born in NY before 1960/70. I’m copying the way my older relatives spoke who have all passed away. Great comment. Thank you.
@@meriharary I was there for a few years in the mid-90s. When was your family there? I was born in da Bronx, then moved to Bruhklyn, then Monsey, now Joisey.
I grew up in Brooklyn's run down Bush Terminal section in the 1950's/60's. All thru grammar, junior, and high schools they painstakingly tried to teach us proper annunciation and NOT to have an accent so we could go anywhere and not be pegged as a Brooklynite. I've been away since 1987 and still get comments. Ain't no accent like Brooklynese, fuhgeddaboudit.
Random but it’s easier to transition into an accent like a Brooklyn one, rather than the Connecticut one, from my English accent because they don’t have that American R pronunciation.
Hang out with Meri and me and we'll have you become the expert in the now dead Brooklyn accent. You will get all the subtleties you need so you won't sound like a 1940s gangster!
meri harary could you teach me a brooklyn accent its awesomest more realistic accent i know some people in new york are losing a brooklyn accent you are so lucky you have it permently losing a accent is sad you can teach a lot of people how to do a accent to bring back thair dialect 😢😢
Can ah see. I've always said Can aw see. But I've been out of the Canarsie bubble for so long, maybe I forgot. Anyway if you lived on Eighty Fist Schtreet you and I were naybuz. Cheers!
