I lived in bakersfield from 2003 to 2014. That's cause there alot of country people in bakersfield. Different parts of bakersfield have different ethnicities. You got the Indians, the arabics, the Latinos, the whites. It's all mixed
Facts we usually make the last words of our sentences sound longer. Like we extend the word. Also we do talk slow as well. For me I can't stand people who talk fast.
I am as well a Californian and honestly… I see no difference between how your supposed to say “Pen” and “Pin” or “Cot” and “Caught” like is there a difference in pronunciation??
Caught is supposed to have a bit more throat whole cot is more at the front of your mouth also i notice my pronunciation of the word cot is noticeably shorter than how i say caught with a bit of a glottal stop at the end
Yup. Grew up with the local dialect that was very much influenced by Oklahomans, who settled largely in the eastern part of town. This was the 1960's. I wonder if the influence of social media, has whittled away some of those inflections. We didn't have such broad exposure back then. All we heard was either all around us, or on TV or the movies that we'd have to see in the theaters.
There are accents and there are simply mispronunciations. Pen has a short e sound and pin has a short i sound. Fight it if you like but if people get confused about what you want based on your pronunciation, common sense says that's a "you" thing. If you live and work in a situation where people know what you're talking about then rock on.
Oh gee. I live in a small farming town in NorCal and pronounce “went” as “wint.” I’m trying to consciously fix it but it’s harder than I initially thought!
Same here, I remember going to high school with the cowboy hat hick types who spoke with a weird almost hybrid of a California and Southern accent. No idea where it comes from or if it was an affectation, but it seemed natural.
I can only imagine how confusing it might sound to other people! Like yes, I’m technically from California but I’ve never lived near a big city or a beach so how am I expected to have a surfer accent?!? It’s just crazy how much our environment plays a huge part in how we’re molded 🥰
I thought the news reporter was ginger spice from spice girls. And are we just gonna pretend we are not seeing the the artwork behind the speech pathologist? Lol “I will swallow right all night”
@@admiralackbar6586 with a Canadian accent, they sound very different. Colt sounds like Cole with a T on the end. Cult sounds like Cull with a T on the end. Like culling the herd. The "CU" sounds like it does in the word "cup"
I can always hear a Californian because they say "een" instead of "ing" at the end of a word. Walking is "walkeen", talking is "talkeen", driving is "driveen" etc. It's really stupid sounding.
As a Socal native living in Oregon, I have no idea what you're talking about lol. People all over the country go from 'ing' to 'in'. In California this is not something someone would typically do for every case, rather when they are emphasizing something or trying to sound more casual about an action. In fact, the more I think about it, the less your observation makes absolutely no sense. Ah yes, I remember the famous line from Taxi Driver, where a New Yorker man famously says "Are you talking to me?" And heavily emphasizes the "g" sound as is typical with a thick east coast accent
Agree. Grew up in San Diego and our accent and colloquialisms spread throughout the west. And granted, maybe they started elsewhere - who knows? But I find this particular pronunciation grating.
ive lived in SoCal for my whole life and we don’t really have an accent, we just talk more relaxed and slur our words a bit. nothing like they show in movies though, they just make us all sound like stoners.
