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Your PA Dutch Minute: Our Accent and our Identity 

Douglas Madenford
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In this episode I discuss our PD accent and how it shapes our identity.
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@RichardGood-x8e
@RichardGood-x8e 6 месяцев назад
I'm 77 years old, have lived in California since I was 19 years old. I was born in Berks County on a farm to a Mennonite family. When I was 8 years old we moved to the Honey Brook area in Chester County. My first day in the Honey Brook elementary school I was asked to stand up and give my name and my father's name. The whole class broke out laughing when I said my father's name is Chon Goot (John Good). It didn't take me long to neutralize my accent. When I go home and visit family I can still slip back into dutchified English. I'm very proud of being Pennsylvania Dutch. I still use PA Dutch words and sayings.
@tombowers3681
@tombowers3681 3 месяца назад
I grew up in Coopersburg in Southern Lehigh County. In High School in the mid 80s we had the opportunity to take media classes and learn how TV and radio production worked. We videotaped each other and when the first one was played and we heard how dutchy we sounded it shocked us. It was as if people on "TV" weren't supposed to sound that way and it was maybe the first time we'd ever heard ourselves with a critical ear. I now live in South Carolina and I"m proud of my (fading) PA dutch accent. When I go back to PA on occasion its like the accent is recharged and refreshed and I'll come home sounding like I never left
@psum240b
@psum240b 4 года назад
I’ve always enjoyed the PA Dutch accent and the accent of southeast PA. My mom is from southeast PA and is of PA Dutch stock and I notice when she is talking on the phone with my grandma, I hear her accent come out. She hasn’t lived in PA since the mid 1970’s but the accent still comes out from time to time. When I go back to PA to visit family, it’s refreshing to hear and is honestly comforting, because it conjures up great memories from childhood visiting with my grandparents.
@paulmckenna9492
@paulmckenna9492 Год назад
Love the Eck !!!!
@alliann
@alliann 3 года назад
My great-grandmother grew up with PA Dutch as her first language but took elocution lessons as an adult to learn how to lose her accent. She also didn’t teach her children much of the language and only spoke PA Dutch with her husband when they didn’t want their children to know what they were talking about. Since her children didn’t speak much of it growing up, my mother and I don’t speak nearly as much of the language as we’d like to. Like you, I left the area for college, which has impacted the way I speak now, but I do find myself using the accent very naturally when I speak with my family. So happy I came across your channel!
@theresanelson9666
@theresanelson9666 4 года назад
I think people should embrace Who they are, and not worry so much about what society thinks. I know the world today is a much more radical place to live, and everyone is just trying to fit in, but is it really worth it in the long run?. I work in the public and I love hearing the different accents of people and their history. That is one reason why I listen to your channel I love the Amish and Mennonite culture and the language. And even though I am not Amish, I was raised a lot like that. So show your true colors! And let the light shine through you!!
@amodedoma
@amodedoma 4 года назад
I grew up in Berks county and I had an accent, but I've traveled a lot and ended up losing it and picking up the accent of where I was, not on purpose, it just happened. I ended up living in Spain and speaking Castilian Spanish. Every time I go back home I get excited to hear the old accent and it comes right back to me but later when I come back to Spain and they ask me what a PA Dutch accent sounds like and I really struggle with it and it takes an effort to make it happen. One thing I learned living in Spain is culture is based on traditions and traditions are something to treasure and preserve. That's what attracted me to your channel. Keep up the good work!
@flyacow
@flyacow 4 года назад
Cool Morgantown Pennsylvania here.
@travelqueen2
@travelqueen2 4 года назад
This is very interesting. My husband and I just moved to Lenhartsville from So. California in early May (we've been customers of Deitsch Eck a few times!) Thanks to my friend Ryan who sent me this video. I have subscribed! It's not just here that people with accents are lambasted. My parents are both German. My mother is from the East and the dialect there is not beloved (Saxon). When she went to school, she was taught to speak HIGH German (a "prettier language). My husband is from the South of Germany, Baden Württemberg. He can speak with Pennsylvania-Dutch speaking people and they perfectly understand each other, as do I, although I speak the "prettier German." It's amazing because many of the words used in Pennsylvania Dutch are the ones my husband uses also in everyday language. I don't think anyone should hide their accent or dialect. Let it out to be proud of who you are!
@CorinneDillingham
@CorinneDillingham 4 года назад
I spent most of the 1st 40 yrs of my life in Lancaster County. I moved to New England in 1996 and found out that I had an accent! Hunh!! I did not know that!! I think I've lost some of it thru the years up there but not because I tried to. I am proud of my hometown. As of last year I am finally back home in PA (Lebanon County this time) & I couldn't be happier. Hearing the accent is one of the things I missed in New England. It brings a smile to my face & a sense of pride in my heart. My husband - the New Englander - is starting to pick some of it up & I couldn't love it more!
@timliederkrantz7417
@timliederkrantz7417 4 года назад
Doug: my grand mother and grandfather were both at least 1-3generation born in the USA and died speaking Dutch as a preference. My grandmother (my Uma) whose family was here in 1776 spoke ONLY Dutch till she was 13 had to learn English in school. I went to Kutztown my 1st year, my mother has a masters of ed from Shippensburg. I Have a doctrate from George washington but insist people call me "the Dutch" The supression of strong "dutchy" accents as "dumb, backward was a stigma we never knew would/could lead to extinction of our little deutschland:) Mass at my grandfathers church (reading) at 7am was in Dutch until into the eighties. Now I can only convince my 12yo daughter dutch so we can make jokes while the vietnamese girls inexplicably laugh while she gets her manny peddy:) I have RU-vid and may God truly bless You for your dedication. Since 2013 I keep a pt office in vienna. All my eu friends look forward to the documentary and want to contribute money, time, hospitality etc. All of them intemperate text in French, German and hungarian. They have seen YOUR videos bc as soon as we met they said "is it true the official language of America, was only English over German by 1 vote" I tell them ja and here is where they went. We all know the dutch saying "we grow too soon old and too late smart:)" YOU HELP TEACH OUR CHILDREN AND THE WORLD " YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHERE YOU'VE BEEN TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING" even if its an accent. Thank You Tim
@pohldriver
@pohldriver 4 года назад
My mom, who was half PA Dutch, would lambaste my dad, who is 100% PA Dutch, for sounding stupid saying dunne wette or acht du liebe. I can only assume her mother was one that had the language beaten out of her. I was raised to enunciate properly, but as I get older I find I am taking on my dad's moderate accent...especially when I'm mad. This causes problems when I check in for a load and they turn Jim Kaufman into Chim Coughman. I asked a guard in York last week why people in this area keep spelling my name wrong. And he asked where I was from spelling it Kaufman. When I'm out of the area I let it get heavy, especially in the south where I lay it on really thick. If I can't understand what they're saying, then neither should they. When I moved to the Lehigh Valley 15 years ago, I was missing hearing people with the thick accent, then I saw Dan Schantz on one of his commercials, and I was happy. Then a few years later, he suddenly doesn't. I'll tell you, that pissed me off to no end. I told my wife to make sure any plants she buys aren't from his nursery. If he can't be true to he is, with the accent anyone who ever seen his commercials knew he had, then his stock should rot in the pots.
@dianeshumway9643
@dianeshumway9643 4 года назад
Growing up, in high school just over the county line from our family farming community, I remember teachers commenting on my accent. As a young adult I lived in New Hampshire for a year, and had inquiries on where I was from, even is english your second language? Thanks for this video, Doug!
@virginiasoskin9082
@virginiasoskin9082 3 года назад
Wow, can't believe der Deitsch Eck still exists. Peter's Brothers is closed though. I had friends in Lenhartsville....good memories of that little willage.
@susieqmartin2746
@susieqmartin2746 11 месяцев назад
I have grown up amongst the old order, midnight horse and buggy, the Amish, and many Mexicans. I was born in the 50s, so I’ve always heard different accents. My next-door neighbor was from Bavaria Germany she had a very heavy accent all of her life. My dad spent two years in Okinawa Japan, so I was raised with Japanese as well. I say be true to who you are and where you come from and if people judge you badly that’s on them.
@TrashDoughnut
@TrashDoughnut 4 года назад
I feel people judge me when I say I have Pennsylvania Dutch heritage cause my accent isn't as thick as others in my family. I'm actually really protective over what little accent I have and don't want to lose it. I may not be Pennsylvania Dutch in the religious aspect but I'm proud of my heritage and want to keep as much of it alive as I can.
@virginiasoskin9082
@virginiasoskin9082 3 года назад
I can also turn off and on that PA Dutch accent. I always notice that if I am visiting my PA Dutch "freinshaft" my accent comes on stronger and I even will come out with some sayings I haven't said since the LAST time I saw them, even if five or ten years ago. It puts me in a good mood when I hear it. We weren't super German accented in my house but I had relatives who were farmers and spoke PA German and now when I visit them I REALLY notice it. It takes me back to my childhood.
@sciencerulez777
@sciencerulez777 4 года назад
I think we should keep it! But I definitely feel the pressure not to use the dutchified/rural-ish English I grew up with; I'm an academic, and I'm expected to sound like it. Some of my first experiences realizing that the English I spoke wasn't standard were when I went away to Illinois for an internship, and met a lot of people from outside of PA who were a bit confused when I'd say things like "let me know where you want dropped off" (leaving off "to be"). Another experience was earlier, in high school, when I took German and the teacher was teaching us the phrase "es ist alle" and said "we don't say that in English, it doesn't make sense for something to be "all"." And I argued that actually we say that all the time "the butter is all, the juice is all" etc, and I didn't know that it was just a PA Dutch leftover
@stihlhead1
@stihlhead1 4 года назад
Great video Doug! I've never had a truly heavy accent but it was heavy enough to cause people here in S.E. Ky.to have difficulty understanding me. After thirty years I have become more understandable to most.
@RockinRavenVA
@RockinRavenVA 4 года назад
Eastern NC native here. My family's "Eastern Carolina Ying-Yang" accent is more genteel than most but still distinctly southern. I worked for IBM in Durham for a while and encountered some accent snobbery from some of the many NY state transplants who worked there. We locals felt like we had to work twice as hard to be taken half as seriously. Now I live in Northern VA and nobody cares about accents because everyone's is different. By the way, my day is not complete until I hear a SE PA voice. I love your accents.
@invisibleginger
@invisibleginger 3 года назад
Stumbled on this hoping to show my kids the Pennsylvania Dutch accent I heard constantly while growing up, and was hoping you’d use it so we could hear it. I’m 100% Pennsylvania Dutch but sadly the first generation to not speak it in the home. (I’m 46) My parents met at John’s Hopkins Medical School and their shared Pennsylvania Dutch heritage brought them together. My father’s side is Lutheran and my mother’s side was Mennonite, then Amish, then back to Mennonite when she was a child. She never really had much of an accent. My father had a thick accent, as he didn’t speak English until he started school in his one room schoolhouse (which is still standing). So my dad purposely got rid of his accent while attending Johns Hopkins Medical School to get ahead. I’m certain he would not have accomplished all that he has, including being Medical Director for 5 ORMC (Orlando Regional Medical Center) hospitals, if he had retained his accent. He would put the accent on in public on purpose to embarrass us when I was growing up. I’m proud of my heritage but I have to concede that the accent doesn’t sound as intelligent. I speak pretty much like you do in this video, with a general newscaster/non-accent as my parents do. (I grew up in Orlando, Florida) My mother’s ancestors were the Swiss German Anabaptists who arrived seeking religious freedom. As you probably know, the Anabaptists became known as Mennonites after arriving in America, and then when the Amish formed and the Mennonite community divided, my mother’s family became Amish. My father’s side had to flee Bavaria after becoming Protestants (Lutheran) when Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation. I actually have a pretty incredible story about my first Ancestor brought here. I found a copy of a 1911 Berks County newspaper article that quoted one of the many family historians in my family. As Germans were fleeing Germany for religious persecution, William Penn asked his wealthy German friends to go abroad looking for German ex-pats to bring them to Pennsylvania. Every Pennsylvania Dutch ancestor who was brought over to America in this way, (including my first ancestor here) has the middle name “Redemptioner”, because they had been redeemed/saved by being brought to America where they had religious freedom. My first ancestor to arrive in America was found in a Russian prison, awaiting execution for refusing to denounce his faith. This friend of William Penn (I have his name written down somewhere) purchased my ancestor from the Russians, with a promise never to return to Russia and brought him to America in the 1730’s. He then worked on the guy’s homestead in PA for 3 years to pay off his debts and then married one of the guy’s daughters and had 16 children. His name was Nicholas Redemptioner Mengele. Great maiden name to grow up with, huh?? And my father was a doctor too. The “e” on the end of “Mengele” somehow got dropped at Ellis Island so when he died, he is listed as Nicholas Redemptioner Mengel. But the missing “e” on the end didn’t stop the constant inquiries from others, especially growing up as the daughter of “Dr. Mengel”. And so unfortunately I knew from an extremely young age who and what Dr. Mengele was all about and was asked by nearly every adult, friends’ parents, and especially every teacher, if we were related. So from early on, I had my answer ready. “Probably distantly but both sides of my family have been here since England owned America. My first ancestor born here, Adam Mengel (Nicholas’s first son) crossed the Delaware with Washington, Manassas Mengel fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, my Great-Grandfather fought on the front lines of WWI, got shot in the neck but survived, my grandfather was in the Navy for WWII and my father was stationed at Andrew’s Air Force base as a VIP doctor during Vietnam.” That was literally the answer I’d always have to give until I got married 25 years ago and welcomed my new last name. As a kid I dreaded the first day of school with all new teachers, always associating me with that horrible man. Also, last week while googling him, I learned he’s from the SAME prominent Bavarian Mengele family my ancestors came from. Not completely shocking but not fun to learn confirmation of either. I’m very proud of my PD heritage but at the same time I hated being associated with that man. Anyway, are you aware of the Pennsylvania Dutch’s role in the American Revolution? I learned a lot from Mengel family historians. I was blessed to have a lot of family historians in my family. I’m a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Pennsylvania Dutch played a significant role that I didn’t know about until I came across that 1911 newspaper article. Our family historian at the time detailed the story of Nicholas Redemptioner Mengele, the PD role in the Revolutionary War. It also mentioned the tensions William Penn’s son (who was not a good man, unlike his father) escalated by cheating the Delaware tribe out of much of their land, and after violent attacks on members of the tribe by other parties, the tribe started attacking the PD homesteaders, burning their houses down and stealing their children, sadly set off a period of unrest and fighting between the Delaware Tribe and the Pennsylvania Dutch. Anyway, I don’t know how much you know or don’t about our community’s significant contribution to the American Revolution. Maybe you know it all, but I’ll gladly share the info from my family historians if you want. I plan on making a Zoom presentation on the role of the PD community to share in some of the DAR chapters, especially the ones in PA. Thank you for sharing our culture and heritage with the online community!
@PADutch101
@PADutch101 3 года назад
Thank you for sharing your family story. Check out my channel, I do have videos where I am speaking with my accent.
@sherizaahd
@sherizaahd 4 года назад
I think accents are fun and often attractive. I grew up in the central US where we have a fairly neutral accent and have always been envious of people with cool accents... Though I do judge people for having the stereotypical "dumb" sounding accents. So I'm guilty of judgery and pro accent, so I say go for it! Some will dislike you for any silly reason.
@janemcallister6669
@janemcallister6669 4 года назад
All my grandparents were PA Dutch and my parents discussed presents and private things in Pa Dutch. I had 3 yrs of German in HS and had learned to follow pretty well. I tried to get rid of my accent at Penn State and pretty successful. Live in the south now but sometimes the Dutch words and phrases slip in and I get strange look. I enjoy the videos. Thanks for doing them.
@betsylaub6697
@betsylaub6697 Год назад
Both my husband and I are PA Dutch and our parents and grandparents spoke it. My husband’s grandfather used to put on the thick Dutch accent on purpose when they were traveling and it would greatly embarrass his Grandmother (even though she was not much better)😂
@EvonZundel
@EvonZundel 3 года назад
My father had a PA Dutch accent, but didn’t speak PA Dutch. I had a stronger accent when I was younger, and still retain the sentence order (“Throw your father down the stairs his hat”) which gets awkward at work! Also, there is a rhythm when you speak…
@joshstabler3438
@joshstabler3438 4 года назад
Two thoughts on this. Southeastern Pennsylvania residents might also identify with the PA Dutch accent, traditions, and ways of living, simply by way of being “from” the region. The accent and habits can trickle through, due to community and living in relatively close proximity to PA Dutch people. I view the level-of-accent “adjustment” as similar to “formal/informal”, as happens in most languages. I’d never speak casually and totally informally in a job interview, and I will absolutely adjust my speech when traveling abroad (especially in the U.K., where the result ends up sounding like a Kiwi accent, to the Brits). But yep, it’s definitely nice sometimes to “just talk normally”.
@johnbennett1583
@johnbennett1583 4 года назад
I’m from Northern Berks. When I went to Philly for college it was easy and almost unconscious to lose the accent. The things that stuck to this day are words and usages, like “Rutsch” or “all” to mean “used up”, and also the rising AND falling PA Dutch question inflection, in phrases like “don’t you, now?” They make people where I live nau, do in upstate New York laugh.
@KH6775
@KH6775 4 года назад
Doug, I get a kick out of your Dutch accent on “Ask a PA Dutchman.” I grew up in Central PA and I have heard some words that I never realized it was an accent. The most obvious words that are from the area are the pronunciation of Lancaster and Lebanon. And I don’t know if creek and crick are part of this too? When I was younger, I traveled all through PA as a salesman. It was amazing to hear all the accents just in PA. From Pittsburgh to the coal regions up north, Philadelphia and our beloved Dutch country. I never got to learn the language but there are some words that did make it though the family.
@susangutperl4937
@susangutperl4937 4 года назад
Really interesting discussion. In Germany my home dialect „Sächsisch“ is regarded very poorly and Saxons are usually the butt of many jokes. Which is highly unfair considering it is the language of Martin Luther and the birth of a common standardized German. I did not consciously try to loose it though. It‘s more like automatic code switching for me: if everybody around me speaks Hochdeutsch I‘m speaking Hochdeutsch too up to the point where people don‘t even recognize I‘m from Saxony. When I‘m with dialect speakers (no matter WHICH dialect) I‘m kinda falling back to my dialect, too at least to a certain extent. It kinda creates a more familiar atmosphere 😊 Interesting thing is that in regional TV programs the speakers used to speak totally neutral Hochdeutsch, had even long trainings to drive out all regional inflection. But over the last years I‘ve found they’ve let at least traces of their dialects shine through. Which I find very positive.
@dontplayinthestreet
@dontplayinthestreet 3 года назад
Not sure how I made my way to this video but I grew up in a suburb just outside of Boston. When I was 19 I moved to Colorado Springs and I can clearly remember purposely subduing my Boston accent because people kind of made fun of me. What’s funny to me though is that to me, my accent was in NO WAY as Boston as it could be. People in Boston have a Boston accent. Awesome video though. Language and accents are really interesting.
@margaretmoyer571
@margaretmoyer571 4 года назад
My parents and grandparents are very much PA Dutch and my parent still have very broad accents. My paternal grandparents didn’t learn to speak English until my father went to 8th grade. But when I was young, they didn’t want us to learn PA Dutch or to have an accent. The schools taught us to pronounce our words the way the TV announcers pronounced them. It was “obvious” to us that those with PA Dutch accents were less educated than those without. I spent most of my life believing that I had eradicated my accent and that is the way I always talk unless I’m trying to put on an exaggerated accent for humorous effect. No one has ever mentioned my accent. About 8 years ago (I’m 68 years old) I was talking with a sales person about prefab offices and she asked me what country I was from. I was shocked! After that, I started listening to myself and I can pick out a bit of an accent in some words. But most of my accent is totally gone. I don’t have to turn it off; I have to turn it on and I can keep it up for only a short time. It isn’t that I am not proud of my heritage. I brag about the foods that I eat. But my accent is essentially gone due to childhood training. BTW, this is David Moyer. I suspect that the comment is tagged as coming from my wife. I don't know how that happened and I don't know how to change it.
@mariaragus4437
@mariaragus4437 4 года назад
Yep, have the accent and am proud of it. This wasn't always the case. I tried to bury it when I went to college in CA as I was often met with quizzicle looks. I don't think anyone truly loses the accent...you can fake it but get angry or frustrated and it will come out.
@inspire677
@inspire677 4 года назад
I think you should be who you are regardless of what other people might say.
@Tamar-sz8ox
@Tamar-sz8ox 3 года назад
I didn’t appreciate it growing up, but I sure do now ! 💕💜❤️
@wtaylor48
@wtaylor48 4 года назад
Accch Duggy: Swetz net so dumb. It's good to talk your normal accent. When I was in the navy with alot of southern types, I was told that I "talked too fast " You don't have to talk like Proffessor Schnitzel. But a normal sounding Pa. German dialect is enjoyable to listen to. Thanks for your videos.
@derrickdeeds68
@derrickdeeds68 4 года назад
Reminds of the story from my father a Berks county Dutchman going to Navy bootcamp during the Korean War. Shower, Orange, oil and Pontiac are clear giveaways.
@davidgibson9866
@davidgibson9866 4 года назад
I really enjoy your videos, I’ve always been told a person’s accent comes from their peers at the age of 5. My family came from Franconia and settled in Pennsylvania, then part of them moved to Kentucky which made for some strange accents 😆
@08HErin
@08HErin 3 года назад
That’s why my grandparents did not teach my mother Pennsylvania Dutch. My grandmother didn’t want her children to have an accent and then have people think less of them.
@theBaron0530
@theBaron0530 4 года назад
Yeah, there's the stereotype here in the Lehigh Valley of "the dumb Dutchman". It's not valid, though. I think the Dutchmen around here were some of the shrewdest folks you'd ever meet. My grandmother was Italian, and she had a Pennsylvania Dutch accent, just by virtue of growing up in Allentown. "Ahllen-tawn", nahw vunce, say. Macunchie. Sahderton, where I went to high school. "Calmer," down by Line Lexington ("Calmer than what?") for the town called Colmar (which is named for the town in Elsass in the old country). "He's twenty YEARS old", not "He's twenty years old." Look up Steve Brosky's "Do the Dutch." That should be our anthem. I embrace the accent, too, and turn it on or off as appropriate. "Tell me again in mah goot ear, ya dumb bunny!" At least we don't sound like people from Philadelphia. That accent is awful.
@katebattista7400
@katebattista7400 4 года назад
I loved my late FIL's PA Dutch accent. I'm fascinated by the unique emphasis placed on certain words in a sentence. Like you mentioned, he would put the emphasis on years instead of old.
@gabbie7838
@gabbie7838 2 года назад
i lived in lancaster for most of my life but when i moved to flordia i was told i had an accent haha
@hewhodoes8073
@hewhodoes8073 10 месяцев назад
Everyone has an accent, even people who speak sign language.
@56932982
@56932982 4 года назад
I enjoy people with accents. An accent adds an individual facet to a person. You may say it turns a person into a personality. Though, for me as a non native English speaker, an accent may make it hard to understand the spoken language (E.g. the Scottish accent is particularly hard to understand for me.) That's when an accent becomes a full blown dialect. In German, my native language, I have a slight accent and I am OK with it. Of course I can switch to "Pälzisch". The accent, or better dialect I grew up with. It is quite normal to grow up speaking a dialect in Germany and acquiring the standard German "Hochdeutsch" in school. Standard German is the norm in school and more formal situations. Dialect / accent is usually only used in informal situations with family, friends and maybe coworkers. Also: It is considered inpolite to use an accent / dialect if you are together with people from a different region. As dialects change from region to region it may be hard for people from an other part of the country to understand you talking your local dialect.
@chrisaccardo2300
@chrisaccardo2300 3 года назад
I actually never knew I had an accent, and even was (stupidly) proud of thinking I didn't have one, until I got to college in upstate NY. I worked pretty proactively to lose the accent, but still have one. A lot of it seems to come up around what parts of the mouth we tend to make our letters, like making Ls in the back of the throat rather than the tip of the tongue. The issue I run into is not that people think the accent makes me sound dumb or uneducated etc, but they think I just flubbed or misspoke, can't tell what I said, or can't identify the accent at all. When I speak with customers, I'll often use an exaggerated over pronunciation to make sure I'm heard properly.
@kirbyswope1252
@kirbyswope1252 4 года назад
I am from johnstown pa. I was staying at a job sight in Harrisburg pa and I was asked by at least 5 people from there where I was from. I asked why laughing. They said man do you have an accent. I've looked into this and yes we have a heavy accent on the mountains. And my great grandfather came over from the highlands of Scotland. Last name waddell. Some of that accent you still hear in my family
@donnabeard9344
@donnabeard9344 4 года назад
My mom used to talk about when during WWII in school they tried to make the children lose their accent because of it sounding German. Needless to say it didn’t work too well
@kellal01
@kellal01 Год назад
What you are able to do is called "code switching" in liguistics.
@virginiasoskin9082
@virginiasoskin9082 3 года назад
There are many equivalents to using accents or not at will. I remember realizing that accents can vary greatly when I read Gone With the Wind for the first time as a teenager. The author spent a lot of time discussing the various southern accents: Atlantan accents contrasted with the lowland Carolinas accent or a New Orleans accent and then all being so very different. In To Kill a Mockingbird the Finch's black housekeeper Calpurnia takes the Finch kids to her black church one Sunday. The kids are astonished and somewhat confused when they hear Calpurnia speaking "like a black person" rather than the white southern accent she uses in their own household. I think there are many ppl who live many different lives in terms of where they come from. We might choose not to stick out like a sore thumb in the wider world, but choose our native home accent when we are down home. I don't think you are being untrue to yourself by not using a strong PA German accent all the time. I think ppl generally have an excellent ear for accents. When I think of how an Aussie actor can speak with a middle Atlantic or even a Philly or NY accent for a film role -- that just astounds me and I realize how many ppl have very good ears for accents and being able to mimic them. Like Daniel Day-Lewis playing Lincoln with a 150 year old Illinois accent. Now that is friggin' amazing. He must have had a fantastic linguist coach skilled at local illinois accents, and then take THAT back 150 years. Ei, ei, ei!
@rickbady2281
@rickbady2281 4 года назад
Same story for me, I think I learned to copy the accent of the announcers on Philly TV stations. Incidentally, an old neighbor from where I grew up in Berks County (at the foot of Neversink Mountain, just sent me some old stuff he found in his attic. It includes a copy of Hiwwe wie Driwwe from sitter 1997. It includes an article abut some guy called Chris LaRose w/ a pic of him w/his guitar.
@PADutch101
@PADutch101 4 года назад
Rick Bady we have to watch out for that guy!
@biot2156
@biot2156 2 года назад
I was born and grew up in Northampton Co., PA. My parents (and maternal/paternal grand & great-grandfolk, also, tho I never knew my father's family until much later) are all from the Wind Gap, Plainfield, & Nazareth areas as far back as the late 1700s. I heard (and ate) lots of PA Dutch as I grew and always assumed I has some of the accent. But I was surprised when I was in 7th grade and in the locker room at a Y when someone hollered over a row asking, "Is that a South Carolina accent I hear?." I thought it was odd and said I wouldn't know how it could be. Then in my mid-20s I moved to AZ and it didn't take long before I heard that same question again! Ever hear of anything like this? Any explanations or thoughts on why?
@PADutch101
@PADutch101 2 года назад
Man, that's a new one to me. Your guess is as good as mine!
@davidcohen12345
@davidcohen12345 4 года назад
I’m from the outside, and to sound more “Dutchy” when I speak English, I chust had to learn the accent, so I’d fit in viss Chonny, Checky un Chonas in Lepnin Connie!
@MennoniteFarmhouse
@MennoniteFarmhouse 3 года назад
I reckon we should embrace our differences... and NOT cancel culture. I’m from Shippensburg and went to Shippensburg University and then became a Mennonite farmers wife and found I talk differently then his family who are decedents of Irish immigrants from Baltimore.
@andi_b_73
@andi_b_73 4 года назад
Doug, thanks for another fantastic video!Could you tell me plz.: what exactly is the difference between an accent and a dialect in English? Is there any difference at all? In German I think it's quite clear to me what a Dialekt is...e.g. Pälzisch, Hessisch, Saarlännisch. But can also anyone explain what an Akzent in Germany could be!?
@PADutch101
@PADutch101 4 года назад
Andi B. You are right. An accent has to do with pronunciation, die Aussprache. Think like when a Bayern speaks Hochdeutsch. Extra rolled R for example. Does that help? Here in the USA there are hundreds of regional accents ie Southern, Texan, Bostonian, etc.
@susangutperl4937
@susangutperl4937 4 года назад
In my experience in German “Akzent” is mostly used in regards to foreign languages. Within Germany the different variations in pronunciation are still referred to as “Dialekt”. “Dialekt” can be heavier or less obvious. Even though it seems linguistically correct I’ve never heard anyone say “Sie spricht Deutsch mit sächsischem Akzent.” 🤔
@andi_b_73
@andi_b_73 4 года назад
@@susangutperl4937 Thanks Susan! You are right, an accent in German refers to foreigners, Germans in their own language have dialects. But what about English e.g.? In Learning-English-Videos they always talk about english accents...Cockney, Liverpool, Manchester accent etc. And I guess an Englishman would say that I as a foreigner speak English with a german accent. So...are there no dialects in English, although the word exists? Answers from anyone will be appreciated.
@susangutperl4937
@susangutperl4937 4 года назад
Andi B. Ah, that’s an interesting question. There are definitely dialects in English. I cross-checked Google and I think Wiki has a good explanation. Accent really only refers to pronunciation whereas dialect additionally encompasses grammar, vocabulary and spelling. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English
@donkeysaurusrex7881
@donkeysaurusrex7881 4 года назад
@@susangutperl4937 The tricky part is that just as there is no clear boundary between what is a dialect and what is a language there is no clear boundary between where an accent becomes a dialect.
@inflames8019
@inflames8019 4 года назад
Echt? Beim Steve gibt's ah Saumage? her ich glaab wenn ich jemols zu euch niwwer kumm muss ich echt mol beim Deitsche Eck ehn Pensilfaanische Saumage esse.
@PADutch101
@PADutch101 4 года назад
Ja ja, mir koche oft Saumagen hier in Pennsylvania!
@mgsilverhead9636
@mgsilverhead9636 6 месяцев назад
PA Deitsch joke! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2KIUYPIQgzE.htmlsi=EZSxRByhK0Srw66a
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