04-29-2019, 12:39 PM
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What is distinctive about the Anglo-Montreal accent? Is it influenced by other languages?
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04-29-2019, 12:49 PM
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What is distinctive about the Anglo-Montrealaccent? Is it influenced by other languages?
Are you talking about when they speak English or when Anglophone Montrealers speak French?
04-29-2019, 01:21 PM
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Are you talking about when they speak English or when Anglophone Montrealers speak French?
Speaking English.
04-29-2019, 01:38 PM
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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This topic - has been covered many times.
04-29-2019, 02:51 PM
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there's nothing distinctive about it, they speak like in Ottawa or Chicago.
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This topic - has been covered many times.
this is the remix
... & 50th re-release.
... & the 2019 extended version by DJ Mouldyssissippi New Schmo
Acajack, will you put it into your collection?
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04-29-2019, 04:20 PM
Location: Flawduh
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there's nothing distinctive about it, they speak like in Ottawa or Chicago.
this is the remix
... & 50th re-release.
... & the 2019 extended version by DJ Mouldyssissippi New Schmo
Acajack, will you put it into your collection?
Americans can never figure out where I originally come from. They've guessed Philly, NJ, Chicago, Detroit... But never Canada.
04-30-2019, 07:32 AM
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What is distinctive about the Anglo-Montreal accent? Is it influenced by other languages?
Got me to wondering what Mississippi accents sounded like ,Mouldy is this what you sound like ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTr-UlyLI_I
04-30-2019, 08:33 AM
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You are on the wrong side of the Mississippi River.
This video is of locals talking in Jackson, Mississippi... to give some flava:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxMP6FGlmBU&t=152s
04-30-2019, 08:42 AM
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You are on the wrong side of the Mississippi River.
I have no way of knowing which side of the river mouldy resides.
04-30-2019, 08:51 AM
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I have no way of knowing which side of the river mouldy resides.
"Somewhere flat in Mississippi"
Here's a (repeat) example of *white* Mississippian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1P4ARkJWD8
He sounds pretty "down home". They may speak a bit more genteel up and around Oxford... but that part of the state is not flat.
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