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Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor
Those in seattle failed to pick up on any noticeable differences and I DID notice a difference in Calgary.
Why do you get so defensive and attack me for my observations?
I'm sorry but I'm sticking to my guns on this.
I felt more at home in a Starbucks in Seattle than I did in Calgary.
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It's like your setting them up for me to knock them down.
First of all, I'm not the one being defensive on this. You are.
Secondly, the accent in Calgary is about the farthest thing from a drawl imaginable in this country. A drawl is characterized by long, drawn-out short As and Os, among other things. In Calgary the short As and Os are clipped. In fact, this is where one of the main differences between Western Canada and southern Ontario occurs: in southern Ontario "dance" sounds closer to
dayance, though of course it isn't quite so exaggerated as over the border in Michigan or New York, much less when you get further south into the South.
Thirdly...awesome that you're "sticking to your guns" on this. Yes, please do insist that people in Seattle thought you sounded just like them while posting a video of yourself where you don't sound like them. It's like a surrealist project. You could hold up an egg and say "this is not an egg." And it would (or might) be art.
But we've got educated knowledge and academic study on North American accents combined with
an actual video showing that you don't sound like people in Washington state on the one hand, and your anecdotal story on the other.
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