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Technocracy Timmy
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« Reply #25 on: February 02, 2020, 03:37:06 AM »

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People from Sacramento are really bad about leaving out t’s before vowels. When I say “intercontinental,” it sounds like “innercon’inennal.” Saoirse Ronan talked about about the accent when she was doing interviews after Lady Bird came out.


Same thing in my home town. Nobody pronounces Huntington Beach with the T in it.
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« Reply #26 on: February 02, 2020, 05:17:37 PM »

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People from Sacramento are really bad about leaving out t’s before vowels. When I say “intercontinental,” it sounds like “innercon’inennal.” Saoirse Ronan talked about about the accent when she was doing interviews after Lady Bird came out.


Same thing in my home town. Nobody pronounces Huntington Beach with the T in it.
It's become pretty common up and down the West Coast but I believe the habit originated in the Central Valley.
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« Reply #27 on: February 02, 2020, 07:20:53 PM »


That's fair. Non-rhotic accents sound posh and pretentious to my ears. Tongue

What's interesting is that in Atlantic Canada the perception is reversed. Non-rhotic accents are associated with certain very poor outlying regions; sort of like if West Virginians sounded like Queen Elizabeth Tongue

To answer the OP, rhotic, but much of my family is non-rhotic.
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« Reply #28 on: February 08, 2020, 05:27:57 PM »

Non-rhotic.

I'm British, and most of us are like that Tongue .
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« Reply #29 on: February 08, 2020, 10:48:09 PM »

I only speak American
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« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2020, 02:11:07 PM »

North American Rhotic (normie, not weirdo)
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« Reply #31 on: March 17, 2020, 05:27:58 PM »


Bernie adds "r's" actually. Take how he pronounces "Nevada" as an example: "Nevader."

Actually my aunt, grandma, and mom do the same thing. That's being raised in Brooklyn for you.
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« Reply #32 on: March 17, 2020, 07:09:00 PM »


I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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« Reply #33 on: March 17, 2020, 08:19:12 PM »

Rhotic enough to say "park the car," but not rhotic enough to say "Warshington."
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« Reply #34 on: March 17, 2020, 09:11:14 PM »

Bernie adds "r's" actually. Take how he pronounces "Nevada" as an example: "Nevader."

Actually my aunt, grandma, and mom do the same thing. That's being raised in Brooklyn for you.
Sometimes (semi) non-rhotic speakers have intrusive rs.
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« Reply #35 on: March 17, 2020, 09:43:59 PM »
« Edited: March 17, 2020, 10:07:24 PM by Sprouts Farmers Market ✘ »


Bernie adds "r's" actually. Take how he pronounces "Nevada" as an example: "Nevader."

Actually my aunt, grandma, and mom do the same thing. That's being raised in Brooklyn for you.

My parents do this constantly and it makes us cringe. We'll tell my mom the correct way in public, and it's all "What do you mean? It's..." and back and forth and continue to be incapable of saying words right. This is going to be so much worse in 25-35 years.... Weirdly, it doesn't bother me as much when my grandmother so done voices may pull it off.

(Not really a speaking thing, but the much cringier and painful thing is when an "-ed" is added to an irregular verb. This will send me into a fury.)
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« Reply #36 on: March 18, 2020, 04:00:53 AM »


Bernie adds "r's" actually. Take how he pronounces "Nevada" as an example: "Nevader."

Actually my aunt, grandma, and mom do the same thing. That's being raised in Brooklyn for you.

My parents do this constantly and it makes us cringe. We'll tell my mom the correct way in public, and it's all "What do you mean? It's..." and back and forth and continue to be incapable of saying words right. This is going to be so much worse in 25-35 years.... Weirdly, it doesn't bother me as much when my grandmother so done voices may pull it off.

(Not really a speaking thing, but the much cringier and painful thing is when an "-ed" is added to an irregular verb. This will send me into a fury.)

Like a boxer after the bell to start the round has ranged?
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