Do you Virginians really talk like this?
 

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I'm picking on an old firend I grew up with in Leesburg.
We moved out of there in 1973.
Michael "Moe" Murphy was my schoolmate and best friend when we left.
I reconnected with him a couple years ago on Facebook and follow his stuff on the Loudon Times.
I crack up watching that video knowing that I may have eventually grown up talking that way.
It may sound normal to some of you but jeez, he sounds like a character from Deliverance.

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The first time I went to VA (VA Beach) I was shocked at how thick the Southern Accents were. But of course, with the accent came the usual friendliness that the South always provides.

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Dang, son, you makin all us virginins look bad, lik we stoopid or sum chit. Not cool qemosabe.

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I'd say his southern draw is little more then most.

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We have a new Word for Ruhskins's list.

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My mother used to always say "Fah-jen-ya" instead of Virginia.

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That guy sounds more Mississippian than Virginian to me.

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I grew up in Manassas Va then moved to Tx when I was 12,my accent is bad,I hate it.Met someone a few yrs back for the first time and he told me you sound like you have a mix of Virginia and Tx accent going on,I was amazed he could tell that not knowing I was from there.Anyway I dont like it,I think it makes me sound like an ignorant redneck{not that theres anything wrong with that}lol

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I'm picking on an old firend I grew up with in Leesburg.
We moved out of there in 1973.
Michael "Moe" Murphy was my schoolmate and best friend when we left.
I reconnected with him a couple years ago on Facebook and follow his stuff on the Loudon Times.
I crack up watching that video knowing that I may have eventually grown up talking that way.
It may sound normal to some of you but jeez, he sounds like a character from Deliverance.[/quote]

Um, No, I grew up here all my life and have never heard anyone talk like that. I'm a Northern VA native though. However I have heard some Southern VA natives talk like they were from Tenn. or Georgia.

I also don't stand like he does. lol. He might have been nervous but he needs to relax. lol. I do use "aint" though. lol.

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1008429]My mother used to always say "Fah-jen-ya" instead of Virginia.[/quote]

^ sounds Nu Joisy (NJ) to me. lol

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and I do us the term "yall". lol.

"Hey where yall goin?"

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I have a bad habit of using y'all as well.

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y'all is better than saying 'you guys'

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[quote=htownskinfan;1008433]I grew up in Manassas Va then moved to Tx when I was 12,my accent is bad,I hate it.Met someone a few yrs back for the first time and he told me you sound like you have a mix of Virginia and Tx accent going on,I was amazed he could tell that not knowing I was from there.Anyway I dont like it,I think it makes me sound like an ignorant redneck{not that theres anything wrong with that}lol[/quote]

Ah Manasshole. What an awful place to live (in terms of being boring and nothing to do)

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[quote=Mattyk;1008450]y'all is better than saying 'you guys'[/quote]

What about yous guys? Yous guys ah' bustin' my bawls!

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1008460]Ah Manasshole. What an awful place to live (in terms of being boring and nothing to do)[/quote]

I dont remember it like that,I had a great time growing up there.Rode our bikes everywhere,had Sudley pool{now a waterpark}within a mile,tennis and basketball courts next to it.Or we could ride our bikes a mile or so past Sudley to Bull Run Creek,cross creek and go to that pool,I thought it was a great place to live

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[quote=htownskinfan;1008548]I dont remember it like that,I had a great time growing up there.Rode our bikes everywhere,had Sudley pool{now a waterpark}within a mile,tennis and basketball courts next to it.Or we could ride our bikes a mile or so past Sudley to Bull Run Creek,cross creek and go to that pool,I thought it was a great place to live[/quote]

My Dad lived there for a few years, didn't seem like a bad place to live at all. I always got a kick outta how everything is named Bull Run.

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I lived in Southern VA all my life. The way people talk down in Southside depends upon the education level. My dad is very southern/country when he speaks. He'll say something like, "Thems beans are right tasty, bet they cost right smart!" He's not "book smart" or highly educated, but he is pretty smart with mechanics and electronics.

Most locals don't hear an accent from me, or either accuse me of being a transplant. I usually tend to speak properly, but my accent is more prominent if I'm around a bunch of people who are not from Southern VA.

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[quote=SBXVII;1008446]^ sounds Nu Joisy (NJ) to me. lol[/quote]

That is how Nu Yawkaz say Nu Joisy.

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[quote=htownskinfan;1008548]I dont remember it like that,I had a great time growing up there.Rode our bikes everywhere,had Sudley pool{now a waterpark}within a mile,tennis and basketball courts next to it.Or we could ride our bikes a mile or so past Sudley to Bull Run Creek,cross creek and go to that pool,I thought it was a great place to live[/quote]

I have relatives that live there, co-workers that lived there, and when I was growing up in Northern VA, we had students who moved from there. There was a reason why they all moved, and one of the main consensus reasons was because of how 'awful' it was to live there. If you all didn't have that strip of just restaurants and shops (the name of that road escapes me right now), I feel like that town would be a zombie town.

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Powhatan and Chester (not Chesterfield) people are the worse. Richmond isn't that bad.

Also most people in the business world with a southern accent down here seem to be females. Im guessing a female with a southern accent can come across as cute in a male dominated industry. A guy just comes across as redneck.

Something that drives me nuts is when someone says "do what now" as opposed to "sorry I missed that" or "excuse me" or "what did you say" or another normal reply when they didn't hear exactly what you said.

Me: "what are you doing for lunch?"

Response in southern accent: "do what now?"

Sometimes ill just stare at them and think about how I want to hit them. Drives f'n me nuts.

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1008576]I have relatives that live there, co-workers that lived there, and when I was growing up in Northern VA, we had students who moved from there. There was a reason why they all moved, and one of the main consensus reasons was because of how 'awful' it was to live there. If you all didn't have that strip of just restaurants and shops (the name of that road escapes me right now), I feel like that town would be a zombie town.[/quote]

You wanna see zombie towns take a drive through Arkansas sometime. It makes Manassas look like a booming metropolis.

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Manassas isnt that bad, it was kinda the more rural area of northern va (which imo is a nice break from all the f*cking strip malls of louden, fairfax).

Went back to that area for to a bed and breakfest for a wedding a couple years ago. really a pretty area

been told i dont have an accent, except for saying yall.

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[quote=Mattyk;1008590]You wanna see zombie towns take a drive through Arkansas sometime. It makes Manassas look like a booming metropolis.[/quote]

Yeah Arkansas is a place I have no intention of going to anytime soon. PIG SUOY!

[QUOTE=CultBrennan59;1008594]Yeah Arkansas is a place I have no intention of going to anytime soon. PIG SUOY![/QUOTE]

Been there a few times, they get a bad rap but honestly the people are not just retards like Most think. Little rock is pretty cool.

[QUOTE=Mattyk;1008590]You wanna see zombie towns take a drive through Arkansas sometime. It makes Manassas look like a booming metropolis.[/QUOTE]

Kansas is worse man. Wayyyyy worse

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[quote=skinsfaninok;1008597]Been there a few times, they get a bad rap but honestly the people are not just retards like Most think. Little rock is pretty cool.[/quote]

LR isn't bad at all. That's about all they got though.

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[quote=Mattyk;1008450]y'all is better than saying 'you guys'[/quote]

Or Yous Guys as some people from Brooklyn have been known to say.

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Native Virginian here and I don't speak as Moe does. Sounds to my ear like Moe has a thick Virginia country accent with a twinge of West Virginia added.
He's probably the type of friend that would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it.

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[quote=Chico23231;1008592]Manassas isnt that bad, it was kinda the more rural area of northern va (which imo is a nice break from all the f*cking strip malls of louden, fairfax).

Went back to that area for to a bed and breakfest for a wedding a couple years ago. really a pretty area

been told i dont have an accent, except for saying yall.[/quote]

Not to change the subject but can yall get to your cottage or is RT 12 still an issue?

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[quote=firstdown;1009040]Not to change the subject but can yall get to your cottage or is RT 12 still an issue?[/quote]

Everything is good. parents going down this weekend. repaired.

Now if they could just keep actual rt 12 together. I know they've considered a raised permenant road down there. You know oregon inlet bridge is also in dire straits and thats really not that old.