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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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Fvckers up here in CT. keep asking me if
Jul 24, 2019, 6:12 PM
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I'm from Texas.
My response: REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
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I remember in 1981 the people at ......
Jul 24, 2019, 6:16 PM
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the pool kept asking is Clemson in Texas?
Guess what they know where we're at now! Or at least they should.
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Oculus Spirit [97676]
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In Australia they couldn't figure out where I was from.
Jul 24, 2019, 6:17 PM
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Blew them away when we said we were from the US. And specifically SC. Of course they equate that with "Gone With the Wind", to which we replied that was a fake accent. Then I proceeded to do my best Awthuh Ravunel and Foghorn Leghorn accent and explained that is the accent Hollywood TRIES to imitate. Blew then away hearing that lowcountry drawl at least semi-authentic for the first time. They really thought we talk like they do in Prince of Tides.
I will return one day to Australia. That place was awesome.
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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DONT GO CALLING CLARK GABLE FAKE!***
Jul 24, 2019, 6:30 PM
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Oculus Spirit [97676]
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I'm calling his accent fake. Yes. Absolutely.
Jul 24, 2019, 6:44 PM
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I'm calling nearly everything Hollywood has ever produced fake when it comes to the southern accent.
Honestly, Foghorn Leghorn (Mel Blanc) is the closest approximation to a southern accent that ever came out of Kallyfornya. Robert Duvall does a decent accent too, but it's the generic southern accent. Then again, that lowcountry SC accent they LOVE is the one they screw up the most. And that accent was done best by Mel Blanc with Foghorn Leghorn.
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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Ft. Lauderdale Bahia Mar Hotel. ******
Jul 24, 2019, 6:34 PM
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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Oh, for NCG.***
Jul 24, 2019, 8:26 PM
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Heisman Winner [112363]
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Yes and I'm showing my age lol ******
Jul 24, 2019, 8:36 PM
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Oculus Spirit [97676]
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Tejas and Georgia have very distinct accents.
Jul 24, 2019, 6:16 PM
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So does the SC lowcountry. Beyond that, everyone just has a generic southern accent, or mountain redneck accent. There's like 4-5 southern accent flavors. You can toss in Cajun and Gullah I guess.
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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In the CSRA, we sound like when the red
Jul 24, 2019, 6:24 PM
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clay and sand meet.
Clemson, Pickens, Seneca have the mountain accent.
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Oculus Spirit [97676]
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One place that has always flummoxed me with accents
Jul 24, 2019, 6:30 PM
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is Horry County, specifically the Green Sea, Cool Springs, Loris area. That area has a VERY distinct accent that emphasizes the letter "I".
Used to pick on my cousin saying "I liiiiiike to eat niiiiiice liiiiiight whiiiiiite riiiiiiice at niiiight". Ticked her off every time. It's weird because it's just a little pocket near the sea where they sound more like they're from the mountains.
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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That's montainesque.***
Jul 24, 2019, 6:31 PM
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Oculus Spirit [97676]
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I know. But 20 miles from the ocean is not where you
Jul 24, 2019, 6:36 PM
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expect to hear that. And it's not even the whole county either. Southern Horry has a lowcountry accent.
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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No, a Pee Dee accent.***
Jul 24, 2019, 7:49 PM
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Oculus Spirit [97676]
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Closer to mountains though than the sea
Jul 25, 2019, 8:29 AM
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As far as accents go.
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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I had an aunt and uncle and 7 cousins
Jul 24, 2019, 6:37 PM
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from Seneca. Talked just like that except my aunt who grew up in Edgefield.
My uncle owned Harper's Dime stores in Clemson, Seneca, and Toccoa. Used to be like Christmas for us up staying with then for a week in the summers.
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They asked the same thing..
Jul 24, 2019, 6:17 PM
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the only time I went to NYC, when I was 12.
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Ah get that all thu time
Jul 24, 2019, 6:22 PM
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Specially after I say “Howdee”
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Howdy? Did you also go to .....
Jul 24, 2019, 6:31 PM
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Texas A&M? Good people.
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Well...
Jul 24, 2019, 6:25 PM
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Are yee?
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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GTFO. Hellll no.***
Jul 24, 2019, 6:26 PM
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All-TigerNet [10871]
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“Hellll” with the unusual use of four L’s is indicative
Jul 24, 2019, 6:36 PM
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of Odessa/El Paso area lineage...who the hellll you tryin to fool???
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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El Paso? Spent a month there one
Jul 24, 2019, 6:49 PM
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Night.
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The correct answer to that question is fuckTexas.***
Jul 24, 2019, 7:13 PM
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born and raised here in ole Mt P
Jul 24, 2019, 7:55 PM
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Mom from Cola and dad Williston
I’ve been told my whole life I have no accent whatsoever.
It’s kinda strange, most people think I’m perpetually stoned by my voice, so there’s that, and I’m not
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Oculus Spirit [83006]
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Your dad be CSRA SKRONG.***
Jul 24, 2019, 8:25 PM
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All-In [40344]
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you know you are in the sticks when you go to
Jul 25, 2019, 9:34 AM
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a hyphenated high school Williston-Elko.
He actually still owns some land there, but we haven't been through in ages
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All-In [40344]
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oh and he did live on Clemson street next door to his uncle.***
Jul 25, 2019, 9:37 AM
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CU Medallion [54758]
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Oculus Spirit [80998]
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Just from the Phish references alone, I always figured he
Jul 25, 2019, 9:12 AM
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had to be.
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All-In [40344]
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don't stereotype me
Jul 25, 2019, 9:36 AM
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I'm a drunk not a stoner
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110%er [9174]
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Tell 'em you are from East Texas
Jul 24, 2019, 8:44 PM
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To them, obviously, everything East of Texas is Texas.
Steroetypical, Racist Aashuuls...
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I worked in accounts in New Mexico many years ago and that's
Jul 25, 2019, 8:48 AM
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what everybody I talked to asked...if I was from Texas, and occasionally they'd say from Georgia. I'd throw'em for a loop and tell them I was from Boston.
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When I was at Clemson (prior millennium)
Jul 25, 2019, 9:14 AM
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I was constantly asked where I was from (Charleston, via LA-Lower Alabama). Too often I was asked if I was from Chicago...had never been there...didn't know that accent. Apparently, as Southerners go, I don't have much of an accent. A few years post-grad and being in Chicago, I can't fathom how anyone thought I was from there! LOL! Perhaps those who questioned had never been there, either.
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My people have been in Rock Hill since before there WAS a
Jul 25, 2019, 9:41 AM
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Rock Hill...so my accent is genetic. The ones that always amaze me are the people born around here but their parents came from somewhere else and their accent is an odd merger of the two. I always marvel at my son's fiance...born and raised in Atlanta and always lived there until moving to Rock Hill a couple of years ago, but her parents are from Delaware. You can hear elements of both in the same the same sentence.
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Oculus Spirit [79125]
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Probably because they heard only steers and qweers
Jul 25, 2019, 9:35 AM
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come from Texas.
Take that how you want...
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