Gotta love Stupid People....Not

[DeeSandwichArtist]

First thing is first. I work at a Subway in Montana. I myself am originally from Pennsylvania, I've lived here for a couple years and my accent is pretty much non-existent but when I get tired it comes back ever so slightly and apparently people don't know about dialects.

SC: Sucky Customer
ME: Well ME

SC: (rather rudely) Whats you native language, cause you should really go back to whatever country they speak it in.
ME: (trying to still be civil) Its English actually, I'm from Pennsylvania.
SC: Where in Europe is that.
ME: Its south of New York actually.
SC: Oh. Thats in America right?
ME: Yeah....Have a good day.

Stupid people abound.

[KnitShoni]

ME: (trying to still be civil) Its English actually, I'm from Pennsylvania.
SC: Where in Europe is that.

I really need to stop reading these stories. My IQ is dropping quickly.

[crazylegs]

SC: Where in Europe is that.

Few thousand miles west of Great Britain

Stay Safe

[AriRashkae]

First thing is first. I work at a Subway in Montana. I myself am originally from Pennsylvania, I've lived here for a couple years and my accent is pretty much non-existent but when I get tired it comes back ever so slightly and apparently people don't know about dialects.

Even better is my Irish friend, who moved here when he was young. Apparently he only remembers his Gaelic when drunk, and his friends won't translate after.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Wha? how....I mean....*twitch twitch

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[Broomjockey]

Few thousand miles west of Great Britain

Stay Safe

"But you don't look Chinese!"

Ergh. Sounds just stupid enough to respond that way. I *hate* people that stupid, as they're never the ones that they hurt with their idiocy.

[kerrisan]

Don't worry, idiots like him get what's coming to them. He'll say something like that to the absolutely wrong person.

to the forums, by the way!

[Bright_Star]

Since when does somebody from Pennsylvania have an accent? I've lived in Pennsylvania most of my life & I don't have an accent. Hell, I'm full blooded Puerto Rican with no accent either...lol.

[myswtghst]

Yeesh. You want the "foreigner" to go home, but you're not even aware enough of "your" country to know all 50 states?

My brain hurts.

Also, Welcome!

[edible_hat]

Since when does somebody from Pennsylvania have an accent? I've lived in Pennsylvania most of my life & I don't have an accent.

Nobody thinks they have an accent, because everybody from that area has the same accent so you all sound normal to each other.

[Pagan]

to the boards!

SC: (rather rudely) Whats you native language, cause you should really go back to whatever country they speak it in.
ME: (trying to still be civil) Its English actually, I'm from Pennsylvania.
SC: Where in Europe is that.
ME: Its south of New York actually.
SC: Oh. Thats in America right?
ME: Yeah....Have a good day.

You think that's bad? Try some of these! http://www.nmmagazine.com/FEATURES/50missing.html

And it's not just random people that make these mistakes, sometimes it's major new organizations and multi-national companies! They know where Santa Fe is, they even know where the first atomic bomb was detonated, but somehow cannot figure out where in the hell the whole damn state is!

[Broomjockey]

Nobody thinks they have an accent, because everybody from that area has the same accent so you all sound normal to each other.

Actually, recently, I've become aware of certain aspects of my speech which can be classified as an accent. Things like I pronounce mid-word 't's as closer to 'd's and such. But "In linguistics, an accent is a pronunciation characteristic of a particular group of people relative to another group," so technically, whoever is the "outsider" is the one with an accent.

[Posture Moll]

"There's a New Mexico? "

[edible_hat]

Actually, recently, I've become aware of certain aspects of my speech which can be classified as an accent. Things like I pronounce mid-word 't's as closer to 'd's and such. But "In linguistics, an accent is a pronunciation characteristic of a particular group of people relative to another group," so technically, whoever is the "outsider" is the one with an accent.

From the outsider's POV, everyone else has the accent.

(BTW, what most people think of as an Australian accent is actually a North-Eastern Australian accent. I've got a Southern-Central accent which is more like a British accent.)

[Gravekeeper]

"Where you from?"
"Vancouver, British Columbia"
"Wow! You're from Europe!?"

I have had this conversation or some variation of it more then a few times so far in my life and always with Americans.

Well, not Americans. "Amerkans" There's a difference.

( They get even more confused when you tell them you drove down to the States from there. )

"Ya'll take a ferry!?" ><

One girl actually thought you COULD drive to Europe from the States. <twitch>