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I'm from PA. We use Y'all. We alter words such as the "crick"/"creek" example given a post or two ago. I'm continualy correcting my niece when she throws an extra R in the middle of a word, but as for the accents, they dont really bother me. I had a pollish woman teaching me latin for three years, since then I've never had a problem understanding any accent I've encountered. My question however is this: has anyone else noticed the trend among small children to speek really fast? I live in CT presently, and I notice it more when we go back to visit my family in PA, but children are talking at a faster pace than when I was a kid, cramming their words together.

I laughed at the Korean/Mandarin comment. That's just... Ugh. xd

I do hear a lot of stupid things in New York, where I live. It's not the city, but rather up north.

"I gots to do mah homewor' fer histree."
"I a--'t doin' nuthin' wit you."
"I drawed that yestrday."
"I drived ova' there thuh odder day."

Mandrin? What a dumbass.

One year we went to a Chinese restaurant with dad and our very white stepmother who's from around here (north Texas) and I swear to god she said "Well, Chinese and Japanese are basically the same, right?" To her 1/4 Japanese stepkids who more or less take pride in that heritage. stare I wanted to slap the b***h so badly.

Her son is even more of an idiot. He was laughing about how he asked someone from Turkey something idiotic like whether they ate turkey there or why their country was named after a bird or something...god, I don't even know. I have zero respect for him even outside of his apparent disdain for contraceptives and subsequent spawning of kids he can't really support.

Oh, yeah, I know what you mean.
Okay, I'm from India, just for reference. There is no limit to the amount of people who ask me 'Do you speak Chinese? Japanese? Spanish?'

Just for the record, I have dark brown hair, decently tanned skin, and I look more like I am from southern France. Where the Chinese or Japanese comes from, I don't know. The Spanish... well, it seems pretty close, but anyone who hears my voice can tell that I can't speak Spanish.

Funny, I live in St. Louis, but I sound like I'm either French or Greek. Usually, it depends on who is listening to me. Actually, I, having listened to myself talk on a recording, sound very Arabian...

Also, my dad's second wife, whom he thankfully divorced, was convinced for about six months, was that she had married a Chinese man.

He's a blonde, with pale skin, and blue eyes. He's an Aryan! That's sad...