Thanks for the explanation! I really had no idea about any of this.
After listening to the interview on that Excursion Around The Bay video I got interested in hearing more of the accent so I went and dug up more videos and ran into this https://youtu.be/yl9hQpG_c34
In Newfoundland you’ve got two types of people. Baymen and Townies. Just means whether you’re from a rural, small town/village or you’re from the capital City that is called St. John’s. His accent is very Baymen, so thick and very Newfie. But he’s speaking too clearly and enunciating too well. He’s clearly someone who spends a lot of time in Town (What we call St. John’s) or outside of Newfoundland. So if you are struggling to understand that then you would have a stroke if you ended up where I’m from. A town of 200 people… Our accent is brutal. I do voice stuff so I’m used to turning it on and off randomly. It’s fun confusing Americans in group chats lol
This sort of reminds me of my experience with Quebecois French. That shit gets pretty wild the further north you go, and I can barely understand Montrealers
Thanks for the explanation! I really had no idea about any of this.
After listening to the interview on that Excursion Around The Bay video I got interested in hearing more of the accent so I went and dug up more videos and ran into this https://youtu.be/yl9hQpG_c34
That accent is a delight. It’s so interesting.
Yeah our accent is a trip. I’ve got to suppress it when talking to people online because no one can understand me lmao
I could understand mmmmmaaaaayyyybe like 70% (if we’re being generous, and we are, aren’t we?) of what the dude in that video was saying.
Regional accents can be really hard for me to understand sometimes, but I still love hearing them. The “standard American” accent and RP get so boring
He’s got a weird accent.
In Newfoundland you’ve got two types of people. Baymen and Townies. Just means whether you’re from a rural, small town/village or you’re from the capital City that is called St. John’s. His accent is very Baymen, so thick and very Newfie. But he’s speaking too clearly and enunciating too well. He’s clearly someone who spends a lot of time in Town (What we call St. John’s) or outside of Newfoundland. So if you are struggling to understand that then you would have a stroke if you ended up where I’m from. A town of 200 people… Our accent is brutal. I do voice stuff so I’m used to turning it on and off randomly. It’s fun confusing Americans in group chats lol
he what
Demonstration.
This sort of reminds me of my experience with Quebecois French. That shit gets pretty wild the further north you go, and I can barely understand Montrealers
Not too dissimilar. It rapidly devolves into “What in the utter fuck?!” in both cases.