So, I’ve been busy making a zillion behind the scenes changes and plans for this here little old blog, all of which will come to fruition next week. That’s why I’ve been super absentee. Well, that AND partying in Palm Springs at a fabulous wedding, my daughter starting preschool and way, WAY too much Words with Friends (SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE ME STOP!). Seriously though, I’ll be back to posting regularly next week when the site is all new and sparkly and fresh and “YAY!!”.
For now, I made a video blog. Now everyone can hear me whine my way through a whole 5 minutes! My public speaking professor in college once told me my voice was “in the basement” and that I made everything I said, even the most romantic sonnet or inspirational speech, sound horribly sarcastic. Like it was a joke… and I was a valley girl.
Excellent.
So it seemed fitting, then, to take part in this “accent” meme that’s been floating around for the past few weeks. Now, I don’t think I have an accent at all, despite growing up on Long Island and living in Crooklyn for the past 6 years, but I don’t know. Maybe I do. I do know this: when I stopped recording and watched myself I was all “HOLY SH*T! MAKE IT STOP! REDO!”, but there was no point in taping it again. This is my voice (and my awesome, attentive parenting). It is what it is. I’m like a 16 year old bratty Long Island girl. Don’t laugh.
** Props to the smokin’ hot “Not Mommy” for inspiring me.
That bubbly carbonated drink is pronounced as “soder”
As long as it’s not “pop”, I’m ok with that. I swear my mom says “Sewdah”, or something that I can’t even begin to spell.
My favorites from my mom are “mustid” and “yogit.” Also, my parents pronounce my sister’s name as “Melisser” as if she’s more meliss than the other girls.
Hahahaha.
HA! The only people I know that pronounce Melissa like that, also say Jessicer. They’re British and apparently can’t do “A’s” at the end of names.
HEHE I can kinda sense the sarcasm. I’ve been told the same thing though. That I sound like I’m making fun of everything. I think it’s the facial pulls that I do. Wide eyes and high brows…like I’m surprised by what I’m talking about ;D
Fuck yeah Fresh Direct! I’m not sure what I called the food store when I lived in Queens. I think just, yeah…food store. Though I bought a ton of my stuff at the little “Korean markets”. Or, well….take out because my kitchen was the size of postage stamp and I shared it with 2 dirt bags. Fun stuff NYC memories!
My Grandma from Queens used to say “earl” instead of oil. I miss her.
One of my friends pronounces the L in salmon. He’s Puerto Rican, so I guess it’s a Spanish language thing, since I don’t remember much discussion of silent consonants in high school Spanish class.
The words my husband makes fun of me for are: orchestra, drawer, mirror and radiator (although the last one appears to be only a me-thing and not a Long Island thing). He, however, says crayon in one syllable, which is so wrong. My friend from upstate used to say “taco BELL” and “cream CHEESE”, with the emphasis on the second word. So very wrong 😉 I never let her live that down.
Wait! I just watched the video on the blog you linked to and she says radiator the same way. Hurray!
Correction…she says it one way but says apparently it’s the other way. The other way is how I say it.
LOL do you say Rah-diator or Ray-diator? I used to say “Rah” but now say “Ray” 🙂 They’re both ok in my book.
I say Rah-diator but glad to know there is someone else out there whether it was then or is now 😉 The rest of my family says Ray-diator so I don’t know where I got it from! This was a fun one. Thanks to you both for sharing!