Lori is NOT from Wisconsin!
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Kaili

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 06:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
If you look at a state atlas (you won't find Foxboror on a smaller scale map), it is very very close to the Minnesota border. It is south of Superior and probably 10-15 miles east of the state border.

Wisconsin accents vary. Up north, you get a lot more Fargo-ish. For the most part and from what I've been told about my own accent it's all about vowels and speaking fast. I think I have less of an accent than a lot of people I know- maybe because I lived in Oregon & Arizona from age 3 to 10? I don't know.

I do know that what I got "called on" the most while living in AZ a few years ago was the pronounciation of "about", which I am told I say "a-boat". When I say a boat and about, I hear a very distinct difference. Evidently others do not. he other thing I heard a lot 9from my Tennessee born roomate) was to slow down because I talk too fast and my words slur together.

Whatever. Everyone here understands me! :)

Niceguy

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 07:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh yeah, Tabby, Californians have a certain western patois in their speech patterns. Think Kevin Costner or Michael Douglas. The latest form of that sound is Keanu Reeves.

Zcompkid

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 08:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LORI IS FROM WISCONSIN,

I live in Wisconsin. Therefore I am a Wisconsinite. I could make fun of all of you "nice" people who make fun of Lori. Everyone has their own accent. There is a southern accent, northeast accent, western accent, midwest accent (except for Wisconsin and the UP), and a Wisconsin and UP accent/drawl. Then from those we each have our own little distinct accent. GOD made us that way. And I am sorry If I just offended anyone by saying GOD, but I do believe in GOD...anyways. Big Brother 3 Rowcks. That's right dere hey. Get it right or pay the price (is right). G'Day Mate.

Evita27

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 08:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yup......Lori is definitely from Wisconsin. I grew up in central Wisconsin and I knew many people that had the accent. Most of my relatives in that area have a fierce accent. Lori's accent definitely has strong Minnesotan and UP influences.

Also, in defense of her clothes.....give her a bit of a break....She doesn't live in a high fashion, trendy area. Even in my hometown, standard outfit for going to bars, going to movies, going to the mall, going out to eat, going to the theater is all tshirts and jeans. The phrase "Dress to Impress" that I've seen on so many night clubs in LA and Chicago, only applies to weddings and funerals up there.

Ginger

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 09:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lori is definately from Wisconsin! I grew up in Minnesota, about an hour and a half from where Lori lives in Wisconsin and she sounds exactly like home to me. Granted, some people have the accent and others don't, some to a greater degree than others. I don't have an accent in part because I moved away in my early twenties, in part because I never really did for some reason. You hear it come out once in a blue moon when I say words like "boot" or "road." Lori is a woman from the Upper Midwest, you betcha, eh.

Pebbles

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 11:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
cool all this from one little statement, I'm still a northern girl with my northern accent. My future brother in-law is from foxboro, I have to find out if he no's lori, I'm sure he will foxboro pop is about 500. I say to ya all northern and southern eastern western.

Ketchuplover

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 12:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK OK OK LORI IS FROM WI. WISCONSONIANS DON'T SHOUT ANYMORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE. WE DONTSLUROURWORDSEITHER :) AND WE KNOW THAT IT'S IMPOLITE TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS <WINK>

I JUST WISH LORI WOULD BE A BETTER REP FOR WI.

Snee

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hehe, this is the "bug ketchuplover" thread...

Car54

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's ok, Ketchup....when all is said and done...it won't be Lori we will think of when we think of Wisconsin....it will be YOU! :)

Ketchuplover

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 01:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
COOL :)

Snee

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 01:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
will you give us cheese if we visit? i'm going through an amy-cheese-craving thing right now...

Kappy

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 01:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Niceguy: "The latest form of that sound is Keanu Reeves". Um, actually, man, he like grew up in Canada and didn't even come to California until he was like, you know, 20 or something.

Just for the record ~ Unless someone is acting in a bad comedy that takes place in California, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who actually talks like that. Even at the beach. Ahem, just felt a need to clarify that.

Ketchuplover

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 02:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll not only give you cheese,but I'll cut it myself :)

Car54

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh. Watch out Snee-bee!

Serate

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 03:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll have to stick up for Lori's accent because I've been thru the same. I grew up in Iowa [no jokes, I can match you all one for one and still have one left over when you run out *L*]. I went to college in Kansas, and when I got there I was told, man you sure have an Iowan accent. I was in Kansas for 2 weeks and got soooooooooooo homesick so went home for a week to visit. I was told, man you sure have picked up a Kansas accent. When I went back to Kansas I was told, damn you sure picked back up your Iowa accent in that short of time. *rolls her eyes* I say I don't have an accent, ya'll do!!!!!!

Cathie

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 05:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think everyone has an accent to people who are from another part of the country.

Tabby, I visited a very good friend in CA last spring and had to get used to the accents there about as much as they had to get used to my (non-existent to me) TX accent. Even with accents floating all around I still had a WONDERFUL time, though! :)

Tabbyking

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 11:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
cathie, that is so funny! i had a friend visit from texas last spring and she didn't have much accent at all. i'm glad you had fun!

for whoever asked, i lived in quebec in 1974 when i was 20. i lived in matane and grosses roches. i remember spending hours trying to say 'matin' which is morning, and 'matane' which is where i lived and trying to make them sound different. and a whole slew of people in a bar were saying both words to me and they sounded exactly the same no matter which word they would say, but i would try again and pretty soon everyone was doing a shot of rum when i didn't pronounce them differently (which was, of course, each attempt) and even drunk they still laughed at my attempts. actually, laughed more, duh! but 'ane' is pronounced 'ann' and 'in' is pronounced 'ann', so both words should be pronounced 'matt' ann'. which i did til people rolled on the floor in laughter...i think that's the first i ever saw ROFLMAO in person!

Snee

Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 11:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
walked right into that one, didn't i? *hangs head in shame, while plugging nose*