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Amac

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 05:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
On tonight's show Amy and Jason noted that two Southerners had made it to the final four. That gave me pause. Amy has "Southern" written all over her, from her accent to her charm. Jason is from Mobile, Alabama, but he doesn't present as "Southern" nearly as much as Amy does to this Northern fan. If you hadn't known it beforehand, could you tell that Jason is from the South?

Boberry

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 05:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Amac -- I would have probably thought that he was from either the South or the Midwest. Of course, the majority of people who live in the South (including myself) come across much more like Jason than Amy (certainly insofar as accent and carriage).

Wedge

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 05:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I always wondered that..his folks have that accent but he doesnt...who knows, if he is/was a DJ maybe he knows how to rid the accent after some point ( Dan Rather , I guess, was from the south as well and he sounds like us Northerners). Good Question!

Guiltyviewer

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 05:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jason has already told the other hgs that he took lessons to rid himself of his Southern accent since he pursued his love of radio broadcasting. He slips back into "Southernism" when he wants to, but for the most part speaks without the accent.

Yankee_In_Ca

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sometimes it happens that way. My parents both have strong southern accents, but my brother and I never picked it up. We didn't try NOT to have a southern accent, nor did we take "lessons" to get rid of it, it just happened that way.

It's always something I've wondered about as a little "weirdism" from my life...

Hippyt

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm in Houston,and from Arkansas,I don't have a southern accent either. Most of us don't sound like Amy.I think personally Amy really 'works' the accent,if you know what I mean. Like Yankee says,some do some don't ,my parents have strong accents too.

Katlady53

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'd never have guessed that Jason was a Southerner! If I hadn't known better, I probably would have assumed he was from the Midwest or further east.

Grannygrunt

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a very southern accent and so does my husband but only one of our children picked it up. The older two do not have the accent and I am amazed that they didn't. Just works out that way i guess.

Hippyt

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh,one thing I wanted to add,when Jason and Amy were on that cruise,Jason acted Very Southern,I thought. He was very attentive to Amy,like he was her escort. His arm around her,getting her a Sprite,holding her hair (while she barfed),all very sweet,and Southern Gentleman-like.

Jaysgal

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aaaaaaaah! Thanks for the explanation, Guiltyviewer. I always wondered how he kept saying he was a Southerner but never seemed to have the accent. I even doubted him for a moment, but verified his claim through independent confirmation.

Now, that makes sense. I remember when I visited South and the news anchors had ridded themselves of the accent. I guess Jason had to do the same.

Thanks again for the explanation, Guiltyviewer. My mind can finally rest. LOL!

Bigbrotherbelle

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
He obviously tries NOT to sound southern in normal conversation. He'll correct himself when he pronounces something something with a southern twang, such as last night when he said MACKDonalds and then said MICKDonalds. He said he knew a lot of people from Mobile say MACKDonalds. May be just me, but I thought it was supposed to be pronounced that way.

Besides the fact that he's into radio, he *MAY* also think that a southern accent makes people automatically believe you are backwoods and ignorant.

That's how my EX-boyfriend felt about southern accents, anyway.

Jason reminds me a LOT of my ex.

Katlady53

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As a Midwesterner who doesn't have any discernable accent (to my knowlege, anyway!), I happen to think that southern accents are adorable. I think men with southern accents sound so sexy!

Jaysgal

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ugh! Okay, since you brought up the subject of liking accents, I have to say that I dislike Southern accent. To me, it's a lot like Australian accent, and I don't like it.

I love British accent, all the way. I even imitate it. :O Either one speaks like a mid-westerner or a Brit for me to be attracted to one. :O LOL! I'm not so serious about the latter.

Katlady53

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jaysgal, I've gotta admit that I like just about any kind of accent. The only "accents" I hear in the Metro St. Louis area are Twang so all other accents are quite welcome to my ears! Lol My favorite accents are British and French, but I could definitely not resist a slow-talking guy with a sexy Southern drawl! Yowza! :)

Twiggyish

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Not much of an accent here, either. (I do throw in a Ya'all once in a while, though..LOL)

Cindyluvsroddy

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
maybe jason has dated one of his cousins? lol

Cliotheleo

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
AHHHHH!!!! I HATE THIS THREAD!!!!! (sorry, I just had to get that off of my chest, WHEW! I feel better now!) :)

Jason is from Mobile, a girlfriend of mine is from Mobile, they sound JUST alike. Jason doesn't sound like a southerner because there is not just ONE southern accent. We are a very diverse group of people. Some of us wear our bib overalls buttoned, some of us wear them UN-buttoned. :)

I was born in Alabama and I've lived the majority of my life in Tennessee but I bet if any of you talked to me, you wouldn't hear an accent. I say that because that's usually the reaction I get from people I meet across the country. I don't sound ANYTHING like Ellie Mae Clampet! :)

Amy and I have a LOT in common (hey, I admit it, I'm hot for Roddy and I LOVE cheese!) but the Suzanne Sugarbaker gimmik is not one of them. She's working her "part," she's playing the "southern belle" role to the hilt. I LOVE me some Amy, don't get me wrong, but she doesn't act like your typical most girls I know. Just like Boberry said, Jason is MUCH more typical of southerners that I'm around than Amy is.

Another big factor in this is that Jason grew up in a city, Amy grew up in a small town. In my line of work, I deal with people from Nashville and from the surrounding, rural, counties pretty equally. Those from the smaller towns tend to have stronger "southern" accents than those of us from the cities.

So that's my two cents,......... y'all. :)

Dixiebelle31

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ummm Amy has an accent? peace

Fuddyduddy

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, folks, I don't mean to be starting rumors or anything, but I thought I read somewhere on this site, or maybe another one, (horrors!!!) that Jason had been in several movies or T.V. shows.

Am I completely bonkers? Am I dreaming this? Because if he has, then I think it's reasonable to assume that he would have worked hard to lose the really southern part of his accent.

Incidentally, if you've seen the interviews with Amy's parents, and saw the feeds where she got to speak to her parents and brother, they too had an accent. Sounded just like Amy to me!

Nimtu

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you Clio!!! In my neck of the woods (New Orleans) there are sooo many different types of accents (some even sound just like New Yorkers). I saw this thread and felt the same way you did.

Abbynormal

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Alabama here. I have the sounding southern part down pretty good, but have no idea how to "act" southern. Seriously, I'm clueless.

Draheid

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
To hopefully explain Jason's 'accent' or lack of, from the LFP's:

Strawberry Sunday, August 18, 2002 - 09:49 am

Feed 4 Jason and Gerry
<snip>
J MY friends from Minneapolis crack me up when they say bag they say beag
J I think we should leave a days supply of TP in the SR that way when we run out of TP in the WC we steeel have TP for a day
J talking about southern accents
Dani and Gerry say Teeen
J said in casting process they were surprised I didn't have an accent and I said oh don't worry it will come out in the house
G did you take an acting class to drop the accent
J Yeah
G That's how you got that radio voice
J Some people say its cute. I can lose it if I need to. I guess I should worry about it
G Talking about how he picked up a southern accent
J continues talk about speech class

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Loppes

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not sure but I think Jason said he's done theatre, and of course he sings. Its logical he wouldn't not have such a strong southern accent.
Lon

Nimtu

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Apparently folks think we date our relatives and the like. Tell ya what Abby, if I find some of those classes at the local one room school house I will send you the message when my cousin comes calling in Alabama. :)

Dixiebelle31

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with you Abby, I don't know for sure (fer shore) about the acting southern either. LOL BUT living in the southernmost part of Georgia for 25 years I know how to act southern when it comes to eating BBQ. I literally laughed out loud watching Lisa in shock while the other three sucked the rib bones. I wonder if she liked the greens. ack!