That's wicked retahded.

Heard that this morning on NPR. I guess there's no limit to what random useless thing somebody will choose to study.

Pissah!

Fahken tahds.

Faahgettabaahtid!!

Isn't that the truth! Boston is THE WORST accent!! Makes me want to hit the person...worse than nails on a chalkboard.

Infants recognize the voices of those people the pregnant mother has spent time around. Duh.

/not tryin' to roll blackball on you

I just wanted a reason to post his smokin hot wife.

Growing up in the suburbs of boston, i may be used to the accent, but damnit, southern, texas accents make me want to punch the person for speaking

That's reTAHded.

No, it's not the whole accent that it starts to pick up, just inflections and pitches common to a particular language. The whole Massachusetts "r" impediment wouldn't come into play at all.

glassa: Isn't that the truth! Working class Boston is THE WORST accent!! Makes me want to hit the person...worse than nails on a chalkboard.

FTFY

nekom: Heard that this morning on NPR. I guess there's no limit to what random useless thing somebody will choose to study.

Linguists might disagree on what "useless" is here. First language acquisition is a very active field, and affects various practical things like speech therapy and second language acquisition (which in turn goes into language pedagogy) as well as neurolinguistics which can help with therapy for people with aphasia.
It's interesting to see how far back it actually goes, I knew that within a few months (I think three) of birth, babies stop differentiating between all sounds and have keyed in on the native speech sounds. I didn't know they were doing it from inside.

or Chicago.

char_boy: glassa: Isn't that the truth! Working class Boston is THE WORST accent!! Makes me want to hit the person...worse than nails on a chalkboard.

FTFY

Outside of Boston nobody can tell the difference.

wyrlss: I knew that within a few months (I think three) of birth, babies stop differentiating between all sounds and have keyed in on the native speech sounds. I didn't know they were doing it from inside.

Wouldn't that mean that they've started to differentiate between sounds?

/interested to see what the pro-lifers do with this

char_boy: glassa: Isn't that the truth! Working class Boston is THE WORST accent!! Makes me want to hit the person...worse than nails on a chalkboard.

FTFY

This. Education will take that accent right out of you. Exposure to alcohol will bring it right back, though. At least, this has been my experience.

Knew a girl from Boston who's name was Arline. Took us six months to find out that her name was not "Ollie".

DIGITALgimpus: char_boy: glassa: Isn't that the truth! Working class Boston is THE WORST accent!! Makes me want to hit the person...worse than nails on a chalkboard.

FTFY

Outside of Boston nobody can tell the difference.

And nobody cares to know the difference. Fark your Harvard Yard.

Hey, I'll come right out and admit it. I find accents fascinating.

That said, there's really not that much I can do about it, though.

That's funny, I thought they had no hope because they were in... Boston.

Millennium: wyrlss: I knew that within a few months (I think three) of birth, babies stop differentiating between all sounds and have keyed in on the native speech sounds. I didn't know they were doing it from inside.

Wouldn't that mean that they've started to differentiate between sounds?

/interested to see what the pro-lifers do with this

I'm not.

submitted by someone who has never been to upstate Maine.
Jesus Christ Jesum Crow! Is that even considered english?

glassa: Isn't that the truth! Boston is THE WORST accent!! Makes me want to hit the person...worse than nails on a chalkboard.

Try hanging out in RI... you'll feel happier about the Bostonians.

/RI has the strongest/worst accents of the region
//Caused by the concentration on the Island over the centuries

It'll suck if your mother speaks like this (new window).

/Also
//Britney Spears has just ruined the lives of her kids
///And not just the accent