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**Provost Harrison** · January 22, 2012, 20:49

Originally posted by Dauphin View Post

I think you have several accents at once. You are the quintessential accentual mongrel.

Yeah, I am not quite sure what I have ended up with...but I have lived in many different places over the years.

**Imran Siddiqui** · January 22, 2012, 21:43

Originally posted by Tupac Shakur View Post

I get it. If you've never experienced something, then it doesn't exist.

It's positively Alby-ish!

**Al B. Sure!** · January 22, 2012, 23:52

I personally know people from Pittsburgh who say yinz, if somewhat ironically, since they're educated and not retarded.

**giblets** · January 23, 2012, 00:15

Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post

I personally know people from Pittsburgh who say yinz, if somewhat ironically, since they're educated and not retarded.

But no one uses it in HC's college campus or the places where he watches other college students drink

**Al B. Sure!** · January 23, 2012, 00:48

Originally posted by gribbler View Post

But no one uses it in HC's college campus or the places where he watches other college students drink

I wonder how many Carnegie Mellon students are Pittsburgh locals for one.

**Al B. Sure!** · January 23, 2012, 19:20

New York accents crack me up. They sound so weird. New Yorkers keep wondering why I'm laughing every time they talk to me. That's not rude, right?

**Al B. Sure!** · January 23, 2012, 19:35

Pretty sure this is what it means to have no accent:

**Dauphin** · January 25, 2012, 16:17

Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post

New York accents crack me up. They sound so weird. New Yorkers keep wondering why I'm laughing every time they talk to me. That's not rude, right?

It is if they're telling you that a loved one just died.

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