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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:39 PM
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I heard on NPR today that no one in Palin's family knows where she picked up her accent.
Apparently, no one in her family speaks with that twangy, northern MidWest accent.

Perhaps Palin IS very much like Bush... ya'll. ;)
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:40 PM
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1. Canadian television. Easy. nt
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:42 PM
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3. Ya ya know dat was my first tought about dat. Somen like Corner Gas.
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:43 PM
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4. Corner gas nah
She sounds more like the Trailer Park Boys only without the class.
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:42 PM
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2. That's an alaska accent
listen to some of their radio commentators. It is much more nasal than the northern midwest accent.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:46 PM
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5. Yes. It has the same flatness you get anywhere west of Rochester, NY.
Hillary Clinton has it too, without the nasal tone.

On television, women have whispering voices, southern accents, British accents, or no accents.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:51 PM
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9. actually, I never heard that accent until her.
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faithfulcitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:53 PM
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10. sounds like North Dakota, Minnesota, & Wisconsin to me.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:16 PM
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16. Don cha know Sarah is Lar's REAL GIRL...Toddy calls her BIANCA!! Yep
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:25 PM
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21. CCN had an interview with her older sister who tspeaks nothing like Sarah...
Edited on Wed Oct-01-08 03:26 PM by KoKo01
also she didn't look like she was from the same family. Blonde hair, thin and actually very Celtic in features. :eyes: Maybe Sarah was from "the other side of the blanket."
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:48 PM
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6. That accent she tries on is a northern Minnesota accent, up around Cook
I know, my husband is from Minnesota. We figured she watched Fargo one too many times.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:49 PM
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7. Oh please - its a classic PNW accent
a little Great Lakes Scandahoovlian, a little flat midwestern nasal twang, a little Canadian.

It's hard to do properly because you tend to slip into a "Fargo" Great Lakes accent, which actually runs east to buffalo.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:25 PM
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19. No, it isn't. n/t
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renie408 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:52 PM
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30. I have a friend from NoCal (Redding) who sounds a lot like that. Palin
is more pronounced, but it does sound like PNW to me.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:54 PM
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31. I've lived several years of my life in Tacoma, WA, and in NoCal.
I NEVER heard an accent like that in either place.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 04:49 PM
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34. i've lived in Seattle 20 years
and i've heard that accent. not as extreme as hers, but to a non-native, it's noticeable. usually descendents of scandinavian parents.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 04:57 PM
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35. Well, we certainly have different experiences, then. n/t
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:52 PM
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29. Er, no it's not
I'm in the Northwest. She sounds Canadian. That is not a Pac NW accent, or diaclect at all. Not at all.
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:51 PM
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8. Heard Palin is breaking ground on a 'plastic ranch' in Alaska.
Can't wait for the brush clearing photo-ops!:evilgrin:
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:54 PM
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11. She sounds like a Yooper.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:56 PM
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32. Yup. That's what I thought of when I first heard her.
Yooper.
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tannybogus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:55 PM
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12. Sounds like she did some of that meth that is around,
and had the movie Fargo on an endless loop.
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:56 PM
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13. NPR is Shite: How is this so important it's news?
Anyway she sounds like she's from New England. Like she belongs in a Stephen King novel.
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BonnieJW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 02:59 PM
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14. She sounds
just like Frances McDormand in the movie Fargo.
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realitythink Donating Member (354 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:15 PM
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15. NPR sucks and Palin is a stupid psycho with a really annoying voice
If she is making that voice up she's even stupider than I thought because it's the most annoying accent I've ever heard. Makes me ill everytime I hear her.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:19 PM
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17. Hold on... now when did NPR start to suck for DU'ers? n/t
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:22 PM
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18. Twice that I have been to Alaska, once to the main part like
Fairbanks and Anchorage and the second time to the panhandle, I never noticed that particular accent. The accent I heard was more North West like you would hear in Spokane. Maybe many Minnesota loggers got transplanted there and I just didn't run across them. I used to live in the Sandpoint, Idaho area too and that accent isn't the one the locals speak with.
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Lucy Goosey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:25 PM
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20. I'm Canadian, and I don't think she sounds Canadian.
I would have guessed North Dakota or Minnesota or something.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:26 PM
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22. She picked it up in, like, second grade

While listening to Biden.
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Youphemism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:28 PM
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23. At the hockey mom coffee klatsches, of course. /nt
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:29 PM
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24. The technical term for the condition is "Cheeseheadolalia"
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Avis Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:34 PM
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25. Please no... not MN
At least not NW MN next to ND..... maybe the range, but suspect they don't want to be associated with her either. I think we are more the sing songy scandinavians up here with a touch of influence from Canada, not sure why we are associated with "Fargo" or Palin. It doesn't sound at all like anyone I know, very foreign. A friend tells me Fargo is more of the accent of the Finns on the range... but I really am not sure that it isn't just a big exaggeration of that.
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:38 PM
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26. She has to keep her sinuses clenched or her 5 neurons will leak out n/t
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:50 PM
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27. Jesse Ventura
check it out -- dropping his Gs, saying Ya for You, Ta for Too, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqXl44Kp8vo
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:50 PM
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28. dupe
Edited on Wed Oct-01-08 03:51 PM by grasswire
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kiranon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 04:07 PM
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33. Palin's speech indicates a learning disorder
My daughter has a process/speech learning disorder and sounds as if she grew up in certain parts of New Jersey. But, we are a SF Bay Area family with no one who talks the way she does. Our daughter gets lots of speech therapy but the unusual accent she has is part of the learning disorder. I believe Governor Palin has a similar disorder and that is why no one else sounds like her in her family or probably elsewhere except for Tina Fey who copies Palin's speech to a T.
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