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Timenspace
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That was a funny comment LOL. That is impressive. So you were a professional Army Service member? For how long?
Air Force...10 years and 6 months.
Last one, getting NCO Of The Year award:
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Wow! My sincere respect! Fascinating! Did you do deployments abroad?Air Force...10 years and 6 months.
Yes, two duty stations in the UK (RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Alconbury).
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Amazing! So many things come to mind...the military service in itself is just a lifestyle that asks so much of an individual and his family...wow...
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So young! How old were you?
The top two posts were from basic training, 1986, so 19yo, and the last one would have been 1990, so I think I had just turned 23. If I have the month correct in my memory, I would have been married about four months at that point.
All the other trainees called me Gomer (as in Gomer Pyle, if folks remember that TV show) during basic, because I had such a thick Kentucky-by-way-of-Ohio accent.
As soon as I could, and at taxpayer expense, I took a term diction classes to train me out of it, which mostly worked. I still have an accent, though it's much more slight, unless I'm drunk or angry.
As soon as I could, and at taxpayer expense, I took a term diction classes to train me out of it, which mostly worked. I still have an accent, though it's much more slight, unless I'm drunk or angry.
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really? I will search it on youtube, I am always curious of accents...All the other trainees called me Gomer (as in Gomer Pyle, if folks remember that TV show) during basic, because I had such a thick Kentucky-by-way-of-Ohio accent.
As soon as I could, and at taxpayer expense, I took a term diction classes to train me out of it, which mostly worked. I still have an accent, though it's much more slight, unless I'm drunk or angry.
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I found the Kentucky one, it makes the listening so different, it is soft and with a lot of added vowels, elongated, like was is 'wheeez', I like it, and I found the Ohio one, like the blue is belew, it also has that paused flow, I like it too, I just cannot imagine the combination...All the other trainees called me Gomer (as in Gomer Pyle, if folks remember that TV show) during basic, because I had such a thick Kentucky-by-way-of-Ohio accent.
As soon as I could, and at taxpayer expense, I took a term diction classes to train me out of it, which mostly worked. I still have an accent, though it's much more slight, unless I'm drunk or angry.
And the featured actor is from Uk I believe, how he transforms his way of speaking is for me as a Foreign language English speaker , an achievement.
I should find original Ohio accent clips...
Had I not studied music, I would have studied languages - probably Russian, Bulgarian and/or English with literature and linguistics...I could research for hours...
Any movies to recomment in either of accents?
To be clear, I didn't sound like exactly like Gomer Pyle, it's just that I had a very noticeable "not Northern" accent, and to someone who can't tell a North Carolina accent from a West Virginia accent from an Alabama accent, Gomer Pyle is sort of a catch-all for what all people from the southern US sound like, and to be clear on that, I'm technically born and raised in Ohio (not part of the American South), but my family are all mainly from Kentucky, and the southern part of Ohio is full of transplanted Kentuckians, so there's a strong Kentucky culture here (food, music, values, etc) and we all sound like we're from Kentucky.
Even within states, there are distinct dialects. Someone in my area (southwest corner of the state) sounds absolutely nothing like someone from Cleveland (northeast part of the state).
My mom (born in Ohio to a Kentucky dad and a Pennsylvania mom) sounds nothing like my dad or any of us kids. We all sound like my dad (like we're from Kentucky), and to this day, my mom's accent sounds funny to me. She says "warsh" for "wash" and "feesch" for "fish," though I suppose I shouldn't laugh, since I used to say "yowla" for "yellow" and "winder" for "window."
My dad's parents (both born and lived to adulthood in rural Kentucky) had very thick accents. Words like "carry" would have a strong u sound for the vowel, so it sounded more like "curry" and "cherry" sounded like "churry." "Scared" would sound like "skeered," like it rhymed with "steered."
One word I refuse to correct is vanilla. I physically twitch when I hear people say it like it rhymes with Manila or Barilla. Where I'm from, it's pronounced va- NELL-ah, where the middle syllable rhymes with "tell" or "smell," and that's the only way it sound right to me.
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That is serious country talk. I'm no where near that bad, though my grandparents and some great-aunts/uncles did use some of those terms. Not even my cousins who grew up in the country were that bad.
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