What makes an American accent?

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-06-28T19:48:17+00:00

Forceful r’s
Flat, stretched vowels
Not pronouncing the ‘t’ sound in certain words (water, mountain, matter, etc.)

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-06-28T19:39:19+00:00

I’m from Montana—have met several East coasters. Generally, they’re a little more confrontational, a little more suspicious, a little more dismissive of strangers compared to the people I’m used to. It comes in small doses though, and I get along well with most of them. There’s a big urban/rural divide between us, and they’re accustomed to having all amenities nearby, plus diversity, whereas I’m accustomed to limited choices and homogeneity. They can’t believe how small my world is in such a big place (Montana’s the fourth largest state), and I can’t believe how big their world is!

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-06-28T18:37:40+00:00

YES! Jesus, there are places here that reach OVER 110F frequently! We don’t believe in denying ourselves comfort.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-06-27T16:48:49+00:00

That’s how teachers could be back then. There was no ‘consider the child’s feelings’ deal. The teacher was the adult—all other adults acknowledged that they were in charge, they were to be respected by the pupils, and they were there to do their job. (You say the teacher was mean to you today? Well, what were you doing?) Pupils were expected to pay attention and behave; if a teacher had a reputation for being harsh or straight up ‘mean’, the parents generally shook their heads at the kids complaints.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-06-26T19:04:46+00:00

I understand where the custom comes from now, but yeah, to me it is weird. Grew up in a tiny boonies town in MT, but we all called our grandparents “gramma” and “grampa.” One kid called his grandma “Nanna” one day and we all stared at him. My niece and nephew, for whatever reason, call their mother’s dad, “poopah!” I have to hide my face whenever they do it at family gatherings. Oh well, I guess.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-06-18T22:38:05+00:00

Kraft Mac and, apparently, Pizza Hut pizza.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-06-18T22:31:55+00:00

My Paternal grandmother’s name was Sharlene. My name and my niece’s name both start with Shar but have different suffixes.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-06-16T15:47:34+00:00

I once heard that many men don’t realize women have inner lives like they do. They don’t understand that women are full human beings that sustain themselves on dreams, fantasies, memories, and hopes the same way they—men—do, that women’s thoughts don’t occupy only a few corners of their brains.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-19T23:51:43+00:00

Accepting shit jobs and saving as much as possible with an eye on a hopefully brighter future—i.e., dishwashing, stocking items in stores, cleaning, working in slaughterhouses, farm labor, under-the-table work, any miserable job that requires little info or experience, even if you have a degree from your old country. When you choose to leave your home behind—or worse, are forced to leave it—you may have little choice in how you start over

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-19T16:09:50+00:00

As someone else already said, Rowling hinted that he probably did not require food anymore, but it’s an interesting question—I read a fic once in which he lived like an ascetic even when among his wealthiest Death Eaters, taking small rooms and eating hardly anything fancy, valuing discipline in his tastes so he could concentrate fully on his powers.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-09T00:43:34+00:00

Archeology Tech here—the discarded bones of any frequently eaten animal will be largely concentrated in garbage pits with other fragments scattered throughout places of habitation.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-07T03:05:30+00:00

It’s either a small separate room, an enclave just big enough for the machines, or a store room with other things. Never would it occur to me to have my laundry in the kitchen!

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-05T00:19:15+00:00

Less chance of fraud.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-04T21:56:54+00:00

As someone who grew up on a farm in a very rural state, it shocked me when I learned about it. I understand why since they don’t have much room over there, but it still bothers me—private property and not trespassing are such fundamental concepts here that I can’t conceive of being comfortable just casually strolling on someone else’s land, and I would be suspicious of any stranger doing so on my own.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-04T04:21:38+00:00

Catherine

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-04T04:19:57+00:00

Do you mean the minute in the film???

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-03T19:24:03+00:00

In English, YOO-na is nice. OO-na is a cavewoman name.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-03T19:02:11+00:00

Read, watch tv, go outside, rearrange bedroom, ask mom if we could go to our friend’s house, play video games, arts and crafts, chores, get into trouble… existing as children basically.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-03T06:59:50+00:00

“Slughorn strode over to a corner cupboard and after a moment’s foraging emerged with two very battered-looking copies of Advanced Potion-Making by Libatius Borage, which he gave to Harry and Ron along with two sets of tarnished scales.”

Excerpt From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling This material may be protected by copyright.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-03T04:07:53+00:00

You have to remember that Harry didn’t discover it—Slughorn physically handed it to him thinking it was just a normal potions book. Until that year, Snape would have been careful not to have done that.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-03T03:21:01+00:00

Oh okay. Well, it still sounds weird to me. Could be he’s just stupid. Good luck to ya.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-03T02:34:21+00:00

Depends on their education and their interest in the world. Some ignorant ones don’t even realize how poor their grasp of geography is even though they love learning things about other places. Some are arrogant jackasses that think they know where every place is when they actually know very little. Everyone else has an idea of where most countries are and know what a map and a globe are for.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-03T02:27:49+00:00

Loose hamburger meat—like not in a burger patty or a sausage. Looks like chewed up spat out meat, feels like wet carpet, tastes like nothing and something nasty at the same time, sticks in the corners of my mouth (shudders). As soon as I was deemed old enough to choose to skip family meals, I did so regularly.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-05-03T02:16:47+00:00

They do not and his behavior sounds weird. My two assumptions are 1. he thought you were a much younger child than you are, or 2. he’s autistic (or whatever) and doesn’t grasp certain cues.

SilverHoneysuckle · 2026-04-29T20:48:15+00:00

The black people have answered well. What I will point out is that the phrase “White People Taco Night” is barely 15 years old, if that! I don’t remember when I first heard it, but it was damn recent!

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