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Accents -not from New Orleans.

posted 15 years ago by dazfiddy
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I am sick of watching films set in a particular city, where no one speaks like a native of that city.All the policemen sounded like they were not from Louisiana.

You would imagine that Nicholas Cage being a second generation cop on the NOPD would have a regional accent.Somehow this detail seems to have slipped the minds of the movies's writers/director.At least with the Big Easy starring Dennis Quaid, the actors affected regional accents.

Thoughts, anyone?

[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

So you`re sick. Found a cure?

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] Jonny_B_Lately 10 years ago

Accents are acquired and used (or abused) as people see fit. I have an uncle in Kenner (just outside New Orleans) who has no accent whatsoever. I have friends from New York city who have no accent whatsoever; they've lived there all their lives.

Accents, especially in New Orleans, have more to do with ethnicity and what neighborhood you are from, than by being from Louisiana or New Orleans.

Watta ya lookn here for?