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In her usual U.S. Pacific North-West accent: "I... don't know where that came from."
Barac Obama is SCARED of me, because I don't hoard knowledge and I spit it for free
What's the Pacific Northwest accent? Bland?
We (I) prefer 'neutral', but yes.
Just don't lump us in with Californians, or we (I) will just start talking to you in the valley girl / infuencer accent, derisively.
Also don't mind the royal we, its just normal for us to all be this immensely conceited.
Ok, just checking as a fellow PNWesterner who feels like we sound bland or sure "neutral" if you wish while all other US accents sound pretty interesting and unique. I can't think of a single thing genuinely unique to PNW accent, personally. I lived in the South for a while, so I'm very familiar with the wide variety of accents down there, and we just don't have any real depth of variety of that sort I feel. Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't hung out everywhere in the PNW.
No, you're right, we are essentially the... linguistic evolution end point of American English... the type O- blood of American accents, if you will.
Basically everyone can understand us, but we will have trouble accepting meaning transfusions from non type O- speakers.
As far as 'unique' things... well basically, my vote for most unique thing would be for the intonation patterns we use, or more accurately, basically the lack of them.
We tend to just stress all words in a sentence very close to the same, monotone.
We tend to have (at least what others call) falling intonation at the end of a sentence, that can make it so people don't recognize questions... as questions.
Because they're often expecting a tonal shift at the end of a sentence, or some other tonal pattern, as a cue that indicates a question is being asked.
Which is the opposite from a Californian, who do rising intonation on even non questions, which acts as the easiest giveaway that a transplant is in fact a transplant, beyond them having no clue how to pronounce most local place names, or referring to 'I5' as 'the 5'.
Yall have a lot of verbal ticks, so many PNWers end a large proportion of sentences with “ya know”
Yeah, I'm with trackball_fetish, that's not really a PNW thing as much as it is a Midwest thing.
Now, in many ways, the PNW accent is a kind of... less exciting version of the Midwest accent, watered down Midwest.
The only time I can remember PNW people using 'ya know', its either because they just actually are from the Midwest, or they are intentionally trying to sound folksy.
A good portion of the PNW was originally settled (cough colonized) by... basically originally Germans and Nordics who moved from the East Coast to approximately Minnesota, but then moved even further east to basically either Portland or Seattle.
... maybe you could say 'ya know' is part of the rural/eastern PNW accent, as the sparser areas of the PNW today tend to be more affordable for a Midwesterner to move to, just by way of economics, relative cost of living.
All that being said, I would be interested in other verbal tics you've observed PNWers to have.
One tic I know I have is saying 'like' far too often when I'm basically exasperated, like, what am I even doing?
But, because I'm not Californian, I intone 'like' with much less emphasis, in a monotone way.
Huh? You mean the Midwest?
White bread.
It came from BookTok.