Brokers: Do you get drivers that are hard to understand because of there accents?

Alright now let's keep it clean,this is a family style forum

 

Having spent over half my life in the state of Kentucky, this is about as clean as I get.

Dad was retired Army, and we spent a lot of time in the South. We ended up in Kentucky for many years, before the fiancee drug me up to Minnesota. Depending on who I talk to, my accent shifts. Apparently the Minnesota has been creeping in again.

 

Mirroring other people's accents well is an underappreciated thing for those of us who work the phones for a living. I do the same thing without even thinking about it.

 

I have a dear friend from Australia. I m a little hard of hearing anyways and have a little A.D.D. So when he is talking to me I have to pay very close attention to understand him.
Couple years back I was doing some major work on his sailboat so he would call me on the phone.
After 2 minutes of him speaking and me getting nothing out of it , I would have to go hey Peter where are you?

Ok I will meet you there in 30 minutes.

I would always bust his balls about his English. His response is I speak proper English it is the Queens English.

To which my response was , the Queens English sucks.

Can't even imagine trying to understand Blair on here, them frikin New Zealanders are a whole Nother twist of English.

 

Being born in the Minnesota, I get asked to slow down sometimes. Cause if we don't talk fast in the 3 WEEKS of summer we have and the 12 months of winter. Our lungs freeze and we die.
Ya sure, you betcha......
But seriously, a native born Minnesotan is often asked if we're from Fargo.....

 

New Jersey.

"Wadder"

Huh?

WADDER! You something special?

?

*Slaps me, You drink wadder. See? *Pretends to mime drinking water.

OH you mean warter.

WTF?

It's a wonderful Nation our United States. Let me tell you. Praise the Lord for such diversity.

I have a monotone. Unless stressed or angry, then the proper voice kicks in which is really low to bass. The problem with that is I gotta wersh this truck mirrior, give me a minute. Wersh? WTF is a wersh? Grab bucket of soap and water plus sponge. Hand it to the person. OH THAT you WASH the mirriors..

Oh. Wersh, wash whatever.

See person get puffed up as if offended. Spend the next several hours explaining how wonderful language is.

The last time I was bawling requests to my crew one came up and aksed where the hell you from? I said Im old trucker out of "Bawlmo" OH. Me chicago. I didnt know if you out of my old hood. Maybe. I don't know. ANything I can help you with?

If you really want some fun take a visit to this Site. It refers to Maryland aka Little America.

Youz in Maryland talk funny... The "Merlin" Dialect

 

Can confirm. I often ask my lady if she's really from Canada.

 

One of these two words should settle either Canada or Fargo. EH? and "Yah?"

 

Man, you'd think, but I've come across folks up from Bemidji that'd make you scratch your head about that.

 

Sometimes, as a foreigner, I have trouble understanding Southerners and New Jersey - Tony Soprano's way of talk and also people who live in rural areas - presumably. I was trained at Werner by a Southerner from a rural Louisiana and after a day or two, I could understand everything he was saying ...so it takes a little bit of tuning in.
I've listened to some audio lectures on the history of American English, and the interesting thing was to find out that until the end of 2 World War, the phonetic standard in the mass media was more or less British English, which could explain why the old reel news movies form US sound like BBC. The most (phonetically) beautiful American English that I ever heard spoken publicly, was the one from Ronald Reagan and ...Hillary Clinton - both Mid-Westerners.