No, very few people my age in NYC have that accent anymore. It won't exist in another generation, I suspect. But it's awkward when people won't believe in my lack of mysterious origins.
I haven't listened to your phone posts recently (no audio capability at work), but I've always been struck by your accent as it sounds to me like a combo of California and north eastern/NY. Check out some of the articles for the PBS show, Do You Speak American? I was fascinated by the show and was convinced without a doubt that I don't have an accent, until they spoke with Californians on the show and yup, I definitely have the California accent and it is a very obvious accent. I actually don't know how to speak without fronting all of my vowels which I now know "sounds weird". And I haven't lived in CA since I was 15, but I guess I still have the accent.
I'll second the California part. I'm a native Californian, and definitely have the accent. I was never aware of it until I moved to Minneapolis, where I was immediately tagged as a Californian by several locals. Now that I've started acting (particularly voice acting where I'm hearing playback of my voice regularly)I'm acutely aware of how it sounds, and sista' you got it!
I had four years of speech therapy and I've lived in four distinctly different portions of America for long periods of time ('heartland', midwest, south, here). Absolutely no one believes I grew up in Kentucky unless they meet Michael.
On the few audio posts I've heard, I thought you sounded like my sister [and me] some, so, Midwestern mixed with a bit of a pressured-speech edge and some kind of mild something else. [She and I have a tiny bit of a 'th' issue from our mom's accent that speech therapy didn't totally erase, especially when we're tired or have been drinking, but I don't think you had exactly that.]
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Date: 2005-06-23 07:53 pm (UTC)not NY'ers, and not when I travel abroad (the Irish thought I was Swiss or Australian, the Australians thought I was southern).
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Date: 2005-06-23 07:57 pm (UTC)I would think not having a NYC accent would make you that much more marketable. Is it a negative thing for you?
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Date: 2005-06-23 09:07 pm (UTC)I had four years of speech therapy and I've lived in four distinctly different portions of America for long periods of time ('heartland', midwest, south, here). Absolutely no one believes I grew up in Kentucky unless they meet Michael.
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Date: 2005-06-23 11:14 pm (UTC)I was thinking of bombs, and was confused.
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