A Cuban with a Southern dipthong
Posted By: "snake bite through her teenee shoe" LOL - N on 2006-06-30
In Reply to: which accent do you find the hardest to transcribe? - USAMT
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From one cuban to another
I'm not from Miami, but have lots of family there, and I have to agree with you, especially since everytime I visit, there are more more "non-cuban" stores, people, restaurants, etc. I hate that just cause people hear spanish spoken they just assume its a cuban just cause you're Miami.
Cuban
for me. I live in Texas so Hispanics are pretty easy
Cuban offer
Yeah, but W isn't alone as a world-leader in surrounding himself with Secretarys and admins who are mostly dicks. Actually, I'm surprised Fidel made the offer-unless he's got all the Dr.'s families locked away for "return-receipt" purposes
Cuban Missiles me too!
Your post struck a note so deep inside me. I was in Catholic school in the early 60s and we used to go under the desks for drills too. One day they made us all, the whole school go in the hall and pray the rosary and I thought we were dying that day. I was not really afraid believe it or not.
Ever since that day I've been ready to die. I felt just like you, not wanting to plan for the future because it might not come. Now in my 50s I still have a problem looking to the future. College seemed a waste. I never thought I'd be this old!!!! I wonder how many of us are out there with this attitude. They really did us in back then, didn't they?
I remember the Cuban Missle Crisis, too. - sm
I was about 10. Lots of my friends' parents had build bomb-shelters in their backyards. We didn't have one, but my parents naiively believed that if we were attacked, that we (all 7 of us!) could survive by living in the center hallway of our house. (Guess they didn't see the movies they showed us at school of buildings being vaporized...) I remember thinking I'd rather be a crispy-critter from the A-bomb, than have to live for several weeks or months with my entire family in a hallway! So I was kind've glad we didn't have a bomb-shelter.
So the Big Plan for the family was if we were bombed, I was supposed to walk home from school (getting a nice healthy dose of radiation?), and then we'd all live in our hallway. MY plan, however, was to NOT go home, but instead to just run off and hide in the orange grove nearby, since I figured we were all gonna die anyway, and that way I didn't have to do it with my parents bugging me.... ;D
But having grown up with several-times-weekly 'drop-drills' (getting under our desk was supposed to protect us?) and the constant threat of annihilation, I think ever since then I've had a hard time thinking very far in the future. When I was then I figured I'd never see 15. Was surprised when I made it. 20 was a REAL surprise... how could humanity possibly have survived for 10 long years? And 30, and 40, and so on. Never thought I'd even be an adult, let alone a middle-aged one! So things like going to college (Why? Seemed like a waste of time and money if we were all gonna be wiped out in a few years, anyway), retirement savings, or even a good job, just never made sense to me. So my purpose in life became one of having as much FUN as I could possibly have, 'cause ya just never knew.
Talk about fatalistic... every day when my best friend & I walked to school, when we each parted for our respective classrooms, she'd say, 'If we don't get blow up today, do you wanna play after school?' 'Sure', I'd answer.
Anyway, nowadays when that possibility rears its head as places like Korea, India, Iraq, etc. develop nuclear capabilities, at least I've gotten used to the idea of pretty much living one day at a time.
Probably just like accounts in Miami Florida. Wouldn't you think? Cuban, Mexican, you name it.
Good luck!
Iranian, Cuban,England,Faster than lightening Americans sm
They're all self-explanatory. The English (from England) speak this way. "This young chap was involved in a fisticuff a fortnight ago full stop." You can't really change too much, but what it means is this young man was involved in a fight (or altercation) two weeks ago (period). Jeez! Full stop means period, it gets on your nerves after two pages of it! Type it like he dictates it and add the period after every "full stop." Period.
southern accents
Being a Yankee who now lives in the south, I can relate! Had far more trouble with the southern dictators than with the foreign ones.
And yest, those British & Australian ones are sexy!
Un no, not Kiki...but I am southern! sm
 we all use those words down here...and by "thang" I meant like "aint nothing but a thang..." which means really not that important...just FYI...NOT Kiki...whoever that is...
do you mean Southern Transcription? nm
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Southern Transcription Services
Any info on Southern Transcription Services would be helpful.
TIA
I prefer non-Southern accents
I'm from the south but lived out of the area for several years. My favorite accents are Northeast and MidWest. For a while I did MT for a hospital in rural Alabama where a resident from Cuba was working. He had acquired a number of southern altruisms that cracked me up with his thick Hispanic accent. I'll never forget when he treated an elderly woman who had received a rattlesnack bite to her foot through her "teenie shoes." (if I hadn't been from the south, I wouldn't have known he was referring to "tennis shoes!")
Once my dryer needed servicing and the repair man came out. After talking for a while I asked if he was from somewhere near southern Russia because of his accent. He got so excited that someone knew the geographic area of his origin! He was from a tiny little country bordering southern Russia! (one of my neurologists was from Russia). I love to try to place someone's accents
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I have a bad time with southern accents too
Their words just sort of fall into one another and it seems like they put emphasis on the wrong part of the word, so I need to concentrate with them. The worst however is the Chinese accent by far. Especially when they do try to slow down and enunciate, it makes it worse.
I have noticed the southern accent. I like it. Don't like BO though. LOL. nm
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I have as much trouble with southern (USA) accents (sm)
as I do with most ESLs!
I know the lady had a southern accent. nm
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Yes!! Matthew, hunky southern gentlman.
My mom is from the south. Thanks to that I have no problem with southern accents. nm
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BellSOUTH (keyword)....8-9 southern states!!!.
southern, northern, eastern, western--sm
what difference does it make where anybody is from...how about being a *bleeding heart* for ALL life...not just human and not just animals. God gave everything that breathes life, and we should respect that. human or animal. JMO
I'd guess male, but if it's Southern, all bets are off.
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I worked for Southern Transcription a while back.
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I'm in southern NY, 2hrs. north of NYC. One of the helpers on MTD is from upper NY, too. nm
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Algarve, southern Portugal, wonderful spas
easy access to ancient castles, Spain, the larger cities of Lisbon and Oporto, next door to Morroco, wonderful free seafood, beaches. I could go on...
I live in a small Southern town and they have posted pictures of sm
people convicted of passing bad checks in the newspaper. How humiliating would that be?
By posting the bad checks, they see your name, but by posting your picture, they could recognize who you are.
I was told 12 cents per line in Southern California was too high (sm)
They can stick it because they should be paying 18 cents per line.
There is too much EMR and offshoring around here.
Southern fried chicken. We're having friend over, too. I love it but
I can only eat fried chicken once in a while. Makin SMASHED (taters, eh?), blackeyed peas and green beans with pepper sauce.
My worst are both slow-speaking, hoarse-voiced Southern gentlemen.
The great southern coffee... Community Coffee...
People who grew up with it and have moved have it sent to them now or stock up when they visit Louisiana.
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