Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 07:00     Subject: Is the “New York accent” different by the borough or basically the same? What differences are there?
Anonymous wrote:The WASP’y Manhattan accent that originated from Dutch and English families has all but disappeared. It’s really different from the blue collar accents.

Two good examples of different accents from different boroughs: Donald Trump (Queens white working class) and Bernie Sanders (Brooklyn Jewish).


Educated New Yorkers have never had the traditional NY accent
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 06:57     Subject: Is the “New York accent” different by the borough or basically the same? What differences are there?
The WASP’y Manhattan accent that originated from Dutch and English families has all but disappeared. It’s really different from the blue collar accents.

Two good examples of different accents from different boroughs: Donald Trump (Queens white working class) and Bernie Sanders (Brooklyn Jewish).
Anonymous
Post 10/16/2024 19:07     Subject: Is the “New York accent” different by the borough or basically the same? What differences are there?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Hey, I'm walkin' heya!"


Ugh, don't you know nobody actually says that? It's like hearing someone talk about people from Boston and promptly saying something about parking your car in the Harvard yard. It's not funny to anyone who is from these places.


I live in Brooklyn and my husband I say this ironically to each other. It’s funny to us.
Anonymous
Post 10/16/2024 18:41     Subject: Is the “New York accent” different by the borough or basically the same? What differences are there?
Interestingly Black New Yorkers have NYC accents too. Even if they have Southern (as opposed to West Indian) roots, they don't talk "southern." It's not like Chicago or Detroit where you have a very sharp contrast between the Inland North Great Lakes accent spoken by whites and AAs sound like they're from Alabama, Georgia or Mississippi.
Anonymous
Post 10/16/2024 18:37     Subject: Is the “New York accent” different by the borough or basically the same? What differences are there?
Age and ethnicity matter more than borough.

For example a Jewish person who grew up in the Brooklyn would speak more similarly to a Jewish person from the Bronx of during the same generation than an Italian American from Brooklyn for example.

Also, LI accents are really just the old outer borough white ethnic accents. The influx of newcomers after WWII dwarfed the existing population and these people didn't adopt the "old" LI accent.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2024 14:45     Subject: Is the “New York accent” different by the borough or basically the same? What differences are there?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Hey, I'm walkin' heya!"


Ugh, don't you know nobody actually says that? It's like hearing someone talk about people from Boston and promptly saying something about parking your car in the Harvard yard. It's not funny to anyone who is from these places.


I live in the Bronx and said that last week to a driver who wasn't paying nearly enough attention to pedestrians crossing the street. A lot of people drive crazy in NYC. And a lot of people park crazy, like double and triple parking, at least where I live.
suzu
Post 10/15/2024 14:27     Subject: Is the “New York accent” different by the borough or basically the same? What differences are there?
Anonymous wrote:There are definitely differences.

A traditional Bronx accent is different than Queens or Staten Island. LI has its own accent.

They aren’t as common anymore, but sometimes you can still find people with them.

This video goes over some of them: https://youtu.be/1hrA9-6o4tI?si=CNs7E233MaFpv_Gy


this
some of the older folks still have this