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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are different accents in the US. Talk to people from Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, and California, they all sound different with the person from Louisiana probably being the most incomprehensible.

For that matter talk to someone from Dallas, TX and then someone from Tulsa, OK. That's only a 4 1/2 hour drive. They will both sound different. I'm pretty sure there's a different accent in Oklahoma City compared to Tulsa, and a different one in San Antonio compared to Dallas.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

youre thinking about Cajun English, which is getting less and less common, and really is found in the southern parts of Louisiana. most louisiana residents not from deep in the bayou speak relatively comprehensibly.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Slow your roll 'muricans. I got off a plane in Massachusetts and now I have to order my breakfast sandwich on whatever the fuck a bulkie is instead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (15 children)

When I tell American that it takes 6 hours of highway driving to leave my state they are flabbergasted. after 4 hours they might be in the same part of the country but they have probably crossed a few state lines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I live in Alabama, and it takes a little over 6 hours of interstate travel at roughly 70mph to get to Florida, 5.5 hours if you just don’t stop at all. I can hit Georgia in about 2.5 hours. There is no reason to go to Mississippi, so I don’t know. And I think it’s about like 4.5 hours to Tennessee, but once again not many reasons to go there so I’m not sure.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

EhehehahahahhAhahaAHAHAHAHAH!

TRY 12 HOURS NON-STOP MOTHERFUCKER. IT TAKES 12 HOURS TO GET FROM ONE SIDE OF MY STATE TO THE NEXT AT SPEEDS RANGING FROM 75MPH/120KM/H TO 90MPH/144KM/H

No, seriously, it's literally over 1,300km (approx 800mi) between Texarkana and El Paso (I believe that's the straight-line distance; it honestly takes longer than 10-ish hours to get from one side to the other without stopping for food, gas or bathrooms). You were probably talking to people from the tiny far-northern states.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I drive east I can be in my US state for longer than that, fwiw. Granted there's a lot of mountains involved that slow things quite a bit.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If I drive for 4 hours, I'd end up in the ocean.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

2 hours? 30 minutes in some places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Driving 2 hours in the UK doesn't really get you anywhere either.

Not a straight road in that country.

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