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I have watched the TV series 'Fargo', in which increasingly hideous and bloody things happen against a mundane backdrop of Minnesota life.
Turns out that, if, like me, you have no other connotations for a Minnesota accent *other* than 'Fargo', if you hear two people wandering along chatting in a dull manner and praising the colour of the azaleas, in exactly that accent...
It is TERRIFYING. I automatically froze and looked around for the body. :-D
Turns out that, if, like me, you have no other connotations for a Minnesota accent *other* than 'Fargo', if you hear two people wandering along chatting in a dull manner and praising the colour of the azaleas, in exactly that accent...
It is TERRIFYING. I automatically froze and looked around for the body. :-D
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Date: 2019-05-07 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-05-07 01:50 pm (UTC)I have never seen Fargo, either the film or the television series and my associations with a Minnesota accent all derive from an American humorist called Garrison Keillor. For decades he had a weekly radio show with music and comedy sketches, and the centerpiece was a monologue about the doings of a group of small-town Minnesotans. It was funny, heartwarming stuff with the merest hint of gentle satire.
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Date: 2019-05-07 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-07 02:52 pm (UTC)It's very different when you live here, I promise--that's really a northern MN/Northern ND/northern Wisconsin-ish/southern Canada-ish accent. Down here in the Twin Cities (which is a lot more of a cultural mix) there's a lot less of it.
That said, after my first decade living here I noticed that I HAD picked up that broad northern 'o'. It only comes out sometimes, thankfully.
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Date: 2019-05-07 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-07 10:09 pm (UTC)And then years later when I caught myself saying "aboat" I nearly melted into my chair in mortification right there.