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bunn ([personal profile] bunn) wrote2019-05-07 01:04 pm

Aaaaargh!

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 

[identity profile] pixel39.livejournal.com 2019-05-07 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, the movie is COMPLETELY accurate as to that particular accent and manner of speech. The first time I heard someone with the accent I had to surreptitiously pinch myself to make sure that I was, in fact, not hallucinating or otherwise dreaming it.

And then years later when I caught myself saying "aboat" I nearly melted into my chair in mortification right there.