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accents

posted 16 years ago by rcryan
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Do people from Brooklyn really talk like this? From all the mob movies and Brooklyn movies I see, it seems like every guy from Brooklyn is a wise-guy and talks like that. " Eh-oh, how you doin'?"

[–] leelee41586 16 years ago

not so mush now, because we are over run with people from other states, but 10-15years ago, yea we talked like that. my dad still does!

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[–] cassmi87 11 years ago

10-15 years? Try a bit more than that. It's not like it was that much different in the late 90s/early 2000s.

[–] richangelo 16 years ago

No, not everyone talks that way. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and lived in Bensonhurst (not too far from Bay Ridge, where much of this movie was filmed) from the time I was 12 until I was 28. There are more than 2 million people in Brooklyn, and not everyone has the same accent, although there are still a lot of people who live in Brooklyn who still have the accent you see in the movies. From my experience, people who move out of the city tend to have less of an accent as time goes by.

[–] jonasgurl_93 16 years ago

that's just a stereotype. i'm also from bensonhurst and i don't talk like that. i know some people who talk with the Brooklyn accent but it isn't casual.

[–] Davinci921 16 years ago

I think a lot of it has to do with educational background. If you went through high school and more importantly college you have a better chance of not having such a thick accent.

[–] StupidGroundhog 16 years ago

I'm from Bensonhurst, went to High School and graduated college and I talk like that (and, I'm a girl, not a guy). I think it's more your family. My parents are older, had me late in life. They grew up during the 40s in Bed Sty and their accents are really heavy, so mine is mostly heavy too. I've been out of Brooklyn for 11 years now, but when I hear myself on tape, I cringe. I never notice my accent until I hear it played back for me.

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[–] Davinci921 15 years ago

I'm from the area and I have a slight accent, but no one I know is really like that. It's a very exaggerated accent. Anyway for me from time to time "dog" comes out "dawg." "Talk" becomes "tawk." etc etc. It's more likely when I'm angry or talking fast...

[–] redspyda718 15 years ago

I'm Brooklyn born and bred and even thought I'm not Italian, I did attend high school with mostly italians so I don't know if I had it before then or developed it there but I do have somewhat of a brooklyn accent especially with words with an 'a' sound. I didn't notice it until a few years back when a friend from the neighborhood and I were walking in a Miami parking lot and people were looking at us for talking that way.

[–] rompipali 11 years ago

Forget anyone on here who says that people don't talk like that anymore... I know plenty of people around 30 years old give or take that have accents. It depends how your parents talked, and how deep your roots are. The problem with this movie is that it was cast terribly. Freddy Prinze would've done better if he did his regular accent... it just didn't work. Scott Caan has always been a jewish guy wanting to play an italian mobster. His father was good in the Godfather, but it was too much for Scott to try a hand at it.

To me it seemed like Scott and Freddy watched Goodfellas a few times and studied movies like that that to get the accents down which isn't really a good example because you hear the same stupid phrases and words... but the truth is it's more than just saying "fugheddaboutit". It's the attitude. Jerry Ferrara is from Brooklyn and you can hear it. It's who he is and the way he talks