{"id":6256,"date":"2009-12-03T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2009-12-03T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T16:00:22","slug":"21-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6256","title":{"rendered":"21 Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday someone asked what a &#8220;California&#8221; accent sounds like. This is a pretty interesting demonstration, but you can jump right to 1:40 to hear what I&#8217;m talking about:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3UgpfSp2t6k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>California is one of those rare places where females and males have pronounced differences in their speech patterns.  (The only other that I&#8217;m aware of is Japan.) <\/p>\n<p>To me, the &#8220;Seattle&#8221; accent is &#8220;natural&#8221; to me.  That matches my own accent to the point where I can&#8217;t detect any differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday someone asked what a &#8220;California&#8221; accent sounds like. This is a pretty interesting demonstration, but you can jump right to 1:40 to hear what I&#8217;m talking about: Link (YouTube) California is one of those rare places where females and males have pronounced differences in their speech patterns. (The only other that I&#8217;m aware of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}