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Farmer-Rick

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25. It's not all that different

Fri Nov 4, 2022, 10:12 AM

Nov 2022

Most people can still understand each other when they speak...... except for a few areas.

I'm from Maryland/Pennsylvania area. When I went to Newport RI, and invited my parents up to visit, they could not understand a lot of the locals...but I had no problem with understanding them.

But when I went to Georgia, sometimes I could not understand a certain accent. I'm not sure what it was and it only happened maybe twice a year. It was a very thick Southern accent that to my ears sounded like a foreign language but people around me understood it just fine.

It happened at a checkout counter and for the life of me I could not understand the clerk. So, the people around me started interpreting for me, like they were use to it. Anyway, I never found out what that accent was.

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