omg thank you for this!!!!! I have been telling people for years. I may have a homesteaders life in the north country now, but I was born and raised in Queens NYC, in a nice neighborhood, I was born in 1950, left NYC in 1977. We all talk like that! People would say "he doesn't make any sense", I said, of course he does, when he refers to things and compares things,,, its just how we talk, interjecting a story with a phrase or an question, the energy. It gets really bad when I am around other NY'ers, even my old accent comes out. This reminds me of a comment I read on Youtube, the video was about some barrista yelling at a customer, and the customer yelling back. The comment was "whats the big deal? They're from Queens, everyone yells in Queens".
Exactly. My nanna was born in Brooklyn in 1920 and she sounded pretty much like Edith Bunker. Family holidays were fairly raucous and between her, my dad, and my uncles, it probably sounded much like the video. It has actually taken me a few decades to figure out that not everyone talks in "weave" format. I never even knew it had a name until this interview. I was born on the west coast and did not have the Brooklyn accent, but I can tell you that to this day I have to keep my "weave" in check... not always successfully.
omg thank you for this!!!!! I have been telling people for years. I may have a homesteaders life in the north country now, but I was born and raised in Queens NYC, in a nice neighborhood, I was born in 1950, left NYC in 1977. We all talk like that! People would say "he doesn't make any sense", I said, of course he does, when he refers to things and compares things,,, its just how we talk, interjecting a story with a phrase or an question, the energy. It gets really bad when I am around other NY'ers, even my old accent comes out. This reminds me of a comment I read on Youtube, the video was about some barrista yelling at a customer, and the customer yelling back. The comment was "whats the big deal? They're from Queens, everyone yells in Queens".
Exactly. My nanna was born in Brooklyn in 1920 and she sounded pretty much like Edith Bunker. Family holidays were fairly raucous and between her, my dad, and my uncles, it probably sounded much like the video. It has actually taken me a few decades to figure out that not everyone talks in "weave" format. I never even knew it had a name until this interview. I was born on the west coast and did not have the Brooklyn accent, but I can tell you that to this day I have to keep my "weave" in check... not always successfully.
I dated a guy once, a Maine Yankee, he used to tell me to use turn signals when I talked.
kek!