Monday Links
City Council Analyzes NY Food Industry [NY Times] Unlearning to Tawk Like a New Yorker [NY Times] Norris Church Mailer Dies in Home in Brooklyn Heights [NY Times] Bicyclist Hits Brooklyn Bridge Kid [NY Post] Solar Energy System Planned for Sunset Park Compound [NY Post] Brooklyn Principal Bounced from School [NY Post] Bed Bugs Writhe…
City Council Analyzes NY Food Industry [NY Times]
Unlearning to Tawk Like a New Yorker [NY Times]
Norris Church Mailer Dies in Home in Brooklyn Heights [NY Times]
Bicyclist Hits Brooklyn Bridge Kid [NY Post]
Solar Energy System Planned for Sunset Park Compound [NY Post]
Brooklyn Principal Bounced from School [NY Post]
Bed Bugs Writhe the D Line [NY Post]
Seed Money Needed for Kid’s Garden Project [NY Daily News]
Living Near a Transitional Home [NY Daily News]
A Brooklyn Panda Made for Punching [WSJ]
Just Like Real Thing, Almost No One Will Like AY Play [Observer]
Illegal Backyard Restaurants Close Down After Crackdown [Brooklyn Paper]
Cool New Kids Shop on Vanderbilt [Brooklyn Paper]
Jay-Z Brings it Back Home [Brooklyn Paper]
What’s Inside St. Ann’s Plan for Warehouse [Brooklyn Eagle]
Community Garden in Park Slope Creates Compost Initiative [Brooklyn Eagle]
A great resource for accents from the just the last generaion (c. 1980) is Style Wars, the documentary about taggers and early rappers in NYC.
I find it hard to believe that people said could not understand the accent. Maybe some of the vocabulary/vernacular but not the accent.
Deep south is hard to understand.
And it is definitely the nasal twang of midwest that is annoying.
Of course, depends on voice of the speaker. Some people will sound annoying no matter the accent.
Where’s the NYT article on Esposito talking about how much Carroll Gardens has changed, and not for the better?
Etson;
Indeed the NY accent is becoming an endangered species in the city itself, with the exception of a few enclaves here and there. It can be found nowadays mostly in suburbs like Long Island and parts of Jersey.
The reasons are hinted at in the article. NY City is becoming a homestead for corporate types, who are drawn from a nationwide pool and are not particularly tied to any one area. There are other sectors – cops, fireman, construction, the utilities, for example – that draw labor primarily from local folks. At the salaries they make, they tend to live in the suburbs, and they have no reason to change their accent, as it is that of their hometown.
I miss the days when NY’ers were proud of their accent.
old new york accents are much much pleasing on their ear than mid western nasally twang. ouch! the worst part is that all newscasters regardless of where they live in the country are trained to speak in that eardrum shattering way.
*rob*
And I see we’re on a holiday OT schedule . . .
[SIGH]
There’s nothing wrong with dropping ‘r’s IMO. Bland general American accents are boring–I love the cultivated New York accents you hear in pre-WWII recordings.
I like the old-style NYC accent (I read somewhere that the ‘real’ NY accent is more common on LI than in NYC now). Growing up in the UK, I came across a lot of stupid accent-based snobbery, and always think it’s awesome to see successful people who retain their regional accents.
“Morales was riding in the bike lane on the bridge’s boardwalk, and the Nielsen family was walking in the pedestrian lane when they ran into each other near the Prospect Street exit on the Brooklyn side of the span.”
Physically impossible. But what do you expect from a rag like the Post.