it sounds exactly like their own. Maybe the problem is that Lenny Clarke is from Cambridge.
The accent I'd like to see an outsider try to emulate is that of BDP Commissioner Bill Evans. That's a very specific flavor of the working-class Southie accent that I suspect is very hard to reproduce credibly.
That the truth is otherwise. Hyperlocals can pick up the variations in Boston accents, while outsiders think there is only one way we talk.
When Julianne Moore was on 30 Rock, I often defended her accent in that I had heard people talk like the way she was trying to speak. It wasn't a common variation, but apparently it was the accent her coworkers at HoJo's spoke back in the day.
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This would be perfect for
By eastiesveryown
Sat, 05/02/2015 - 4:41pm
This would be perfect for before and after pic.
Wow...
By Cuzidotrumpet
Sat, 05/02/2015 - 7:18pm
Normally I would think of a "Communist Russia Conspiracy Theory".
But right now I'm thinking of how much abuse that wall just took....what a poor wall.
And for just 5 cents, you can help raise money to give the wall its own bulletproof glass!
Almost a Boston accent
By matthewm
Sun, 05/03/2015 - 8:44am
But sounds more like something from between Providence and New Haven.
It's an
By KBHer
Sun, 05/03/2015 - 12:00pm
East Cambridge accent. That's EC's-own Lenny Clarke speaking.
Funny how nobody thinks a Boston accent is any good unless
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 05/03/2015 - 12:07pm
it sounds exactly like their own. Maybe the problem is that Lenny Clarke is from Cambridge.
The accent I'd like to see an outsider try to emulate is that of BDP Commissioner Bill Evans. That's a very specific flavor of the working-class Southie accent that I suspect is very hard to reproduce credibly.
Then I stand corrected.
By matthewm
Sun, 05/03/2015 - 6:02pm
Then I stand corrected.
Incidentally, my Massachusetts accent sounds like it's spoken by someone born in Western Pennsylvania. That's because, well...
I was about to write
By Waquiot
Mon, 05/04/2015 - 11:32am
That the truth is otherwise. Hyperlocals can pick up the variations in Boston accents, while outsiders think there is only one way we talk.
When Julianne Moore was on 30 Rock, I often defended her accent in that I had heard people talk like the way she was trying to speak. It wasn't a common variation, but apparently it was the accent her coworkers at HoJo's spoke back in the day.
48 hours
By anon
Sun, 05/03/2015 - 9:53am
Leave it there and within 48 hours vandals will paint the wall in pinstripes
Nah. Real Yankees fans don't
By anon
Sun, 05/03/2015 - 4:29pm
Nah. Real Yankees fans don't start caring until the postseason starts.
This is ingenious.
By issacg
Mon, 05/04/2015 - 11:07am
If only I were this creative, I'd be in a different and more enjoyable line of work.
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