Is there a difference between Yoopers and Canadians?

[Jonyak]

ugh, I wish he wasn't from here.

my wife is from the soo, and worked alot in michigan. I have spent alot of time there. most of the people I know there are dual citizens, or canadians on vacation.

[Randall]

Canadians have many accents just like America has. It makes it fun to guess where people grew up and learned their lingo

[Jonyak]

My wife says yes, there is a difference between Yoopers and canadians.

To Quote her: "Canadian are more liberal."

[Apocalypse Dude]

I use eh fairly often as in "Good game last night eh?". But I've noticed most people my age don't have an accent, although I did travel to Newfoundland and met people who said "three" like "tree", "beat" like "bet" and said bi as in "How's she goin' bi?". That took a little getting use to.

[Brick Top]

Originally Posted by pbasswil

I don't know if you're just trying to have some fun (can't tell from how you said it), but to me that's a tiresome point of view.

So far this has been a pretty friendly jaw about amusing differences between close neighbours. Can I suggest that there's not much to gain by making someone right and someone wrong?

Take it easy...my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek. I get teased everyday here in Michigan ABOUT the way I talk....and I've been here for over 10 years.

But I don't take it to heart....and I understand that there is no right or wrong way to speak when it's regarding simple slang or accents.

[Brick Top]

Originally Posted by Phalex

My wife and I are both trolls. (We both live under the bridge) She grew up in northern lower Michigan though, so whilst I qualify as a "Fudgie" she does not.

You are still a fudgie even if you live there? I would say only the tourists are fudgies...at least that's they way we think of it here in Cheboygan.

[pbasswil]

Originally Posted by Apocalypse Dude

...I use eh fairly often as in "Good game last night eh?". But I've noticed most people my age don't have an accent...

No accent, huh? (eh?) I assure you, travel far enough from your region, you'll have an accent. We all have one, cuz it's completely relative!

[pbasswil]

Originally Posted by Brick Top

Take it easy...my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek. I get teased everyday here in Michigan ABOUT the way I talk....and I've been here for over 10 years.

But I don't take it to heart....and I understand that there is no right or wrong way to speak when it's regarding simple slang or accents.

Cool, consider me taken easy. :^D

Say, judging from your avatar you must have a good appreciation of Father Ted's Irish! One of my favorite shows, ever.

[crucislancer]

Originally Posted by Relic

bah! Try living in New Jersey. We're all apparently supposed to talk like we have some sort of asinine speech impediment - "new joisey", dawgs, wooter, coowfee" I have yet to hear someone actually talk like we're supposed to talk. Errr... towk

My cousins are from New Jersey, and while they don't sound exactly like you described, they do have a hint of it.

Having lived on both coasts, there are times that my speech has a mix of all kinds of dialect and slang from East and West.

And I found this fascinating: my last girlfriend had an accent that reminded me very much of someone from Chicago, yet she had never been there in her life. She was from Oakland, California.

[sarcastro83]

Originally Posted by Strat-Mangler

I'm Canadian and can say it gets tiresome hearing that stupid "eh" crap when so few people say it. I've lived in Montreal, Toronto, and have visited a bunch of cities in my lifetime and have heard maybe a handful of people say that.

Same goes with "aboot."

From Canada to the US : "Get new material, guys."

Canadians are the over-sensitive bass players of the international community.

Sexiest Canadian accent is the way a hot Francophone girl from Montreal butchers "de Hinglish" language...

HOT.

[Brick Top]

Originally Posted by pbasswil

Cool, consider me taken easy. :^D

Say, judging from your avatar you must have a good appreciation of Father Ted's Irish! One of my favorite shows, ever.

One of my fav's as well(obviously)...as well as The Black Adder series.

[Brick Top]

Originally Posted by sarcastro83

Canadians are the over-sensitive bass players of the international community.

Good one! It was time for a new sig line....may I?

[sarcastro83]

Originally Posted by Brick Top

Good one! It was time for a new sig line....may I?

She's all yours, eh?

[Phalex]

Originally Posted by Brick Top

You are still a fudgie even if you live there? I would say only the tourists are fudgies...at least that's they way we think of it here in Cheboygan.

Nah! Anyone that lives south of M55 is a fudgie. This is according to my wife who spent her formative years in Vanderbilt MI before getting married and moving "down state".

[crikker]

OK. I'm a Yooper whatcha want?

[crikker]

Oh yeah, did six years at KI Sawyer. 45 minutes from home. LOL. Didn't mind.

[MIJ-VI]

Originally Posted by Strat-Mangler

I'm Canadian and can say it gets tiresome hearing that stupid "eh" crap when so few people say it. I've lived in Montreal, Toronto, and have visited a bunch of cities in my lifetime and have heard maybe a handful of people say that.

Same goes with "aboot."

From Canada to the US : "Get new material, guys."

So you're not from up north, eh?

[Phalex]

Originally Posted by MIJ-VI

So you're not from up north, eh?

I tink dat's supposedah be nort.

[pbasswil]

Originally Posted by Phalex

I tink dat's supposedah be nort.

Hmm... I have heard francophone Québecers sound a little like that. Is that what that's supposed to be -- a French Canadian with a strong accent?

[L-A]

"Nort" ? Even in french it's written Nord, and the D is completely silent. So, no.

Maybe ancient French, but we're talking about the time where there were fewer letters in the alphabet. That's too old for Québec.