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I have a curious question. I wonder how they taught you certain words in speech therapy if you went to it before?

How do they teach you how to pronounce water?

Reason I'm asking this is because I wasn't aware until last year that you can identify someone from where they are from by how they speak. Like, Californians say "water" differently than someone from Virginia. So if they tried over and over until you get the sound of water right, it could have been their style but not how others may have learned it. :hmm:
 
I go speech therapy few years as child, but never learn say any word. Sorry no help.
 
im not sure what do you mean? like accent? NYC and Long Island have different accents. They will know if they are from NYC or LI or Boston or Maine is that what you mean?
 
with my hearing aids, I can pick up vowels but not consonants and that is enough for me to distinguish between accents. I can always tell when I'm speaking with a British citizen becaue they don't move their lips very much, they're not as animated but instead "proper".
 
I used to pronounce drawers the same way you pronounce draw with an r affixed to it. The rest of my family would say drawers the Southern way.

When my mother met my speech teacher (who was also my first grade teacher) she found out that my teacher was from Maine and that is why I had been speaking certain words with a Maine accent.
 
deafskeptic said:
I used to pronounce drawers the same way you pronounce draw with an r affixed to it. The rest of my family would say drawers the Southern way.

When my mother met my speech teacher (who was also my first grade teacher) she found out that my teacher was from Maine and that is why I had been speaking certain words with a Maine accent.
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I've never lived anywhere up north for more than 3 months of my life.
 
Yes it's like accent but accent means from different country/language (I think that is the literal meaning).
It's kind of the same like regional signs, more like spoken dialect.

So if the ST taught you how to say water over and over because they want you to speak it their way. But the ST's way may not have been always the right way to speak it so they forced you to learn the dialect of the area.

I'm amazed you can tell the difference between NYC and LI dialect, is it easy to see? I can't see it, but I can somewhat hear it.
 
I prefer not to think about it. It was such a dreary time. :|
 
naisho said:
Yes it's like accent but accent means from different country/language (I think that is the literal meaning).
It's kind of the same like regional signs, more like spoken dialect.

So if the ST taught you how to say water over and over because they want you to speak it their way. But the ST's way may not have been always the right way to speak it so they forced you to learn the dialect of the area.

I'm amazed you can tell the difference between NYC and LI dialect, is it easy to see? I can't see it, but I can somewhat hear it.
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I can't tell whats the difference between nyc or LI but my family told me about it or my hearing friends, B-b-b-but, if i lived in LI. I would tell if those people are NOT from LI. :lol:

you are right it depends on which speech therapist who wants me to speak her way. Thats true. I had several different speech therapists and all of them are different. one ask me to use tongue to touch upper in mouth or more harder or soft or that or this. :dizzy:
 
Do you mean did we have a speech therapist that had an accent that was not same as our and they tried to made speak like them? I did have a speech therapist that called herself a hilly billy and I can't remember if had she an accent, it was so long ago. I had people tell me I have a Boston accent by the way I say my 'R' . I was also told by a speech therapist I have a nasally voice.
 
I just say..

"water" and 100% of the time, hearing people were able to understand me saying that word. How do I do it, dunno.
 
DeafCaroline said:
with my hearing aids, I can pick up vowels but not consonants and that is enough for me to distinguish between accents. I can always tell when I'm speaking with a British citizen becaue they don't move their lips very much, they're not as animated but instead "proper".
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I can lipread the Brits and Welshes better than I can lipread the Canadians, as weird as that sounds.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Do you mean did we have a speech therapist that had an accent that was not same as our and they tried to made speak like them? I did have a speech therapist that called herself a hilly billy and I can't remember if had she an accent, it was so long ago. I had people tell me I have a Boston accent by the way I say my 'R' . I was also told by a speech therapist I have a nasally voice.
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Yes, there are different ways to say it.
I've seen/noticed the following ways to say it:

The western dialect for water:
"WAHTER"

The Pennsylvania dialect for water is like saying wood:
"WOODER"

The southern dialect for water:
"WOOHTER"

I've personally met a chemistry professor who was from the south, and she kept saying woohter and I had to ask her what she was saying. Anyway, on the topic, so the ST taught you in her dialect, which sometimes is not the real one. I'm thinking why do they make you so much to say it a certain dialect when you could have pronounced it in another dialect and be fine. Maybe hearing ST's just like to force deaf people to learn everything their way.

Edit: Hmm, thinking even further. Deaf are fine with regional signs. Hearing people notice regional dialects and make fun of each other about it. What a strange behavior. I suppose hearing tends to be more fussy or tolerating people.
 
From the South...and I speak water...."wat-er"...my accent is not Southern. The most difficult word I encountered when I became deaf was "guarantee"...

I've often wondered about the California accent versus the Southern accent....
 
I met a redneck southern man. He seemed to be a nice man, but I realized that he has somewhat low IQ. I was surprised what he was saying to me about his mother. For example, he said, "Momma is at my house". Momma is often use this word for little children to say it. We use to say "Mom" or "mother" as adult which is very common nowadays. "Mom" can still use for the children to say it. But, Momma is very old word.

Off record, most people write this "My mom is at the store." This is a sort of not correct, and it should have written like this, "My Mom is at the store." Pretty interesting, uh?
 
webexplorer said:
I met a redneck southern man. He seemed to be a nice man, but I realized that he has somewhat low IQ. I was surprised what he was saying to me about his mother. For example, he said, "Momma is at my house". Momma is often use this word for little children to say it. We use to say "Mom" or "mother" as adult which is very common nowadays. "Mom" can still use for the children to say it. But, Momma is very old word.

Off record, most people write this "My mom is at the store." This is a sort of not correct, and it should have written like this, "My Mom is at the store." Pretty interesting, uh?
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I always called my mother "Mamma"...Mother sounded so informal. Same as for my Sister, I call her "Sis"....my Brother "Bro"...and some cousins..."Cuz"...

And some men even call their wives "Mother"....I don't consider it having a "low IQ'...just a figure of speech and people also have nick-names for their family members....
 
naisho said:
Edit: Hmm, thinking even further. Deaf are fine with regional signs. Hearing people notice regional dialects and make fun of each other about it. What a strange behavior. I suppose hearing tends to be more fussy or tolerating people.
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I noticed that too with hearing people. One hearing people I know was talking other hearing person and that person was laughing at her way saying "bath" cos she do northern way. When that hearing person gone, I ask her why that person laugh at you, she told me cos she say "bath" different.

So far I never met Deaf or interpreter make fun other Deaf or interpreter with regional signs.
 
rockin'robin said:
I always called my mother "Mamma"...Mother sounded so informal. Same as for my Sister, I call her "Sis"....my Brother "Bro"...and some cousins..."Cuz"...

And some men even call their wives "Mother"....I don't consider it having a "low IQ'...just a figure of speech and people also have nick-names for their family members....
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That's why I was awkward to hear some words. It made me think of Yankees and Union in the old days. Gee! I thought that "Sis" and "Bro" are more alike slang words from American-African. Sorry, I'm just a little bit biased. These words are ok I have to get used them no problem.
 
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