▲ 91 ▼ What's yours? (reddthat.com) submitted 1 year ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to c/casualeurope@piefed.social 49 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago* (4 children) Lngisland Cawfee Ayyyy I'm walkin here! Basically American asshole accent lol permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] loppy@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (3 children) Cawfee Ok, this is really interesting to me. I think what you're trying to say is that you have the cot-caught merger, but for anyone who doesn't have this merger (like me) "cawfee" would be pronounced exactly the same as standard "coffee". For me, "caw" as in a crow cawing is the same vowel as in "caught", not the same as in "cot" which is the vowel I associate with the accent you're trying to convey. So it's not so much the direct intent behind your spelling, but the fact that you incorrectly think that someone like me would pronounce "cawfee" and "coffee" differently which outs you as someone who doesn't disntinguish "caught" from "cot". Or I'm completely off-base and don't have any idea what you're trying to convey with "cawfee". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] klu9@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) The way I wawk, the way I tawk. Now you can tell I was bawn in the State of New Yawk. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] erin@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 11 months ago Yeah if I pronounced this phonetically, it wouldn't be a NY accent at all permalink fedilink source parent [–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 point 1 year ago That is pretty interesting! Yeah I do believe it's a mixture of caught-cot. I remember getting a lot of shit when I temporarily lived in Florida over how I'd say coffee lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] loppy@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (3 children) Cawfee Ok, this is really interesting to me. I think what you're trying to say is that you have the cot-caught merger, but for anyone who doesn't have this merger (like me) "cawfee" would be pronounced exactly the same as standard "coffee". For me, "caw" as in a crow cawing is the same vowel as in "caught", not the same as in "cot" which is the vowel I associate with the accent you're trying to convey. So it's not so much the direct intent behind your spelling, but the fact that you incorrectly think that someone like me would pronounce "cawfee" and "coffee" differently which outs you as someone who doesn't disntinguish "caught" from "cot". Or I'm completely off-base and don't have any idea what you're trying to convey with "cawfee". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] klu9@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) The way I wawk, the way I tawk. Now you can tell I was bawn in the State of New Yawk. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] erin@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 11 months ago Yeah if I pronounced this phonetically, it wouldn't be a NY accent at all permalink fedilink source parent [–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 point 1 year ago That is pretty interesting! Yeah I do believe it's a mixture of caught-cot. I remember getting a lot of shit when I temporarily lived in Florida over how I'd say coffee lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) The way I wawk, the way I tawk. Now you can tell I was bawn in the State of New Yawk. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] erin@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 11 months ago Yeah if I pronounced this phonetically, it wouldn't be a NY accent at all permalink fedilink source parent
[–] erin@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 11 months ago Yeah if I pronounced this phonetically, it wouldn't be a NY accent at all permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 point 1 year ago That is pretty interesting! Yeah I do believe it's a mixture of caught-cot. I remember getting a lot of shit when I temporarily lived in Florida over how I'd say coffee lol permalink fedilink source parent