The Pittsburgh accent.
This defies all logic, simply because I had no idea you could miss something that you absolutely despised. Make no mistake - I hate the Pittsburgh accent. It is virtually impossible to sound eloquent or even semi-intelligent when speaking Pittsburghese. Now, I've found that most people that have a strong Pittsburgh accent are neither eloquent nor semi-intelligent to begin with, but having the accent surely doesn't help. If the southern accent is hospitable, inviting, and altogether charming to the ears, then the Pittsburgh accent must be its ugly stepsister. And boy is she ever ugly. "Y'all" is so cute and nurturing. You can't help but smile when someone refers to you and your posse as "y'all". But come to Pittsburgh and you'll be referred to as "yinz". I used to think that adding a "z" to a word gave it pizazz. Just look at the word "pizazz" for example. It has THREE fucking Zs. That's pretty awesome. But "yinz" is so ugly and gag-inducing. I will never answer to "yinz". But my heart might melt to "y'all". Southern accent 1. Pittsburgh accent 0. Again, not sure how I'm going to miss something that I just insulted for an entire paragraph. Then again, you cannot hate what you do not love. And I'll hate the Pittsburgh accent all the way to Virginia. Until someone tells me I have a weird accent, in which case I'll all of a sudden grow a giant pair of hometown balls and starting defending myself.
"Yinz guys don' even know Picksburgh, you jag-offs! Don't git nebby wit me, I'll take ya dahntahn ya buncha clahns!"
^WTF DOES THAT EVEN MEAN.
*If you really want to know what I'm talking about in this blog post, study up.
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