An interesting study in Perceptual Dialectology, this thread. She said a magic word in there, at least for the US viewers--"Seattle". Pegging her "General American" accent to Seattle has cause a tide of readers to say, "Yeah, Seattle has no accent! Yeah!" Had she said "Denver", "Salt Lake City", "Boise", "Portland", or "Omaha", I'm sure we would have gotten responses from those people, all of whom have very similar phonological varieties.

Everyone has an accent except the people that sound like you.

Gosh, they haven't tried to make contact yet? This is what we get when there isn't a horrible Star Trek franchise series on air to teach us how to deal with alien life.

Turns out Open Mic Night on BoingBoing is much like real life--a lot of crap punctuated by some real gold. Interesting.

I am:

*shocked that so many people care
*impressed by how many good songs are 2:42
*saddened by how many boing boing readers are taking this seriously.
*a hypocrite for even responding myself.

I read this McSweeney's list awhile ago and never really suspected people actually had some of these. One person's short humorous list is another's daily life. Rad.

I wonder how many people actually give them the bird...I know *I'd* be tempted.