Oh god, as a former actor from North Jersey who spent a LOT OF TIME thinking about accents in general, I have MANY FEELS about this post.
Because the thing is that as much as a Jersey (or Northeast) accent sounds nothing like an English-Australian hybrid accent, we DO distinguish vowel sounds much, MUCH more than other areas of the country do. A lot of American accents flatten out all the vowels, and there's generally not as much variation between different vowel sounds. So like, my answers for 80% of this quiz are exactly the same as yours are, but HOW I pronounce many of those words isn't the same as how you do.
I'm also just totally fucked accent-wise though, because I grew up in Jersey but I don't have a Jersey accent like the MCR boys do, mostly because my PARENTS are from New England (but not Boston) so I'm like a cross between the two. And once you start playing around with your speech for performance purposes it totally fucks up EVERYTHING, both because I mimic whoever I'm talking with to some degree, ALWAYS, and also because I'm aware of the different ways to say all of those words, and so I can do it, and it's hard for me to concretely say THIS is how I always say this word. And some words just CHANGE, like "orange" - if I'm saying the fruit, I say it more like you probably do, but if I'm talking about the Jersey town South Orange, I say it much closer to the way that Frank does, because that's how I ALWAYS hear that town name pronounced.
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Because the thing is that as much as a Jersey (or Northeast) accent sounds nothing like an English-Australian hybrid accent, we DO distinguish vowel sounds much, MUCH more than other areas of the country do. A lot of American accents flatten out all the vowels, and there's generally not as much variation between different vowel sounds. So like, my answers for 80% of this quiz are exactly the same as yours are, but HOW I pronounce many of those words isn't the same as how you do.
I'm also just totally fucked accent-wise though, because I grew up in Jersey but I don't have a Jersey accent like the MCR boys do, mostly because my PARENTS are from New England (but not Boston) so I'm like a cross between the two. And once you start playing around with your speech for performance purposes it totally fucks up EVERYTHING, both because I mimic whoever I'm talking with to some degree, ALWAYS, and also because I'm aware of the different ways to say all of those words, and so I can do it, and it's hard for me to concretely say THIS is how I always say this word. And some words just CHANGE, like "orange" - if I'm saying the fruit, I say it more like you probably do, but if I'm talking about the Jersey town South Orange, I say it much closer to the way that Frank does, because that's how I ALWAYS hear that town name pronounced.
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