It’s definitely some mutant variety of the double o sound.
Listen for the way they say hoagies.
I know there’s related but different accents down through Eastern Delaware and Maryland.
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I know I’m drifting off topic, so apologies, but can I just scream out my loathing for the word “professional”? It’s so beautifully undefined that it’s mostly used as a club by for beating people down for not being like the speaker. There are as many ways of being “unprofessional” as there inflexible arrogant jerks ready to make the accusation.
Alright. I’m done now.
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Is there a line Jimmy Fallon didn’t mangle? I can hear the word much more clearly in this:
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It’s pretty clöse
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I learned to do this instinctively growing up but only realized it one day after yelling something to my friends outside, then going in the house and repeating what I had just said to my parents in a completely different way. Now I understand what was going on but at the time it really blew my mind!
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I was in Germany once for a work trip. I was walking down the street with a coworker and we were talking in English (he speaks fluent German, unlike me that has at best “survival proficiency”). We walked by two people sitting outside at a café talking among themselves. As we started walking by, they just kind of switched to talking in English for no apparent reason and after we had passed started speaking in German again.
Afterward, my coworker looked at me and was like, “wow that was really weird”. It was as if they had subconsciously heard us speaking in English and just started doing that, and then switched back to German right after we had passed by — even though we were just two strangers that nothing to do with their conversation other than proximity. It could have just been a total coincidence but it’s still something I think about from time to time.
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As a Franconian I approve
Why would you put yourself in mortal danger like that?
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I truly envy you in that regard. Anyone can clearly see that I am not Japanese (even though I am an actual citizen of Japan) before I even speak, and anything that a “foreigner” says in any dialect other than modern standard Japanese is just played up for laughs.
Are you able to pass as Franconian (or Bavarian when in Franconia)?
Well, I passed for a Bayreuther when I was in Wunsiedel, but living in Munich and using more English has robbed me of the ability.
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I’m fairly convinced that someone saying, “you speak Japanese really well” is the Japanese equivalent of “bless your heart”.
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