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4:51pm April 27, 2012
codeman38: lingllama: [An image of a pushpin piercing a ballpoint pen. Text: “PIN-PEN MERGER: UR DOIN IT RITE”] *giggles* I’m originally from Georgia. I have this vowel merger. How did I not think of this visual pun myself?! Where does that merger generally come from? My mom has it. And her parents are basically… well her mom’s family is kind of Sweden -> Minnesota -> Oregon. And then her dad is from all over the place, the only two I remember are Arkansas and Kansas, and eventually Oregon with my grandma, which is where my mom was raised. And my mom’s accent has all of these elements to it. (My dad’s accent doesn’t have it and his family was Oklahoma/Arkansas -> California. His accent is a blend of Southern and Californian, with the level of each varying by context.) ETA: Weird. I just looked it up and my dad really should have it. His relatives were exactly the ones they talk about, going from the Ozarks to the Bakersfield area. Weird. Or maybe he has it and I never noticed as much as with my mom? I don’t know.

codeman38:

lingllama:

[An image of a pushpin piercing a ballpoint pen. Text: “PIN-PEN MERGER: UR DOIN IT RITE”]

*giggles* I’m originally from Georgia. I have this vowel merger. How did I not think of this visual pun myself?!

Where does that merger generally come from? My mom has it. And her parents are basically… well her mom’s family is kind of Sweden -> Minnesota -> Oregon. And then her dad is from all over the place, the only two I remember are Arkansas and Kansas, and eventually Oregon with my grandma, which is where my mom was raised. And my mom’s accent has all of these elements to it. (My dad’s accent doesn’t have it and his family was Oklahoma/Arkansas -> California. His accent is a blend of Southern and Californian, with the level of each varying by context.)

ETA: Weird. I just looked it up and my dad really should have it. His relatives were exactly the ones they talk about, going from the Ozarks to the Bakersfield area. Weird. Or maybe he has it and I never noticed as much as with my mom? I don’t know.

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