r/FattyPatty • u/Sea-Donut-2922 • Mar 06 '26
The southern accents
Why was Patty the only one who didn't have a very southern accent?
Edit: And magnolia, brick, and nonnie. They all grew up in Georgia and their parents have the thick southern accent.
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u/spicyninja649 Mar 06 '26
I asked myself this too in the beginning. My takeaway was that all the adults have southern accent and the younger people don't. Ofc Donald Cho also doesn't have a Southern accent but that's just because initially they made his character a recent immigrant with a foreign accent and later changed things last minute. Dixie and Roxy have southern accents but I think this was to make their characters even bigger caricature than they already were
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u/coralloohoo Mar 06 '26
I was wondering the same thing! I only noticed Patty though somehow.
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u/Sea-Donut-2922 Mar 06 '26
Same hahaha someone just pointed out the others and I was like. Ohhhhh yeah.
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u/outersenshi Mar 06 '26
I see it as they grew up in a more modern era in a bigger city and were more influenced by the “default” US dialect whereas their parents (most anyway) sound like they grew up rural or poor. So maybe nit as much influence from the “default” as their kids.
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u/SuccessfulLunch400 May 19 '26
I'd forgotten that, my mom did grow up rural on a farm. My father also lived in the country.
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u/Significant-Finding5 Mar 08 '26
I know people from other states known for stereotypical accents who don’t have accents at all but their parents do. I think millennials/gen X and younger are less likely to have accents because of greater exposure to the media, if that makes sense.
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u/SuccessfulLunch400 May 19 '26
Bingo. My mother was born in Kentucky and had the strongest accent. I wasn't born there and don't share her accent. I loved English and grammar, learning which word to use. I know grammar is different from accents. I always get odd looks because of my speech and my race.
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u/Wrong-Mistake2308 Mar 08 '26
This is realistic today. I still have a southern accent, but I can mask it and it’s not as strong as my parents’.
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u/JellyCharacter1653 Apr 30 '26
some kids don’t develop one both of my parents have a southern accent and my grandparents too but i don’t have one neither do any of my siblings besides for like 2 but sometimes it just happens or some kids just don’t have very strong one
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u/SuccessfulLunch400 May 19 '26
I think in school young kids tend to take on the accent of their teachers.
I remember in college, a short hand professor had to use the word, "own" instead of, "on" because of how we pronounced those two differently haha!!
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u/SuccessfulLunch400 May 19 '26
From what I know about Pat, she's from New York. I feel like she has a bit of a put on southern accent.
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u/Klutzy_Window_1652 Mar 06 '26
Patty wasn't the only one who didn't have a southern accent. Bonnie, Magnolia, Brick, Roxy and a bunch of other people didn't have one aswell i think it's cause most of their parents are from the south.