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nostr:npub10d5zhp5atut9hcmyyslxdr07s65tj45q72wxvg229ajwjvmpqugq6lvvxa I find regional accents/pronunciation very interesting. Also the way people think of regions. People from the City think of it as the City and upstate, but as someone who grew up in central NY/ Finger lakes, upstate always meant something different to me.

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Christina Anne Hawthorne 2y ago

nostr:npub175l80yqmw7jrh79385lpcdaqdgwvxm25leflgqqedmjpkalphvnqyv55we I'm not that familiar with western NY, but from living in the state I know New Yorkers think of it as very distinct.

At the time, I could differentiate between Long Islanders and New Yorkers (meaning the city). Upstate NY was again distinctly different, but I'd where do you draw the line? The Catskills are kind of a hybrid, the Adirondacks quite different again.

Now, living in the west, people around me often think of NY as NY and that's it, unless they've been there.

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66c09681... 2y ago

nostr:npub10d5zhp5atut9hcmyyslxdr07s65tj45q72wxvg229ajwjvmpqugq6lvvxa I can't remember anything specific, but people from Rochester or Buffalo would occasionally have a slight accent or different word for something. For downstate, I think each borough has a difference in the way they speak, and maybe even different sections of Long Island have their specific differences.