2nd Assignment: Boston

I am from Boston. I am from the area where people talk quickly, rudely, and with the northern dialect. I was born there and raised there for about four years. While there I learned how each word sounded by listening to my parents and their friends. Also from all the friends I made growing up with that could speak I learned more words. From there I learned my dialect without knowing it was or what was a dialect. I also learned a few northern traditions and foods that was considered normal and regular to eat at a majority of times. The place I grew up definitely left a mark on me that has stuck with me till this day. There I would either be living near the city or near the coast so I would always be on the water. I got used to waking up to the sunrise over the ocean and going out on a boat and doing water sports all the time. Other times it would be swimming in my heated pool with my family. After moving down to Georgia I was ridiculed for the way I spoke and the way I said my sentences. People would have to ask what I said over and over to understand what I was saying because of how I said my R's. A lot of people would make fun of how I spoke just because I sounded so different. A lot of people started calling me Boston back when I went to middle and high school. Still today I sometimes pronounce certain words with a northern accent. I try not to speak that way anymore because whenever one of those words slip out people are confused and have to ask me to repeat what I said. It is quite annoying so I just try not to do it. Although I do keep my northern speaking ability alive in me by talking like that with my family. Some of my family are from Sweden so they have thick accents mixed with northern dialects so the way I talk is very different from the south. I refuse to talk with a country accent because a lot of people affiliate southern accents with stupidity. I do not really understand why that is nowadays because some southerners are very smart but I just will not use the southern twang, slang or accents. So I keep my Boston side of me alive but do not really let anyone notice. I am glad I am from Boston and I am going to try to keep the place where I was born alive in me forever.