Accents

WATCH: Is Sofia Vergara's Accent Real?

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Manolo Gonzalez Vergara, Video, Cultura, Sofia Vergara Modern Family, Accent, Sofia Vergara, Parody, Accents, Sofia Vergara Accent, Slidepollajax, Comedy, Modern Family, Sophia Vergara Accent, Sofia Vergara Real Accent, Latino Voices News

Sofia Vergara has an accent? Hm, here at LatinoVoices we didn't seem to catch that. Kidding. According to her Vergara's son, 20-year-old Manolo Gon...

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WATCH: Siri Doesn't Like Hispanic Accents

Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iphone, Siri, Video, Apple Iphone, Iphone 4s, Hispanic Accents, iPhone App, Accents, Technology, iPhone Apps, Siri App, Latino Voices News

Siri, iPhone4S' new artificial intelligence personal assistant, is having trouble understanding heavy accents, specifically native Spanish speakers wh...

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'Puss In Boots' And Hollywood Stereotypes

Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Cultura, Video, Stereotypes, Hispanic Accents, Puss in Boots, Accents, Hollywood, Puss N Boots, Antonio Puss N Boots, Latino Voices News

Slowly, the entertainment industry is taking notice that Latinos are a demographic force to be taken seriously. In baby steps, tiny foot-dragging s...

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What Is This Yorkshire Dialect Anyways?

Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dialect, Anne Hathaway Yorkshire Accent, Anne Hathaway British Accent, Accents, North Yorkshire, Languages, Film, Anne Hathaway, British Accent, Anne Hathaway Accent, Culture News

The righteous fury Anne Hathaway unleashed when she attempted a Yorkshire accent in "One Day" has us asking the obvious journalistic question -- what ...

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Accent in America

Lori O'Hara | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Accents, Speech Therapy, English Language, Culture News
Lori O'Hara

Despite being a nation built on welcoming those from afar, bias taints our interactions and the media perpetuates ideas of infamy, villainy or pathetic comedy at the expense of those who look or sound differently than "we" do.

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WATCH: Trailer For Documentary Devoted To The New York Accent

Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Linguistics, Video, New Yorker, New York Accent, Documentary, Heather Quinlan, Accents, If These Knishes Could Talk, Film, Mobster, Staten Island, New York, Arts News

With Manhattan property getting more and more expensive and funneling old families to the outer boroughs, New York City is losing its accents. "If The...

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Success and Luck

Robert H. Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert H. Frank

Luck's role in economic success remains oddly controversial. If you don't know where a new acquaintance stands politically, just ask him about this. If he insists luck doesn't matter, he's almost surely a staunch conservative.

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Goodbye To 'G'day Mate': Australian Twang Is Disapearing

Yahoo! News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Research shows the nasal Australian twang -- exemplified by the late Irwin and the character Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee -- will be phased out within a fe...

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Eyes in My Eyes

Terry Marotta | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Boston, New Orleans, Dialects, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Katrina, Accents, Diversity, Regional Dialects, Healthy Living News
Terry Marotta

I had a lesson in diversity last week in New Orleans, where I found myself so completely out of my element that when a couple of young women kept calling me "Ma'am" I took their tone for sarcastic.

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