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- Bernie Sanders' accent, explained
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Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both speak with a New York City accent. And Queens College linguist Michael Newman thinks it might be good for their brand. Writing in the New York Times, he said:
"Americans have come to associate New Yorkers, and so New York accents, with saying what you mean, intense emotional talk and not worrying too much about whom you offend."
But the larger pattern outside this year's presidential race is that the New York City accent is stigmatized, and its most distinctive features are fading.
That's why Bernie Sanders provides such an interesting case study. He was born in 1941 and raised in a lower-middle-class household in a Jewish part of Brooklyn. Even though he's now spent more of his life in Vermont than in New York, his voice tells a story of his past and the past of the nation's greatest city.
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The one famous guy who's associated with Vermont isn’t even from Vermont
Haha true
You forgot Ben & Jerry's
They are also from NY!
*who's
bruh what about
*MONTPIELIER, VT*
I grew up in Bernie's neighborhood -He speaks Poyfect English.
You mean PoyfecT?
Poyfect?! Giddadaheah!
@Gavin Lim that was unnecessary
Is that on thoidy toid street?
@M O drink your pork and consume your wine?
We got robbed of a legendary inauguration speech
@Nick Arjomand by the Democratic Party establishment actually 💅🏽
@Nick Arjomand yeah I guess it’s just a coincidence that every other candidate dropped out at the same time but Elizabeth Warren stayed in to ensure the votes were split 🙄
@Nick Arjomand the DNC also admitted they rigged the 2016 primary and a federal court ruled they are ALLOWED to select their own candidate. But that completely defeats the democratic process which is the entire point and why so many voters become fatigued and ambivalent.
@@Pointlesspeach can you link the article?
Dude, imagine the debates between him and Trump.
*I want to hear Bernie say "Bernie Sandahl President of the Yunite Statets of America" So please vote Bernie.*
I just want him president because he's getting old and why not give him the presidency while he's still here? He's a good guy. Too bad I ain't a US citizen.
Do people normally say Hunited States?
Like from Australia
No
im good
I love his accent. Shame it's dying out :(
Shaun Gordon, Regional accents in general are gradually dying out, so NYC accents are not unique in that regard, even though they sound unique!
Michael Naness yes older white people still have the accent, like my aunt, but not a single one of my friends nor anybody in my age period has anything close to a classic NY accent
micklemore, Actually, you can still find younger New Yorkers with traditional NYC accents, though it's more common in the suburbs than the city proper, just as the local accents of other major cities are
it ain't! :) I noticed even Trump has a soft New-Yowkish accent. I get the vibe when he says "Millien/Billien" (Million/Billion), "Pehcent" (Percent), Yuuge (Huge).. his accent is a lot softer than Bernie's though that's for sure.
go to staten island or talk to an older union member, like an electrical worker
Whoa whoa whoa, back it up...Bernie played a rabbi in a 90's romcom?!
IKR?? I wanna see this movie now!
Why does Bernie sound so comforting when he talks but Trump sounds so triggering?
Must be the arrogance in his character. Whereas Bernie's is sincere.
Holly Snow Because you find Bernie comforting and Trump triggering.
JJ [Nobody liked that]
JRH 😂
It's because you don't like Trump and you like Bernie. That's why.
Next video:
"why Marco Rubio talks like a robot"
+mike mikey
Because he needs more battery aka money
+persian pirate
It's because, according to him, he knows exactly what he's doing.
+mike mikey Marco Rubio is Skynet.
+mike mikey Cubans have a very mechanical spanish.
+mike mikey The one you call "Marco Rubio" is Cyberdyne Systems model 102.
That makes me so sad to hear modern New Yorkers are not using their traditional accents! :(
Please don't loose your accents no matter where you are from! Its part of what makes you beautiful!!
Accents are one of the spices of life!
They are not "losing" it, it's just changing, like languages always do.
The traditional white working class variants are steady disappearing with the rise of the education system but the african american and latino ones still going strong 💯
Because they aren't actually New Yorkers, but suburbanites from Jersey and their kids whole piled on and moved into the City after the crime rate went down later in the 1990s. I can recall when they were terrified of the place.
I don’t think it’s intentional.If you hear cwahfee (coffee) and worsh (wash) at home but cough-fee and waash all over on the radio and tv you’re probably gonna end up pronouncing Those words somewhere in-between. And if you’re local accents less pronounced it’s probably gonna be even less pronounced by your kids especially nowadays with kids hearing accents from all over the country and world from an early age.
*lose not loose
Feel the Behn !
is your profile picture the adventure time planet?
Conor Healy Yeah ! I like to call it, "A glimpse to the future with republicans in power"
+Joao Pedro Nasser Feel the Behn.
You must have chlamydia or syphilis if it burns
eric Stoenescu Does herpes count ?
I'm from New York and I really wish I had a profound accent, but as the video said, it's fading. However, when I'm angry, excited, etc., my accent bounces right up, so I guess it's not all gone.
That's the same with me. Especially when I have Road rage
@@SimonKanner-si3it It's still in long Island
I'm from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, but due to working with people from NYC and North Jersey (plus having some speech issue from my youth) in younger adult year, my dialect is now mainly a blend of Philadelphia Dialect and North Jersey. Without it, I would end up sounding like Porky Pig. Whereas "water" in the Philadelphia Dialect is pronounced "wooder," I would say "wooter."
S.H. K. I’m from Long Island and I most defiantly have it
Ken Hudson it’s more like loawgn eye-lan
Idk how it would be an “ethnic” joke but it is kinda a stereotype
Im Jewish and a Brooklynite and i speak like that
Because the accent is dying each generation
Rivky B brooklynite? lmfao
+Rivky B I know it sounds stupid, but to me that accent sounds trustworthy because of Berny Sanders.
I have an accent and I speak lile that too
I speak similar like that as well. I drop my Rs at the emd of words. I live in bay ridge Brooklyn NY.
Oh my God! I'm not sure what's more pleasant. Her voice or her look.
everthing !
I love the way she says, "uuge" and "umans"
definitely not her nonboobies
When you get to be 40+, you'll start to appreciate women for their 'nonboobies' as you say. Bigger certainly doesn't equal better in this regard.
Porque no los dos?
I'm voting for Bernie Sandahs in 2020
Up The Irons I’m sorry
We need YUUGE chainge in ouh countree.
YUUUUGE
i read bernie sandals XD
I would if I was American. Trust me guys, as a Brit who's traveled a lot, you guys absolutely need to elect him. The guy is just right in every way on everything tbh
I will never, never vote for Bernie Sanders!
Because I'm British.
Oh Jeremy Corbyn...
Bri*ish
Pricalt it’s weird we do say it like that and I never realised until the meme surfaced 😂
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
lol
I'm amazed, what a beautiful creature......oh and the girl is cute too
+Michael Mbz nice one
Not really
feel th bern
+Cruzifer07 he was talking about bernie you nitwit
+Cruzifer07 fuck off
Who is she? And how can she be so beautiful?! WOW!
+sanitallica Joss Fong
+sanitallica She has a job because of people like you! Nothing personal, just the way it is.
***** She seems to have studied Science, Health and Environmental Reporting at university and she is a Senior Editorial Producer at Vox, so I don't think she would be out of job otherwise! Not with a beauty and a sweet voice like that! Yupp, I think I'm in love!
*****
Let me decode my passive aggressive comment, since I don't want to come off like an ass. Camera personalities are usually beautiful because of human bias. Therefore its easier to get a job as a presenter or an anchor if you have the right genes. In retrospect I shouldn't have even brought it up. Feel free to ignore me.
+sanitallica Eurasian women have the most attractive faces on earth.
TH-cam in 2016: ...
TH-cam in 2017: ...
TH-cam in 2018: ...
TH-cam in 2019: *I'm abaout to make mahn's huwole careeah*
Jairaj Patil 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is recommended every year
" Cool wHip "
I see wHat you did there
Hannibal Barca Thanks Brian!
brian you're acting weird
+Song Yonguk Oh come on, that doesn't even have an 'h' in it!
It's briahn
I'm so depressed.
Please someone bring Sanders back.
*Sandah
[Not Interested]
*Sandahs
All Bernie supporters are dumb minimum wage socialists who wants to steal from the rich.
Not true.
Olof Palme, the Swedish social democrat who is regarded as one of the founders of the Nordic model, was born into an upper-middle class home. He just saw that social democracy was a fairer system and he spoke up about it. It's a question of ethics, not a question of "Hey, that guy has more than me!"
Please educate yourself to keep from further embarrassment.
What a retarded comment. The nordic model is a fundamentally flawed and failing system. How is stealing money away from hardworking people and subsidizing laziness "fair"?
Liberal policies punishes success and rewards failure.
I love the New York accents
I have a heavy Brooklyn NY accent and I have non rhotic speech.
you should listen to Azzerz's impression of the New York Italian Mafia :P
Morgan Bellavia I love the host of this video.
Me too
Noo Yowk
All other major countries: yeah we already have all the shit Bernie's talking about
America: HoW cAN wE aFfORd IT?!??
+Kyrie Irving Better question is how can we afford to bail out the banks should another recession happen? Why doesn't this question get a substantive answer during the GOP debates? How come the military is 55% of the federal budget and nobody asks how can we afford Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria?
oeckstei Military is actually 55% of discretionary spending but yeah, its WAAAY too much. If the media wasn't corrupt and bought off, they would be asking the questions you just raised.
+Kyrie Irving Yet no one asks about how we could afford the 5 trillion dollars our wars in the Middle East cost...
+Kyrie Irving Funny part is that if you were to cut your military budget by half you would still have the best equipped military in the world and would spend on it waaay more then anyone else in the world...
+oeckstei For a better economy, do what Iceland did and don't bail them out and instead jail the bankers and increase social welfare so the citizens don't suffer from the recession like the rest of the developed world.
Goodness. She's so gorgeous.
+DesapoleEdits pathetic primitive human bias, you disgusting animal
xiAGC123 Sorry.
The Internet Tough Guy your name is fitting
+xiAGC123
Nah, it would have been much more fitting as "Internet Douche Bag."
Melting Sky aye he's a fucker
Silly Vox. Everyone knows it's pronounced
"Boinee Seeanduhz"
I ADORE the way he says understand, "Unduh-stay-und"
She is adorable lol
Nóra Bánfi
Yes, she.
Bernie is a she... duh!
Nóra Bánfi yes she... we are talking about the girl not bernie lol
so is he
Bernie was a fashion model in the late 50's,so yea,he was hot way back.
Excellent video! For some reason I did not expect much when I clicked on this.
Friend Man k
Name checks out.
As a non native English speaker, I find this very interesting.
at 0:47 i totally forgot what the video was about.
Roman R she fine
I did too. Hahaha.
For real, I had to go back and listen again.
Maybe two years late - She is absolutely stunning. Natural beauty.
I was lost @ 0:20 lol a young bernie sandahs is a tall drink a watah
Not only is the New York "thought" vowel raised, it's diphthongized, so it comes out more like /o͡ə/
I'm actually a Jewish guy from Brooklyn and I sound pretty similar to him at times, it cool! I'm way younger and it's less pronounced, but my parents talk exactly like him.
We need fdr style fireside chats when Bernie becomes president just so I can hear him talk every week
that would be wonderful!
Fiyahside chats
Yesss
My good Lord!! This has got to be one of the best educational videos on phonetics and phonology I've ever seen!! As an English teacher, I have to tell you, I freaking love it!! I'm so glad to have stumbled upon it!! You guys are amazing, thanks a million and keep 'em coming!!
everyone is talking about the girl, yeah I guess she is cute.
Bernie is 10x hotter though
jorge murillo randy old beasts
@@YashBudhiraja oh Bernie!
The sun is 6000x hotter
Audi Azham pun intended
This is great content, even though it's not news it's still interesting and informative.
As a linguistics major, I found this video to be very enjoyable, informative, and terrifically well-made (as do a lot of Vox videos). Nice one!
I think Bernie’s story can be told like this:
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Burlington
In west Brooklyn born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Burlington
I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suite case and send me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.
First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orang juice out of a champagne glass.
Is this what the people of Burlington Living like?
Hmm this might be alright.
But wait I hear they're prissy, bourgeois, all that
Is Burlington the type of place they send this cool cat?
I don't think so
I'll see when I get there
I hope they're prepared for the prince of Burlington
Well uh the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out
I ain't trying to get arrested yet
I just got here
I sprang with the quickness like lightening, disappeared
I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought 'Now forget it' - 'Yo homes to Burlington
I pulled up to the house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo, homes smell ya later'
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Burlington
0:49 SHE CANT BE REAL, 200% CGI, iswear
What do you mean?
She is adorable, isn't she?
Yeah lol, when I first saw her I had to look away xD
Bass Dat And why would this be so?
welp the perfect beauty is said to be mostly western with a tad of asian.
I noticed that this is how a lot of the older, "less educated" people in Philadelphia also speak which is really interesting. This accent is by far my favorite to imitate
Cool Whip
YOU’’RE EATING HAIR!!!
Cahhnt hahve a pie without cool hwip
Kewl hwhihp
Also note that in the older generations, different boroughs also had different accents. Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, all had different intonations. My Dad is a Bronx Boy and growing up hearing his pronounced accent, I moved to NYC in college and now I can always tell when I meet someone who grew up in the Bronx and speaks the same way.
Extraordinary production! Every aspect is truly wonderful. Well done!!
this isn't something i ever thought needed explaining.
As a linguistics major, this video was fascinating and too short.
I'd love to say "uge win for PresidenT Sandahs".
Me: Gets a Bernie ad on this video
Me: My time has come!
Trump is from Queens, and his accent is just as rough around the edges as Bernie's NY accent. Brooklyn and Queens are both very similar. They said it's more common among working class, but really, it's common among all types of people if they're originally from the boroughs.
She's so cute. Im glad Vox is putting faces on their journalists. Awesome piece. and that last bit was hilarious and adorable 👍🏻
Dang, so Jacksepticeye be saying “what” and “when” and “why” correctly ;-;
imagine making those sounds in a public space
the faces you’ll get
So basically the short answer to the question is Bernie is old?
And working class! And Jewish
smileyface702 he is in the senate how is he working class
@@queenalaska6499 he grew up in in working class family is what they meant
I love the way those videos are made, the music is good, and we can feel there's a lot of work behind it. It's nicely done, and designed to keep you hooked (in the good way) and entertained by all of these different schemes. I'm not saying that i understand everything is this video, but it's really pleasant to watch. Ah, and off course the splendid women speaking make this video even better!
I have a question. How does an accent become "popular"? I've never seen someone change their accent on purpose.
James McTrollington Some people take classes, that's how the RP accent became popular.
James McTrollington as she says at the end, saying 'what' without stressing the h would have been considered uneducated at one point. so that's how, people will strive for an accent with a positive connotation and more importantly, they will enforce it in their kids. it's a gradual process.
Procreation
Slang that evolves into normal conversation.
God, I love linguistics
It's always a pleasure to see you, Joss. :)
Actually, come to think of it, the New York accent has many of the same features as the Australian Accent, other than the fact that it is quite obviously American sounding.
Tómas Klostermann, The only resemblance classic New York City accents really have to the Australian accent is non-rhoticity and even there, it ain't the same
@@theutopianoutopioan464 the raised vowels too. Aussies say "otter" like how the Brooklyn accent (described in this video) would pronounce "oughta"
1:11 "...I look just like Buddy Holly"
Uh-oh And your Mary Tyler Moore!
Stacy Wells " I don't care what they say bout us anyway!"
Jane Shapiro I don't care about that
ee oo ee oo... hmm if EEYOO KNEEYOO PEGGY SUEE!
Oh oh and your Mary Tyler Moore.
Loss of regional accents is actually becoming pretty common everywhere. I would say the majority of people under 30 in the south no longer speak with a southern accent in normal speech. However, I have noticed that whenever someone is frustrated or angry they tend to revert back to their regional dialect. Ie Spanish speaking people arguing in Spanish, and for southern people certain words come out differently.
Yo my grandma's Russian and she always cusses in that language.
super NOWU Ya I realized my southern accent comes out one day when I was frustrated. I then realized that my family and friends do it as well. I think it goes for everyone that has adapted their speech patterns.
Yep. I do this. I was born and raised in TN tho ppl can't really tell... Until I get mad or super excited.
@@soapftw96 I'm still always genuinely surprised meeting a southerner my age who speaks like I do
I am an example of this kind of, though in a different way from what you’re describing. I don’t really notice it coming out when I’m mad but as I’ve grown up, I found I can say certain words with a Cajun accentuation, especially “Cajun” words (meh sha, for instance, which is a Cajun term for endearment towards family and friends; that’s how it’s pronounced, may not be how it’s spelt).
I like her. I also like motion graphics. I like this video.
I am more interested in what he has to say rather than how he says it. A great man.
Is that why Americans say erbs instead of herbs?
Yes
+Fahad Baig
Damn lazy Americans, lol
....yes, I am American...
+Fahad Baig nah, the /h/ was silent when the word was borrowed from the french. brits added the /h/ sound in to match the spelling
+Josiah Allison "to match the spelling" They should do that more often.
When you say hours, do you say "ours" or "h-ours" we say ours. It's for consistency.
I may be like a couple of years late to this video but I really appreciated it.
3/4/20: I just found the video. What a delight!
So many pop linguistics videos are wildly inaccurate, so I'm glad this one is very good.
Real OG. Hope he wins.
I love those old-timey New York accents and have been noticing their disappearance. The last time young people had thick accents was in the 1970s and if you want to hear some great examples, check out the movie "The Warriors," which had several NY natives playing roles.
Rabbi Manny Shevitz? I laughed so hard at that I was in tears....
Interesting vid on linguistics. I'm the farthest thing from a Bernie fan, but as a language student, this was a fun video and he has a great accent to do a funny impersonation of.
Just what I was looking for. I just couldn't figure out is accent. So puzzled. Regards, Norway.
Interesting vid. Always love learning about dialects and accents. Good job!
I literally did the vowel exercises nd my family islike wtf r u doing? lol
So basically joey's agent estelle in friends?
The longer I live on the east coast, the more I'm starting to talk like this.
This is a great video! I especially love the sociolinguistic aspects, as it really helps to explain the story behind such an accent.
Some things linguistically are a bit off, like the trapezoid doesn't technically represent the place of the tongue. Also, the reason "hwat" and "hwen" changed is very different from why "huge" became "yuge".
I have an IQ of 132 and 3 degrees from different fields, and I'd vote for Bernie if I'd live in the US at any given time.
this video just made Bernie Sanders more lovable
>Pronounces a T when there's a T
>Vox: I can explain
I think it's sad how many people want to and even pay to help get rid of their NY accent when I literally adopted it a few years ago because it sounded super classy to me 😂 I have never even been to New York but I have my accent down to a T and it's just the way I speak now
Marley Estrada That actually sounds sad that you got rid of your own identity for a different accent.
NinjaGuy91919 It's not sad at all actually, it would be sad if I did it to fit in or because someone told me to but I did it for fun. I find it fulfilling so I do it, as simple as that dude.
GetTheFlammenwerfer She's being herself, I would love an accent like that too
@PumpkinsnBlackcats it's not that odd when you think about it. Plenty of people who study abroad end up adopting the local accent. I was born and raised in Hong Kong but I studied in England, and now I've got a weird mixture of English and generic American accent!! (Can't escape the American accent because it's in the music I listen to)
americans didn’t know how to appreciate him :’( he’d have made a great president
my grandpa went to high school with bernie (bernie was a grade older than him lol) and both came from working class jewish brooklyn families from the 50s and both talk the same way- now my grandpa lives on long island and my moms accent isnt as strong (even tho she moved to philly like 20 years ago)
Thanks for giving answers to questions I never had Vox
;)
0:20 Bernie had hot classmates!
I guess some people are into the Doris the librarian look...
We love you Bernie!
He sounds like my older relatives a bit (Boston)... I love Bernie!!
The emphasized “t” thing blew my mind- I immediately recognized the second “left” as sounding more familiar (I’m jewish) but I couldn’t place it.
4:29
Stewie Griffin is h’well educated, so I h’wonder if this is h’why he alhways emphasizes the “H” is Cool H’Whip.
Go on Bernieeeee!!!!
I support you from Chile.
That "Don't make me do this alone" part 😂
Bernie's just ahead of the curve.
Please come back bernie :(
You are just truly amazing honest man may God bless you ❤❤❤
“A yuge voter turnout. And I say YUGE!”
I died, man. 😂
I had a Bernie Sanders ad before this
What about the unusual „st“? Like in „lasht year“? Sanders uses that a lot. Where does it come from?
#feelthebern
My best friend grew up in corn county with me but her dad's from New York- she's got a very distinct blend of accents!
Lead the change Bernieeeeeeee ! We are here for you !!!!!!
Northeasterners don't pronounce Rs, unless there is no R. They may pawk their caws in the yawd, and they can check on it by looking out the winder.
See i have a speech impidement called rhotrosim so I'm not able to say R sounds but i live in California and want to go to ny for college someday so thats cool.
Because of movies, and other media, we see each other, instead of ourselves, and because we're more connected, we're less unique
Guys, its Bernie Sandals.