Wicked just means very in Boston. It is odd to hear someone say 'that's wicked', without wicked as a modifier for something else. You are more likely to hear people say 'that's wicked awesome'. or 'that house is wicked old'
In my experience living on the North Shore for the first half of my life, I think a Saugus accent, with only some Malden accents have the same sound. Lynn is very similar to the inner areas around Boston, like Somerville, West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, etc. Just my opinion.
@@Bedrockbrendan Agreed, but not the same as Saugus and some Malden. Hard to explain, as I am not a linguist, but it is crazy specific. Similarly, there is a cadence to a Quincy accent, aka speed talking, that is extremely specific.
MAtt is right. The Kennedys originally had a Boston accent, but it morphed into a "Kennedy" accent. The Kennedys put their own little spin on it. I'm from Boston, and I have no idea why they did this.
Yeah, they were being way too kind about it. The guy they mentioned, Michael Stuhlbarg, does a terrible Boston accent in the movie. This is always my biggest complaint with actors when they do Boston movies because not everyone from Boston has that same thick Boston accent so just don’t do it. Let the actual Bostonians do the accents and just use the vernacular and sound northern. Drives me nuts.
People who aren't from New England should stop massacring the Boston accent. Just stop. Everyone doesn't speak the same, the difference in accents 15 minutes drive apart is profound. It's as if everyone from NY is from Brooklyn. Just stop. It's a hard accent. Don't try it... unless you're Jeremy Renner, who nailed it.
Nope. Suburban Boston from a family of speech and elocution teachers 😏who works in the film industry cringing listening to actors attempt an impossible accent. LOL
Literally nobody in that movie who spoke with a Boston accent did a good job in portraying it. Matt and Casey's weren't bad but you can tell even tho they're from the area they never grew up talking like that. As someone from Mass it sounds like nails on a chalkboard when people butcher the accent oh my God. I'm from New Bedford and we have a similar accent to Boston's but you can tell we're not from Boston. Many different cities in the state (at least Eastern Mass I can't really speak on anyone from the West lol) have their own accent be it very similar to a Boston one. Also, Boston slang is New England slang in general. Took me til I was like a junior in high school to learn that we're the only part of the country that uses "wicked" the way we do😂
I dunno; I was born in Boston and raised in "fancy pants" Melrose and, growing up, we all had the same heavy Boston accent. I trained myself out of it, like Leonard Nimoy did, because I was sick of being teased in California, but I can fall right back into it. As for "wicked", it seems to have spread from Boston to the whole country. Everything seems to be "wicked" now. As for swearing, we just didn't hear it anywhere near as much as Matt and Casey must have in Cambridge, and Melrose is only a couple of towns over from Cambridge. Go figure!
I worked out of Local 33 South Boston for three years, 2005 to 2008. I never heard any elaborate diatribes, not a lot of "Wicked". Nothing memorable. Boston is the town of Self Hype. Everyone sort of hates themselves and everyone around them. No one was especially gifted at cursing, which was interesting in the fact that the waw an abundance of things to curse about. If you want to learn some really elaborate cursing, go to the South, then take that and dial in your Boston accent. that would be good, memorable, poetic. The Irish in Boston seem to have forgotten that they are the progeny of poets. Really it was the Italians that had a grasp of expressing themselves.
Yes oh so Bostonian and yet they've lived most their lives in the comfy cozy fakeness of Hollywood 🤣 sick of actors in their usual cliched " I'm from ( insert wherever) despite only living there for the smallest percentage of my life"... " I used to work at (insert wherever" for like the shortest period of my life so I'm like you I know how it is'🤣
I love Casey in Good Will Hunting, he has the best line in the entire movie. "Um...I ate a bug"
“I swallowed a bug…” His character is great, we all have that friend in our group that gets crapped on but is fiercely loyal.
As a girl from Southie, this interview warmed by heart!
"He got a specific Teamster for Renner." 😅😅😅😅
My boys wicked smhaaaat
Such a stereotype. Like the Brooklyn accent of Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy, 'I'm walkin' here.'
@@c.r.p.968 I say wicked all the fuckin time kid.
Hey! The h comes right before the t!
The comment about using "fucking" as a placeholder: that's a Bill Burr bit.
But it's very true
Pissa? The f-word as a comma, Douchebag as a suffix.
My friends from South Boston said that the most authentic Southie Accent in THE DEPARTED was Leonardo DiCaprio
True story.
True. Affleck’s, both, are awful
I am from Boston and don't talk that way, but I am glad people are keeping the tradition alive!
It's impressive to see two Boston guys seeming authentic without using slurs.
Wicked just means very in Boston. It is odd to hear someone say 'that's wicked', without wicked as a modifier for something else. You are more likely to hear people say 'that's wicked awesome'. or 'that house is wicked old'
In my experience living on the North Shore for the first half of my life, I think a Saugus accent, with only some Malden accents have the same sound. Lynn is very similar to the inner areas around Boston, like Somerville, West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, etc. Just my opinion.
@@c.r.p.968 I tend to think of Lynn as a very working class Boston accent
@@Bedrockbrendan Agreed, but not the same as Saugus and some Malden. Hard to explain, as I am not a linguist, but it is crazy specific. Similarly, there is a cadence to a Quincy accent, aka speed talking, that is extremely specific.
@@Bedrockbrendan wicked pissa.
Hello Mr. Damon,
There is nothing finer than silk shirts.
And you wear it well my friend.
Kudos from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania !
I've used wicked pisser back in the early 70's
ALways!
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MAtt is right. The Kennedys originally had a Boston accent, but it morphed into a "Kennedy" accent. The Kennedys put their own little spin on it. I'm from Boston, and I have no idea why they did this.
Love these guys!
We do the fuck as a place holder too in Ireland
I think so much of the real Boston outlook is because of Irish immigrants.Big influence.
It can also be used as a noun, verb, adverb and term of endearment…..this coming from a long time New Englander.
AAAAAA, for FUCKS sake!
And more! Like Brits.
Casey does a great Sal bit about going to a Dunkin’ Donuts that’s fkn aasume
😂😂 It's hilarious 😂
SNL
Yeah--if you're not from here, you can't do it. It's the worst massacre in English dialect; a Boston massacre.
Yeah, they were being way too kind about it. The guy they mentioned, Michael Stuhlbarg, does a terrible Boston accent in the movie. This is always my biggest complaint with actors when they do Boston movies because not everyone from Boston has that same thick Boston accent so just don’t do it. Let the actual Bostonians do the accents and just use the vernacular and sound northern. Drives me nuts.
Absolutely! BTW, we are likely related as my great-grandmother was a Galway Joyce. LOL
That and the hybrid Boston-Providence accent for those who live near on the Rhode Island border.
@@strykerballcrush4650 Outside Providence. Hysterical. Jeetyet? (Did you eat yet?) Chevil (Girls name Cheryl). The list goes on. Oh, Providence.
Nope the worst massacre is the kiwi accent. Some absolute shockers.
These guys are from Cambridge, not Boston.
People who aren't from New England should stop massacring the Boston accent. Just stop. Everyone doesn't speak the same, the difference in accents 15 minutes drive apart is profound. It's as if everyone from NY is from Brooklyn. Just stop. It's a hard accent. Don't try it... unless you're Jeremy Renner, who nailed it.
Fahkin Relax, yah goin wicked hahd
LOL, I'm going to say that sounds specific to South Boston, possibly Dorchester as well. 😏
Same for southern accents. There are dozens.
There is some truth to this yes
Nope. Suburban Boston from a family of speech and elocution teachers 😏who works in the film industry cringing listening to actors attempt an impossible accent. LOL
Casey seems like a very chill guy compared to his brother.
I only came here because I want to turn M. D's shirt into a pair of pants!
What’s up, Ked?!
What, not what’s
Literally nobody in that movie who spoke with a Boston accent did a good job in portraying it. Matt and Casey's weren't bad but you can tell even tho they're from the area they never grew up talking like that. As someone from Mass it sounds like nails on a chalkboard when people butcher the accent oh my God. I'm from New Bedford and we have a similar accent to Boston's but you can tell we're not from Boston. Many different cities in the state (at least Eastern Mass I can't really speak on anyone from the West lol) have their own accent be it very similar to a Boston one. Also, Boston slang is New England slang in general. Took me til I was like a junior in high school to learn that we're the only part of the country that uses "wicked" the way we do😂
I can hear a little Rhode Island in a New Bedford accent
I dunno; I was born in Boston and raised in "fancy pants" Melrose and, growing up, we all had the same heavy Boston accent. I trained myself out of it, like Leonard Nimoy did, because I was sick of being teased in California, but I can fall right back into it. As for "wicked", it seems to have spread from Boston to the whole country. Everything seems to be "wicked" now. As for swearing, we just didn't hear it anywhere near as much as Matt and Casey must have in Cambridge, and Melrose is only a couple of towns over from Cambridge. Go figure!
Basically people in Boston are Canadian Hockey players.
These cats. And no diss on Matt, but Casey...swoon!
Johnny Depp nailed it in Blow, but all the other characters' accents were atrocious.
Wicked Pissah Smahhht!!!
I worked out of Local 33 South Boston for three years, 2005 to 2008. I never heard any elaborate diatribes, not a lot of "Wicked". Nothing memorable. Boston is the town of Self Hype. Everyone sort of hates themselves and everyone around them. No one was especially gifted at cursing, which was interesting in the fact that the waw an abundance of things to curse about.
If you want to learn some really elaborate cursing, go to the South, then take that and dial in your Boston accent. that would be good, memorable, poetic. The Irish in Boston seem to have forgotten that they are the progeny of poets. Really it was the Italians that had a grasp of expressing themselves.
I wonder if Casey gets along with Ben
say the Cambridge boys.. and I (in Boston) have not heard wicked in a decade.
You must be traveling in the wrong circles 😏
@@c.r.p.968 true, MOST of the darn neighborhood (Southie) is composed of people not from here. Not too many of those left.
@@c.r.p.968 Wicked and pissa is definitely not what it used to be- especially how ubiquitous it was the seventies. And that's a fact
Have you been under a rock? "Wicked" is everywhere now!
Yeah, but they never say what part of Boston, because they’re from Cambridge… They wish 😂
You say that like it's far away.
@clamstrips its not Boston
@@ee.es00technically it's own city but a heartbeat away . I'm sure these guys have been there a million times
Matt looks really hung over
why bleep it out?
Casey❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sorry. Boston does Boston. Everyone else just tries to.
I coached Matt Damon in little league.
not NEARLY racist enough to be real bostonians
Sahcasum not sarcasm
Everyone knows it's F*&!# Quinky!
Morgan is scrappy as hell.
Casey Affleck needs a good barber
agreed, I think actors feel they can dress and groom however they want
@@gerrydooley951 mind your own dam business (Wilz 🤣🤣🤣🤣)
@@nzfreeski sounds like a good idea
They can just like everyone else @@gerrydooley951
They’re often growing their hair out or have it cut back a certain way for their next role.
No more Casey Affleck. We remember
Yes oh so Bostonian and yet they've lived most their lives in the comfy cozy fakeness of Hollywood 🤣 sick of actors in their usual cliched " I'm from ( insert wherever) despite only living there for the smallest percentage of my life"... " I used to work at (insert wherever" for like the shortest period of my life so I'm like you I know how it is'🤣
They grew up in Cambridge. Not even Boston
Sorry, but growing up in Boston lasts a lifetime. It never leaves you.