Corbin Dallas Multipass
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Boston was an irish town like 100 years ago, it's certainly got its Irish but overall it's pretty diverse, it's a port after all.
Yeah if you like Bill Burr's accent then I guess you'd like it, although again, that's only one version of it and it's been softened by travel and you know, making sure other people understand what he's saying.
There's kind of two parts to the accent. The first part is the one everyone knows, the whole R's turning to H's. Pahk the Cah, and all that. But not ALL rs turn into hs, only the ones at the end of things. The R in "turn" for example is pronounced normally. That's a mistake some actors make and sound like they have some weird speech impediment when they're trying to do the boston accent.
The other part is harder to explain. Listen to Bill Burr and you get the idea, like imagine him saying "Come on kid". There are no dropped Rs there, but the boston accent shines through. Fallout 4 did NOT capture this part of the accent at all, where they even bothered to try, for example, Mama Murphy has the half assed version and honestly it's closer to a Maine accent than a Boston accent.
It's certainly a class thing as well. As a proud elitist who came from poors, I try to avoid it generally, and it sounds uneducated to my ear. But if I get a couple drinks in me it comes right out. It's just so easy to leave the Rs off the ends of things.
Yeah if you like Bill Burr's accent then I guess you'd like it, although again, that's only one version of it and it's been softened by travel and you know, making sure other people understand what he's saying.
There's kind of two parts to the accent. The first part is the one everyone knows, the whole R's turning to H's. Pahk the Cah, and all that. But not ALL rs turn into hs, only the ones at the end of things. The R in "turn" for example is pronounced normally. That's a mistake some actors make and sound like they have some weird speech impediment when they're trying to do the boston accent.
The other part is harder to explain. Listen to Bill Burr and you get the idea, like imagine him saying "Come on kid". There are no dropped Rs there, but the boston accent shines through. Fallout 4 did NOT capture this part of the accent at all, where they even bothered to try, for example, Mama Murphy has the half assed version and honestly it's closer to a Maine accent than a Boston accent.
It's certainly a class thing as well. As a proud elitist who came from poors, I try to avoid it generally, and it sounds uneducated to my ear. But if I get a couple drinks in me it comes right out. It's just so easy to leave the Rs off the ends of things.
