(OT) Hey Yenz Guys...Merry Christmas!

[trefdawg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWgjSZqv80&feature=related
;D ;D ;D

 

[FreddyE1977]

Probably the greatest thing my parents ever did for me....

They did not move back to Pittsburgh until after I had already learned to talk!

 

[Raymond]

I'll never understand the appeal of Pittsburghese and why so many Pittsburghers are proud of it. It's the same reasoning as to why I think Jimmy Krenn sucks. All he does is used and worn out bits as a Pittsburgher talking like a hick with this strange way of talking, that I believe not all Pittsburghers have. Only the ones who did not go to school and learn proper English have this "accent".

 

[FreddyE1977]

My sister was born in da Burgh, and did grow up and learn to talk here,
which instilled in her a very thick Pittsburghese accent.

For the longest time she used to date this guy from Brooklyn,
and whenever they'd have a discussion about anything my ears would bleed.

 

[pghfmradiosucks]

I agree with Raymond. Speaking like that is not something we should be proud of folks. I was born in Pittsburgh and have spent most of my life here. I don't speak like that. Hearing that "accent" is like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. Jimmy Krenn does suck. Tired, played bits such as speaking like a "Yinzer" is how he makes a living. I don't understand why he thinks speaking like that is funny. I think it is sad.

 

[Parttimer]

Jimmy Krenn does suck. Tired, played bits such as speaking like a "Yinzer" is how he makes a living. I don't understand why he thinks speaking like that is funny. I think it is sad.

If you knew how high DVE's numbers are in the target demos you'd realize you're a REALLY small minority on that one.

Most of us don't sound like that, but we all know someone who does, and we thinkit's funny.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Most of us don't sound like that, but we all know someone who does, and we thinkit's funny.

On a scale of 1 - 10, with 10 being Sophie Masloff...

 

[dB]

I agree with Raymond. Speaking like that is not something we should be proud of folks. I was born in Pittsburgh and have spent most of my life here. I don't speak like that. Hearing that "accent" is like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. Jimmy Krenn does suck. Tired, played bits such as speaking like a "Yinzer" is how he makes a living. I don't understand why he thinks speaking like that is funny. I think it is sad.

I think it would be sad if everyone sounded like Margaret Thatcher. Accents and dialects are a form of regional identity, and one of the things that builds community.

 

[Raymond]

Quote from: pghfmradiosucks on Yesterday at 06:23:35 PM
Jimmy Krenn does suck. Tired, played bits such as speaking like a "Yinzer" is how he makes a living. I don't understand why he thinks speaking like that is funny. I think it is sad.


If you knew how high DVE's numbers are in the target demos you'd realize you're a REALLY small minority on that one.

Most of us don't sound like that, but we all know someone who does, and we thinkit's funny.

So, the smart Pittsburgh audience doesn't listen to DVE. Kudos to DVE for the stealth promotion they do of their morning team and backing it.

Seriously, there is nothing funny with old, lame, worn out bits and it's sad when a guy (or gal) repeats what he hears on that show of the Yinzer talk and starts talking Yinzer and thinks it's funny. That's just sad. Congratulations Pittsburgh, you're decreasing your intelligence by doing that.

Pittsurgh has a lot of wonderful things about the city. It's people, it's history, the many institutions and medical advances, it's great sports franchises and fantastic technology. Do we really want to be represented with this hick accent? It's also sad we have to have it highlighted by two Pittsburghers who have (according to the research of their target demo) the audience but choose to do these lame, worn out bits.

Thank you pghfmradiosucks. You hit the nail on the head.

DB, the point is, it does not build community. It holds BACK the whole city and the communities within.

 

[pghfmradiosucks]

Agreed Raymond.

 

[FreddyE1977]

ahh, for the good old days when Dizzy Dean would take it on the chin
for saying "ain't" and "I'll learn ya" on the air. Not a bad idea that broadcast
professionals should seek to elevate our use of the language, rather than drag
it down to it's lowest common denominator.

 

[KeyTimes950]

While I admit I sometimes slip into Pittsburghese, one of my more memorable moments was talking to a fellow west-central broadcaster, who later went into the ministry in Pittsburgh, who thought I came from Philadelphia because of my accent. I admit I hung out a lot with Philadelphians at Penn State, I admired the staff announcers on Philly TV stations I could watch during some of my jobs, and to this day I find the most comforting "accent," so to speak, is listening to the KYW 1060 newscasters. But I'm a native Pittsburgher and also still can recall some moments when I could fire a good Pittsburgh barb at my friends from the Delaware Valley.

 

[loeper]

Raymond....just keep listening to WQED FM . It's just comedy on DVE ....lighten up. and BTW we do all know at least one person who talks like that. Long Live" Stanley P"

 

[Raymond]

loeper, I have no reason to "lighten up". I stated my opinon about a pet peeve of mine that I think makes this city look and sound stupid to other (cities and businesses). I won't tolerate a "yinzer". Sorry, not going to just sit back and accept it.

Perhaps you should obtain some standards? Perhaps if everyone who knows someone who talks like that should kinda clue them in on the correct pronunciation of words and to let them know that in reality, they sound really stupid? Honestly, you'll only be helping your friends and don't you want to help them? Ot, do you want your friends to sound stupid?

 

[PT]

Interesting to see so many of those that bemoan the "homogenization" of radio programming are quick to demand the homogenizing of the public they purport to want to broadcast to.

 

[Whiplash]

I spoke that way as a child, and my mother had to spend a good deal of time breaking me of it. My family is still there and lots of them speak that way. Its more common then you think.

 

[trefdawg]

I grew up in Cleveland. I moved to Steubenville ( Stuuummville as pronounced by some of the town folk) in '77. I learned to speak the regional dilect and know when and when not to use it. I posted this in fun....my my my why do we take some stuff so seriously! Yoi! and Double Yoi!

 

[captainrexk]

In the mid-90s I worked at WOKQ-FM in New Hampshire. My program director asked me "Are you from Pennsylvania?" when I started there. A few years later I came back to Pittsburgh on vacation and my nephew commented "You sound like you're not from here." I just laughed..still don't use the Pittsburgh-ese..but love busting it out every so often.

 

[corporateradiosucks]

Interesting to see so many of those that bemoan the "homogenization" of radio programming are quick to demand the homogenizing of the public they purport to want to broadcast to.

I concur.

I'll take Stanley P any day over Q 92.9"s "song tags" which I honestly think are coming out of a Stephen Hawking-type voice machine. Not to mention BOB the fake Pittsburgher.

 

[dtube1]

I was blessed early in my radio career to work with an engineer who had come out of the Columbia School of Broadcasting. When I first started on-air, he would schedule studio maintenance during my shifts and then spend his time correcting my grammar while he cleaned cart heads and aligned reel decks. After about a 6-months of that, he successfully beat the Pittsburgh accent out of me (and got me interested in the engineering aspect of radio).

Fundamentally, the Pittsburgh accent is all about economy of consonants - i.e. eliminate every third consonant as you speak and viola - Yinzer...

-D