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[doyle]

Fic question: I'm terrible with accents (American accents. Gimme Irish or English folks and I'm golden, but, ah, I can just barely tell an American accent from a Canadian one. And then only if the person says 'about') Anyway. Does Tara (or one of the family members we saw in Family) have any kind of identifiable accent that places her/them from a certain state?

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[katemonkey.livejournal.com]

But trailer parks are all over the US, so you can't really call it a Southern accent.

It's definitely redneck-y, but it's not Southern. I always assumed they came from up north -- Northern California, Oregon, Washington, logging country, that sort of thing.

[pontius.livejournal.com]

[Homer voice] The important thing is I didn't imagine it. [/Homer voice]

[gloss]

I always thought it was logging country - Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion" kind of territory. And they *talk*, too, about having come "down" to Sunnydale and wanting to take her back "up there" in "Family".

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Ah, good point!

[slackerace.livejournal.com]

I'd agree with this assessment. Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming would all be good choices, I think, if not Northern California...

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

I had this conversation with someone else about this fic, and we opted for Northern California because someone without family support would want to pay in-state fees or tuition.

[slackerace.livejournal.com]

Wow, what a great assessment! I just assumed that Tara was wicked smart and was in college on scholarship...

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Keswindhover wrote a whole story about how Tara got to college, here:

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=keswindhover

[slackerace.livejournal.com]

This was great! Thanks!

[evemac.livejournal.com]

No one in Northern California, Oregon, or Washington sounds like that. I'd always imagined Midwest, or something. :)

[katemonkey.livejournal.com]

I had cousins living in Bakersfield who had accents like that -- and they had been living there all their lives. That's mid-California, yeah, but it's enough for me.

[evemac.livejournal.com]

Oh well. Shows how much I now about my own state. And I think I just haven't watched 'Family' in a long time. ;)