Vice:
Maritimers communicate with one another like young twins that invent gibberish language. For starters, Maritimers speak at a speed that can only be compared to an episode of Gilmore Girls cast with leprechauns on crank.
Here are a few tips if you ever want to try and converse with someone from Tatamagouche.
I had tears in my eyes reading this. I love my home province but there’s no doubt – we talk funny sometimes.
If you’ve hung around The Loop’s Publisher long enough for him to have sucked back a few Heineken, you’ll have been lucky enough to hear some of these. And I’ll admit to talking way too fast at times, too.
Hat tip to the @beardsdaughter for the link!
You have to hand it to the folks from NB. Their the only ones who managed to make the Canadian dream of bilingualism a reality.
Of course that is because pretty much all of them are bilingual. Now if only they’d stick to one language at a time 😉
I’d like to think that there were any number of neighborhoods in all five boroughs of New York City where you could find dialects as colorful as this in decades past.
But those neighborhoods are mostly gone, because nobody but highly-paid middle managers from the midwest can now afford to live in them.
Enjoy your artisanal muffin shops, kids.