Has he always talked like that? Where is he from?
Or is it done for effect to try to sound like a guru?
Has he always talked like that? Where is he from?
Or is it done for effect to try to sound like a guru?
espn u subscriber wrote:
Has he always talked like that? Where is he from?
Or is it done for effect to try to sound like a guru?
Yes this is what he sounds like.
He from Queens
I've seen people leave for a month and come back with an accent. Shows you how much influence environement has on people.
Welcome. This must be your first year following the sport?
Yea, he likes to sound like a guru
*stipe wrote:
Welcome. This must be your first year following the sport?
+1
So he's from NY? That's not a NY accent.
Where are his parents from?
Unless they are foreigners, I then wonder a) is he faking it (best way to figure that out would be to go to dinner with him. does he talk the same to people in his private life?) or does he have a speech impediment?
A. I don't think he's faking it - guru or no guru.
B. I don't think it's a minor speech impediment, although I haven't heard him talk enough to tell.
C. It sounds to me like he came to the US (or other English-speaking nation) at age 6 or 7, from a country that speaks a Germanic language (like English, Dutch, German, Afrikaans, a Scandinavian language, etc.)
D. Or, wild card, maybe like Lawrence Welk and a few other famous people, he grew up in an ethnic enclave in the US, and didn't speak English until he went to school. This happens less and less as TV and influencers seep deeper into the culture, but I think there are still places in the US (and certainly in Canada) where you can grow up speaking Norwegian, Finnish, Czech. And of course you can grow up speaking Spanish in the US, but that's not his accent.
Gotta listen to a bit more of his sage comments.
Turns out he is from just outside Worcester, Massachusetts and ran at Wachusett Regional High School.
So, possibilities are narrowed to:
1. He is working hard to lose his Wuh-stuh / Bwah-stun accent.
2. He has a Flagstaff accent. Get used to it.
STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^ wrote:
I've seen people leave for a month and come back with an accent. Shows you how much influence environement has on people.
Those people are faking it to seem cool. And that’s the basic question about Mike too.
I’d assume he plays it up at least a little for the camera.
I've known people who talked like that.
