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Is muttering just the official language of New Jersey or something?

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warrenorabbits Established Member

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I just moved here and no one seems to like speaking distinctly. I can't tell you how many times in the last day alone I've had to ask someone to repeat what they said because they just slurred everything together.

 

It's quite annoying ... especially when the guy at the counter gets indignant because you didn't understand what he just whispered to you.

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Are you sure you moved to New Jersey? Did you move to rural Jersey?

 

Because I've lived in New Jersey and almost no one knows how to speak under a decibel level 115dB.

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Ah, damn! I just checked and I actually moved all my stuff to Pennsylvania by mistake. Crap! :laugh:

 

It's strange because that's the stereotype. Yet I live in Watchung (just outside NYC) and, sure enough ...

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Ah, damn! I just checked and I actually moved all my stuff to Pennsylvania by mistake. Crap! :laugh:

 

It's strange because that's the stereotype. Yet I live in Watchung (just outside NYC) and, sure enough ...

 

I'm very familiar with Watchung. Has a nice hill with views of the city. An old college girlfriend lived there.

 

I haven't found the mumbling.

 

Possibly the local accent is tripping you up as well.

 

When I first moved to Manhattan, I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what they were saying to me after I placed an order for food.

 

As it turns out, they were saying "to stay or to go?" when everywhere else in the country it's "for here or to go?" combine that with thick foreign accents and I was lost.

 

Maybe a similar issue?

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Possibly the local accent is tripping you up as well.

 

When I first moved to Manhattan, I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what they were saying to me after I placed an order for food.

 

As it turns out, they were saying "to stay or to go?" when everywhere else in the country it's "for here or to go?" combine that with thick foreign accents and I was lost.

 

Maybe a similar issue?

 

Possibly -- yeah, I noticed what you say about "to stay or to go"! Also, "wait on line" not "wait in line."

 

I think it may be the accent + people speaking quickly. Even though I speak French I had some trouble in Québec when I went there the first time because I wasn't used to the way the vowels were pronounced.

 

But the NYC accent is one of the classic accents people imitate on TV/in movies, so you'd think I'd be used to it ...

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