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Re:Parisian Accent in 1912 by jrochkind1 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:41AM (#25776137)
I don't disagree. That still exists to some extent. I don't think I could tell a Brooklyn accent from a Bronx accent, but i think some can? (Can they hear it in 20-year-olds not just 60-year-olds? Not sure).
Re:Parisian Accent in 1912 by gecko on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:30AM (#25776672)
I can very easily tell Bronx from Brooklyn from Manhattan from Queens, in some cases down to specific neighborhoods or cultures...but really only in folks 60+, maybe occasionally in people more in the 40+ range who had fairly isolated upbringings, but that's it. Any younger than that, I often can only even tell you're from New York City by word choice and slang, not accent. I suspect that's similar to what's going on in Paris, albeit I'm in absolutely no position to know.

(For context: I did not grow up in NYC, but my family was from there, and I lived there for quite awhile myself as well. It's entirely possible someone who did grow up in NYC can do better than I can, but, at least to my ear, it gets very close to just standard American broadcast English the younger you go, so I doubt it.)

Re:Parisian Accent in 1912 by jeanjogr on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:18AM (#25777295)
The usual caveat about Paris applies: the city of Paris is but a tiny core of the larger Paris metropolitan area (Paris: 2.1M people, Paris metro: c. 10M). Paris is about one fifth of its metro area, a city like NYC is about half.

A closer analogue to being able to distinguish accents from Montparnasse, Montmartre and La Villette would be to able to distinguish accents from different places in Manhattan.

I think even today there are substantial accent differences within the Paris metropolitan area (think Versailles vs le Marais vs Aulnay), but within Paris proper not so much.