Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript

Re:Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript by olliesaunders on Thursday August 27, 2009 @07:55PM (#790402)

Avi, who's from Vancouver, seems to have very similar accent and body language to the people I know from Toronto; (I lived there for a year). I find this interesting.

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Re:Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript by avibryant on Thursday August 27, 2009 @08:26PM (#790446)

I find that interesting too - in general, I find the Vancouver accent to be closer to other places on the west coast (Seattle, Portland, SF) than to the eastern Canadian accents. But there are no doubt also elements that correlate with country instead of coast, and you must be picking up on those.

I also speak faster and am more animated in interviews than I would be in most other situations, which probably pushes me farther towards the east coast stereotypes than I am in "real life"...

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Re:Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript by sjs on Thursday August 27, 2009 @08:38PM (#790470)

I grew up in Ontario and have lived in BC for 6 years now, and find the accents quite different. Most Ontarians I know here agree.

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Re:Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript by olliesaunders on Friday August 28, 2009 @10:13PM (#792673)

Hm, OK. Could be more mannerisms then.

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