Acting : Accents: A How To Guide by Imo Wimana Chadband

The Boston accent is really hard to learn just as much as it is to lose it : ) Most of the time, I cringe because actors mix it up with the New York/Jersey accent. We don't say cawfee or cahfee (coffee) and we don't say Bahston (Boston). I have to say that Jeremy Renner nailed the Boston accent and mannerisms in The Town.

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Let's not mix up NY/NJ either, Christine! That drives me crazy as well :)

haha! yes, there is a difference for sure! People on the West Coast confuse it...not us East Coasters : )

Thank you so much for sharing this! I'm dying to learn a london accent.

It's also very common for Hispanics to be portrayed the same. Especially Nuyoricans and Chicanos. I'm half the former and married to the latter, so I love both, but they are not alike - from accents, to manner of speaking, to ethos and culture (with different types of art/cuisine/music/dance). I'm sure the same can be said for most ethnic groups, but portraying a West Coast Mexican-American like an East Coast Puerto Rican (and vice-versa) is very common and comical at times, because in certain ways these cultures are polar opposites. Just one example that typifies this difference is a contradictory colloquialism built right into the Spanish language - i.e. when a Puerto Rican modifies "ahora" (the word for "now") by saying "ahorita" they mean "right now, this minute" - when a Mexican-American says "ahorita" they mean "in a little while" or "soon, but no pressure." Night and day. :)