It’s like a southern accent crossed with a New Yorker accent. Very unique indeed
@rustcohle8638
7 жыл бұрын
It's always tripped me out how wildly different it sounds from almost every other southern accent. It sounds way more East Coast than Texan or Georgian.
@gfoot9916
6 жыл бұрын
That's just what I was thinking. It's almost as if a Boston or Brooklyn accent was taken to the south.
@assaultislove
6 жыл бұрын
Folks with Yat accents come from a Similar immigrant stock as New Yorkers and Boston (Irish/Italian)
@kriamau5895
4 жыл бұрын
Its cause it a port city
@IslenoGutierrez
3 жыл бұрын
@@assaultislove Actually the person’s ancestry doesn’t matter, it’s the area they come from...which is usually the greater New Or,eans area. For example, I’m of Isleño Spanish (Canary Islands of Spain) and French ancestry and I’m 100% Yat.
@trentpettit6336
2 жыл бұрын
@@IslenoGutierrez Perhaps this accent actually may have originated among immigrants to New Orleans at the turn of the century (some combination of Irish, Italian, and German Jewish immigrants) but later spread to whites of French colonial descent (as well as the Islenos with Spanish colonial roots) as well as certain mixed-race Creole folks? And perhaps there was once a point in New Orleans history when the last native French speakers in the region became fluent in English, but had an accent in English which sounded just like the accent that stereotypical Cajuns (from the historically French-speaking rural parts of coastal Louisiana) have when speaking English? I also wonder if maybe there was a time (before the Yat accent existed?) when most of the white people in New Orleans who were NOT native French speakers had a stereotypical Southern plantation accent! Perhaps the Hollywood filmmakers who make us cringe (by giving white New Orleans characters "Georgia plantation" accents, when in fact Yat accents should be used) are on to something after all!🤣
@fknSpesh0
9 жыл бұрын
I love it. My fiancee keep catching me on stuff (he's from new york) and certain expression I have he'll stare at me like... what IS that?? He called it Jewish... Italian.... but it baffles him. So I just told him that it's just me reverting back to my NOLA speak... which certain expressions can only be properly spoken in YAT. I was just playing this for him..... I love it. Thanks!
@Gemini-sc2yp
11 жыл бұрын
No comments yet?!!! This piece is great. I own a copy of The Yat Dictionary, and I bought another copy for a cousin who grew up in the Irish Channel - the heart (hawt) of Yat country! What a hoot! I grew up in New Orleans, and this book is "fah real"!!!
@jerry1dc
11 жыл бұрын
I want this book now. I LOVE this accent!
@derlinclaire1778
6 жыл бұрын
Used to call the slide at the park,a "Shoot-the-shoot",friends.
@derlinclaire1778
6 жыл бұрын
They might have just used"Chu-key" in the Irish Channel perhaps.When I was growing up in By water in downtown New Orleans,I never heard anyone ever use that expression; so it might have just been used in the Irish Channel perhaps.
@IslenoGutierrez
3 жыл бұрын
I’m a Yat and I never heard of chukey... that must have been an uptown word huh ...
@nanirobin
2 ай бұрын
I am a proud yat from Piety Street over by Galvez, I love dis!
@joannabowen635
7 жыл бұрын
Hi, Chris! Love the dictionary...you might remember when you were in San Francisco w/Christine et moi. The 1st Mardi Gras was in Mobile, you know, where my people hail from across the great water from y'all... Great stuff. Keep up the good works.
@IslenoGutierrez
3 жыл бұрын
I have an one ancestral line deep in my French side of the family that was from the French settlement at Mobile where the first Mardi Gras took place, but they like most of the French Mobilians moved to Louisiana by the 1760’s. The rest of my entire family on both sides were Louisiana peoples.
@Wrapscallionn
7 жыл бұрын
It also applies to areas outside new Orleans as far west as the Florida panhandle
@derlinclaire1778
6 жыл бұрын
As for some more French derived terms which I heard while growing up in New Orleans; Marraine for a Godmother & Parrain for a Godfather.Also,in my particular fsmily,we used the Yiddish term"Futz",which means simply"To fool around,waste time".My family,s use of this Jewish term isn,t too surprising,since there,s some Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry on my late paternal grandmother Frances Barth,s side,friends.Anyway,this is a somewhat interesting video on the origin of some colloquial New Orleans language.Merci beaucoup,mes chere amis,and God bless you,and Happy Holidays!
@IslenoGutierrez
3 жыл бұрын
I’m mixed French and Spanish ancestry (I’m a creole)...My French side of the family uses parrain and nannaine for godfather and godmother. But I heard other families use marraine before, I guess it depended on your neighborhood or parish.... We used to call our great-grandparents mere-mere and pere-pere... and my grandparents maw-maw and paw-paw (but my grandparents never used maw-maw and paw-paw, only mere-mere and pere-pere for all grandparents so maw-maw and paw-paw came in during my parents time) or abuelo/Abuela welito/welita for grandparents on my Isleño Spanish side... and on the French side I remember my grandmother used to call her aunts “tante” (sounds like taunt) and use French words like panee (pah-nay) for to bread and fry meat, pincé ( “peen-say to fry down the tomato paste for a pot of food)... ti-fille (“tee-fee for little girl) and ti-boug (“tee-boog” for little boy) and when tasting a good gumbo or jambalaya would say “ça c’est bon” or c’est si bon (meaning like it’s good) ... and there was always coffee being made and especially cafe au lait (the hot coffee and hot milk) and always hot buttered French bread when company came over or beignets on more special visits. Lots of good memories...
@av201
Жыл бұрын
Very cool. I would love this book as a gift. Anyone who has read “A Confederacy of Dunces” would love this most of all!
@midnightmystery544
4 жыл бұрын
I'm from Metairie... Oh yeah! We got dat! Oddly enough it's no one has it in Slidell where I work!
@IslenoGutierrez
3 жыл бұрын
It exists in Slidell, don’t think it don’t...
@midnightmystery544
3 жыл бұрын
@@IslenoGutierrez More I'm up here I'm starting to notice that. In fact, Slidell has everything all in one town. Diversity is just incredible here!
@IslenoGutierrez
3 жыл бұрын
@@midnightmystery544 Slidell has Yats and people with north “Florida parish” accents and south Mississippi accents. It’s at a crossroad of three accent types. But a lot of people have been moving from the southshore (New Orleans and it’s suburbs) for decades so the Yat influence has become more widespread.
@robgraham7508
4 ай бұрын
I used to live in New Orleans for college and this takes me back. I miss hearing my Yat accented friends! ❤
@user-uv9fz5rw4z
Жыл бұрын
I’m from the other side of Louisiana but I have relatives over there. Definitely a distinct accent, often improperly done in movies.
@ryankaul8620
2 ай бұрын
i sold weed to a dude who's accent was like Dan Ackroyd from The Great Outdoors combined with a guy Ritchie movie
@JaredBrewerAerospace
10 жыл бұрын
They didn't even go to da parish to do any interviews about yats...?! WHERE Y'AT? And its not pronouced "choo"-kee...its "tchu"-key and it means there's something wrong with that boy, poor thing. Bless his heart.
@derlinclaire1778
6 жыл бұрын
I grew up in New Orleans,friends.But I don,t really remember ever hearing the expression "chukey".If someone seemed really useless,incompetent,then they might be called either a dumb ass,or a dummy. But no,I don,t ever remember hearing anyone ever use this expression"chukey",friends.Anyway,I have heard some of the other expressions such as"ersters"for oysters,etc.Merci beaucoup,mes chere amis,best wishes,God bless you,and Happy Holidays!
@derlinclaire1778
6 жыл бұрын
Also when I was a little boy in New Orleans,we used to call glass marbles"China Balls". And we used to call the slide at the park a "Shoot-Shoot". When you wanted a little kid to go to slleep,you would say"Go make Doo-Doo"."Doo-Doo"comes from the French verb Dormir,which means"To sleep".Anyway,a somewhat interesting video on the origin of some
@IslenoGutierrez
3 жыл бұрын
@@derlinclaire1778 haha, we used to say lots of words and phrases from French origin such as telling children to go make dodo (from fais do-do) and also for children we used to say go eat ya na-na for go eat ya food, and ta-ta like to tell a kid hand something over, or si-si to sit down or nu-nu for their pacifier like if you said ...”si-si and go eat ya na-na so you can go make do-do and give me dat nu-nu, ta-ta” ......or everyday phrases like make groceries for grocery shopping (faire le marché), save the dishes or save the groceries, meaning go put the dishes or groceries in the cabinet or pass the vacuum, pass the broom, pass the mop meaning to vacuum, sweep or mop...or a host of words from French origin like beaucoup - a lot, couyon- stupid ass or dummy, lagniappe - a lil something extra, caché - ya money stash or to stash money and because I also have some isleño Spanish ancestry (Canary Islands, Spain) besides french, we used to call shrimp “camaron”, we used to say “ay dio” like aw lord... and provesita (a corruption of the standard Spanish pobresita meaning “poor thing”) and ta loco (corruption of esta loco meaning like that’s crazy) and coño (a word meaning like damn )... like if you said “ay coño, look at that fine girl” lol
@DJPoundPuppy
5 жыл бұрын
The definition of trying without actually trying.
@etmeyutub
8 жыл бұрын
where can I buy dat at?
@FunnyAnimatorJimTV
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to hear the full poem like at 1:42
@derlinclaire1778
6 жыл бұрын
Please,what year was this made in?
@KeenanGoldizen-z4y
5 күн бұрын
Manley Oval
@uncleleo1873
6 жыл бұрын
Anchors need to GO! Both of em loozas
@DeadboyClique
Ай бұрын
Gambit.
@LuisCollins-f2o
4 күн бұрын
Lamar Pass
@MicahBaron-w9r
2 күн бұрын
11131 Noemy Drives
@mariahawk5
4 жыл бұрын
I say "YAT" came from da Parish
@IslenoGutierrez
3 жыл бұрын
@Elaina Stanley down na road in na house!
@Amsidkdnsls
8 ай бұрын
It's just english with a little accent not that big of a deal atleast not a different language 😂
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