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| Anonymous #617490 8 months ago |
I've never liked the whole "Cowgirl" thing with Applejack. It's so stereotypically and bland.
She would be better just as a farmer. |
| Anonymous #617509 8 months ago |
Um...
>She is a farmer (especially in Winter Wrap Up) >Her character wouldn't be much different >@490 she isn't a stereotype, EVERYONE from the south speaks like that if not worse |
| Wheezie_Moonflower #617510 8 months ago |
That "Heidi" stereotype look is not generally appealing, though. |
| Paperpony #617536 8 months ago |
I like cow-pony Applejack. Gives her reason to be good with a lasso |
| NightJack #617549 8 months ago |
@509 Um.. I'm from the south and I don't speak like that, but it's not uncommon. |
| Anonymous #617589 8 months ago |
^^ Yeah, because no other character is somewhat of a stereotype! I mean, their personalities range so well with Twilight being a bookworm, Rarity being an OCD prissy girl, Pinkie being a annoying ditz, Rainbow Dash being a...hey wait a minute!! |
| Anonymous #617599 8 months ago |
With a ranch as understaffed as Sweet Apple, there's not really that much difference. You kind of have to be able to do all the jobs there on short notice :P
Besides, the kind of crops they specialize in are less the "plant often and carefully tend" type, and more the "stick them in the ground and harvest by smacking the crap out of them" type. And yeah, the stereotype is actually pretty true and not even particularly limited to the deep south (you see it a lot even among farmers as high as the 45th parallel). |
| Lancer #617635 8 months ago |
The "lasso" thing isn't just a "Southern" trait. You'd have to look for a cattle-raising area where there's at least one of the many sorts of "Southern" accents. In the US, that'd be mostly in and around the regions of Oklahoma and Texas. For Equestria, your guess is as good as mine.
Me, I've noticed that the northeastern US accent sounds like a lazy attempt at an English accent (example: "quatah" for "quarter"), and that the laziness increases as one travels south until it becomes the "Southern" accent, then it picks up some sharpness and a few Mexican words as you travel west, and becomes the "Texas" accent, and finally develops a somewhat "stoned" or "whiny" tone as you travel into California. The rest of the country sounds like Kansas. Flat. |
| Anonymous #617663 8 months ago |
Hell, I've met farmers from Washington with drawls thicker than AJ's :| |
| Anonymous #617808 8 months ago |
#509
lol no. |
| PandaCoon #617823 8 months ago |
^I agree completely.
I have no accent, and I'm pretty southern. |
| Anonymous #620105 8 months ago |
Lancer: no, you're thinking various areas of New England (more Maine, NH and Massachusetts than anywhere else), not northeastern in general.
NYC has a different set of accents, and upstate NY sounds like a good few areas of the country (Oregon/Washington, Ohio for the most part, etc.). I know because I'm from upstate NY and we've got a neutral accent for the most part (some of the farming areas are a bit odd with theirs, kinda southern-esque). No need to generalize. |