When folks speak concerning the “New York accent,” they actually should be extra particular. There’s the near-midwestern voice of Western New York, the New England-tinged sound of the Capital Area, and the assorted cultural influences that make up the Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens And Staten accents. We’ve additionally obtained Lengthy Island — sorry, Garden Man Land — which might now be heard on the island’s crosswalk indicators.
Crossing indicators have lengthy made noise as an accessibility measure, telling these with impaired imaginative and prescient when the street is secure to cross, however I’ve lengthy puzzled how somebody would use these little ticking sounds to find out which route is secure to stroll in. It tuns out the answer is so as to add a voice, informing walkers which route they need to transfer in, and it additionally seems that including voice to Lengthy Island’s roads is extraordinarily humorous.
The Lengthy Island accent is simply so distinct, so instantly recognizable even throughout the mélange of accents that make up New York. We’ve all heard it in phrases like cawfee, mawll, or dawg, when mentioned by males in wraparound Oakleys speaking into their entrance telephone digicam from the driving force’s seat of their F150 to complain about congestion pricing. I even as soon as knew a lady, again in faculty, whose stage of inebriation may very well be decided by how onerous the G obtained in her pronunciation of Garden Man Land.
Lengthy Islanders rejoice, your road indicators now sound such as you. I firmly imagine this must be prolonged to each space with a novel accent, so we will all recognize the various sounds of this nation a little bit bit extra.