Angie4b1g
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He will be where he belongs until our little peach has a stone with her name, please God.
I will be first in line to help pay for that.
He will be where he belongs until our little peach has a stone with her name, please God.
I'm back. Daughter's back in school, and my pc's all set up now. Give me a bit though to go back through the last 6 or so pages and evaluate w/e new came up.
I'm on the Kansas side of the Kansas City area. I'm a teacher and back at school now, so time is somewhat limited, but let me know if there is anything I can do!
The farther out of KC you get, the more severe the accents seem to be, both on the MO and KS side, in my experience. (I grew up in MN, not here) Wichita is about 3 hours, 180 miles from here.
:Banane19: Hiya Vask! Good to have you back. New info for you!
You must be joking, right? Because I could really see where that could come in handy to help pinpoint the region of the country she came from....
Just my opinion here, but I think Lindsey may have been driving, not Alonzo. The driver's seat position in the photos doesn't look like a setting for someone 5'11". The seat and steering wheel position look the same as I had mine set, (same car) and I'm only 5'3".:waitasec:
Thanks Fairy. Was nice to read the new info. When I left I was beginning to get that feeling again when as a child you would run into a wall because you lacked stoppers on the front of your rollerskates. >.<
Somebody wanted to know if she had and accent and when I stated that I didn't think that many people in the Midwest had an accent I got all kinds of rebuttal soooooo yes I said that. I do agree we all have some sort of an accent but not one that would be noticeable enough for one to say "Oh hey you are from Nebraska or Kansas" I am sure the car dealer didn't say "Oh she must be from Kansas" when he heard them arguing. :clown:
TL - accents are a complicated issue. At one time I felt that it would be important to know in this case. However, unless it was a FOREIGN accent, I'm not sure it's crucial to identifying MJD. US residents are very transient so an accent may not be all-telling. As I stated last night, I once had a midwestern accent - not because I came from the midwest, but because my parents did. It was only certain words - very subtle - but I got a lot of flack for it when we moved to the southwest. Over time, my whole family - parents included - adjusted to it. No trace of the former "accent." Have you lived in NE your whole life?
Yes I have only lived in Nebraska but I have been all over the United States for years. Especially in the eastern part and their accents are much more noticeable just as the people from the southern states is very noticeable. The point I was trying to make when the accent issue was first brought up was that even if she had much of an accent it's doubtful the car dealer would have noticed if she was from the Midwest because I don't think ours is as noticeable as other areas and really how much would he have heard MJD say or even remember after this many years? I just don't think this would help us ID MJD IMO
My LE contact has had email trouble, plus being out of town.
They've talked to Robin Angers again. This time she says MJD's name is Dawn or Donna and she's from Kansas, maybe Wichita area. She also gave them the name of MJD's pimp (not KTL). They talked to him too. He remembered her, but not her name.
Alonzo/William is back in the Grey Bar Hotel, soon to be in Maricopa Co. again. :behindbar ...
...to be continued
Especially when you're younger, accents adapt easily and quickly. I must be impressionable or something because I pick up traits of an accent the first day I'm somewhere. lol
A little O/T, but I don't even know what kind of accent I have now. I grew up in Pittsburgh and had an accent, but tried to lose it. Moved to Savannah and readily picked up a southern accent with no problem. I was in the army and exposed to many different accents. Now I live in Florida, so I lost the pittsburgh accent, lost the southern accent, but if I'm speaking with someone from Pgh or someone from the south, it comes right back!Well, not necessarily. I was born in the NW and moved to Nevada when I was a kid. I got teased plenty for some of my own inflections once in Nevada. However.....my accent was not NW'ern but I think because both of my folks were from the midwest. Whatever dialect I had was not from the northwest, but from the midwest, even though I never lived in the midwest!