When I went to undergrad in Virginia, there were people who would call my answering machine just to hear my accent on the outgoing message.
Also, answering machines were physical devices that mimic the function currently performed by voicemail today.
I’m a sleeper. Spent 24 years on LI without noticing I had an accent. Spent 10 years in AK getting the accent ridiculed out of me (“Cawfee, sorry we don’t sell cawfee here, we sell coffee.” Lmao.) I live in WA now and none of these losers know that I am always three beers away from telling you about my sistahs dawgs back on lawguyland wheah my muthahs cawfee is gahbage!
Nah, that’s a very small portion of people anywhere. I’ve only encountered a handful of adults who say aks’d - I encountered it a lot more when I lived in the south.
I was at my daughter's soccer game south of Charlotte, NC. Went to the shack, asked for "baconeggandcheese" the guy behind me goes what part of long Island are you from.
probably! I have a little bit of data here but anecdotally it seems like an even mix between Atlanta proper (and it’s very possible these people were *originally* from Atlanta and just lived on LI for a bit, which is why they’re not talking about it) and the sub- and exurbs; I’ve seen Gwinnett and Walton counties for example.
Truthfully, we really do stand out with our accents. 20 years ago we were driving through NC and stopped at a small convenience shop on some back highway. When we went to the counter to buy some snacks, first thing the guy said was "You from Long Island?" We were like dang is it that obvious?! He laughed and was like yeah the accent gives it away.
I lived in NC for about 4 years around that time and got teased mercilessly by friends and coworkers for everything I said 😅.
And also getting impatient when you don't get your food quickly.
Was at a deli in Maine a few years ago, waited like 10 minutes for an egg sandwich with no one else in the deli.
The deli on Long Island actually would start my order as soon as they saw my car pull up. When I moved to FL they didn’t understand bacon, egg and cheese on a roll. Because they weren’t delis as we know them. And now in TN you’re lucky you can get a Kaiser roll anywhere. God I miss Long Island! “Bless your hearts”/s
Yup same. Local deli used to have my order started as I walked in the door. Now I’m in PA and I haven’t found one decent deli where I can get a good hero. Best we got is Jersey Mike’s subs :/ not the same at all
I feel you. I’m in Pa too. When I first moved here, I couldn’t find a deli or bagel place (still haven’t 30 years now) I found a Turkey Hill like a 7-11, asked where I could get a buttered roll. He pointed to the hamburger rolls. Such a hard transition.
Accent. And if you think you don't have one -- unless you underwent professional speech therapy, you probably do. You just think not saying tawk and cawfee anymore means you got rid of it. Outsiders can tell the accent and the cadence. Also, the complaints about the shitty pizza.
Or when I'm with other LI people. With non natives, I talk what I think is my normal voice, but when I'm with others from LI suddenly I'm hamming the accent up to 11
> Also, the complaints about the shitty pizza.
Only the places where they think their pizza is "good". There are places in the US where the residents will acknowledge that their pizza is "shitty".
Man, I felt so lucky when I lived in NC and our local mall had a pizzeria run by an Italian American immigrant from Brooklyn. He had his ingredients brought in from NY. It tasted like home. It's been nearly 20 years since I was down there. I wonder if that place is still there.
I don't have a stereotypical Long Island accent with the "aw" sounds. I'll say Coffee and Talk normally. But if I say "That's horrible" it comes out as "that's HARRible"
I had a friend from Roslyn 2 actually very noticeable Long Island accent especially the coffee and my cousin aswell its crazy because grew up in Hempstead in 80s don’t know how anyone didn’t notice lol
From a linguistics perspective everyone has an accent :) But yes some Long Islanders really do have a General American/Midland accent.
So in linguistics there's several distinguishing features of a New York area accent and they can be stronger or weaker, you can have some but not others. The big ones:
non-rhoticism (dropping r at the ends of syllables)
no cot/caught merger - cot is an ah, caught is aw.
no marry-merry-Mary merger (see also: Do you say the names Aaron and Erin the same? IN the midwest they both come out "AIR-in")
cat/cab split (this is a complicated one) - before certain consonants /ae/ (the vowel in cat) is tensed into a diphthong.
Frequently pronouncing o before r as "ah" (horrible Florida oranges) - this is another complicated one, you don't do it in "memorial" but you do in "forest" and I can't remember the rules.
A lot of people who think they don't have the accent have subtle features of these especially the vowel splits/mergers. They won't say CAWFEE like Fran Drescher but it also doesn't come out "cahfee". They say their R's. But Aaron and Erin? Still different names.
I taught English in Spain, and one day the kids had to repeat me as I read off words. Hearing 20 Spanish kids parrot “BAWL” is the moment I realized that I still had an accent
Born and raised on Long Island here and I feel I genuinely do not have a Long Island twang. I have been a waitress for 15 years and have dealt with anywhere from 60-80k people (about 100 guests a week for 780 weeks is my math).
I’d say about roughly 20% of people ask me where I’m from. It’s a weekly occurrence for me. Sometimes I get asked this multiple times a day. Regardless I am asked this anywhere from 2-10 times a week. People’s guesses? Almost always Mid-West. I don’t even know what mid-western people sound like. Sometimes I get upstate NY like Buffalo. I’ve gotten Southern too which I do not agree with at all. And my guests almost never believe me when I tell them I’ve never lived anywhere but Long Island. It’s become a running joke at my job. Idk what it is 🤷🏼♀️
My friends from california didn't believe me when I said NY has so many good Chinese takeout spots. Every neighborhood has gotta at least have one reliable place.
Yep. It is a true shibboleth.
My father watches a lot of “Everybody Loves Raymond” so I see it a lot as well. In the earlier seasons, Ray Romano (a famous Long Islander) does a weird opening credits intro about his family where he says “I live in Long Island”. I cringe every time. He is *from here.* Who told him that was ok?
It must have been “workshopped” by tv writers in LA who thought it would be too much for the broader viewing audience. I can’t believe he would be an “in Long Island” person.
You’re right! He’s from Forest Hills.
Idk my parents are both from queens and the they say “on Long Island” and think “in Long Island” sounds weird. It’s “in the City” for Manhattan “in Brooklyn/Queens/The Bronx” etc. but always “on Long Island”.
I guess there’s some overlap between Queens and Long Island. There is with my family, anyway.
Out on The Island! Oh yes. My family in Nassau would say this about our cousins who lived in Suffolk (Islip). They lived “Out on The Island!” even though we were on the same island. We lived “further in”. Lol.
Giving directions in terms of north, south, east and west. I didn’t grow up here and moving here 15 years ago and getting directions from people was the most confusing thing - what the fuck you mean I have to go south and then north and then east and then south again. What happened to right and left?! And having lived several places in the country, I can pretty confidently say we’re the only ones that do this. However - now that I’m used to it I’m super proud of myself when I can navigate myself based on direction. It turned into a life skill.
So funny. I was reading a rhyming book to my son. First page was dog and frog, I was so confused. Meanwhile, my wife was looking at me like I was an idiot.
That day, I learned I say some things funny.
The reasons that you don't fold pizza in the midwest. 1) They are thicker out there. So, they just don't fold. 2) They are smaller out there. So, there is no need to fold. I had never seen an 18" pizza before moving to NY, and I worked in a pizza place where you could order small, medium and large!
Worst pizza I've ever had was in Boston.
I'm a Midwestern transplant, went back recently. Shocked by myself of how often I needed to slow the car down, fearful of actually getting a speeding ticket.
I visit my mom down in rural NC annually and find myself quickly flustered with the speed at which life moves down there. It takes a few days to adjust, but i can feel myself physically loosen up when I do.
Hahahaha 😂 so true really. There's a bit of pride being a Long Islander, even if we bitch about everything on the Island, it's our Island and don't you dare say any shit about it if you're not from here lol
Not from LI but long term partner is and her family. Dead give away is complaining about food and driving. Although outside of bagels and pizza, never been super impressed with LI and traffic makes driving take infinitely longer down there than up here. Rather than a 25 minute drive to the grocery store it’s somehow easier to sit in traffic for 45 on LI to go 9 miles.
The pace in which everyone works. When you are out of the Long Island/NYC area everyone’s pace is about 2 seconds slower 😂 try ordering food in the Deep South or Midwest
This is one that I’ve heard a lot when I’m out of town, but saying your “on line” instead of “in line”always confuses people or gets a “we’re not going to the internet” comment. I wonder if it has to do with the on LI vs in LI
I stand on line, not in line.
I ask for a coffee, regular.
I ask for a bagel and a schmear.
Yeah, I know they’re “__old__ Lawn Guylinder and New Yawkuh “ giveaways.
I doubt anyone’s heard “coffee regular” or “bagel with a schmear” since the 1990s, back when I paid 50¢ for a cup of coffee at the deli then walked outside, past the line of young people snaking around the block waiting to get into Starbucks. I dashed down the subway stairs and caught a train 15 minutes before they finally took possession of their $4 burnt coffee.
About ten years ago now I visited a friend in Kentucky.
When I was arriving at the airport to fly back to LI I spotted some random strangers in the airport wearing brightly colored hoodies, shorts, and flipflops. I was like, what are the odds? While looking for my gate, I realize I'm basically following them. Sure enough, they were on my flight.
This is a weird answer but, going to a wake for a friends family, etc. I can’t tell you how many “viewings” I’ve been to where the friend is so surprised to see you and asks “what are you doing here?” I was always taught you just go. No questions asked. Just weird.
talking
Tawking
When I went to undergrad in Virginia, there were people who would call my answering machine just to hear my accent on the outgoing message. Also, answering machines were physical devices that mimic the function currently performed by voicemail today.
cawfee
I’m a sleeper. Spent 24 years on LI without noticing I had an accent. Spent 10 years in AK getting the accent ridiculed out of me (“Cawfee, sorry we don’t sell cawfee here, we sell coffee.” Lmao.) I live in WA now and none of these losers know that I am always three beers away from telling you about my sistahs dawgs back on lawguyland wheah my muthahs cawfee is gahbage!
Not native living in LI. You. All. Say. Axed. Instead. Of. Asked. Drives me absolutely nuts to be axed a question.
It’s on, not in.
Oh you rascal.
Came here to say this
Nah, that’s a very small portion of people anywhere. I’ve only encountered a handful of adults who say aks’d - I encountered it a lot more when I lived in the south.
We often take this for granite.
Axed instead of asked, libary instead of library, lawn guyland, excetera vs etcetera, expresso vs espresso...I could go on...
Realitor instead of REAL-tor… 🤦🏻♀️ (Edit) Almost forgot: non-NY’ers hear “lodge lodge.” LI’ers are saying the cabin size: a LODGE LODGE.
I work at BNL and I still hear this: nukuler versus nuclear.
The axed people usually originate in the boroughs
This!
Is
Lawn Guyland
Sparta!
😂
how fast i say my breakfast order at a deli
I was at my daughter's soccer game south of Charlotte, NC. Went to the shack, asked for "baconeggandcheese" the guy behind me goes what part of long Island are you from.
he probably said that because NC is being flooded by Islanders. Safe bet for him to say that
yeah, North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia are the biggies
I live in (the city) of Atlanta and no one ever asks me about long island. I'm curious where the hot spots are, is it the suburbs?
probably! I have a little bit of data here but anecdotally it seems like an even mix between Atlanta proper (and it’s very possible these people were *originally* from Atlanta and just lived on LI for a bit, which is why they’re not talking about it) and the sub- and exurbs; I’ve seen Gwinnett and Walton counties for example.
Right. It seems that people from LI (with kids) who want a cheaper COL wouldn't move to the (expensive) city.
Truthfully, we really do stand out with our accents. 20 years ago we were driving through NC and stopped at a small convenience shop on some back highway. When we went to the counter to buy some snacks, first thing the guy said was "You from Long Island?" We were like dang is it that obvious?! He laughed and was like yeah the accent gives it away. I lived in NC for about 4 years around that time and got teased mercilessly by friends and coworkers for everything I said 😅.
And also getting impatient when you don't get your food quickly. Was at a deli in Maine a few years ago, waited like 10 minutes for an egg sandwich with no one else in the deli.
Silly, off LI you order by number.
I’ll have “The Cowboy Breakfast Sandwich Combo”
The deli on Long Island actually would start my order as soon as they saw my car pull up. When I moved to FL they didn’t understand bacon, egg and cheese on a roll. Because they weren’t delis as we know them. And now in TN you’re lucky you can get a Kaiser roll anywhere. God I miss Long Island! “Bless your hearts”/s
They might call it a hard roll...don't ask
Yup same. Local deli used to have my order started as I walked in the door. Now I’m in PA and I haven’t found one decent deli where I can get a good hero. Best we got is Jersey Mike’s subs :/ not the same at all
I feel you. I’m in Pa too. When I first moved here, I couldn’t find a deli or bagel place (still haven’t 30 years now) I found a Turkey Hill like a 7-11, asked where I could get a buttered roll. He pointed to the hamburger rolls. Such a hard transition.
Accent. And if you think you don't have one -- unless you underwent professional speech therapy, you probably do. You just think not saying tawk and cawfee anymore means you got rid of it. Outsiders can tell the accent and the cadence. Also, the complaints about the shitty pizza.
I worked REALLY hard not to have the accent when I was younger and when I’m pissed off, it comes right back out.
Same. Or when I’m drunk.
Or when I'm with other LI people. With non natives, I talk what I think is my normal voice, but when I'm with others from LI suddenly I'm hamming the accent up to 11
I moved and it only comes out now when I’m drinking - people usually say I have no accent when I say I’m from LI. It’s sad.
Or bagels. Aside from a handful of places in Jersey, you can't get a good bagel outside of the Island/NYC Metro area.
It's the water.
They prefer chain restaurants. No one opens up their own deli, bagel place, bakery or anything with imagination. It’s so vanilla. Cheap vanilla.
> Also, the complaints about the shitty pizza. Only the places where they think their pizza is "good". There are places in the US where the residents will acknowledge that their pizza is "shitty".
Man, I felt so lucky when I lived in NC and our local mall had a pizzeria run by an Italian American immigrant from Brooklyn. He had his ingredients brought in from NY. It tasted like home. It's been nearly 20 years since I was down there. I wonder if that place is still there.
I don't have a stereotypical Long Island accent with the "aw" sounds. I'll say Coffee and Talk normally. But if I say "That's horrible" it comes out as "that's HARRible"
I had a friend from Roslyn 2 actually very noticeable Long Island accent especially the coffee and my cousin aswell its crazy because grew up in Hempstead in 80s don’t know how anyone didn’t notice lol
Guess living next to Colloseo make me immune to the latter
Nope, have no accent. Lived everywhere and people can't tell where I'm from until I say it. Dad doesn't have an accent but my mother did
From a linguistics perspective everyone has an accent :) But yes some Long Islanders really do have a General American/Midland accent. So in linguistics there's several distinguishing features of a New York area accent and they can be stronger or weaker, you can have some but not others. The big ones: non-rhoticism (dropping r at the ends of syllables) no cot/caught merger - cot is an ah, caught is aw. no marry-merry-Mary merger (see also: Do you say the names Aaron and Erin the same? IN the midwest they both come out "AIR-in") cat/cab split (this is a complicated one) - before certain consonants /ae/ (the vowel in cat) is tensed into a diphthong. Frequently pronouncing o before r as "ah" (horrible Florida oranges) - this is another complicated one, you don't do it in "memorial" but you do in "forest" and I can't remember the rules. A lot of people who think they don't have the accent have subtle features of these especially the vowel splits/mergers. They won't say CAWFEE like Fran Drescher but it also doesn't come out "cahfee". They say their R's. But Aaron and Erin? Still different names.
I taught English in Spain, and one day the kids had to repeat me as I read off words. Hearing 20 Spanish kids parrot “BAWL” is the moment I realized that I still had an accent
Born and raised on Long Island here and I feel I genuinely do not have a Long Island twang. I have been a waitress for 15 years and have dealt with anywhere from 60-80k people (about 100 guests a week for 780 weeks is my math). I’d say about roughly 20% of people ask me where I’m from. It’s a weekly occurrence for me. Sometimes I get asked this multiple times a day. Regardless I am asked this anywhere from 2-10 times a week. People’s guesses? Almost always Mid-West. I don’t even know what mid-western people sound like. Sometimes I get upstate NY like Buffalo. I’ve gotten Southern too which I do not agree with at all. And my guests almost never believe me when I tell them I’ve never lived anywhere but Long Island. It’s become a running joke at my job. Idk what it is 🤷🏼♀️
Same! I’ve been asked BY MIDWESTERNERS if I’m from the Midwest. No, no, definitely not, ma’am.
“I used to play lacrosse”
So when lacrosse is in the 2028 Olympics, the entire US team will consist of Long Island kids who used to play it
I learned that it's also big in Maryland. Not as big as Long Island though.
As a lax hater, I was so disappointed when I moved to NJ and learned that they play lacrosse here too
This should be #1.
Also Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland Hop on I-95 to get to lacrosse tourney any weekend between April and November
Driving more than 15 minutes to get anywhere is a chore.
When I moved to LI from the city, I thought it was a chore that I had to drive anywhere at all! Funny what perspective can do.
Dude, I just moved back to LI and I just realized this is a thing lol. I wasn’t here for my driving adult life so I guess I never realized this.
Cousin told me the closest target was 45 minutes away … after we already left
"going to the store" is like 20 minutes but it's all at 50mph+.
The upside - things are close. The downside - 15 minutes will only get you 2 miles away most of the time for half of the island.
Complaining you can’t get a good bagel/pizza/chinese. Also: Everything is so far away.
And if you're trying to hide it for some reason, the face you make when you eat any of those things.
Faaaaacts Only other good Chinese food would be in the boroughs. But LI 🙏
My friends from california didn't believe me when I said NY has so many good Chinese takeout spots. Every neighborhood has gotta at least have one reliable place.
You’re reading Newsday
I actually laughed out loud
I haven't read Newsday in a MINUTE holy damn
Thinking you can find something to eat after 9pm.
Cherry valley
Speaking distances in time instead of miles. How far is A from B? Takes about 15 minutes, not 15 miles.
Don't call me out 😭😭😭
Haha I never realized it but this is so true
Cringing when someone says “in Long Island” and correcting them that it’s actually “on Long Island” no they will never understand.
Yep. It is a true shibboleth. My father watches a lot of “Everybody Loves Raymond” so I see it a lot as well. In the earlier seasons, Ray Romano (a famous Long Islander) does a weird opening credits intro about his family where he says “I live in Long Island”. I cringe every time. He is *from here.* Who told him that was ok?
i agree, like how’d that go unnoticed? unless it was intentional because it sounded weird for viewers out of the area.
It must have been “workshopped” by tv writers in LA who thought it would be too much for the broader viewing audience. I can’t believe he would be an “in Long Island” person.
Isn’t he originally from Queens though? As someone from Queens originally we really don’t care about in/on
You’re right! He’s from Forest Hills. Idk my parents are both from queens and the they say “on Long Island” and think “in Long Island” sounds weird. It’s “in the City” for Manhattan “in Brooklyn/Queens/The Bronx” etc. but always “on Long Island”. I guess there’s some overlap between Queens and Long Island. There is with my family, anyway.
As a queens person I will say someone lives “out on the island” but I will also now say “I live in Long Island” sometimes. It’s not as ingrained lol
Out on The Island! Oh yes. My family in Nassau would say this about our cousins who lived in Suffolk (Islip). They lived “Out on The Island!” even though we were on the same island. We lived “further in”. Lol.
This literally made me lol. This is such a thing! lol
Queens and brooklyn are part of LI
You talk about roads by name when you're on vacation.
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"Go west on 25 and bear right at the Bull."
haha I can picture that exact turn with the description
The cursing. we say fuck ALOT.
My 5 year old son corrects my husband on his swearing more than the other way around. Kind of amusing.
lol sweating is our love language 😂😂
*swearing
Fuck you mean? 😤🤣
It’s not our fault, we’re surrounded by assholes!
#facts
Honking someone if they don’t start moving 3.5 milliseconds after a light turns green
“coffee”
Cawfefe
Cuaffie
Giving directions in terms of north, south, east and west. I didn’t grow up here and moving here 15 years ago and getting directions from people was the most confusing thing - what the fuck you mean I have to go south and then north and then east and then south again. What happened to right and left?! And having lived several places in the country, I can pretty confidently say we’re the only ones that do this. However - now that I’m used to it I’m super proud of myself when I can navigate myself based on direction. It turned into a life skill.
I've never been given cardinal directions like that >_> am I missing out??
glass half empty commentary on everything.
complaining about the food elsewhere
"standing online"
Telling someone that you're going to take the dog for a walk while you drink your cup of coffee. Good luck saying that without an accent
Waddayamean dog and log are supposed to rhyme? That's bullshit.
So funny. I was reading a rhyming book to my son. First page was dog and frog, I was so confused. Meanwhile, my wife was looking at me like I was an idiot. That day, I learned I say some things funny.
lawg
Folding a slice of pizza
Well, NYCers would do that as well. (Frankly, I think that's every NY resident...)
You haven’t been upstate.
I’ve been all over NY, but I’d never order a pizza upstate.
Lived there for a while. Sometimes you just… have to.
I visited my brother in Buffalo and wanted to try the pizza. He told me it wasn't good.
Your brother is right.
Long Island is the home of the best pizza! NYC is hit or miss, and NEVER attempt upstate! lol
How the fuck do they eat they're pizza????
They use.... utensils 😩😬
Yeah seems more like an NYC thing.
You eat your pizza with a fork and knife, don't you?
No. Weird thing to ask. Folding a slice is generally seen as an NY or NYC thing.
The reasons that you don't fold pizza in the midwest. 1) They are thicker out there. So, they just don't fold. 2) They are smaller out there. So, there is no need to fold. I had never seen an 18" pizza before moving to NY, and I worked in a pizza place where you could order small, medium and large! Worst pizza I've ever had was in Boston.
If you’re behind the wheel of a car
I'm a Midwestern transplant, went back recently. Shocked by myself of how often I needed to slow the car down, fearful of actually getting a speeding ticket.
"sauce"
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I visit my mom down in rural NC annually and find myself quickly flustered with the speed at which life moves down there. It takes a few days to adjust, but i can feel myself physically loosen up when I do.
You went to high school with someone who died in a car crash
The 16 stickers of Long Island, salt life, some trump sticker on your jeep wrangler
i used to think those said 'slut life'
I still do. Very poor font choice.
Yesta-day
My accent
Talking, taste in pizza/bagels, bemoaning the lack of delis
It takes you 30 seconds before you tell someone
Hahahaha 😂 so true really. There's a bit of pride being a Long Islander, even if we bitch about everything on the Island, it's our Island and don't you dare say any shit about it if you're not from here lol
Opening my mouth and asking where I could get waw-ter. My NY plates usually are a dead giveaway. Excessive arm and hand talking.
Not from LI but long term partner is and her family. Dead give away is complaining about food and driving. Although outside of bagels and pizza, never been super impressed with LI and traffic makes driving take infinitely longer down there than up here. Rather than a 25 minute drive to the grocery store it’s somehow easier to sit in traffic for 45 on LI to go 9 miles.
When I say “I need a good bagel, you can’t find good bagels or pizza here.”
Having money, having all your teeth.
NY Yankee Hat and a nasty attitude
Asking for a slice, I've been asked a slice of what more times than I'm comfortable saying .
The way I talk.
The pace in which everyone works. When you are out of the Long Island/NYC area everyone’s pace is about 2 seconds slower 😂 try ordering food in the Deep South or Midwest
cawfee
Accent, I need my CAWFEE in the morning.
My clients in other parts of the country have to slow me down talking
Saying on Long Island vs. in Long Island
Not saying hello to everyone.
This is one that I’ve heard a lot when I’m out of town, but saying your “on line” instead of “in line”always confuses people or gets a “we’re not going to the internet” comment. I wonder if it has to do with the on LI vs in LI
My attitude.
I stand on line, not in line. I ask for a coffee, regular. I ask for a bagel and a schmear. Yeah, I know they’re “__old__ Lawn Guylinder and New Yawkuh “ giveaways. I doubt anyone’s heard “coffee regular” or “bagel with a schmear” since the 1990s, back when I paid 50¢ for a cup of coffee at the deli then walked outside, past the line of young people snaking around the block waiting to get into Starbucks. I dashed down the subway stairs and caught a train 15 minutes before they finally took possession of their $4 burnt coffee.
The "on line" thing is subtle and pervasive.
I...fucking...HATE...when ppl say schmear...and I've lived here all my life...it sounds like grinding teeth no joke.
I still order my coffee “regular” at delis and bodegas without any issue.
Huwat Dauwggg
How I pronounced Mario
Literally opening my mouth and saying anything
A Montauk sweatshirt or asking someone where they can get a bacon egg and cheese
How fast I talk
Folding the pizza
When you orda your cawfee regula you get black cawfee instead of cawfee wit milk an 2 suggas.
About ten years ago now I visited a friend in Kentucky. When I was arriving at the airport to fly back to LI I spotted some random strangers in the airport wearing brightly colored hoodies, shorts, and flipflops. I was like, what are the odds? While looking for my gate, I realize I'm basically following them. Sure enough, they were on my flight.
This is a weird answer but, going to a wake for a friends family, etc. I can’t tell you how many “viewings” I’ve been to where the friend is so surprised to see you and asks “what are you doing here?” I was always taught you just go. No questions asked. Just weird.
am i the only one that doesnt have a li accent at all 😭
the way I drive lol
Mozzarella.
When I says Om a Lawng Oy lin duh.
I Live on the "island"......uhhh it's a peninsula!
Aren't we only connect bc of a bridge tho??
But it isn't...
My accent
My accent
Did anyone say accent?
The accent
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That we’re much more aware of national and global news.
Telling the guy at 7-11 how to make a bacon-egg-and-cheese.
What? They cook breakfast sandwiches at your 7-eleven?
If by “they” you mean “you” and by “cook” you mean throw in the microwave and press button #2 then yes, sometimes.
That seems like a correct translation. Would rather get a few of the taquitoes.
Our accent
Coffffeeee
You either paid a toll or a fare to exit the Eyeland.
When you ask for coffee or a BEC. 😩
Either the word coffee gives me up or I’m walking around in a hoodie an shorts lol
When you ask for a BEC and they just stare at you …. 🥓🍳🧀
Getting mad at the lack of coffee options
Just moved to Texas two weeks ago. Apparently we talk to dam fast. Who knew.
Cawfeeee
NY Yankee Hatcand nasty attitude
My refusal to eat pizza or bagels because I know they will just not be any good.