Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is from KC and people from Kansas speak in a Midwest accent. I don’t get it. I grew up in STL and lived in KC for 3 years. We don’t have southern accents. I’m I missing something?
Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is from KC and people from Kansas speak in a Midwest accent. I don’t get it. I grew up in STL and lived in KC for 3 years. We don’t have southern accents. I’m I missing something?
I grew up in the Midwest , that’s not how we sound , sorry.
Imagine different people sound differently. Weird concept
I grew up in the Midwest (Oklahoma) and this is how everybody sounded.
The “Midwest” encompasses a very large cultural range in the US.
Oklahoma is not the Midwest lol
I’m from NY. I personally don’t think I have a NY accent. Everyone I meet outside of NY says I have a NY accent.
When you’re in it, it’s hard to realize it.
Jason Sudeikis also spent a lot of his childhood in the Midwest after moving to Overland Park as a kid. Think he’s got a good understanding of how midwesterners sound.
I spent 30 years in the Carolinas, that’s not how we sound either. It’s not a southern accent. I’ve also studied accents in college. Maybe it’s not a full on Fargo style midwest, but on the spectrum it’s closer to mw than south.
The Midwest is a big place made up of a dozen states. People from Minnesota sound different than people from Illinois. There are several distinct accents and the Kansas accent is one of them. I would expect an Ohioan and a Kansan to sound different, so if living in one state in the Midwest is your only frame of reference then I can understand why you think they all sound like that. I am also from the Midwest and I can tell you that if you drive for a few hours in any direction the people start to sound different, and there are different accents in cities than there are in rural areas
I grew up in minnesota, lived in illinois for 8 years and moved back to minnesota. That 10000 a midwestern accent, its just what we sound like to most people. Chicagoland illinois its more of a fake nyc accent mixed with midwestern since chicago is in a losing competition with nyc , springfield its real close to Teds.
Minnesota we sound like a combo of ted and Marge from from Fargo dialed back. Unless you are up around the boundary waters than its fake canada. No humans live in ND or SD so i guess maybe they would sound different. Wisconsin is fat minnesota. Iowa is corn kansas.
As you said in your post, Jason himself grew up in the Midwest, so he has a Midwestern accent too. Just because it’s not what you want it to be doesn’t mean it isn’t the right accent. If you think Ted sounds Southern you might need to get your ears checked.