Another flick set in Pittsburgh with no accents.
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TheSharkFromJaws — 10 years ago(December 14, 2015 08:33 PM)
Correct. You can find the accent in areas far from the city.
And there's definitely an accent. It might not seem like it to a lot of people, but it's there. used to think it wasn't very widespread but when I first moved to L.A., I had more than a few people comment on it.
It just isn't as extreme as people tend to claim.
And it's "yinz", not "yuns".
You guys just made me homesick. -
matthank-1 — 10 years ago(January 30, 2016 06:07 PM)
In the scene where they are explaining about the construction company, the paperwork for the company's sale, which the owner's widow doesn't sign actually says Pittsburgh.
That's the only way I knew what the heck city it was set in. -
lberger — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 06:42 AM)
The accent is much stronger depending on how close you grew up to the city itself. It also tends to fade out over time but I know some adults that still have a pretty thick accent. In Pittsburgh, we call them "Yinzers". The only ones that definitely should have had the accent in the movie would have been Jeb and his goons and Sandy. She was the perfect Yinzer. I can definitely buy the attorney, her father, and the detectives not having a stereotypical Pittsburgh accent as they likely didn't grow up in the city itself. What would have been really funny is if someone asked Reacher for a gum-band (rubber band) or what kind of pop (soda) he wanted. That's way more common in Western Pa than the Yinzer accent.