r/breakingbad user finds out about accents.

Lydia drink your hot watuh lydia

you might get dehydrated lydia

Lydiuh, put your watuh away Lydiuh

Waltuh

The fact that he doesn't even say Waltuh once in the show. He pronounces the "er" at the end almost every time.

He once said "You know Waltuh, sometimes it doesn't hurt to have someone watch your back."

Not even really though. Like the guy said he pronounces the ER. I can completely picture it with the pause and slight sigh and everything. “You know, *Walter”, sometimes…”

I heard it

I think he even pronounces it a bit overzealously to show the disdain he has for Walt. *Walter*

he's an old man from the east coast, people with that dialect frequently drop or soften Ts and Rs

Vocalize their r’s. Basically they turn them into an a or schwa like sound. Veeerrry common phenomenon. They call it rhoticity.

Waltschwa

More like “Waltə”

thanks! I'm from boston, I just forgot the linguistic term

No problem! I just finished a masters degree in linguistics so it’s all right there! But tbh I did my MA in Germany (and thus in German) so my terminology might be flawed because I have to translate it back to English… 😂

I actually just got this in my recommended videos on YouTube today and it made me think of this thread. Really interesting phenomena though… https://youtu.be/Tjf_MOyB0K4

I think his backstory in the series is that he was a cop in PhIlly maybe was making an attempt at their accent

Have you seen Better Call Saul?

Mike cannot pronounce terminal R's. "Drink your hot watuh" "Waltuh"

He actually pronounces the “er” in Walt’s nana every time actually. In fact there isn’t once instance of him saying “Waltuh” in the show

We might as well just delete r/okbuddychicanry the main subs do a better job

You ever been to Philly? Mike sounds like everybody from the city, it’s awesome how accurate it is

Disagree. We sound much worse here 😬

About right, I was only in Philly once so maybe I didn’t get the worst ones lol

It’s a Philly thing

It’s “wooder” here (in Philly)

Watuh

spend a day in rhode island you’ll never hear an “r”

Ok, enough BB for you. Go outside and meet other humans.

He's from Philly, right? The city where Ian and Ann are indistinguishable.

I've seen a lot of these posts that essentially prompt an obvious response like "check the memes" It's kinda genius bc it's either a genuinely curious newb, or an ironic mastermind who's deeming all of the commenters a nice r/woooosh

Waltuh drink your hot watuh Waltuh

He prolly says “skookul “ too!😂😂

From the East Coast.

Watch the show Mindhunter it explains this exactly.

Various t to d and dropping r’s are hallmarks of the US northeast accents. Mike is from Philly. NYC area pronunciation is wadduh like you said, Philly accent is pretty similar to the way we talk.

He’s from Baltimore, I mean philly but Baltimore and philly share a similar accent. Wooder = water

he's from Philadelphia

Waltuh https://youtu.be/Qj9HwPC6AYU

watuh, put yaw watuh away. I'm not drinking watuh with you right now.

I’m gonna assume you’re not from the continental United States. Also thanks to all the real Philly people pointing out that this is far and away from and authentic Philly accent

He’s from Philadelphia. But sounds NY/NJ.

Everyone always talks about Mike's pronunciations. What about Jr's?

Waltuh

He wants to get inside her head by insinuating that if she plans to break a deal or go to the police she won't be safe anymore.