Dustin Hoffman : New York accent

New York accent

I was kind of surprised he was born and raised in L.A. His accent sounds very New York to me (a native New Yorker), I would never guess California from his dialect. Am I the only one who thinks this?

Re: New York accent

He lived in New York for years in the 60's.

Re: New York accent

To me he sounds "California" with a bit of "New York" superimposed, for whatever reason, on top of it.

Re: New York accent

Many Jewish people that never lived in New York tend to talk that way. My uncle lived in Los Angeles most of his life, even though his parents were from Brooklyn. And an old boss of my mother in law was an elderly Jewish man that was born in Chicago, but lived in San Antonio since the 1930's as a young man and had that New York dialect.
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