Minnesota 11

Listen to Minnesota 11, a 28-year-old man from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 28

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/04/1995

PLACE OF BIRTH: Robinsdale, Minnesota (but raised in Brooklyn Park)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: White/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: filmmaker and barback

EDUCATION: high school

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

This speaker lived in Bellingham, Washington, for two years and had been residing in Los Angeles for two years prior to this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The speaker mentioned that throughout Minneapolis and Saint Paul, one encounters many dialects, some “more Minnesotan” than others. He mentions that perhaps anyone he has spent time with has had some influence on his speech.

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RECORDED BY: Amaia Villegas

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/08/2023

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

My hometown is Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Jesse Ventura, a.k.a. The Body, was the mayor the year I was born in 1995. And he later became the first, uh, governor to win as an independent in the state of Minnesota. And I don’t know a whole lot about his politics, except recently, uh, he was very happy when they finally legalized weed. [Subject laughs.] So that was cool to see him still politically active.

Uh, but, yeah, I grew up in like kinda of a newer-constructed suburb. Um, it used to be a potato farm. And every summer we would go to Tater Days [laughs] was the to- was the festival in the city. Uh, that was a big deal. A lot of, a lot of marching bands and Ferris wheels and the whole thing. And they brought out a big guy in a potato costume and ther- the potato was also wearing a kilt ’cause there was a lot of like Scottish settlers at a certain time. So, the Tater Days Parade was like a real highlight for, for a while.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Amaia Villegas

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/08/2023

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