Classic line.
That dog don’t hunt.
The kidz should grow up watching and hearing more of that Grade C rap.....
I remember meeting a guy years ago with a VERY strong southern accent.
I asked him “Where are you from?”
He said “Cleveland.”
I said “Wow. I didn’t think people talked like that in Cleveland!”
And he said “I’m from Cleveland, Tennesseee, damnit!”
Outlaw it like the confederate flag.
Shows how stellar Bill Clinton was.
1030 SAT score, southern dialect, still became POTUS.
I was unable to persuade a selection group to accept a candidate who had done some brilliant work on pyroxenes for his PhD for a mineralogist position. The reason the committee declined his application was his Southern accent.
They should not feel alienated—they should be proud!
But a Brooklyn accent is pure genius! Or Bostonian.
I often interact with people from Savannah River and Oak Ridge (those are two national DOE science labs, located in South Carolina and Tennessee, respectively).
It is to your peril and embarrassment if you think a Southern accent means that someone is uneducated.
Meanwhile, people are given a pass for their NY accent.
That has been going on since before the War For Southern Independence. We talk slow, we think fast.........................
So is stupidity.
Classic line.
Can you say the same thing about ebonics?
“Just ‘cause I talk slow Ma’am doesn’t mean I’m stupid...”
Clint Walker to Kim Novak in The Great Bank Robbery
What is that exactly? Where I come from a southern accent IS standard. And where is the study on the obnoxious yankee accent?
The elephant in the room is the ones that cannot speak any English and speak only Spanish.
She was a well-spoken lady of class and grace, who had a beautiful gentle voice with no trace of any discernible accent.
The thing is, she was born in Knoxville, TN, and told me that she grew up speaking with what she called a "Tennessee Twang."
She told me that in her late teens, she came up north to New York to study at a summer chamber music program, and that everybody made fun of her accent. She told me how bad that made her feel, and how ashamed and defensive she was because of her Appalachian roots. So she resolved to get rid of her "twang" and, as I've indicated, was completely successful in doing so. And she remained too embarrassed to speak about or acknowledge her own Appalachian heritage.
Personally, being a lifelong Yankee myself, I always had a kind of romantic fascination with southern culture, which I had never actually experienced.
So I kept telling her how cool I found it that she was from (what was for me) an exotic place like Tennessee. I told her about the role that the Appalachian "Mountain Men" played in the American Revolution.
Naturally, being a university professor, she had bought into all the "liberal" PC crap and stereotypes about conservatives, although at heart she really was pretty apolitical. So I pointed out the absolute hypocritical intolerance of all those northern classical music-loving liberals in stereotyping her and looking down on her because of her Appalachian heritage.
During the two and a half years we had together before her passing, she did a 180 degree turn and became very comfortable and supportive of my conservatism, although at heart she remained all about the music and stayed pretty apolitical. But I used to tell her that given her core values (which I greatly admired), she was really a conservative at heart. She would smile and say: "I guess so."
She said that being with me was the first time anyone ever gave her a reason to feel proud of her southern heritage, and it was my great privilege before she went into the final phase of her illness that I got to accompany her and her quartet to their performance in Oak Ridge, TN.
She and I spent the following four days touring east Tennessee, while she introduced me to her roots, which included a wonderful visit to the Museum of Appalachia as well as a two-day sojourn that took us to Pigeon Forge and Smokey Mountains National Park.
I am saddened to see that now, these southern students are still so ashamed of their southern accents. Colleges are all about "diversity" accept when it comes to any aspect of white American culture that makes leftist feel superior.
Be gay, be a transexual, flaunt your minority race -- but be ashamed of your white cultural heritage, especially if you're from the south.
It's just sickening. Honestly, I hate the thought of my high-school age daughter actually attending one of these bastions of leftist bigotry known as college.
Fortunately, though, I've prepared her well. She has an admiral appreciation of her American heritage and the principles of freedom, limited government and the Constitution. And she also has a wonderful disrespect for the totalitarian leftist doctrines of so-called "social justice" and the appalling bigotry of Leftist GroupThink (otherwise known as Political Correctness), although there is nothing correct about it."
I’m gonna admit something I’ve never uttered before.
I went from S Fla to a college in Ga.
Hearing Southern dialect at every turn I got the idea I was likely smarter than the locals.
WRONG ! Had a rude awakening .
Don’t worry professor
College demographic southern kids especially girls work overtime to talk bland
I hate that shite
It’s pretentious and weak of heart and mind