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| 16 Sept 2013
| Razib Khan
Posted on 09/16/2013 11:54:23 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria
Says heah the survuh is wicked ovahloaded.
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posted on
09/16/2013 12:51:31 PM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
To: NKP_Vet
I’ve never been to Charleston. (With a Walmart right up the street, I hardly even go to Charlotte ;-).
Teachers from up north, maybe? I’ve read that’s why natives of New Orleans talk like New Yorkers.
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posted on
09/16/2013 12:52:17 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Think of Christ's suffering.)
To: Tax-chick
I have been speaking Texan for the last 50 years. Problem is it keeps coming out like south Brooklyn.
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posted on
09/16/2013 12:54:43 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Make today a great day. Insult a liberal.)
To: The Sons of Liberty
I had a freshman English teacher who was really a Faulkner fan. When he was sober enough to get to class he had some interesting takes on the Southern dialect which he stated was closer to the mother tongue of our British fore bearers than that “Mediterranean and Kraut bastardized mush spoken up North. He also said that english ain't math so two negatives don't make a positive and there ain't nothing more positive than I ain't going to do nothing. Meaning not only am I not going to do something, I am not even going to do nothing. Got one of my best grades in college in that class.
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posted on
09/16/2013 12:55:17 PM PDT
by
dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: The Sons of Liberty
My wife grew up in North Carolina, and has a bit of accent still. But when she talks to her mother on the telephone, you can hear the accent get stronger minute by minute. it recedes in a day or so, though.
To: Theoria
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:04:24 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: Tax-chick
I’ve noticed a lot of people from the coastal areas of the southerns states (Savannah, GA excluded) don’t have much of a Southern accent. And all other the South accents tend to be much thicker in rural areas that in the big cities. I guess that’s to be expected. The Yankee influx in the big towns are the reason for that. I have not lived in NC for 45 years, but never lost my accent and never wanted to. If you’ve ever heard Richard Petty talk you know what I sound like.
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:06:04 PM PDT
by
NKP_Vet
To: Theoria
Server overload message. Bump for midnight.
48
posted on
09/16/2013 1:18:31 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: reed13
49
posted on
09/16/2013 1:19:59 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
To: Bigg Red
50
posted on
09/16/2013 1:20:45 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: Theoria
I also know sign language but my accent is so bad nobody can understand me.
51
posted on
09/16/2013 1:23:34 PM PDT
by
tbpiper
To: SpinnerWebb
I speak Hall County redneck, where we warsh and wrench our hands afore supper.Well, now, don't that soun lahk puyoor 1875 Scotch Irish Amurikin dilect.
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:23:36 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: Buckeye McFrog
English in England is odd. Your accent carries a lot of class and status markers that just don’t apply in the same way in America. With the exception of Ebonics and extreme backwoods southern accents, we just don’t assign class and status by accent the way the Brits do.
So when we watch a British TV series, a lot of the undercurrents of interactions between characters are based on their accents, which goes zooming right over our heads. They all just sound “English” to us. With probable exception of Cockney, which most Americans can spot.
Interesting point. Australians sound like Americans to Brits, and like Brits to Americans.
53
posted on
09/16/2013 1:24:38 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
To: SpinnerWebb
“where we warsh and wrench our hands afore supper.”
It’s funny I travel for a living, and I’m used to all the accents in the country none of them bother me...but for some reason since I was a little kid the pronunciation of “warsh” has always always made my teeth itch. Though when someone I work with says “warsh”, and one of the younger people I travel with looks questioningly, I always say...”The P is silent”
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:24:51 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: Cloverfarm
We ret up before worshin the deeshes. You can still hear that accent in County Louth and County Meath, Ireland.
55
posted on
09/16/2013 1:26:11 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: Jeff Chandler
I once had a stranger guess my origins as a location 3,000 miles from where I grew up. I've had the same thing happen to me. I lived in England for about a year, twenty odd years ago. On several occasions, complete strangers would say, "Oh, you're from California."
When I'd ask them how they guessed that, they'd just laugh and tell me that it was obvious by my accent. That flipped my noodle at first, because I'd never considered that we Californians had much of any kind of 'accent'.
Now that I'm in Texas, some people still correctly peg me as being from Cali.
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:27:16 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Jeff Chandler
I once had a stranger guess my origins as a location 3,000 miles from where I grew up. It happened to be where my parents grew up.So, do you then happen to be a Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius? ("fixed" signs of the zodiac, as contrasted to "cardinal" or "mutable" signs)
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:30:03 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: Albion Wilde
“ping, hon!”
Y’all from Bawlmer, hon? Near Anna Runnle Cahnny?
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:32:45 PM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: Sherman Logan
in England...Your accent carries a lot of class and status markers that just dont apply in the same way in America.Am I the only one annoyed by the British hairdresser class that pronounces "hair" as "haah" in television ads for haircare products?
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:34:09 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: mrs. a
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:36:56 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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