Classic line.
Posted on 09/04/2015 10:29:23 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
They are the same.
When I was a kid there were still poor southern whites that spoke that way.
Exactly. Besides it's not Sourthern Speech that's the problem. You might have to wait for it, but you can understand what we are saying. Unless it's a sayin' in which case we'd be glad to splain to you.
It's dem fast talkin yankees that you can't understand. And they're rude about it too.
Meanwhile, people are given a pass for their NY accent.
Hell, I would welcome students with a Southern dialect with open arms! Most of my students are riddled with the disease known as ebonics...
That has been going on since before the War For Southern Independence. We talk slow, we think fast.........................
You’ll have prably heard of Cary, North Carolina but I bet youins don’t know that it’s an acronyum.
CARY stands for Containment Area for Relocated Yankees!
Yuck! Yuck! Ain’t that right Cletus?
Bronx accent is Hahvahd material fer sure.....................
I’ve never seen Caliph Baraq’s SAT score.
Some say it’s the second most secure data in the US (#1 being his golf scores).
So is stupidity.
“It is to your peril and embarrassment if you think a Southern accent means that someone is uneducated.”
Born in New Jersey/Metro NYC, raised in Southern Indiana.
That “Southern Accent” was my best sales tool, especially with arrogant West Coasters.
When a West Coaster or a Northeasterner hears a Southern Accent, they IMMEDIATELY think “Ignorant Rube”, just like the TV has programmed them to do. They think they are going to get one over on you, until the negotiations begin, and the Southern accent goes away, replaced with mouthfuls of techy jargon in a straight, dictive way.
I watched jaws drop as they suddenly realize you played THEM, not the other way around as they thought, but they have already told the boss they are going to steal a “good Deal” from the “Rube”.
It was always fun...
Did you see the movie Shadrach, with Harvey Keitel cast as a poor southern moonshiner in Virginia in the Depression?
Somebody was nuts to cast him in that role. Andie MacDowell, his co-star is from North Carolina, so her accent was real, if a little bit strained at times.....................
My BIL is from Knoxville, TN and it don’t get more southern than him and he has a 4 yr engineering degree from UT. But Mr GG2 who is from CA originally met him he thought my BIL was a total bumpkin. He was shocked when I told him my BIL was an electrical engineer. :=)
Classic line.
Can you say the same thing about ebonics?
“There’s a southern accent, where I come from
The young ‘uns call it country, the yankees call it dumb
I got my own way of talking, but everything gets done
With a southern accent, where I come from”
:-)
Good one!!!!!
“Just ‘cause I talk slow Ma’am doesn’t mean I’m stupid...”
Clint Walker to Kim Novak in The Great Bank Robbery
Havent seen a movie in many years!
I remember that. You'd go use the bathroom in a gas station and see muddy footprints on the toilet seat. I guess that's how you use an outhouse and not get splinters.
What is that exactly? Where I come from a southern accent IS standard. And where is the study on the obnoxious yankee accent?
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