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N.C. State study: Southern dialect is a language barrier in college
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| 9-4-2015
| JOHN LE, WLOS
Posted on 09/04/2015 10:29:23 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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It is time to ban Green Acres from television.
To: Citizen Zed
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:31:03 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: Citizen Zed
The kidz should grow up watching and hearing more of that Grade C rap.....
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:31:20 AM PDT
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Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: Citizen Zed
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!”
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:34:34 AM PDT
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Cowboy Bob
(With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
To: Citizen Zed
Outlaw it like the confederate flag.
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:34:44 AM PDT
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skeeter
To: Citizen Zed
Shows how stellar Bill Clinton was.
1030 SAT score, southern dialect, still became POTUS.
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:36:01 AM PDT
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nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
Southern and ebonics sound pretty much the same to me
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:37:20 AM PDT
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dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: Cowboy Bob
For a while there in the early 70s Cleveland, Ohio had a modest influx of “Appalachian-Americans.” They fit right in.
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:38:01 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Citizen Zed
"Just because you speak with a dialect it does not mean you are not intelligent and it doesn't pertain to your education level," she stresses. 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.
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:42:37 AM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Citizen Zed
They should not feel alienated—they should be proud!
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:42:58 AM PDT
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basil
To: Citizen Zed
But a Brooklyn accent is pure genius! Or Bostonian.
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:42:58 AM PDT
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subterfuge
(Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
To: nascarnation
"1030 SAT score"
U mean. That 0bama has less?
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:43:30 AM PDT
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Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: dsrtsage
I had that happen in southern Va. decades ago. Some rebels in the restaurant sounded ‘xactly like northern ghetto speech inn their use of phonemes.
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:45:48 AM PDT
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Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: Citizen Zed
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.
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:47:20 AM PDT
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fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: subterfuge
I had a DI from Maine. It took a while before we understood anything in drill.
To: dsrtsage
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:47:59 AM PDT
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fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Smokin' Joe
I was on a search committee that rejected a guy because of his Southern accent.
The California surfer dude that was hired turned out to be a slick-talking, dishonest train wreck.
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09/04/2015 10:49:34 AM PDT
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fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fishtank
the Entertainment INDUSTRY....is at the root of this.
Tv and Movies....used a recognizable style of speech....as a “gag” several decades ago.....and it stuck in the “minds” of many.
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:50:13 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: DannyTN
That is the biggest bunch of drivel I have ever heard. Everybody in the South has an accent. Its not a problem unless you are not from around here. :-)
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posted on
09/04/2015 10:52:04 AM PDT
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Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: fishtank
The selection committee finally decided on a candidate, and by the time they had, he had accepted another position. The position went unfilled for a year.
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09/04/2015 10:52:14 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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