Are Navy Radiomen having to learn a new black dialect to communicate across the airwaves or something.
I once knew this big guy who was the brother of the girl I was dating at the time who would go off for 3-5 months (he always came back injured) to play Sports Arena football; one level below pro and the pro scouts would get players from those teams all the time. Anyway every time he came back he talked just like a black guy. I guess the culture is so ebonic in those ball clubs he just got caught up in it.
I asked him why he didn’t turn it off when he got home and I got the impression he didn’t even realize he was doing it. Maybe he was another one who wanted to be a black person deep down. Different for sure.
I composed 3 replies to your post last night; don’t know what happened to them [key twilight music]. Sorry.
FWIW, if you listen to the accents [dialect] of WF Buckley, Jr, Julia Child, Eleanor Roosevelt, Katherine Hepburn you’ll see some speech *affect*.
After 33 years of teaching in the *hood*, I could *ebonic* with the best of them; If you are immersed in an accent, you may like your acquaintance, reflect that influence. Having been away from the black-speak for so long, I wouldn’t be able to do it if I tried. :)
If I’ve been on vacay in the South, when I come home, I’ll be saying *ma’am and sir* to everyone. ;)
George Carlin had an incredible monologue about regional accents. It was brilliant.