Especially when Boston is polluted with a masculine bronze equestrian statue of slave owner George Washington that needs recycling. </s>
Posted on 12/08/2023 4:02:36 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
After more than 2,500 Cambridge residents made their voices heard during the participatory budget vote in 2021, more than 70 new street signs in East Cambridge will include translations into the native Massachusett language.
Sage Carbone, a Cambridge resident, proposed the participatory budget item to add traditional Native translations to city signs, along with commemorating Native American sites in Cambridge with markers.
“Any representation is missing,” she said. Carbone is a member of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island with Nipmuc, Massachusett ancestry.
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“ While we’re at it, why is it the Boston Celtics (like sell-ticks) but it’s Celtic (like kell-tick) music?”
Actually, selltick is Irish and kelltick is Scottish.
Sounds like cultural appropriation.
Native language for Mushmouth?
Haba manba. Waba youba doin?
Thats from Fat Albert show. A kid show from the ‘70s.
“ While we’re at it, why is it the Boston Celtics (like sell-ticks) but it’s Celtic (like kell-tick) music?”
Phooey. No. Opposite
Actually, Keltic is Irish and selltick is Scottish.
Especially when Boston is polluted with a masculine bronze equestrian statue of slave owner George Washington that needs recycling. </s>
NewBeffud isn’t Bostonese. (I lived nearby in RudEylan for a few years in the late ‘80s.) It’s a distinct accent unto itself.
Boston had several distinct accents when I lived there, from Beacon Hill to Southie to Bay Village to Revere. Leaving aside the melanistic ‘hoods in Roxbury and Dorchester. Forty years on, it probably has a few more.
The lead character in the movie “Good Will Hunting” absolutely nailed the old working-class WASP accent. As distinct from the lower-class Irish accent, which is what the Kennedys spoke. Italians in the North End could be told from those in Revere.
(Doing all the various Boston accents used to be my party trick, but after 40 years in the Midwest I’ve pretty much lost them all.)
“Wicked” is a Maineism, not used in Boston in my experience.
How many people speak or converse in public in that language?
I have always been told that in Boston a red light is merely a suggestion
When driving in and around Boston, one can see what this means.
Thread title suggest the ebonic/slang of the Massachusetts natives that is referred to as “accent”.
The whole state has a name from the Massachusett language. I am guessing there are plenty of other Massachusett place names too.
Everything was handed down by oral tradition and stories told by elders to the young.
I miss Ro dye lan. When people in Texas first hear me speak they say,” Are you from NY? Everybody. I guess I must have a really heavy accent. Nope RI through and through.
I don’t see a Duolingo course for Massachusett.
Woonsocket too
It still is written in the language of the white man.
Thank you. As I viewed that picture I wondered to myself whether the east coast natives even kept ponies. That was the plains and western tribes.
But not as dumb as changing the names of our military bases, ripping down Confederate Flags, disallowing crosses in all kinds of situations.
That's why they were called savages..
Wish these Indians would make up your minds...because they're removing team, school names etc...because they are offensive.
Because there is such a big Indian population in Massachusetts:
Massachusetts by the numbers
- Native American population: 17,875
- Proportion of state’s population: 0.3% (#43 highest among all states)
A whopping 0.3%
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