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To: Sherman Logan; Pelham

If you lived where there was a strong divergence of accents like I do you would realize a degree of income and education affiliation

We simply don’t think much about class period except in old robber baron environs....Newport..... Brewster

Down here...you speak like a hick....you will be judged as one

I saw upper class manhattanites treat bensonhurst and bay ridge and other bridge and tunnel folks the same way

I love how for you only southerners have crappy white accents

You’re such a snob Shermie.....and oblivious to your own bigotry


68 posted on 09/16/2013 1:51:57 PM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: wardaddy

Also, I didn’t say I assign class/status connotations to southern backwoods accents. I said Americans do.

Do you disagree?


73 posted on 09/16/2013 2:01:52 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: wardaddy

New York City area, which includes where I grew up Bergen County NJ, has 4 distinct accents. The upper crust like you describe has their’s. The other three divided along ethnic lines. There are Irish NY, Italian NY, and Jewish NY. Examples being Peter King (Irish NY), Paul Sorvino (Italian NY), and Michael Savage (Jewish NY). Interestingly, thou neither is Irish, Rudy Guiliani and Charlie Rangel both speak with an Irish NY accent.


82 posted on 09/16/2013 3:10:31 PM PDT by gusty
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