Class Seeks to Rid Kids of Their Accents

associated Press ^ | 2/4/05 | By ROGER ALFORD

[stands2reason]

The section about the Cajuns was pretty interesting.

What's interesting to me is the New Orleansian accent. It sounds strangely New Yorkish. There's a young man who made the first round of American Idol with that accent. I hope he gets "fuddah" in the competition just so I can hear it again. :-)

[4CJ]

Keep your Southern accent

Bump. My kids love theirs. Two excellent music teachers have tried to get them to lose the accent (not just my kids).

Would you believe both teachers are Yankees, with thick accents?

Needless to say, our kids sing like Southerners!

[Fred Hayek]

One engineer originally from Beaumont that I worked with considered anyone north of Conroe to be a Yankee.

[stand watie]

i've done SOME of that.

free dixie,sw

[CORedneck]

It is PC run amok !

I have somewhat an accent myself - Kentucky since I lived down in Southern Indiana for a few years and hung around many Kentuckians. When I moved to Colorado to work at MCI (before Worldcom), most of the people were from Maryland or California and I got some $h!t from some people especially this woman who came from Maryland. She had a reputation in the group and was known as Ms. Political Correctness. She had this uppity attitude. A year or two after I got fired from there, I went to a grocery store in an area where she lived at. I was walking in to get some cigars for a poker game. She came up and asked why I am her part of town. She then remarked that I did not belong there. How crass. When I worked at MCI, she turned in several people for sexual harassment. I had an anti-Clinton calendar in my cube and she told me to take it down. I then went to her cube and told her to take some items down and she got p*ssed and mentioned how it was none of my business. I told her that was my point, my calendar was none of her concern.

When I got fired, it was brought up how I did not pay attention to diversity, etc. ad nauseum.

[stands2reason]

Actually, it's a literal translation of the way I talk. :-)

[LanPB01]

I'm a Shelby Valley graduate myself. I work in the university setting, and I've encountered some of the bias against the accent.

[BellStar]

I have lived all over the world and noticed a change in American Accents VS say English Accents. Today our Accent less media drives how we all pronounce our words. And even the dominant English Accent of the folks in Europe is now replaced by the English accent from say CNN or FOX news readers! Boring!