Posted on 11/23/2008 10:47:21 AM PST by AJKauf
Frank's fans like him because he laughingly admits to being a slob, but they don't see how much of a lowlife he really is.
I don't know if it's because the "Age of Nihilism" has arrived, but there's something about a cynical pose that wins some people over to an outsider, but when that onetime outsider's been in office for a long time, he becomes just another corrupt hack.
His supporters don't see it, though, because he's taught them to laugh it off, to think off him as a happy warrior rather than as a thug.
I think that is the true point of the rant — those individual accents, based on regional accents, are being lost to a high-pitched, slightly nasal whine across the board.
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There was a time when someone with a practiced ear could locate a person’s place of birth, give or take a county width, by their accent. A case in point, in 1972 I took a new job and moved to a town approximately fifty miles by the road, not as the crow flies, from where I was born and raised. As I went from customer to customer it was quite common for someone to listen to the first words I spoke and say something like,”You’re from further up state, aren’t you?” Now my nephew age 22 who was born right here and lived in South Carolina all his life although my brother moved him to Fort Mill, just across from Charlotte, NC as a small boy, sounds nothing like his father. He could be from anywhere, he has no distinctive accent at all that I can hear.
Soon we will all sound the same, listen to the same sorry excuse for music and be as boring as Al Gore. I dream of spending a day hearing the speech of those who were old when I was a small boy, they used words like “nary”.
I find it interesting that most tough guys lately are not Americans.
Daniel Craig (the current Bond, and you are being a little harsh on him. I have found him to be excellent in everything he does.)
Jason Statham
Gerard Butler
Clive Owen
Hugh Jackman
At the same time, they have all branched out in some very non-masculine movies. Butler follows up 300 with P.S. I Love You, Jackman did The Boy From Oz after X-Men, between King Arthur and Sin City, Owen did Closer.
I take that back Statham hasn’t branched out. Unless you count cartoony action as opposed to a more traditional action movie branching out.
For the most part in Oklahoma you can still spot the small town people.
But the end of more regional accents is just something that seems inevitable when everything is becoming more and more national. The closest thing to a regional show I can think of is Friday Night Lights but it get almost no viewership. Its subject matter hits home for people in the South, but it has to be a totally foreign concept to people not from small towns where Football is life.
When I’m in New York, people tell me they can detect a faint strain of a western (Texas?) accent. When I’m in Alberta, people tell me I sound a little like Tony Soprano.
My thought:
They said they want to paint the White House black. Are they going to use brushes or spray paint?
We are talking about a bunch of rappers here.
Another annoyance: people that end sentances with question marks, even if it is not a question(?) Makes me want to gut them right then and there.
“Every sentence is peppered with “like” and ends in an upward inflection. “
Yes, and that immediately identifies the speaker as a lib. They boneheadedly refuse to make a DECLARATIVE statement. Always a near question to show they may be and probably are WRONG. “I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings!”
“They said they want to paint the White House black. Are they going to use brushes or spray paint?”
He is going to erect a wall in the Rose Garden so the girls have a place to practice their skills. He said Rahm could use it also. He told Nappy no ‘cause all she would contribute is a Pink, “Go Gay all the way” or “I can really hold my licker.”
I’m nasty!
How true. All those studies - Women’s, African-American, Chicano, etc - are hideouts for academic frauds. I cite Cornel West as the outstanding example.
oh how true...friend of mine taught computer classes at the Delaware State prison had “students” with BA’s in “Black Studies” who were totally illiterate.
I know exactly what you mean...I grew up in southern Delaware, very unique accent, a soft Virginia infused with harder tones from Baltimore and Philadelphia to the north. First day on a new job in Houston,TX...guy running a roofing crew said the word “water” but pronounced it “wooter”...this is a red flag for someone from the Delmarva Peninsula...yup he was from 60 miles south of where I grew up and we dated some of the same girls at the beach..small world,but the accent made it smaller..you can hear the same accent from Robert Mitchum, he was just a farm boy from Felton,Delaware.
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