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To: miss marmelstein

I’m hip.

I could picture the whole situation just as you described it down to his facial expression.

If that’s a problem, portraying an accent, and it is sometimes, then Mark Twain wasted his whole adult life, but it’s what made “Tom Sawyer” a classic story.


62 posted on 11/24/2012 2:32:26 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

I love our accents. I grew up in an Irish-cop family where they really spoke with “d’s and dem’s” - as well as saying “erl” for “oil” and “terlet” for “toilet.” (The Irish, I believe, have no “th” sound in their language so it became a “d” sound. When they controlled NYC, they controlled the accent.) Most of that is gone now, but the “d” for “th” remains.

It’s so nice to meet a fellow Conservative New Yorker!


63 posted on 11/24/2012 2:42:19 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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