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Tennessee Nuclear Lab Cancels 'Lose Your Southern Accent' Class
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| 7/29/14
Posted on 07/31/2014 4:26:21 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A nuclear lab in Tennessee has canceled a "Southern accent reduction" class after employees raised heck about what they saw as a slap in their Southern faces, the class instructor said Tuesday.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: arrogance; dixie; federalspending; language; southernaccent; speech
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To: SoFloFreeper
The only thing I hate worse than pretentious southern kids attempting to speak Yankee is a wigger or collaborator
If you’re ashamed of us fancy pants then get the hell out
Go to Cleveland or Detroit
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posted on
08/01/2014 3:51:46 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
To: Sacajaweau; CatherineofAragon
Did they know you were a jackass right away or did it take a while for them...being slow and all to figure it out
102
posted on
08/01/2014 3:55:17 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
To: Sacajaweau
103
posted on
08/01/2014 3:57:39 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
To: KSCITYBOY
In all fairness I travel a whole lot
People in some places take a lot of effort to get them to warm up
Pacific northwest coast....new mexico....michigan....in places....new england
But when coming back and I hit Kansas City and Missouri and hear occasional southern accent you just know
Its universal....even foreigners know it
104
posted on
08/01/2014 3:59:31 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
To: yldstrk; Sacajaweau
My friend who is an elementary school teacher from Alabama and I went up to Green Bay for a Hank Junior concert-Maybe not the best beginning of a rebuttal to that particular poster. LOL!
To: AU72
So what accent were they going to replace it with?Omaha, Nebraska. The one place in the United Staes whose residents have been determined by call-center professionals to have no discernible regional accent whatsoever.
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posted on
08/01/2014 4:07:51 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: lonestar; CatherineofAragon; dixiechick2000; mrsmel; Black Agnes
Harridan girl got two bless yer hearts from southern posters....
Bet she clueless they don’t always mean bless her heart....lol
When I travel amongst the Yankees they marvel at my friendliness and ability to chat up and make folks feel comfortable
I always make the effort
I can even make an old no make up grey bob mandal wearing libtard Yankee grandma blush and cackle
I get that from my momma
There’s something to be said for descending from second third and fourth sons
We’re good at parties and formals
And Thansgiving
107
posted on
08/01/2014 4:09:25 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
To: outofsalt
Bless your heart.Sigh!
You do realize this is the southern equivalent of a black person calling a white person "honkey" or "cracker". You may intend it as a put down, but you're intended target just chuckles and thinks you're adorable.
In other words, give it up. It doesn't work
To: SoFloFreeper
When I was in the Army Medical corp, one of my instructors was a female Major from Virginia. From what I remember she hailed from the “Hunt Country.” Her accent was exquisite. It was sort of cross of an English and a southern accent. The way I could describe it was soft spoken and genteel. Very polite soft spoken but she got her point across very well. Sort a Scarlett O'Hara at her charming best.
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posted on
08/01/2014 4:53:57 PM PDT
by
Polynikes
(What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
To: wardaddy
"Did they know you were a jackass right away or did it take a while for them...being slow and all to figure it out" LOL
110
posted on
08/01/2014 5:38:53 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
To: AU72
So what accent were they going to replace it with? Hum, in Oak Ridge? The second prevailing accent is south of the US border.
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posted on
08/02/2014 11:05:21 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: cva66snipe
The second prevailing accent is south of the US border. "Papers? You want papers? We don need no steenkin papers"
112
posted on
08/02/2014 11:45:11 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: AU72
LOL The nickname we gave it was Yukon City. That’s because of all the nice shinny Yukons the illegals drive around town locals can’t afford.
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posted on
08/02/2014 12:53:10 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: SoFloFreeper
114
posted on
08/03/2014 6:34:50 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(God has a southern accent - Lewis Grizzard)
To: wardaddy
You’re right that it takes effort in some places to get people to warm up. In some places, they never do and in others, they go from cold to hot in a heart beat!
For me, I know I’m home when I go from the Oregon arrival gate at DFW, to the Jackson departing gate. Worlds of difference...
To: wardaddy
I know just exactly what you are talking about!
Your post brings back wonderful memories about some descendants of second, third and fourth sons. Y’all are great a formals. ;-)
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