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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I was born to Texan’s, pretty much raised in So. California and have lived 43 years in Tennessee, I get accused of being from the North all the time. I loved to listen to President Bush 43 speak. I could understand exactly what he was saying. Texans have their own language.
“Unfortunately, in my young, stupid years I worked at losing my accent......and was successful....and deeply regret it. However, it is somewhat restored when I return home.......and Tennessee willl always be home.”
I have a slight Brooklyn accent that most people cant detect, except when I am in Brooklyn, get mad or get excited. Then it comes out and my kids get a kick out of it.
Until one day, that is. We'd been friends for about 10 years when they were over for the 4th of July. His wife came out of the house and asked what he was doing. He said "We're fixin' to go play horseshoes."
I'll always remember the shocked look on his face, because he realized it the minute he said it...... we had finally got to him.
And he STILL hasn't lived it down! ROFLMAO!
two syllabubs ... pee in
I thought America was all about DIVERSITY. A regional accent is a fundamental part of a person’s culture. I have always found the rich diversity of language use in this country to be fascinating. We lose something important when we become homogenized. All real culture is local.
Miss hearing you on Memphis talk radio. I listen on line to WBAP’s Ben Ferguson.
I've read that it has its original roots in the children of the people who migrated from Oklahoma in the 30's.
“I spent 10 years trying to get my ex-wife (a German) to say “this, that ot them”, and not “dis, dat, and dem”. The “th” sound is a lisp in the German language and she was naturally resistant to doing. She’s been in America since 1968 and still says “dis, dat and dem””
My mom’s family is from Minnesota an ders nuttin wrong whit da way she speaks. “Tree” is what comes affer two, an dat’s duh trute.
Yeah, “How to talk like a white guy” class was cancelled earlier... :)
I find the southern accent to be beautiful.
Yes, I’d much rather listen to Jeff Foxworthy than John Kerry.
Yep, you’re right, I’ve heard “Beale” used for Bill, and it tends to be among the older folks. I personally call a pen a “pin”, but I usually specify “ink pin.”
You sound like the best kind of Yankee to me! You’re conservative, good-natured, and you aren’t mired in an arrogant sense of false superiority that, for some odd reason, leads you to mock our lovely region and its folks.
So it’s only fair that you got yourself a beautiful girl.
I think the “good manners” part is what contributes to the leftists accusing southerners of being “racist”.
Y’see, “good manners” is expected from ALL people, regardless of “color”. And we know, imposing “white standards” on “people of color” is “racist” - according to leftists.
I’ve never heard Gullah spoken, but I have heard that much of the vocabulary is used in Africa today.
Love it.
Here at FR, I've made the comment a number of times that I can go for weeks at a time in my small southern town without hearing an "F-Bomb" or, frankly, just a couple of people having harsh words in public. Contrast that with NYC, where the F word can be used as a noun, verb, and adjective all in the same sentence. Loudly, and in public.
People in these parts are just more polite.
Truly, the South is God's Country. I'm glad that the folks here tolerate me living in it.
She really shouldn't be. She misspelled her own Freeper name. ;)
I’m from the midwest but as a USN type served and lived in various parts of the country and have little difficulty understanding almost any accent. However, some do grate on me a bit-NY, NJ and NE.
Years ago “The Story Of English” was on TV and they often had captioning under various dialects. Gullah was captioned but I understood everything that was spoken. On the other hand, they did not caption Cockney and outside of love and mate, I couldn’t understand any of the other 1000s of words that were said.
Re govt. sponsored classes: What is needed is mandatory classes in “Reduction of Stupidity” and “Increase in Common Sense” for all elected as well as senior appointed or promoted officials. I know you can’t fix stupid but maybe we will find out that some are just dumb which can be fixed!
*L* That’s true...
I wonder why she hasn’t returned to this thread????
The fact that this class was even proposed at Tennessee Nuclear Labs is proof that Southerners are very smart; contrary to the liberal stereotypes.
She might have wanted to do a hit & run, just for kicks.
Or she could be understandably embarrassed. She now understands that a person who tries to portray herself as intellectually superior but can't even manage to spell her own "name" correctly is pretty hilarious.
Definitely not the impression she was striving to make, LOL.
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