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Post #435,770
by crazy
8/20/20 7:25:18 AM
8/20/20 7:25:18 AM
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New Reasonable point on recording
Still don't care. Southern accents used to sound stupid to me. Then I was taught by southern people and I learned better. My 1st wife had a cape cod Kennedy accent. Odd but acceptable. My current wife has a HARD CORE Kensington Philadelphia accent. And an attitude and ability to kick someone's ass at any moment. While simultaneously saving your life (she's a nurse). And hiding her intelligence until it is safe to reveal it. She's THAT smart.

Don't assume intelligence based on accent. It's a stupid attitude.
Post #435,773
by mmoffitt
8/20/20 8:31:00 AM
8/20/20 8:31:00 AM
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New Who TF does that?
Don't assume intelligence based on accent.


Can you tell the difference in meaning between these two sentences?

(1) It makes the speaker sound like an idiot.
(2) It betrays the fact that the speaker is an idiot.

I said (1), not (2).

As pertains your previously assumed Southern Accent == Stupid Person assumption, that was (is?) such a commonly held belief that my best friend of 40 years who has lived his entire life in the South worked very hard not to betray that he came from the South through his pronunciation. When we met in our early twenties in rural North Carolina, I could not detect even the slightest hint of a Southern drawl in any of his speech. I asked him about that and he told me that he'd made the conscious decision to remove any hint of a Southern accent at around the age of seven. He did so because at that young age he was already familiar with the commonly held belief that a Southern accent betrayed a lack of intellect.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
     Let us salute Michelle Obama, perhaps the wisest speaker of them all. Eh? - (Ashton) - (66) - Aug. 17, 2020, 11:12:47 PM EDT
         She was great. Really excellent speech. -NT - (Another Scott) - (65) - Aug. 18, 2020, 12:47:57 AM EDT
             It was a good speech, but come on. It wasn't "great." Let's not oversell. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (64) - Aug. 18, 2020, 11:43:56 AM EDT
                 Caviling? ... - (Ashton) - (62) - Aug. 18, 2020, 05:40:03 PM EDT
                     It wasn't a "We will fight them on the beaches" speech. - (mmoffitt) - (61) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:08:10 AM EDT
                         Man, the things you let yourself get hung up on ... -NT - (drook) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:39:53 AM EDT
                         She had a dry mouth. - (crazy) - (49) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:56:47 AM EDT
                             I said it was a good speech. - (mmoffitt) - (46) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:14:02 PM EDT
                                 On same-page re the 'grating' but, - (Ashton) - Aug. 19, 2020, 05:07:43 PM EDT
                                 Your're pretty sensitive for a guy who . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 06:44:45 PM EDT
                                     I've spent a little time studying Trotsky's last days. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 20, 2020, 08:45:20 AM EDT
                                 Reasonable point on recording - (crazy) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:25:18 AM EDT
                                     Who TF does that? - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 20, 2020, 08:31:00 AM EDT
                                 It's not lazy and it's only grating to ... - (crazy) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:46:49 AM EDT
                                 You don't understand accents or dialect - (pwhysall) - (39) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:41:30 AM EDT
                                     Interesting comparison ie: BBC News reader - (crazy) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:49:56 AM EDT
                                         Took a dialect class during my year as a drama major - (drook) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:52:16 AM EDT
                                         Many years have passed since we spoke... - (pwhysall) - Aug. 20, 2020, 12:01:37 PM EDT
                                     I swear I'd not read this until moments ago. But I've a Pulitzer Prize winner on my side. - (mmoffitt) - (35) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:13:18 PM EDT
                                         Still missing the main point - (drook) - (20) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:32:48 PM EDT
                                             He's made it clear - (crazy) - (19) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:53:46 PM EDT
                                                 Would that be... - (malraux) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:20:37 PM EDT
                                                 s/fear/aversion. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (17) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:27:31 PM EDT
                                                     And the reason for the aversion is? - (crazy) - (16) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:33:57 PM EDT
                                                         What Weingarten said. "...no English word should be pronounced with a “shtr” sound." -NT - (mmoffitt) - (15) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:35:45 PM EDT
                                                             Have you heard him speak? - (pwhysall) - (14) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:21:12 PM EDT
                                                                 Heh. "Criticizing her." Because I said her speech was good? - (mmoffitt) - (13) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:55:13 PM EDT
                                                                     You damned with faint praise and then went on with insults. -NT - (crazy) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:58:18 PM EDT
                                                                     That's not all you said - (drook) - (11) - Aug. 20, 2020, 05:00:35 PM EDT
                                                                         I replied to Box, below re 'Language Itself' This for you: - (Ashton) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:18:21 PM EDT
                                                                         IT IS *NOT* A DIALECT ISSUE. DIALECTS ARE TIED TO REGIONS OR GROUPS OF PEOPLE. - (mmoffitt) - (9) - Aug. 21, 2020, 11:20:10 AM EDT
                                                                             what about frogtalking? woman rasping like a frog on purpose not regional put epidemic -NT - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2020, 11:56:37 AM EDT
                                                                                 Vocal fry - (drook) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:08:52 PM EDT
                                                                                     Thank you /thank you: a Keeper. [Ed}. - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 04:32:40 PM EDT
                                                                             Lighten up, Francis - (drook) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:07:07 PM EDT
                                                                                 Because he needs to find fault to feel superior - (crazy) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:48:25 PM EDT
                                                                                     Yeah. Right. I *feel* proper pronunciation is important. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 21, 2020, 01:59:53 PM EDT
                                                                                     C'mon crazy: 'Projection' is reserved /expected from the forces of The Menace, not the sentient. -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 04:59:12 PM EDT
                                                                                 Ha. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 02:02:13 PM EDT
                                                                                     Because the 4th is *also true* -NT - (drook) - Aug. 21, 2020, 05:41:10 PM EDT
                                         Re: I swear I'd not read this until moments ago. But I've a Pulitzer Prize winner on my side. - (boxley) - (5) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:07:33 PM EDT
                                             (I use 'thee and thou'; I don't confusicate Stuff with Schtuff and I still think doing-so: Sch-ucks - (Ashton) - (4) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:32:31 PM EDT
                                                 Speaking of which... - (Another Scott) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:50:39 PM EDT
                                                     Heh! never þought I Be prescient.. but feels nice ever to be a þorn ..in any Repoþ's jelloware :-) - (Ashton) - (2) - Aug. 22, 2020, 12:41:47 AM EDT
                                                         I don't watch much TV of any sort these days. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:27:50 PM EDT
                                                             Just informing is all: no need to proselytize re authentic virtuosi, I wot.:-) -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 05:03:57 PM EDT
                                         Well, are you sure this isn't actually restoration . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:23:32 PM EDT
                                             English is more like Scandinavian than German - (malraux) - (6) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:18:05 PM EDT
                                                 English is a thieving language. - (static) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:04:30 PM EDT
                                                     That has always been the way English works. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:00:40 PM EDT
                                                         ..and that's a Keeper too; your encyclopædia Rocks - (Ashton) - Aug. 22, 2020, 04:08:23 PM EDT
                                                 I wrote "Germanic", not German. - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:39:43 PM EDT
                                                 Going the other way - (scoenye) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 09:28:58 PM EDT
                                                     I recall reading that the King's / Queen's English . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 21, 2020, 10:31:13 PM EDT
                             Nice.. I'd missed your subtle, obvious point. - (Ashton) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:34:35 PM EDT
                                 Rosalynn Carter is class through and through. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:52:09 PM EDT
                         wat - (pwhysall) - (9) - Aug. 19, 2020, 10:07:26 AM EDT
                             We stopped taking lessons from you lot over two centuries ago. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:16:27 PM EDT
                                 Y'all can believe that if you like - (pwhysall) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:15:35 AM EDT
                             Also. - (mmoffitt) - (6) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:12:18 AM EDT
                                 pronounce it like its spelled, lout -NT - (boxley) - (5) - Aug. 20, 2020, 12:25:16 PM EDT
                                     I was being a smartass. You know the Brits have a different word for it, right? -NT - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Aug. 20, 2020, 01:55:37 PM EDT
                                         no, you spelled it wrong as well -NT - (boxley) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:40:38 PM EDT
                                             Not here or in Canada. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:43:33 PM EDT
                                                 so proper speech depends on locale? good to know -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 05:26:32 PM EDT
                                                     Oui. Da. ¡Si! Sehrgut, as in ... Duh: Matey, Señor .. ... -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:41:21 PM EDT
                 Yeah, and tRump said it was not live but pre-recorded. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:09:20 PM EDT 

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