[lit-ideas] Re: The King's Mother's Axe
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:05:07 -0500
I watched WSStory just recently. Great song.
On Southern accents: Jimmy Carter's accent made it really difficult for
me to accept his intelligence. Growing up on the south side of
Chicago, the only Southern accents we heard were on the lips of black
people or Appalachians (neither the common terms then). But one of my
dearest friends in grammar school was Eula from Kentucky. Smart and
sensitive and cute. But that accent...
My sister has lived in Southern Indiana for thirty years now and her
grandkids drawl horribly. They're cute and smart, but that accent...
Of course, now that I've been a Canadian for going on forty years, I
cringe even at the Chicago accent I probably used to have. I was born
in Austria, transplanted to Chicago at the tender age of six and always
thought of myself as part of some genteel class reduced to poverty.
Every few years or so, someone behind the counter in a store or
somewhere, will ask me if I'm European. They're detecting something in
the cadence of my speech, I guess. I like to think it's that gentility.
God, the stories we tell ourselves. Helps us make it through the night...
U.
Mike Geary wrote:
I'd say your acquaintances took Bernardo's advice to Anita to heart:
"Better get rid of your accent."
Mike Geary
drawling in Memphis
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