[lit-ideas] Re: The King's Mother's Axe
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:20:03 -0500
AR:
Have you noticed the "Southern accent" has disappeared?
Tell that to or own Walter O. and Phil E. Some months ago I happened to
speak to both of them on the phone. I learned later that they complained of
my accent. Impossible to understand, their conversational responses were
just wild guesses at what I might have said.
I think, Andreas, you need to come back home to Tennessee. There's no
shortage of Southern accent, I assure you. My guess is that you talk mostly
to Southerners who assiduously avoid sounding Southern, aware that the world
is generally contemptuous of Southerners, believing us all to be ignorant,
lazy, beer-bellied, spitters of tobacco. Even an ignorant, lazy,
beer-bellied, Southerner such as myself cringes hearing a Southerner
interviewed on national TV. Please, dear Jesus, let him make just one
verb-noun agreement correctly, just one, and I'll go back to Church. But
no. Add in the accent and here we go again, the sons of toil invite being
spoonerized as the tons of soil. I'd say your acquaintances took Bernardo's
advice to Anita to heart: "Better get rid of your accent."
Mike Geary
drawling in Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:18 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The King's Mother's Axe
I myself speak the Mississippi Delta version. (...) You people like the
clip clip snip snip of Protestant industry. We like the flowery flow of
vowels with slowly sipped mint juleps.
I talk with people
in Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans, and many other cities in the South;
none of them have any accent. These are people who grew up in those
places.
"Texan" has also disappeared.
The only place that has a regional accent is the Northeast, esp. NYC and
Boston.
Odd, isn't that?
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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