[lit-ideas] Re: The King's Mother's Axe
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:41:39 -0700
Mike:
By coincidence, just moments ago I just got a call from someone speaking
with a very strange accent. I assured him he must have the wrong number
because I don't know anyone with an accent like that. Since the call went
to my cell phone and I get charged for incoming as well as outgoing
long-distance calls, I thought I'd better check where the call came from
because my wife is sure to ask me about it. The guy sounded as though he
was from India. I hoped he wasn't from India. Do Indians have area codes?
I checked the area code: 931-200-7945. Shoot, that's where Mike lives. You
didn't just call me did you? Your number isn't 931-200-7945, is it?
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The King's Mother's Axe
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
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