JEFFREY HARDIN on A Quick Lesson on Southern LinguisticsI never would had thought this....Awesome Post!~
When Poppa was stationed at Quantico Va. and then Paris Island Beaufort SC while in the Marine Corp, they, the schools, tried to forced me and two other siblings to go to speech therapy classes because they claimed our deep NC accents couldn't be understood!
Momma's people the McBees, McBeths and Dedmon's Scot-Irish who came out of the Appalachians, have a deep blend of Southern & Gaelic accents, and Poppas folks, have rich Southern Appalachian accents, they came from out of Tennessee and Smokey mountains, finally settling in York SC in the mid 60s...
Try as these schools might, they finally gave up on us, how could they possibly think to strip us of something that we heard day in and out in our homes, and when Pops was on tour, we spent most of our time with Grandparents in York SC and Kings Mountain!
What they actually were attempting to do was, to take the Southern out of us, and are to this day attempting the same!
Our NC accents today aren't as thick as they once were, especially compared to the accents of our NC kin folk, we have been in SC now for 38 years now, so our NC accents have some what been watered down, but what tickles us is, when we are around Kin folk from back home, our accents pour out from within us as thick & sweet as bees honey...
Its always there within our hearts man, and ain't nobody ever going to take that part of us away!
Its who we are, our accents and heritage define us, and the Yankee's and Westerners will never ever understand how dear we hold onto such things!
Southerners are proud of their States and their fellow Southerners, and they are making a grave mistake threatening to take those traditions away from us!
We'll kill for their trying it!
Yo, Bro! Wadup - u b dissin' my Ebonics
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DeleteThe ebonics is so close to southern it is not funny but then again the Southerners taught your kin folks to talk anyway.so it comes natural to yall . I am white as I can be but can speak perfect ebonics ,You would think I was black when I try to talk like that.lol
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DeleteHi Brock,
ReplyDeleteA while back I read about a similar happening. Some yankee carpetbagger director or something got sent down to the companys' Atlanta div. and became concerned with the "Heavy Southern Accent!" of the people in his office....hmmmm? So he hired some "Speech therapy geek" to teach classes to everyone to "Reduce their 'Southern Imprint.'" BTW he was also concerned that several men were named "B-U-B-B-A!!!" Well he almost got Linched!!... Literally!!!!! Darn that I didn't bookmark the post for it ties in here perfectly!!
On a similar note, Chuck Yeager hails from West Virginia and to this day one can "Notice his Accent." Back when, commercial airline pilots usedta' try to sport a "West Virginia' accent" so they could sound "Cool like Chuck Yeager" over the A/C intercom!! I remember flying commercial back before DB Cooper and all that crap and most of the pilots on the plane's intercom would sound like they were from somewhere back in the Virginia hills!!
Got Gunz??,
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I remember flying commercial back before DB Cooper and all that crap and most of the pilots on the plane's intercom would sound like they were from somewhere back in the Virginia hills!!
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That's great man! Keep them stories coming.:) Oh, and write them down for those we leave behind, please.
HI Brock,
DeleteRoger That!! ...And...That's something we "ALL" need to do!!! Write it down, record it, video it, But "TELL IT!!" and Pass it On!!!!!
BSBD,
Got Gunz,
skybill-out
PS, Most jump stories start out..."No sh*t there I was, 'thought I was gonna' die, "and"..........(The fact that the story is told means that you "lived" to tell it!!"
:) or, you won't believe this, but........
DeleteWhen you stop hearing children saying "diddy" (which is NC southern for daddy) you know something is really really wrong...
ReplyDeleteI always said Daddy and my girls say Dad or Daddy which reminds me of
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Accents are something that make us individuals. Cant have that...in the Brave New World.
ReplyDeleteSocial engineers arent gonna like it when real pushback starts
Another reminds me of :)
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Once I was near the Cambodian border talking to someone when an officer approached me, and stated that I was either from Fauquier or Loudon county (Northern Virginia) or from some area in Australia which I have since forgotten. I grew up in Fauquier County (Mosby Country) and was startled with his statement. It turned out that he was a student of accents.