Backwards...

[Horace]

A psychological deconstructions of common cultural critters. Yes this is something intelligent people end up thinking about. As for this one, not bad. Lots of resonant truth. Progressives who hate the rural area where they grew up, along with their whole family, are common. I've worked with some, and certainly seen more than enough online. This one is resentful that they're making "six figures" back home, that's a new twist.

[Aqua Letifer]

There's a guy I work with on a fairly regular basis. He and I are usually added to projects that have about a dozen people involved, the vast majority of which are East Coast white female professionals.

He's very much from South Carolina and speaks fluent Southern. I don't, but I did grow up learning Redneck and they're adjacent enough that communication is possible. The guy's a trip to work with and just his being there changes the dynamic considerably.

[Horace]

I have to assume most people try to lose their southern accent when they get out into the wider world. They are not as common as they ought to be. Which is to say, they're nearly non-existent, in my experience.

[Doctor Phibes]

Is Rhode Island considered a southern accent?

Because you'd definitely want to lose that if you went out and about.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Backwards...:

Is Rhode Island considered a southern accent?

Because you'd definitely want to lose that if you went out and about.

Not in Rhode Island.

Which is funny.

[Doctor Phibes]

Rhode Island isn't really out and about. It's barely out.

[Jolly]

Lad, I've got a Southern redneck accent you can't cut with a knife.

You got a problem with that, boy?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Backwards...:

Lad, I've got a Southern redneck accent you can't cut with a knife.

You got a problem with that, boy?

You all sound the same to me. A bit like slightly less uncultured Australians.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Backwards...:

You all

You're almost there.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in Backwards...:

Lad, I've got a Southern redneck accent you can't cut with a knife.

You got a problem with that, boy?

Southern redneck or Loosianan?

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Backwards...:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Backwards...:

You all

You're almost there.

Sorry. All you yanks sound the same to me.

[Jon]

@Horace said in Backwards...:

I have to assume most people try to lose their southern accent when they get out into the wider world. They are not as common as they ought to be. Which is to say, they're nearly non-existent, in my experience.

In 1996 my father refused to believe Clinton won because literally everybody he knew voted for Dole.

[Horace]

@Jon said in Backwards...:

@Horace said in Backwards...:

I have to assume most people try to lose their southern accent when they get out into the wider world. They are not as common as they ought to be. Which is to say, they're nearly non-existent, in my experience.

In 1996 my father refused to believe Clinton won because literally everybody he knew voted for Dole.

I'm sure I could be overgeneralizing based on my personal experience. Maybe a more interesting response from you, would be whether you agree or disagree with my guess that most people try to lose their southern accent when they get out into the wider world.

[Jolly]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Backwards...:

@Jolly said in Backwards...:

Lad, I've got a Southern redneck accent you can't cut with a knife.

You got a problem with that, boy?

Southern redneck or Loosianan?

Pert near nigh onto redneck.

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Backwards...:

@George-K said in Backwards...:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Backwards...:

You all

You're almost there.

Sorry. All you yanks sound the same to me.

I'm sure you know that the closest accent to the American Southern accent, is the upper crust English accent of the late 1700's to mid-1800's.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Backwards...:

I'm sure you know that the closest accent to the American Southern accent, is the upper crust English accent of the late 1700's to mid-1800's.

I thought the southern accent came more from rural areas of Britain, where we still pronounced our 'r''s, and use words such as 'yonder' and 'howdy'.

Listen to this guy - he's from a town in Lancashire called Garstang. I grew up just off the Garstang Road. I don't really speak like this, but growing up I knew a lot of people who did. I'd say there are some similarities with the southern way of speaking.

Link to video

[Mik]

I love a woman's southern accent. Like honey.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in Backwards...:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Backwards...:

@Jolly said in Backwards...:

Lad, I've got a Southern redneck accent you can't cut with a knife.

You got a problem with that, boy?

Southern redneck or Loosianan?

Pert near nigh onto redneck.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Backwards...:

I love a woman's southern accent. Like honey.

They're different, as you know. Mississippi does not sound like Tennessee. Alabama and East Texas are two different worlds.

And Louisiana? Jay-zuz! Multiples...Prairie cajun, Gulf Coast cajun (my DIL is from between Des Allemonds and Raceland), West Bank (sounds like New Yawk), Avoyelles Parish (a cajun accent all its own), NE Lousiana, Central and West Louisiana and the urban accent of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

My daughter was in Ireland a few years ago, riding on a bus, when she overheard two young women talking. She asked the dark-haired girl how things were going in Monroe...And the young lady almost wet her jeans.

Turned out, she was from Rayville (Tim McGraw's home town) which is about twenty minutes east of Monroe.

As they were talking, a male voice from back in the bus hollered, "Who dat?"

My daughter hollered back, "You from the West Bank?"

Indeed, he was.

[Renauda]

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