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Oak Ridge cancels class to reduce Southern accents
(Thanks to Rick Day)
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Oak Ridge cancels class to reduce Southern accents
(Thanks to Rick Day)
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Just leave the accent of The Day My Wife Met Girlfriend ALONE.
Posted by: manual tomato | July 29, 2014 at 03:01 PM
You knew nothing good would come of it when they hired Paula Deen as the teacher.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 29, 2014 at 03:18 PM
For ANYONE who feels their 'accent' is a detriment, find a Toastmasters group in your area. I have seen this organization help both people who get tongue-tied and those whose heavily-accented English hurt their chances in oral exams. Some even came to the point of considering public speaking 'fun,' which I still think is crazy.
Posted by: coscolo | July 29, 2014 at 03:26 PM
"Put... the bunny... back... in the box."
Posted by: ligirl | July 29, 2014 at 03:38 PM
I was fixin to sign up.
Posted by: Heywood | July 29, 2014 at 03:48 PM
As a newly-qualified Yorkshire lass from a hard-working family (the majority of whom were coal miners) who excitedly moved to London (my first time in 'The Smoke'), I was puzzled/upset/offended when my northern accent was treated by my 'colleagues' with contempt. Tried to change the way I spoke, thinking I'd gain some respect, but after not too long I decided f^#k 'em. Never looked back. This lovely man sounds just like my Grandad did.
Posted by: Jan Grimsby. | July 29, 2014 at 04:04 PM
I have a Southern accent and I'm okay with it. It's part of who I am. For some reason though when I'm around a bunch of
Yankeespeople from up north, it becomes much more prounced. In fact there are times when I can barely understand what I'm trying to say.Posted by: nursecindy | July 29, 2014 at 04:30 PM
Maybe they'd stand on line to learn to tawk New Yawk.
Posted by: Ralph | July 29, 2014 at 04:37 PM
Same here cindy. My hubby says as I'm yacking on the phone to the family, my Yorkshire accent gets more pronounced by the minute. When we go for a visit, after a couple of days he has the baffled look.
Posted by: Jan Grimsby. | July 29, 2014 at 04:47 PM
cindy, when my parents moved to L.A. my sisters were 13 and 16. Within six months they sounded like Valley Girls. Of course, this was in the '70s.
My late father in law had the classic Brooklyn toidy-toid-and-toid accent of William Bendix.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 29, 2014 at 05:45 PM
We don't have no stinkin' akksent - Y'all all have an akksent!
Posted by: NoName | July 29, 2014 at 06:00 PM
Something I have never understood is why speakers of the 'standard' dialect of a given language pick on those who speak otherwise. I especially don't understand why the 2nd person plural comes in for special attention. 2nd person plural in standard
English is of singular form: 'you'='you'. In Jersey dialect, since there are more of the you's, the 2nd person plural is 'youse'. In the Southern dialect it is 'you-all'. Standard comes across as a bunch of conceited goddam Yankees who should f**king go back to
Posted by: normnuke | July 29, 2014 at 06:34 PM
This sort of regional bigotry makes me want to start saying things like "War of Northern Aggression" instead of "Civil War."
And I was born in Kansas.
Posted by: Wes S. | July 29, 2014 at 07:06 PM
In the Southern dialect it is 'you-all'.
Actually, I believe "y'all" is a contraction of "ye all", and is quite old.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | July 29, 2014 at 08:09 PM
Speaking in my best southern accent, which I sometimes confuse with my best Filipino accent, I will say this subject is in Da Doilet.
Posted by: manual tomato | July 29, 2014 at 08:48 PM
All ya'll, a little south in the mouth is a good thing.
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | July 30, 2014 at 07:59 AM
As a mid-Atlantic kind of Virginian, we don't have an accent around Warshinton. "Crooked" is the official dialect. 30 miles south of here everyone sounds like Robert Duvall. I can hold my own in GA, but it's wicked haad to unnarstaand Baaastan. Now, they need a class.
And to be linguistically correct, the plural of "y'all" is "all y'all".
Posted by: Loudmouth | July 30, 2014 at 08:13 AM
I actually studied NYSL (New York as a Second Language) in my college days.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | July 30, 2014 at 08:46 AM
It is possibly unwise to mock a Southern accent.
It is ungracious to mock a Northern accent.
And it is fairly common to hear a northerner say "You-all" or a variant, nowdays. Not always correctly, but we'd never mention that.
Posted by: Steve | July 30, 2014 at 09:42 AM
I worked in an office with two Texans, a Bostonian, a Yorkshireman, an Aussie (Ozzie), a Kiwi, and a bunch of ESL Arabs. Our meetings were a sort of bizzaro world linguistic symphony.
Posted by: Tex | July 30, 2014 at 11:00 AM
I know enough Chicagoan to understand that "Throop Street" has two pronunciations -- one for those from the north side and one for those from the sout side.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | July 30, 2014 at 11:46 AM