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I speak very southern in terms of speed. Just 'cause I talk slow doesn't mean I am slow.

To non-hillbillies, I sound very hillbilly. Hillbillies ask me where I'm from for one simple reason. I made a very conscious effort to eradicate dropping a w after an a into words. For example, I pronounce football pretty much like everyone else instead of saying footbawl. I guess it was in early in my newspaper career when I started interviewing people from across the country, I played back a recorded interview, listened to myself, and decided to do something about it.
I very much use southern vernacular in daily conversation, but I also can turn it off when the need arises. I don't speak any faster, but I can use proper English.
I think most anywhere you go in the south, towns ending in "ville" become "vul." You can also pick out tourists because Topsail is pronounced "Topsul" not "Top-sail."

 

I had an ex who was from the Boston area, but worked in radio. She had no accent, but every once in a while it would suddenly appear. To hear that transition was pretty funny.

 

Trying to figure out how Biden owes him shit.

 

I was saying Topsoil

 

I joke a lot that I don’t drink because I don’t want to “let the Philly out.”

Haven’t lived there in almost 20 years, but as soon as alcohol enters my system, the “jawn”s and the “yo”s and the f-bombs start flying.

 

Hee Haw or Foghorn Leghorn?

 

The "vul" thing gets really old, even to my trained ear.

(And BTW, maumann, none of the natives believe I am one just because I don't sound like them. At all.)

If I had a dime for every time I get asked where I'm really from, I could have retired a long time ago. But the advantage is I can head up to New York and not sound out of place, and I'm an excellent Southern-to-English translator.

My mother and her Southern accent had a great line for it once, even if she didn't mean to. When talking about a friend of ours who is local, she said, "to them, I sound like I'm from Boston. They probably think you're from another planet."

Proficient in three languages: English, Southern and profanity

 

"A grown-up Republican Party — even a deeply conservative one — would accept the rule of law, the norms of liberal democracy, and the legitimacy of the opposing party. It would seek to represent all Americans and would prioritize winning converts over destroying heretics. It would be a governing party, understanding full well that governing is impossible without negotiation and compromise. It would accept America’s responsibility to uphold the post-World War II global order. Its leadership would seek to address the real needs and problems of its working-class base while resisting the conspiracy theories, demagoguery and temptations toward political violence to which populism is all too susceptible.

Unfortunately, that’s not the Republican Party we have. Instead, we have a party that prefers temper tantrums to governing, fantasies about stolen elections to the hard work of appealing to swing voters. It would rather destroy the federal bureaucracy than use it to implement conservative policies. Increasingly it poses a threat to national stability and world order."
--Geoffrey Kabaservice

‘What Is Broken in American Politics Is the Republican Party’

 

Were you Pickin' and Grinnin' when you posted that?

 

Saw an RFK, Jr. for President sign on my walk this morning. Which shows that there are flat out morons who live near me.

 

Today's batch of yayo seems to be high grade and focused the mania of his message.

"It takes some product to keep this helmet in place."