Mind you my upbringing had the Yankee tang of whining. Moved to Florida. The whole Cuban area English was nuts. Then California all voices sounded like Harris.
At this point. No idea anymore what I sound like. But yes that was irritating to hear.
@DMA I don't know who she is and have never heard her speak before; she has that really ugly voice thing that modern media women do, where they're gutterally shimmying their vocal intonation.
@DMA@tiddlywinkler@NoDoxGregBrady@mothersmurfer If you move regions at least once in your younger years, notice the difference in your dialect verses others, and try to remove your old accent, you'll end up with a pretty good "non-regional dialect" like a newscaster.
@BowsacNoodle@DMA@tiddlywinkler@mothersmurfer I, accidentally, did this to remove the niggertown accent I grew up with, replacing all of that with the proudest (i.e. not fucking yankee) Whiteisms I could find. I by no means have a non-regional dialect. I had people down-the-road from my hometown asking me where I was from, meaning what part of the country. "About 5 miles from here."
I legit say "Howdy", not to be ironic. Because that's what my people say, and anyone not-my-people never says it.
I travelled the country and enforced my pronunciations on everyone I met who had the misfortune to hang out with me too long. Too this day, I can hear it when they call me. >That's not how you say the word you're tying, but A for effort
Professionals will listen to recordings of their own voice to remove regional accents.
I got rid of my Southern accent when I was working in film and TV, because there is a lot of anti-Southern prejudice in that industry. I put it back somewhat when I got out and went home, and realized that Alabama really is superior to all other regions of the US.
When my dad would work with yankees, he turned the drawl up to 11. They assumed he was literally retarded and would say things in front of him that they never should have. He always thought that was funny.
Southern Whites have IQs above average. Southern negroes bring the average down. It's the same with quality of schooling. Most yankees are not smart enough to understand that and assume that a low average IQ/low average school score in the South equates to everyone being stupid and uneducated, and not just that there are segregated nigger schools full of 75 IQ monkeys that massively skew the average.
I've heard that George W Bush was extremely high IQ, but because of his southern accent he was seen as a relatable and less intelligent everyman. Who knows if that's true.
@tiddlywinkler@DMA@PodunkPotato@NoDoxGregBrady@mothersmurfer I'm more of a pí-cahn pronunciation myself, sort of splitting the difference. It's funny when you think about the American accent and its similarities to British with a twang, more preserved in Dixie areas especially. Try saying "Colonel" with a British accent then add a southern twang to it. Very neat.
I had a friend who married a girl from up north, and when he went to Thanksgiving dinner with her family, his mother-in-law offered him "Pee Can Pie." He said he would love a slice of pecan pie. They made fun of his pronunciation, and he looked the mother-in-law in the face and said, "Do you grow them here? No? It's 'puh-CAHN.'"
Then he explained that a pee can is what you keep under your bed so you don't have to go to the outhouse in the middle of the night.
White people here in my neck of the woods, until recently part of the last White bastion, have taken to using Southern idioms to set themselves apart from Mexicans, Californians and niggers.
@DMA@Thusnelda Blackrock, which owns a controlling interest in most of the world's publicly-traded companies, is itself publicly-traded with Vanguard holding a controlling interest and ownership.
Vanguard is NOT publicly-traded, owns a controlling interest in everything on Earth that Blackrock doesn't own, and being privately-held does not need to disclose who owns and operates their company.
Meaning this one company owns everything on Earth.
@DMA@NoDoxGregBrady Idk, to me, not being well groomed, she just looks like some trashy chick off the street. Otherwise, I think the ad is great. Even tho American Eagle is owned by jews.