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Liti-Gator
Doubletree Resident
(108.227.229.50) on 12/29/2012 - 8:04 p.m. says: ( 238 views
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"A word about dialect, if I might." |
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Message Replied To ========== Jacksonville now part of Yankee land  http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-12-28/story/jacksonvilles-southern-accent-going-far-gone============================== I grew up in Jacksonville, bred of New Englanders, taught manners at the foot of a Senior Chief who went where his Commanding Officer told him to go. Yes, my first breath made smoke in Rhode Island but I cut my teeth, quite literally, in Norfolk and Brunswick and Memphis. And in Jacksonville. The Westside, to be exact, and I capitalized that on purpose. When I was screaming for the Jets and the Express and the Bulls, the Dolphins and the Tea Men and the Firebirds, they said I sounded like I "wasn't from around here." And when I visited my Aunts and Uncles up north, I had "become a hick." I liked clam cakes and boiled peanuts but could never eat em both in the same sitting. (You can believe I do now.) I grew up and fancied myself a broadcaster. And a broadcaster shouldn't, couldn't, have an accent - whether from Manchester or MacClenny. So I learned proper dict-tion and enunci-a-tion and, in so doing, lost my wickeds and my y'alls and woke up one day a nomad, linguistically homeless, unclaimed. When I moved to Orlando for a short time in the nineties, I missed the syrup, the drawl, the "What's up y'all?" Part of that is what brought me back to Birmingham. And when I return to Attleboro and Pawtucket, I soak up my original dialect. I listen to it and love it and pick it up within a day or two of being back. Make it my own again. My "other" own. In the end, I don't chafe over who's a native or how they talk. We all talk like where we're from or like where we are. And it's all good. All of it. |
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A word about dialect, if I might. Liti-Gator 12/29/2012 - 8:04 p.m.
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