Some idiot sent a message to Chad Prather declaring “we’re offended by your Southern accent. It proves to us you’re not intelligent.”
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Hey, that’s my boyfriend!
It must be the dimples!
Sigh, and the twinkle in his eye, and the darlin’, and …
I haven’t been called “Darling or Darlin'” since the last time I played Sam Cooke. Maybe it’s time to tell DH we visit TX.
As a proud Georgia native, this guy sounds purty sophistimicated to me. He must have been away from Georgia for a while cause’ he talks too danged fast.
I have had some business acquaintances (clients as well as co-workers) mock me for my thick southern accent. Outside the US people really didn’t seem to be as prejudiced about the accent as people from population centers in the US were, particularly people from the northeast and some jackholes from the Chicago area as well
Some of the dumbest people I’ve ever encountered sounded relatively intelligent, at least by the way they spoke (diction, lack or a thick accent, etc.). Then when I actually tried to have an intelligent conversation with them, I realized that the way they spoke was no indicator at all of their intelligence ……… or lack thereof – and they realized that my accent didn’t mean I was stupid or uneducated as well.
Claudia – just for you and Plain Jane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hLrGjh0Mk8
Thanks Bubba’s Brother. I’ve loved Conway Twitty since ’58 and It’s Only Make Believe, Spin the Bottle and slow dancing (at arms length away) at the 8th grade parties.
Oh, I double-dog dare any one of them to have a debate with Stacy McCain, y’all. It wouldn’t be pretty.
In the words of Flo, “Kiss my grits!”
The Chicago Accent sounds the dumbest to me.
Then again, it’s a city that has been dominated by Democrats for generations. So of course that will have an effect on the education system. The stupidity probably has little to do with the actual accent itself and a lot more to do with whose teaching them to talk.
Overheard: “Yo! Dem pipple from da sout’ sount stupid when dey toik, yo. Dain’t like we ids heah in sout’ Philly, nah.”
Southern accents are directly related to the English regional accents – mainly Cockney – of the generally poor people emptied out of Debtors’ Prison and sent to the southern colonies.
We cain’t hep the way we talk, but we sure is frien’ly when we do it!
I was too blinded by his teeth to hear a word he was sayin.’
Thoughts put into words and voice inflection to accentuate those chosen words are determining factors of good communication, not accent.
Chad Prather is an excellent communicator, his message was not loud, but certainly clear.
So what does that say aboout Hillary! when she goes down to Georgia and makes speeches sounding like she has a mouthful of grits?
Well, I speak proper, standard, textbook English with native fluency and perfect diction, yet my co-workers make fun of me because I don’t do “ghetto vernacular.”
Go figure.
People with New England/New York/New Jersey accents actually sound retarded to me. Yeah, I said RETARDED as in mentally slow.
Don’t even get me started on “ebonics” or african American vernacular English (whatever the hell that is). Let’s just call it what it really is; too lazy to learn & recite proper English & grammar.
What a Hunk!!!