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It ain't redneck.
It's Elizabethan.
Duh.
I read somewhere once that they speak a purer form of Gaelic in the Appalachian Mountains than is spoken in Scotland.
I really wouldn't be surprised at it.
It's Elizabethan.
Duh.
I read somewhere once that they speak a purer form of Gaelic in the Appalachian Mountains than is spoken in Scotland.
I really wouldn't be surprised at it.
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Date: 2006-07-27 01:58 pm (UTC)tis spiffie!
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Date: 2006-07-27 01:58 pm (UTC)That was Cool.
Date: 2006-07-27 11:00 am (UTC)Re: That was Cool.
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Date: 2006-07-27 02:18 pm (UTC)do you KICK ASS at jeopardy?
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Date: 2006-07-27 02:30 pm (UTC)that shit is dumb. heheh
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Date: 2006-07-27 02:35 pm (UTC)i call it idiot savantness. cause damn.
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Date: 2006-07-27 02:53 pm (UTC)You know that scene in Fried Green Tomatoes where they're over by the tree and Igdy (or however you spell her name) gets the honey and Ruth calls her a "bee chah-muh...that's wut you ah...a bee chah-muh." When I was younger, that totally boggled my mind, because the accent sounded so...British. It was weird.
If you go to Gatlinburg, and you talk to some of the people who are pure locals and run some of the older shops, apparently they use this language. "Redneck" language is simply a thick Southern accent, and doesn't use much variation on truly bad English. Appalacian dialect is an entirely different thing. Just thought I'd clear that up. ;-)
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Date: 2006-07-27 03:00 pm (UTC)redneck, to us city folk, is pretty much spoke anywhere there are people living in the woods. hehehe.. and to read the article, a lot of the vernacular used is very "redneck" speak.
hehehe.. fried green tomatoes never sounded british to me, but i dig that you thought it did :) hehehe
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Date: 2006-07-27 03:05 pm (UTC)You have a Jersey accent. If someone classified everyone who lived in Jersey, NYC...hell, let's throw Boston in there for shits and giggles...if someone classified all of them as simply "Northern" accents, wouldn't that be a little weird? Because even in NYC, there are about 3 or 4 specific burroughs that have seriously different accents. And Jersey and Boston sound only vaguely alike. So calling all of our Southern accents "Redneck" simply by virtue of them having a twang is something of the same thing. Know what I mean?
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Date: 2006-07-27 03:09 pm (UTC)well. they are northern accents. people from the south have said i sounded "northern". the typical "jersey" accent is not that of jersey at all, but of mahnattan. people in jersey don't talk like that at all.
boston accents aren't like jersey accents at ALL, they're more irish than anything. throwing the r's in where they don't belong and taking them out where they DO belong.
it's all an area thing. hell, you can break it down further. people in south jersey don't sound ANYTHING like people in north jersey. "begel" for bagel "wahder" for water and "phune" for phone.. shit like that.
but generally speaking, northerns sound different than southerns, mason dixon wise.
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Date: 2006-07-27 03:25 pm (UTC)i *was* just proving your point, that northern accents are just "northern" to southerners and "southern" accents are just that to northerns.
but in either area, you can break it down further. even by sections of state.
redneck, to northeners, is southern. it's just one of those "things" that is. if there was a slang for "northern" speak, i'm sure it'd be used. prolly yankee. hehe
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Date: 2006-07-27 04:01 pm (UTC)i usually just say southern.
although, i'll say southern belle if it's georgia or something. hehee
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