> I did kill my accent in grade school when kids made fun of me for saying words different.
Ha ha amazingly I can detect a southern accent even in your writing! ('different' when someone not from the south would say 'differently')
Language is amazing isn't it.
Re:Classism in America
by brandonmenc on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:29PM
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I'm from Northwest Pennsylvania, and everyone there would also say "different."
I know, because in high school I became friends with a highly educated family who moved into town after having lived all over the world, and made an effort to match their more intelligent sounding speech (which included, among other things, adding -ly to adverbs.)
My mom still occasionally teases me that I say "eye-ther" instead of "eee-ther" (for "either.")
Pennsyltucky is almost south. :)
Only if you have trouble distinguishing Appalachia from the South.
Re:Classism in America
by brandonmenc on Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:24AM
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Well... I'm from Erie, which is more like Cleveland or Buffalo than central PA.
In my limited experience working with others, southern accent = ignorant bigot has not been something I have seen with my co workers. People usually just shrug it off but I can see why a country accent may be looked down upon by ignorant people.
What part of the country do you work in?