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Placing Sarah Palin's accent
Slate ^ | 10/1/08 | Jesse Sheidlower

Posted on 10/01/2008 11:38:12 AM PDT by T-Bird45

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I find accents, dialect, and language to be fascinating so this article was quite interesting, especially when you consider that many make a connection or assumption from how one speaks to their general intelligence. That is a mistake as far as SP is concerned, IMO.
1 posted on 10/01/2008 11:38:14 AM PDT by T-Bird45
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At least it’s not one of the ‘Kennedy elitist’ NE types.


2 posted on 10/01/2008 11:42:16 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA (..)
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I thought it was a NJ (southern Jersey/Philly) accent the first time I heard it.


3 posted on 10/01/2008 11:43:09 AM PDT by Perdogg (Vice President Sarah H Palin - Make it happen !!!!)
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If people hear Margie from “Fargo” in her voice, that’s a plus. Who doesn’t love that character?


4 posted on 10/01/2008 11:43:09 AM PDT by boocoowell (Mares eat oats, does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy)
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To: T-Bird45

She sounds just like my sister-in-law from North Dakota. As a matter of fact, when I first heard Palin speak I thought it was her.


5 posted on 10/01/2008 11:43:39 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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It is definitely similar to accents in northern Wisconsin and the UP — not quite as much like Minnesota.

And, it’s one of them most delightful things I’ve heard in quite a while.


6 posted on 10/01/2008 11:45:13 AM PDT by unspun (Tell the truth about Obama to all you know.)
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Sarah Palin was born in Idaho, and learned to talk around her folks and three sisters.... So Idaho would make sense


7 posted on 10/01/2008 11:45:28 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let's get serious - there is only one choice - McCain/Palin 2008)
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Here is an interesting link regarding Palins accent, style, and delivery. And people’s reactions both pro and con.

http://webmail.aol.com/39155/aol/en-us/Suite.aspx


8 posted on 10/01/2008 11:47:08 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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Whatever it is, its cute. Kind of annoyingly cute. Awww heck, I have a confession to make, I think Sarah is cute. I mean, I still think she will make a GREAT VP, and then some.. but she is still cute..


9 posted on 10/01/2008 11:47:18 AM PDT by Paradox (Obama, the Audacity of Hype.)
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An Alaskan accent? Wherever could she have developed that? (/sarc)

To my ear, she sounds remarkably like the character Pickles in the animated Cartoon Network show "Metalocalypse".

10 posted on 10/01/2008 11:47:30 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Better living through merciless experimentation!)
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If people hear Margie from “Fargo” in her voice, that’s a plus. Who doesn’t love that character?

She was one of the reasons I enjoyed that movie and my wife hated it so much, that is, besides the Coen brothers' overdone blood and gore.

11 posted on 10/01/2008 11:47:46 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: unspun
Definitely N. Wisconsin/UP>
Sounds very familiar to me from my travels in the area.
12 posted on 10/01/2008 11:49:12 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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I plan on placing her accent in the White House!


13 posted on 10/01/2008 11:49:43 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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I can place it precisely. She is Enid Loopner from the old Saturday Night Live sketch, Lisa Loopner’s mother. If you can find the refrigerator repairman skit video, Jane Curtin (Mrs. Loopner) even has her hair done like Mrs. Palin’s hair. It might be here: http://www.hulu.com/watch/4112/saturday-night-live-nerds-broken-fridge


14 posted on 10/01/2008 11:49:45 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours.)
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I find Gov Palin’s accent decidedly AMERCIAN. Not sure what country Obama’s accent represents. Chicago thug-land maybe?

I have a question — Why is an association with David Duke, different than an association with Rev Wright?

Anyone want to take a shot at answering ...


15 posted on 10/01/2008 11:49:48 AM PDT by Tarpon (Barrack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
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I’ve lived in NoDak and Washington State. It is a combination of that Nordic vowel swallowing disease and some localisms of both places. Then, taken to an extreme up in Alaska. My impression.


16 posted on 10/01/2008 11:50:03 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Bushonomics: Privatize Gains, Socialize Losses)
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To: gleeaikin

I would like to read the info at your link but it sends me to an AO-hell ad. Can you copy/paste into a comment?


17 posted on 10/01/2008 11:50:05 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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I thought it was a NJ (southern Jersey/Philly) accent the first time I heard it.

That would be Representative Fwank, not Governor Palin.

18 posted on 10/01/2008 11:50:52 AM PDT by cynwoody
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Sarah Palin talks just like a Yooper girl!
19 posted on 10/01/2008 11:51:14 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: T-Bird45

Pacific Northwest English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_English


20 posted on 10/01/2008 11:51:14 AM PDT by Peelod (“Whatever Sarah tells you, heed her voice” Genesis 21:12)
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