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Tennessee Nuclear Lab Cancels 'Lose Your Southern Accent' Class
NBC ^ | 7/29/14

Posted on 07/31/2014 4:26:21 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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To: Sacajaweau

I have worked in high tech engineering for 35 years...I have a masters degree in electrical engineering. I am from the mountains of East Tennessee and I have a southern mountain accent. I have NEVER had a problem working with engineers fom all over the globe. They have never had a problem with speech.

Your comments are so very condescending and arrogant that I wonder if you have a hidden inferiority complex.

Why would you make fun of the nickname “Bubba”???

You also sound to me to be racist. Why would you single out blacks by saying “they” have been wonderful to you???

Maybe you need to realize that not everyone talks or thinks like you...THANK GOD......


41 posted on 07/31/2014 5:55:07 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Slow, sweet and gentle .. my first experience with a delicious strawberry blond in a Georgia drug store type on my first, post boot camp pass ...(circa, July '65)

Y'awl wann'a cup o' cow fee ?

(I melted and replied,) "No thank you"

Y'awl wann'a cow k ?

Yes .. please

Y'awl wann'a strow ? (rymes with OW!, if you pinch me)

Absolutely mesmerising to this geeky 17 year old.

42 posted on 07/31/2014 5:57:20 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

*American White Southerners have been under attack for decades.
I’m stunned they finally took a stand to be honest.*

It’s the only group that you’re allowed to attack under PC rule of “law”.

Read “Redneck Manifesto”..funny title, but a lot of truth.


43 posted on 07/31/2014 5:58:14 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: CatherineofAragon

It’s just that in the southern lexicon, “damnyankee” is one word...


44 posted on 07/31/2014 6:00:15 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Sacajaweau

Bless your heart.


45 posted on 07/31/2014 6:00:27 AM PDT by outofsalt
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To: SoFloFreeper

You can try and take the regional accent out of a person, it does not work to well for most.

My husband is a Niagara Falls, NY born he still after 20 yrs in the Navy and 20 yrs as a Jr Col Prof can’t shake the total NY speak. No more than I can my mix of Southern/Yankee. My mom was a TN Knoxville area, my dad born and bred in E. Chicago Ind. So I have both to over come. And I get told I talk to fast. Northern trait. Southern is more laid back. Then you have black ghetto speak.And those you can’t change, as they don’t want to change.


46 posted on 07/31/2014 6:02:13 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: Sacajaweau
I certainly hope and pray you made it back safely to your beloved Upstate NY. True southerners are too well mannered to put you in your place but I'm sure your behavior made it obvious that you “knew your place” was far north.
47 posted on 07/31/2014 6:05:18 AM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: VMI70
start at 1:40
48 posted on 07/31/2014 6:08:51 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

There are some like that everywhere, I once knew a printer in North Carolina who spoke so slowly that by the time he finished a sentence you would forget how it began. He used to tell people that his mind worked so fast that his mouth could not keep up with it but his mouth could not keep up with a snail. I don’t know why he spoke so slowly but he made the average person from Carolina sound like Tom Adams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0SEXm7XGY start at about .34.


49 posted on 07/31/2014 6:12:34 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: CatherineofAragon
I'm the worst kind of Yankee (the one that comes South, doesn't leave, and marries the best looking Southern girl there is). I love it here, especially in January when I'm working out in my yard, and its 40 below back home. I wouldn't change one thing.

Biggest problem I had with accents (not really a problem, just needed to figure out a work-around) is figuring out the distinction between a "pen" and a "pin". There's a difference. :-) But, they're pronounced exactly the same in my neck of the woods. I solved my problem by asking, "A Writin' Pen? Or a Stick Pin?". Solved.

That, and people (particularly older ladies, for some reason) pronounce my name "Beale". There is no 'eale' in 'Bill'. But when some sweet little old lady at the church picnic wants to call me that, I'm far too polite to correct her. Especially if she has sweet potato pie, which is a delicacy that I've gotten used to, real quick. :-)

50 posted on 07/31/2014 6:12:47 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Sacajaweau
Lived in Virginia for a year. Asked them if they actually learned y'all in school. Being from Upstate NY, they weren't too happy about the question...And there was a Bubba in our office. ROFLMAO

I'm reminded of an old Southern observation: Yankees are like hemorrhoids. We they come down but then go back up, they're tolerable. But when they come down and stay, they're a pain in the ass.

Present company excepted, I'm sure.

51 posted on 07/31/2014 6:14:34 AM PDT by Texas Mulerider (Rap music: hieroglyphics with a beat.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Outsiders of the US have long stated that the ethnicity of Southerners (the original Confederate States) pose a problem to the defeat of the entire US. Southerners are unique as they are fairly cohesive and share many mores and traditions, as well as a strong faith in God. Speech is just one of the items that make Southerners unique and changing that one facet will go a long way in destroying the cohesiveness of the South.

I'd like to know who proposed and tried to implement this class and for what reason.

52 posted on 07/31/2014 6:16:04 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: wbill

It was explained to me that one was a stick pee in an t’other was an eenk pee in.


53 posted on 07/31/2014 6:17:18 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: wbill

yeah, n’I suspect it had two syllables, too ... bee-ill


54 posted on 07/31/2014 6:19:01 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: KSCITYBOY
I travelled a lot in my old job. All over North America, usually in "desirable" (ha!) spots like NYC and SF.

Place that I liked the most was Monroeville, Alabama. Nicest people I've met. I was there for a project over Christmas, and when all the folks at the factory found out, I got a bunch of invitations to family get-togethers. I accepted the first three, and wound up saying "No" (and over-apologizing) to the next dozen or more.

I bet I gained 10 lbs on that trip, between all of the home cooking, and there was a restaurant off the town square that did country cooking. I usually went by myself, and the lady who owned it would come out to my table. "Ya'll still look hungry, so I brought some more catfish. Or, would you like to try the fried chicken today? Save room, I made Chocolate Chess Pie."

My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

55 posted on 07/31/2014 6:21:53 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Texas Mulerider
Ok, I laughed...
56 posted on 07/31/2014 6:26:18 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: Sacajaweau

BTW, I am Ani-Yun-Wiya (if you don’t know, look it up). I am a proud member of the Bird Clan. My ancestors are on the Baker Rolls.

If you are not a member of the Lemhi Shoshone tribe, I take exception to you using the name of a member of that tribe.

Are you like Elizabeth Warren, claiming to be something that you are not?


57 posted on 07/31/2014 6:28:15 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: knarf
yep. Bee - ill is the drawled pronunciation. "Beale" (all together) is the other flavor.

Like I said, a sweet little old lady can call me anything she wants, if it's followed with "Would you like a piece of sweet potato pie?". :-)

My wife's grandmother makes one that's just amazing. Her secret? Don't tell anyone, but she puts brandy in it. Shhhhhhhh. I need to go to the liquor store to buy it for her, since if people see her there, they'll talk. lol!!!

58 posted on 07/31/2014 6:29:48 AM PDT by wbill
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To: knarf

“ink pen”. Easier than saying “a writin’ pen”. I’ll file that one away.


59 posted on 07/31/2014 6:30:28 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Wage Slave

Agreed. Can’t stand to hear the New York accent. Gag.


To me, the worst New York accents are attached to the likes of Chuck Schumer, as he lectures us about liberalism. Liberal speech in a New York accent is very irritating........


60 posted on 07/31/2014 6:44:03 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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