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To: nopardons
And inverted/backwards snobbery is as bad as the other kind. Game set and more than matched; you lose!

Oh please tell me more about how stupid I am.

And where in the Midwest did you grow up in?

What Ivy League school taught you this incredible writing style? Could you please diagram your sentence there Einstein?...Complete with the stranded preposition.

>>Where de white women at?<<

So, what famous personality or character does your superior speech pattern resemble...Betty Grable, Blackbeard, Queen Elizabeth, Kathryn Hepburn, Betty Davis, Mrs. Naugatuck...Eliza Doolittle?

Toodles

766 posted on 10/20/2016 11:36:44 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (She talks like a gangster.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Not "stranded", but yes, I did write a sentence with a DANGLING PARTICIPLE"; oh horrors, horrors...did you clutch at your plastic pearls and feel faint?

Since you named actresses, who read, memorize, and then just repeat what others have written for them, a nonexistent character from a G.B. Shaw play ( so she never "SOUNDED" like anything, until some actress said her lines ), a long dead pirate, for whom there is no voice recording, a either long dead British Queen, or a current 90 year old one, whose accent has changed over the many decades she has been alive, and a name I don't recognize, I suggest that you try again.

But FYI...Hepburn's upper Middle Class Ct. accent, overlaid by the stilted Main Line Pa. one she absorbed whilst at college and which is quite like what is known/recognized as LONG ISLAND LOCKJAW, no longer exists and hasn't for many decades.

Now Davis, OTOH, Had a Mass. accent of an Upper Middle Class, boarding school type. Though her family wasn't Upper Middle class, she DID indeed go to boarding school; two different ones,in fact. OTOH, she was good at learning different accents for different roles.

What Queen Elizabeth I sounded like, one can only make a stab at, re inflection and pronunciations; not how she actually sounded.

Now Queen Elizabeth II is a horse of a different color, since we have recordings of her from every period of her adulthood. You will notice that when young, she had the somewhat antiquated intonations and inflections of the Royal Family's Edwardian English. Then, later, when she was trying to make the Royal family more accessible, through film and T.V. to the general public, the accent softens somewhat, with less clipped formal speech and a somewhat more rounded, less Royal, more modern tone.

Eliza Doolittle was a character who was a Cockney. Now Cockneys all come from a certain area in London, are of Irish ancestry, and they all have a very distinct tone, swallowed Ls, inflection, and speech pattern. Though that accent is far less distinct today, Michael Caine never really lost his accent at all.

I hate diagramming sentences. YUCK. :-)

OTOH, I know grammar better than you do AND love "BLAZING SADDLES", so do know that line you wanted me to diagram.

See? you really aren't clever at all...you're just pathetic.

771 posted on 10/21/2016 12:46:13 AM PDT by nopardons
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