[ SECRET POST #2765 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2765 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Natalie Dormer]


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[Punky Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye)]


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[Interstella 55555]


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[Longmire]


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06.
[Dracula Untold]


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07.
[Transformers Prime]


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[Rik Mayall]


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[Scarlett (Starcraft 2)]


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[Orange is the New Black]













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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why do black people take pride in sounding uneducated?

[(Anonymous)]

Why do fs trolls think they're not being obvious?

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't necessarily a troll. The President of the United States was just talking about this the other day.

[(Anonymous)]

Why don' whiteys speak like niggas?

[(Anonymous)]

Cuz honkays don' know nuthin.

[sarillia]

Lots of dialects are hard to understand to speakers of other dialects but only some of them are labeled uneducated. Doesn't seem right to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Strictly speaking, the educated dialects are the ones that the education system tries to hammer into people as correct. There are objectively education-related dialects; that just doesn't make them intrinsically superior. It's sort of like how there is, officially, a proper way to set the table.

I'm trying to think of a non-educated dialect that isn't usually dismissed as uneducated, and I haven't come up with one yet, but this isn't my field, so that doesn't mean much.

[sarillia]

Good point. I should have said unintelligent instead of uneducated because that's what a lot of the complaints really try to hint at.

I just hate strict prescriptivism.

[(Anonymous)]

Midwestern dialect/accent, i.e. how Americans "without an accent" speak. Its features are not associated with a lack of education or seen as particularly negative. Check out info on the Northern Cities Vowel Shift -- that's a particularly interesting feature of our speech that most people don't notice and/or comment on!

[(Anonymous)]

idk but it makes half of twitter almost entirely unbearable.

[(Anonymous)]

Same reason white people take pride in how educated the mouth noises they make are, I imagine: Humans are petty and ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't take pride in speaking like an educated person anymore than I take in pride in knowing how to read.

Uh, I take pride in knowing how to read.

[(Anonymous)]

NA

It's a good and very useful skill to have and I worked at it (along with my parents and teachers).

[(Anonymous)]

Because it ensures nobody will accidentally mistake them for you.

[(Anonymous)]

Not for OP (who seems like a troll) but for all the other nice people in this thread:

Is this something people actually think? In my country most people speak both their home dialect and a comprehensible, but more or less accented, version of our language. I'm kind of ashamed of not having my regional/heritage accent (because my parents both only spoke in neutral to us /sadstory), although I can at least understand the dialect.

Is this handled differently in the US? Surely pride in one's regional/heritage accent is no stranger than, say, pride in one's country.