[ SECRET POST #5099 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5099 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

So is liberry.

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

And if the character wouldn't talk like that, it's wrong.

If the character is from a place where people have this regional quirk and it fits them, great, but a character with a standard American accent who's supposed to be educated/upper middle class probably won't say "liberry." A sheriff, sure. A doctor, probably not.

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on where they're from and who they're talking to. That's a common pronunciation in several different American dialects. If they're talking to an audience of people who also speak that same dialect, why would they need to code-switch?

The allegedly-neutral "educated" upper-middle-class voice is not the only correct one. It's been recognized for decades that regional and ethnic dialects are not incorrect or a mispronunciation but simply a variant and perfectly legitimate in its own right.

Now, there are stigmas and stereotypes attached still. Which this secret is perpetuating unthinkingly. (At least I hope it's unthinkingly and not deliberate)

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

Once and AGAIN, OP is talking about characters who would be expected to be speak with that educated accent. Not sure what is so hard to grasp. Wait, I am. PP want to pile on to accuse OP of something they are not doing.

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

DA - yep. In my neck of the woods, it is common for your ma to take some meat out of the icebox to unthaw so she can fry it up with some taters for dinner (that's the midday meal, not to be confused with supper). Thankfully, my teachers learned me right quick that I wouldn't be taken seriously if I went through life talkin' like a dumb hick, so when my parents borrowed me some money to go to college in the big city, I wasn't laughed outta town.

Look, regional dialects and accents are fun and interesting, and yes, it certainly can be elitist to suggest one is "better" than the other. But it is NOT elitist or inaccurate to say that there are actual correct and incorrect ways of saying, spelling, and using different words in the English language. More importantly, and to the OP's point, it is incredibly unrealistic and poor characterization if certain characters sound like the Beverly Hillbillies in particular contexts.

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

It is elitist though, you're just buying into it.

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

THERE ARE RULES TO LANGUAGE. Do those rules change? Yes, they do. Does that mean that every possible variation is an equally correct change? No, it does not. This is not elitism. Is it elite to say there are rules to math? To engineering? To science? Why is it elitism to say there are rules to other fields of knowledge?