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fnord · 2011-07-16 05:06:41

peco · 2011-07-16 19:31:45

do they speak English wherever that was shot?

fnord · 2011-07-16 21:42:06

Detroit is supposedly a part of the world where English is the everyday language.

peco · 2011-07-17 07:47:23

Jeez... People speak more intelligible English in Quebec City.

My intent isn't to be anti-golliwog here either... That person lives in an English-speaking country, receives free education from that country - integrated (if I recall correctly) with the evil and oppressive whitey, and apparently lives within a few miles of the border of ANOTHER English-speaking country (where their use of the language is pretty much the international standard for English), and that person isn't an obvious, recent immigrant. So WTF?

Tall Paul · 2011-07-17 09:10:12

Do you really have trouble understanding her?

choad · 2011-07-17 15:34:34

Maybe if I bury this here, it'll go away.

fnord · 2011-07-17 18:23:47

choad wrote:
Maybe if I bury this here, it'll go away.

I found myself wishing somebody would mace or tase him!

George Orr · 2011-07-17 18:31:37

I dunno where you found that, choad, but guilty feet have got no rhythm.

headkicker_girl · 2011-07-17 20:37:13

I understood every word she said (seriously). I think it's a dialect issue. I can understand northern toothless dialects. I can't always understand toothless southerners (black or white).

George Orr · 2011-07-17 20:46:17

I'm a Southern cracker, raised in Appalachia and living in south Texas, and I understood every word too.

It may simply be, peco, that you are not used to listening to a speaker who gots no teef.

GooberMcNutly · 2011-07-17 22:08:54

His playing isn't too bad, but PVC pants? It must be like a superfund site inside of those.

Bonus: At 2:34 you can see he's wearing a thong.

opsec · 2011-07-18 00:02:21

I could understand that better than I can some urban-speak.

I worked at a Jamaican firm in DC (staffed solely with Islanders) in the early 90s. I wrote a health care tax module to their payroll, which was about a 4 week gig. It took several days before I could understand any of them without asking them to repeat themselves, but by the end of the month I could do the Jamaican accent perfectly. I lost a lot of friends the next month.

peco · 2011-07-18 11:27:22

Could be a dialect issue. I had to listen to it a few times to figure out that s/he wasn't saying anything of note.

Jamaicans are worse. I can't understand them at all. There's Jamaican guys in GTA4 and I can never understand what they're saying. Newfs from Argentia need subtitles for me as well. Jamaicans are, at least, people in a foreign country (well, from my perspective, so are Americans, but that's not the point).

Bigcat · 2011-07-18 14:51:51

It's been dark a helluva lot longer than 5 days.

peco · 2011-07-18 18:37:48

More to the point of "dialect" and what I don't understand...

She grew up, lives, works (?) surrounded by people who don't have that "dialect" or "accent". In fact, to sound like that, you'd have to go out of your way to develop the accent. You'd have to actually work at sounding like an uneducated, borderline retarded git. Sure, I could have run around my whole life talking in a thick Scottish brogue, but I didn't, and for the most part I sound pretty much like all the people around me for 100 miles or more.

headkicker_girl · 2011-07-19 16:32:08

peco wrote:
More to the point of "dialect" and what I don't understand...

She grew up, lives, works (?) surrounded by people who don't have that "dialect" or "accent". In fact, to sound like that, you'd have to go out of your way to develop the accent. You'd have to actually work at sounding like an uneducated, borderline retarded git. Sure, I could have run around my whole life talking in a thick Scottish brogue, but I didn't, and for the most part I sound pretty much like all the people around me for 100 miles or more.

See, that's where you are wrong. In many black areas they have little to no contact with the outside (white) world. I would guess that whoever raised her had a similar speech pattern, and the people that she routinely come into contact with also have that same dialect. You also have to factor in shitty schools where the teachers merely babysit, and the lack of teeth which surely makes pronouncing the most basic words more difficult.

choad · 2011-07-19 17:34:21

headkicker_girl wrote:
See, that's where you are wrong. In many black areas they have little to no contact with the outside (white) world.

I was a semester substitute teaching high school English in The South of Missouri and heard the same thing from poor white kids. Insert 'Cousin Uncle Earl' joke here. Someone somewhere had fun at my expense because my assignment was to learn them kids some Neil Simon.