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08 Sep 2014, 1:38 pm

Southern accents are stigmatized for sounding "uneducated" or even "redneck", etc. But some Southern accents have such a Royal, almost Aristocratic sound to them, its really amazing how it could be such a paradox.

That drawling Southern voice makes you think of a life of leisure, and gentility.

I have a sampling of my grandmother talking to Miss Janey, and I think this my all time favorite recording of two refined Southern women talking.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afllcICqlBk[/youtube]



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08 Sep 2014, 2:22 pm

i don't find anything wrong with them. they're attractive.

and leisurely.


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08 Sep 2014, 3:02 pm

Ever since I learned that there is a distinction between Southern American and Northern American accent, I have loved the southern variant. It is so American!



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08 Sep 2014, 3:03 pm

I like different kinds of accents, there is music in them. :)



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08 Sep 2014, 3:13 pm

Nothing wrong at all.Accents are beautiful.


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08 Sep 2014, 3:39 pm

my fave southern-type accent would be west-Virginian, there is just something so singsong/musical about it.



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08 Sep 2014, 3:57 pm

I have no problem with Southern accents. My grandma and my alcoholic uncle both speak with Southern accents.


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09 Sep 2014, 1:45 pm

There are different types of southern accents. I have problems understanding southerns who talk really fast like Boomhoure from King Of The Hill.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGA1a4nyVs[/youtube]








But I like Georgia accents like Jennifer Nettles from Sugarland

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp5foT32tKM[/youtube]


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09 Sep 2014, 1:56 pm

It reminds me of that deleted scene from Terminator 3 - the one with Will Candy and his southern accent :lol:


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09 Sep 2014, 1:57 pm

Irulan wrote:
It reminds me of that deleted scene from Terminator 3 - the one with Will Candy and his southern accent :lol:

I never saw that, is there a link someplace?



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09 Sep 2014, 2:04 pm

Absolutely nothing; some people just attribute it to a group they have problems with.


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09 Sep 2014, 2:13 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Irulan wrote:
It reminds me of that deleted scene from Terminator 3 - the one with Will Candy and his southern accent :lol:

I never saw that, is there a link someplace?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR-Qfw

One can normally piss themselves :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


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09 Sep 2014, 2:14 pm

a_dork wrote:
Absolutely nothing; some people just attribute it to a group they have problems with.


I agree. I recall meeting a famous Aspie a few years ago and she called my grandma an "uneducated cowgirl." :x


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09 Sep 2014, 2:26 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
a_dork wrote:
Absolutely nothing; some people just attribute it to a group they have problems with.


I agree. I recall meeting a famous Aspie a few years ago and she called my grandma an "uneducated cowgirl." :x

which "famous aspie" would that have been? temple grandin, or Darryl Hannah?



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09 Sep 2014, 2:31 pm

auntblabby wrote:
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
a_dork wrote:
Absolutely nothing; some people just attribute it to a group they have problems with.


I agree. I recall meeting a famous Aspie a few years ago and she called my grandma an "uneducated cowgirl." :x

which "famous aspie" would that have been? temple grandin, or Darryl Hannah?


Neither. PM me and I'll tell you.


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09 Sep 2014, 2:35 pm

Irulan wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Irulan wrote:
It reminds me of that deleted scene from Terminator 3 - the one with Will Candy and his southern accent :lol:

I never saw that, is there a link someplace?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR-Qfw
One can normally piss themselves :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

thank you for that :) I wonder who the voice actor was for that fake Schwarzenegger southern speaking voice?