mdmc
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Mon Jan-11-10 03:09 PM
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The daughter (now an author) of an African American Professor |
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was able to tell the color of the skin of any person that her mother (the African American Professor) was speaking to, based on her mother's tone / speech pattern.
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Mon Jan-11-10 03:14 PM
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1. Lots of us can identify with that... |
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Always been that way. I rarely speak to whites in the same manner as I do other Blacks. Just the way it is in America. :shrug:
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Mon Jan-11-10 03:59 PM
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2. I do the same thing as the mother. |
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I'm a white West Virginian, and I have very different speech patterns, different word choices, different pronunciations, when speaking to local friends and family than when speaking to those from outside the Appalachians. I used to tease my mother, who spoke "country" when talking to her family up in the mountains and "city" when she spoke in the college town where I grew up. But now I recognize that I do the same thing. And if most people were capable of objectively listening to themselves, they would hear the same thing in their own voices.
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Mon Jan-11-10 06:10 PM
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Mon Jan-11-10 04:19 PM
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3. I speak differently to fellow upper-midwesterners then I to to other people. |
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Edited on Mon Jan-11-10 04:19 PM by Odin2005
When talking to people that are not from around here I switch to a more "conservative Western" accent as opposed to my Northern City Vowel Shift influenced "Fargo" accent.
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