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My sister moved to Houston from MN 25 years ago. There's no doubt in my mind she's now dumber because of it.

In my best Texican accent;

"Oh what fools these mortals be" :-)

Kaywoodie

Dr Kamber, my wife's professor of French at Johns Hopkins, had an awful time getting his Baltimoron students to pronounce eau correctly. They kept saying "a-oh" instead of "oh."

Thirty-five-year-old Hal Holbrook, on stage as "Mark Twain," did a beautiful job doing a seventy-year-old man quoting twelve-year-old Huckleberry Finn. There was no sign of the thirty-five-year-old. Hal's over eighty now, but his performance at thirty-five was indeed a tour de force � a stroke of sheer genius.

Where do public radio and classical stations find all these people with such ridiculous northeastern cum bad british english accents to DJ?

p.s. the guy who used to love saying Pawk'istan while looking down his nose at the television camera is similarly ridiculous.

Lets put it this way, I can top the MENSA requirement by 18 points any day and around 22, if I'm focused.

Hell I can best it by 50 on my worst day.

Do I hear 60?

she could be in a coma and still be smarter than you

Hay goestindatractor,

Com Yar to me boy, I'm fixin' to whoop yer azz with an ax hanel!

ya' sissy bich. LOL

I just saw Hal on a movie the other day Ken, "The Evening Sun". Great movie and fairly new I think. If you haven't seen that one, I highly recommend it.

Anyone in at 55?

Here we go at Mensa + 55er.

They are almost correct. Almost everyone on the left has an accent, and everybody on the left is dumb.

I'm in for -30 or so and I'm still tryin' to learn poker!

When I was a young man of 20 -25 years old, I was CONFUSED. While in training in the Army, everyone asked how this blue-eyed blondie had a "mexican accent": but everyone in NE New Mexico wondered why I "spoke like a Texan".
My mother was Okie, my father was first generation transplanted Croatian, but I was raised amongst Hispanics with a distinct accent - unique to northern NM and southern CO.
I guess I confuse many!
Mark

Saw a deal on TV a while back that actors go to class to learn the "American accent" that doesn't actually exist anywhere other than in movies.

My Alabama buddy Wyatt Keith had that knack.

You ever hear a Texun....er, Texen,,,,,,,,,,er, Texan say it ? Some of them anyway, do a pretty good job of confusing me with what they are talking about until I get my ears calibrated for awhile. We do have a very good EMT who serves this region who came from Georgia over twenty years ago. And, while he has learned to speak more fluently in the years since he came north, he still has a certain distinct sound which is unmistakable in origin; great guy, no shortage of intellect; glad he came over to the 'dark side.'

I've been put-down for my Southern accent ever since I first went Nawth in 1939, but seldom worse than the flak that my Brit writers gave me when they didn't like this or that about my editing of their prose. I was worse than just a merely ignorant Yank � I was an ignorant mush-mouth Yank. What could I possibly know about good English?

"That's not the queen's English!" was their favorite criticism. Never mind that by international agreement � which has the power of a law or a regulation � the official IATA language of international commercial aviation is American English.

How sweet it was � without exception � to send 'em away grumbling by showing 'em in the Oxford English Dictionary that what they'd objected-to was indeed "the queen's English."

Having been small and having parents who enjoyed watching Hee Haw occasionally, I blame that for any perceptions I may have of people with southern accents.

Well, that, and having gone to Basic Training in Missouri and meeting a whole bunch of back woods Arkansas kids. It's amazing how the outstandingly bad ones tend to stick in your memory while the good ones just fade away.

I know what you mean!

I got hit with a batch of flak in another Campfire thread where I tried a bit too obliquely to say that about the Noo Yawkaz whom I've known � (a) the relatively few whose attitudes and behavior immediately identify 'em as ass holes, and (b) the greater number whose attitudes and behavior don't leave any pejorative mark.

It seems that the overly sensitive among us aren't the least little bit sensitive to sympathetic subtlety. Too intent on finding something to get mad at, I reckon.