Teaching With a Kentucky Accent

[Lakita Hampton]

I find that very interesting.







>From: "A. Maberry" <maberry at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Teaching With a Kentucky Accent
>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:10:14 -0800
>
>I think of the following description of Oregonians as mostly applying to
>the Puget Sound region, the home of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain, the flannel-
>shirts grunge-look, skateboards, etc. For me, Gen(eration)-X is more of a
>historical marker for the generation born between 1961 and 1981 that isn't
>really typical of any one area. I never though to the grunge movement or
>Gen-X members, especially those from Washington or Oregon to have much
>connection with surfers or surfer speech (consciously or otherwise).
>
>allen
>maberry at u.washington.edu
>
>
>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Millie Webb wrote:
>
> > Oregonians -- to the extent that Michiganders knew of their existence --
> > were thought to be obsessive skateboarding (some drug-using) Curt Cobain
> > fans (or however he spelled it), who dressed in at least half-rags, and
> > tried to sound like surfers, when they spoke in multiple syllables at
>all.
> > As I say, young Gen-X subculture types.  This was the stereotype I heard
>the
> > most at the time.  Then again, the classmates I spoke of were in
>Education
> > (sorry, I think I said English), and Michiganders tended to be quite
> > snobbish when it came to having a corner on the "correctness" market.
>As
> > dEnIs has pointed out before.  I find it very odd that a people who
> > pronounce "milk" as [mElk], Wisconsin as [wEsconsIn], and have to say
>"ink
> > pen" for "pen", because they say [pIn] for "pen", claim to be the seat
>of
> > SAE.  Drove me nuts at the time, although I have since then decided it
>is
> > just "cute" and amusing.  :-)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fritz Juengling" <Friolly at AOL.COM>
> > To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: Teaching With a Kentucky Accent
> >
> >
> > > Out of curiosity, how were Oregonians stereotyped?  I didn't know
>anyone
> > back
> > > East ever even thought of Oregon.
> > > Fritz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Those vowel shifts seemed to be related to East Coast
> > > > city shifts, or West Coast bumpkin shifts (in the class's estimation
>at
> > the
> > > > time, that included "ValleySpeak", surfers, counter-culture Gen X
> > > > skateboarders, and other such stereotyped sub-groupings of
>Californians
> > and
> > > > Oregonians.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >


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