When I was a nanny to billionaires, the mom asked the cook to chop vegetables and get ingredients ready for a dinner she invited friends to. The cook spent hours chopping and measuring things into tiny bowls so that the mom could pour them all into one big bowl and say she made it herself. I walked into the kitchen…
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Are you kidding? They’d vote for Palin, who has a kid who was an unwed teenage mom. A pregnant Bristol appeared onstage with Palin and that didn’t phase these abstinance freaks. They voted for Trump, a divorced playboy who marries immigrants. They’ll vote for anyone stamped Republican, no matter how far that person…
I agree completely but! My neighbor has known Jared since childhood (same Jewish basketball league). My neighbor also works in government but he’s Democrat and liberal. He’s adamant that neither Jared nor Ivanka have presidential hopes. I’m skeptical but hopeful that he is right.
Actually, many Wall Street investment banks are, in fact, thugs. If you spoke like them, by definition you would sound like a thug.
When I think of how thugs sound, I think of Richard Nixon, Martha Stewart, Bernie Madoff, and so on. Or violent criminals like Ted Bundy, Timothy McVeigh, etc. That’s how thugs sound.
Okay, well you’re wrong there, too. But it’s more disturbing that you wish that US blacks would assimilate instead of having “their own dialect.” Maybe US whites should lose their dialect instead? Or why not New Yorkers? Bostonians? Southerners? Northern Midwesterners? The incredible diversity of America is part of…
Why I’m taking so much time:
1. I’m procrastinating studying for a test. I suck.
2. I love language, and I don’t like to see gorgeous language denigrated.
3. I started taking more time to fight racism this year, for obvious reasons. (Online is probably a losing battle, but I’m doing it in IRL too. The least whites can do…
Tee hee. No, it should actually be, “I rage typed.”
She wrote the quote because her friend got free airline tickets (or something like that) by sounding white, not because he got a job by sounding white. He was in a situation in which he couldn’t be seen.
Do you not remember the article you responded to? It’s an article about sounding white, not about speaking properly. You responded directly to the writer of the article. He said it pays to sound white. You said, “It does pay...in spades.” And then you morphed that into striving for excellence and speaking proper…
No one enjoys hearing criticism, but sometimes there’s truth behind it and you can use it to your advantage if you don’t just dismiss it out of hand.
People are just making fun of your writing because you’re insisting that everyone should learn English as well as you have.
he “sounded white” on the phone...which really just means he spoke without the dead-giveaway inflections that allowed the person on the other end of the line to discriminate against him out of hand.
That’s not an overgeneralization at ALL!
We get that you said that anyone can sound white or black. It simply isn’t true that white dialects are proper English and black dialects are not.
Who is this “you” then? And who are these speakers of English as a foreign language being hired for their perfect accents and proper English skills? I don’t think you understand how our green card system works.
You were responding to an article about sounding white, not about speaking properly.
You said it in direct response to Michael Harriot’s sentence:
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This what a thug sounds like.
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LMAO that in Britain everyone sounds alike. Have you heard of Cockney rhyming slang? It’s pretty complicated, at least to my American ear.
Here’s a 5-minute video demo of 17 different British accents: