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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 10:15 PM
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Sarah Palin and the incredible disappearing accent Updated at 11:09 AM
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Sarah Palin has a very distinctive way of speaking. Except when she doesn't.

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  [image][image]eh, sounds all the same to me.  electron_blue   Oct-06-08 10:17 PM   #1 
  [image][image][image]In the less formal videos she was putting the "g" on the end  ayeshahaqqiqa   Oct-06-08 10:26 PM   #5 
  [image][image][image][image]When talking informally I can drop the final g's because that is natural  rebel with a cause   Oct-07-08 12:48 AM   #16 
  [image][image][image]Yeah. All gibberish! nt  Truth Hurts A Lot   Oct-06-08 10:39 PM   #8 
  [image][image][image]Except lacking the betchas and dog-gonits and other 'contrived' talk.  bjobotts   Oct-07-08 12:37 AM   #14 
  [image]   [image][image]She is the biggest "obvious" phony ever. Who does she think she's foolin  bjobotts   Oct-07-08 12:38 AM   #15 
  [image][image]Bush in a skirt ...  BearSquirrel2   Oct-06-08 10:19 PM   #2 
  [image][image]I resemble the disappearing accent syndrome.  dhpgetsit   Oct-06-08 10:19 PM   #3 
  [image][image][image]You are a natural mimic. So am I.  rebel with a cause   Oct-07-08 12:58 AM   #19 
  [image][image]I heard a story on accents last week on public radio that said they can come and go.  elocs   Oct-06-08 10:21 PM   #4 
  [image][image][image]That is true  ayeshahaqqiqa   Oct-06-08 10:28 PM   #6 
  [image][image]She is lying to people.  glinda   Oct-06-08 10:29 PM   #7 
  [image][image]I felt like I just watched "Fargo".  Tilion   Oct-06-08 10:39 PM   #9 
  [image][image]I feel like I just watched the latest Eddie Murphy movie--worse  Tutonic   Oct-06-08 10:56 PM   #10 
  [image][image]REWARD: Can Anyone Anywhere Find One Person With a Palin's Accent and Colloquialisms?  L. Coyote   Oct-06-08 11:10 PM   #11 
  [image][image]More of the GOP games no-one can afford.  barack the house   Oct-06-08 11:20 PM   #12 
  [image][image]Yuck!  crazylpn   Oct-07-08 12:33 AM   #13 
  [image][image]i'm texan  MrsBrady   Oct-07-08 12:54 AM   #17 
  [image][image]What's more interesting  nachoproblem   Oct-07-08 12:57 AM   #18 
  [image][image][image]Accents from all those 6 colleges ~Idaho etc  savistocate   Oct-07-08 02:33 AM   #22 
  [image][image]That was creepy - n/t  jjr5   Oct-07-08 01:23 AM   #20 
  [image][image]I say we call Palin "Cheney's Trainee". n/t  balantz   Oct-07-08 02:13 AM   #21 
     [image][image]I've become partial to "Miss Piggy"  nachoproblem   Oct-07-08 02:49 AM   #23 
        [image][image]That's a good one, but  balantz   Oct-07-08 03:03 AM   #24 
 
electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 10:17 PM
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1. eh, sounds all the same to me.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 10:26 PM
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5. In the less formal videos she was putting the "g" on the end
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of words. I can change my accent at will, but it involves the sound of the vowels rather than keeping or dropping the final "g", which, to me, sounds a bit contrived.
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 12:48 AM
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16. When talking informally I can drop the final g's because that is natural
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but when speaking with the more educated the final g comes back. It is called home speak and outside (formal) speak. palin's accent, on the other hand, does seem very much put on because her accent becomes more pronounced the more formal her speaking occasion is and that is not the usual.
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Truth Hurts A Lot Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Oct-06-08 10:39 PM
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8. Yeah. All gibberish! nt
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 12:37 AM
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14. Except lacking the betchas and dog-gonits and other 'contrived' talk.
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 12:38 AM
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15. She is the biggest "obvious" phony ever. Who does she think she's foolin
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BearSquirrel2 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 10:19 PM
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2. Bush in a skirt ...
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Of course, people who move in between cultures can often slip effortlessly in and out of a dialect and way of speaking. When in Rome ...

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dhpgetsit Donating Member (830 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Oct-06-08 10:19 PM
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3. I resemble the disappearing accent syndrome.
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I used to go spend a weekend with my British friend, and when I got home my family would comment on my accent. It does rub off.

I wonder who the Minnesotan is who's been coaching her?
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 12:58 AM
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19. You are a natural mimic. So am I.
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I can speak with a Latino immigrant with a heavy accent and within an hour I am speaking broken English even though I don't really speak Spanish. I don't even notice it until I get called on it. The same with other accents. I have worked hard to not speak southern Illinoisan like I use to, but let me be around family or friends from here and I am soon saying fer instead of for, plural you is younse, and all the old sayings are back in my vocabulary. Uggh.

Yeah, for palin to speak the way she does, she would have to be around someone to pick it up from.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Oct-06-08 10:21 PM
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4. I heard a story on accents last week on public radio that said they can come and go.
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Such as the newscaster from Texas who speaks with no accent until he is with other people from Texas. Or the British guy who lives here who has lost his accent until he is around his mom. Certainly, people may affect an accent, but it is not a perfect science.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 10:28 PM
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6. That is true
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As someone with a fairly good ear, I pick up on accents rather easily. However, in my experience, the main difference in the accents is in how the vowels are pronounced, not in keeping or dropping the final "g" in words.
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glinda (719 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 10:29 PM
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7. She is lying to people.
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There is a definate difference. This would be another good thing for the Media to cover. She is absolutely making up and exaggerating her accent.
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Tilion Donating Member (733 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 10:39 PM
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9. I felt like I just watched "Fargo".
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But "Fargo" was entertaining.
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Tutonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Oct-06-08 10:56 PM
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10. I feel like I just watched the latest Eddie Murphy movie--worse
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than the 29 before. At least Eddy is smart enough to know that he is making stink bombs. This lady just keeps on like she is on Idol.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 11:10 PM
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11. REWARD: Can Anyone Anywhere Find One Person With a Palin's Accent and Colloquialisms?
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
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barack the house Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Oct-06-08 11:20 PM
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12. More of the GOP games no-one can afford.
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crazylpn (72 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 12:33 AM
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13. Yuck!
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:puke: She absolutely makes me sick! She's so phoney, just like dickhead, McCain! I hate them so much! I don't like feeling this way about anyone, but I can't help it.
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MrsBrady Donating Member (990 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Oct-07-08 12:54 AM
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17. i'm texan
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i'm grew up in DFW area.

i can turn my accent off and on...my default is off...but if I'm tired or ummm had a few, it will come out
or if i need to for whatever reason.

Maybe that's what she does.

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nachoproblem (327 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 12:57 AM
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18. What's more interesting
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is that in the older videos she speaks in complete sentences that are mostly intelligible.

The McCain campaign has replaced her brain with Folgers Crystals to see if anyone would notice.
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savistocate (406 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 02:33 AM
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22. Accents from all those 6 colleges ~Idaho etc
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whatever. . hodgepodge. Lay it on thick sarah was her last direction from handlers & mr & mrs McMansions. She's just sooo real..real phony. Sicccckeninggggggggggwhahh
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20. That was creepy - n/t
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21. I say we call Palin "Cheney's Trainee". n/t
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nachoproblem (327 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 02:49 AM
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23. I've become partial to "Miss Piggy"
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Concise, easy to remember, and fits her quasi-feminist attention-seeking archetype quite well. It is also the best visual example of "lipstick on a pig" that comes to mind.
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balantz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-07-08 03:03 AM
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24. That's a good one, but
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"Cheney's Trainee" fits the shaping of a dictator-in-place that would carry forth anything of Cheney's design, it rhymes, and can be an effective chant at Palin rallys, or anywhere for that matter.

We want people to know that's what she represents, a furthering of the dictatorship of Cheney.

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