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How’s your non-regional diction coming along?

Posted - June 12, 2019

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  • What's it to youse?
      June 12, 2019 7:26 PM MDT
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  • I’m taking applicants for sex partners. I need to know who has zero regional diction. My preference is for someone who sounds like a robot and completely devoid of all emotion. 

      June 12, 2019 7:44 PM MDT
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  • 2 out of three
      June 13, 2019 5:28 AM MDT
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  • I’m going to need all 3 boxes checked. Please work on your robot skills,  and then you are welcome to re-apply in the future. 

      June 13, 2019 6:26 AM MDT
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  • It's about as general American as you can get with the slightest hint of left coast. 
      June 12, 2019 7:28 PM MDT
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  • Hella general
      June 12, 2019 7:33 PM MDT
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  • Lol, exactly. 
      June 12, 2019 7:37 PM MDT
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  • Left coast is Chiiii ca gooo? 

      June 12, 2019 7:43 PM MDT
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  • A little farther left. 
      June 12, 2019 7:44 PM MDT
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  • Okay Rhode Island. 
      June 12, 2019 7:50 PM MDT
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  • The other left.
      June 12, 2019 7:51 PM MDT
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  • Okay, California. I need a map and a compass. 
      June 12, 2019 7:55 PM MDT
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  • Bingo.

    I was just about to send you a map :)


      June 12, 2019 8:00 PM MDT
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  • 32527
    No accent?...sorry. I have to keep my southern mid west twang. It makes me money. 
      June 12, 2019 7:32 PM MDT
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  • But we must all conform and sound the same. It’s the only way. 
      June 12, 2019 7:44 PM MDT
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  • 32527
    No thanks. 
      June 12, 2019 8:08 PM MDT
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  • I hope you said that without an accent ;)
      June 13, 2019 5:16 AM MDT
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  • That's the only way we'll achieve true equality. It's our destiny. 
      June 12, 2019 8:20 PM MDT
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  • It really is the only way. Once we get rid of all regional accents,  then we must move on to clothing. All people should wear black pants and black t shirt. Sweaters for people in colder climates. No shorts for people in warmer climates though, too provocative.  

      June 13, 2019 5:17 AM MDT
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  • I'm willing to give up any sense of identity for the good of humanity. We'll have an international day of clothes burning where we'll bid farewell to the old days when we were oppressed by things like colors and textiles. 
      June 13, 2019 7:21 AM MDT
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  • Im glad you’re on board.
      June 14, 2019 4:24 AM MDT
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  • 4631
    Impossible project.

    Fifty years ago it might have been the BBC news presenter's voice in England,
    the Edinborough accident in Scotland,
    the educated in Australia,
    perhaps the Philadephia in the USA.

    Nowadays linguists acknowledge that no accent is value-free - every accent by definition indicates its origin.

    The accent that sounds the most "neutral" is the one that surrounds you most of the time,
    most likely the one where you live or where you grew up. This post was edited by inky at June 13, 2019 5:17 AM MDT
      June 12, 2019 10:01 PM MDT
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  • Just need a good diction couch. I like the word diction. It’s almost as good as platypus and kumquat. 

      June 13, 2019 5:17 AM MDT
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    7268
    I cannot understand one single word he is saying in the song. 
      June 13, 2019 6:00 AM MDT
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