Is it "cool" to be extra-country?
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Started by R-Tistic
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Aug 2004
R-Tistic
Los Angeles, CA
I have been at FAMU two years, and even though I used to to come to Florida every year or two growing up, I didn't see much of what I have seen since I have been here. It seems like people take pride in bein extremely country. What I mean, is those who have horrible dredlocks and sometimes gold teeth, and just talk ignorant as hell as if it is tite. I don't have any problem with a country accent, but there are some people who completely over-do it, and who never talk proper, as if it is the thing to do. I was watchin grandaddy souf on TV, and he was talkin about "down here, we don't pronounce the th at the end of words. We don't say south, we say souf. We don't say north, we say norf" and I was lookin like man this guy's a idiot. I could see if a kid was raised to say souf and that's all he knew, but for somebody who knows how to say it right but chooses to say it wrong just sounds stupid as hell to me.
Now have things always been like this? Is it just a Florida thing? I definitely realize that all people down south are not like this, so I am not generalizing anyone at all. But for these select people who take pride in bein ignorant and never lookin presentable, is it somethin that they think is good? I don't get it...
WileECoyote06 wrote:Thank you for calling the accents "southern" instead of country. The midwesterners have as much country areas than much of the south, but you never hear their accents called country. :roll:Quote:lol..I think for the most part it's a south thing. I know when I first got to Florida I had the hardest time understanding what people were saying cause they're southern accents were soooo thick
Even my "friend"...dude is from Mississippi (i would've never thought I would date a dude from MS) and his accent is WHOA..gotta tell him to slow it down,im not used to that accent :lol: :lol: :lol:
