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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 09:17 PM Original message |
Have you noticed that in "Fargo"... |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. I recall |
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mtowngman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. You betcha. n/t |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. I still can't figue out how Palin got our accent. That's just weird. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Back in the 1930s, a bunch of Minnesotans moved to Alaska as part of a federal relief program, and |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 12:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Interesting! Thanks! |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. No prob! |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Reality: Sarah Palin was born in Idaho, which had many Minnesota transplants |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Um...I'm not. |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 12:49 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I've read the family moved to Wasilla |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
24. Maybe she's really from MN and yall don't want to claim her? LOL nt |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. the unenlightened always say that I sound like Marge Gunderson |
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keroro gunsou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. ya der hey |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. accents are class and subculture based too |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. I've read that sound changes are adopted by women earlier than men. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. you mean the entire gender or over one person's life span? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I mean that sound shifts tend to be seen first spoken by teen girls and young women |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:20 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Oh! you sound like a real linguist. I'm just making random observations. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:22 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Wisconsin is VERY different, and different in different areas. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I know a 20-something guy from Milwaukee and he has a pretty weird accent. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 12:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. In another life, I would have liked to have gotten into the study of regional accents. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. American English dialects are a current interest of mine. |
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peekaloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
6. She's Jerry Lundegaard in drag. |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. Didn't you hear Katie Couric once say... |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
22. The other way: Palin sounds like Marge Gunderson (nt) |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
25. That's their deal, there. |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
26. Uff Da! |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
27. Off-topic, but, Marge Gunderson's baby would be about 22 years old now; |
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