Ah well that's the Coil-Curl Merger, a speech form found around various regions especially in the South. You can't live in New Orleans or Brooklyn without hearing it...
>> The
coil–
curl merger is a
vowel merger that historically occurred in some dialects of English. It is particularly associated with the early twentieth-century (but now extinct or moribund) dialects of
New York City, New York;
New Orleans, Louisiana; and
Charleston, South Carolina.
[16] In fact, in speakers born before
World War I, this merger apparently predominated throughout older
Southern U.S. speech, ranging from "South Carolina to Texas and north to eastern Arkansas and the southern edge of Kentucky."
[17]
The merger caused the vowel classes associated with the
General American phonemes /ɔɪ/, as in
choice, and /ɝ/, as in
nurse, to merge, making words like
coil and
curl, as well as
voice and
verse, homophones. The merged vowel was typically a diphthong [əɪ], with a mid central starting point (though sometimes [ɜɪ]), rather than the back rounded starting point of /ɔɪ/ of
choice in most other accents of English. The merger happened only before a consonant;
stir and
boy never rhymed.
[18]
The merger is responsible for the "Brooklynese" stereotypes of
bird sounding like
boid and
thirty-third sounding like
toity-toid. The songwriter
Sam M. Lewis, a native New Yorker, rhymed
returning with
joining in the lyrics of the English-language version of
Gloomy Sunday. << ---
Wiki: History of English Diphthongs
I saw a particularly memorable example of this in a New Orleans convention, where an A/V tech was advising his company that a presenter wanted, either a
laser pointer or a
laser printer. In the New Orleans "Ninth Ward" expression of the Coil-Curl Merger, "pointer" is pronounced "pernter" and "printer" is pronounced "pernter". In other words they're homonyms, no difference. This poor tech kept repeating "laser pernter" over and over and no one could figure out which one he meant.
But that's a regional speech pattern, doesn't sound like it's an intentional put-on. On the other hand we'll often hear a musician playing blues music intentionally put on the same thing "Ah woik so hahd...." in an effort to sound authentic, mimicking the same speech pattern of the blues originators in the Mississippi Delta. Even if said singer is from England.
care to comment on Hillary's attempt at black dialect when speaking in a black church?
"ah aint no ways tarred" translation: I am not tired.
Sure. Been here before.
That myth comes from a dishonest Fox Noise edit. The part they cut off was the intro to what she was saying at the time:
0:33 here ---
----- it's the exact lyric of a gospel song, word for word. Hillary didn't write the lyric;
Curtis Burrell did. And James Cleveland made it famous --- at least among those who follow gospel music.
Recited verbatim, even down to the redundant "from where I started from". It's
exactly how the song is written. I linked the lyrics just above; you can read it along with her. Literally.
Now Fox Noise cut the intro off and made it look like Hillary was contriving something. Knowing what you see above, here's how Fox Noise set it up:
They're playing their audience like a cheap banjo. But there it is, and that's what it always was. After this she quotes a Bible passage --- shall we conclude she's "contriving an Aramaic dialect"?
Anybody who looks at this with the required critical eye can see the bullshit a mile away, or rather
hear it. Listen to how she pronounces the word "far". That's a Chicago twang she can't get rid of --- not in any way a "Southern drawl". You would literally have to have no idea what a "Southern drawl" is to hear that and buy the way Fox Noise tried to sell it. By deliberately cutting out the context and dishonestly setting it up as an "accent" --- they create a myth.
In an apparent desperation edit they even spliced in another passage from a completely different part of the speech, apparently trying to sell the glottal stop in "Trenton New Jersey" as if it's a Southern drawl. I grew up in that area and I already know "Trenton" IS pronounced locally with a glottal stop. But again, Fox Noise counts on viewer ignorance.
So it's actually on the topic here of subliminal psycho-manipulation that Fox Noise would deliberately misrepresent what would otherwise be a forgettable recitation as if it were some "fake accent". The purpose of this is to stir emotions, for the purpose of amassing ratings. And those of you who buy it are the pawns.
Thanks for bringing this up -- not only does it tie in with the whole pshycho-manipulation, it says far more about how the mass media engages in it for its own profit.
