Re: WWWOT: the election in Wisconsin


"Mark Alan Miller" <mamiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Annie C" <chernow2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As for the above comment about Hillary... sorry but I don't feel she
talks
down because she speaks slowly and measured. But, hey, could just be me.
Granted she does speak somewhat slow at times but that may be intentional
and a conscious effort not to fall into the Midwestern fast talker
trap.Those raised here or who've lived around Chicago will know what I'm
talking about. We folks have a tendency to talk rapid fire much of the
time.
You become acutely aware of how you really sound when you relocate.
Living
in the South slows down that rapid delivery. Big time. Nearly twenty
years
as a transplant living in Southern places slowed the pace of my speech,
and
perhaps all the years in Arkansas slowed hers too. Just a thought.

Possibly, but she left Illinois over 40 years ago and has been all over
since then, and even her childhood wasn't exactly working class. Nothing
in her speech sounds like Arkansas to me. What she does sound like is her
upscale New England education, precise, reserved, and a little academic.
I wonder if she ever made an effort to eliminate any particular accent
from her voice? Maybe while she was in college? Many people do (both my
mother and Doug, to name two I've lived with), to sound like they belong.

In any case, it's all about appearances, and what voters can identify
with, and they've repeatedly voted for the folksy twang over the cultured
neutrality of the upper classes (or what they think is upper class, since
Bush is clearly upper class, but doesn't sound it.)

Mark Alan Miller

As a New Englander--with half of the same education <G>--she definitely
sounds like someone originally from the midwest. Not like a New Englander
(and there are various New England accents) or a Southerner. There are some
hints of the South, perhaps, but not much. She doesn't have a strong
regional accent of any kind, to my ear.

Obama has a similar accent, but it is overlaid with a lot of rhetorical
flourish with a definite preacher tone. I haven't heard him speaking in what
I would consider a "normal" or conversational tone of voice.

Today, I was a a bridge party. As we were leaving, some (Obamite) women were
talking about their fear for Obama's safety. I said that I sometimes
wondered whether someone would take a shot at Hillary, since so many people
seem to hate her so much. One woman said "They wouldn't waste a bullet."
Wow. I told her that that kind of thing on the part of Obama supporters was
precisely why I voted for Hillary and the caucus.

I used to like Obama a lot and hoped he would enter the race, but the more I
hear from his supporters, the harder it is to hold onto my former enthusiam.


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