Sad to say, this kind of of audio-based ethnicity judgement is right more oftem than wrong, see Stanford U. John Baugh’s book ‘Beyond Ebonics.’ Still, funny.
In other words, you like Keef’s comic because it shows that ‘audio-based ethnicity judgements’ can be wrong, even though you think they are usually right? Right?
A funny thing that happened when I was wasting my youth in the Army: I was walking to the corner PX when I passed three guys walking the other way. One of them, a black guy, was talking and I couldn’t help thinking there was something funny about the way he was talking. About 15 minutes later it hit me – he was talking with a Southern accent, but, the kind of Southern accent a white guy would have! “More nasal” is the easiest way I can sum it up, but there must be better ways to describe it. Maybe a guy who grew up in a largely white neighborhood or school?
Your voice is largely a product of your state of mind, and if you’re determined to change it. Come to London and see the non-white actors playing Shakespeare.
One of my favorite lines in the TV show “Third Rock From The Sun” was when Mary’s brother Roy comes to visit her at work and runs into Nina (who is black) and says, “Gosh, you don’t sound black over the phone!”
So WEIRD to have TV coming to life in the real world.
If only prejudice were as blind as it is deaf. I call it the Charley Pride Syndrome…
Sad to say, this kind of of audio-based ethnicity judgement is right more oftem than wrong, see Stanford U. John Baugh’s book ‘Beyond Ebonics.’ Still, funny.
In other words, you like Keef’s comic because it shows that ‘audio-based ethnicity judgements’ can be wrong, even though you think they are usually right? Right?
A funny thing that happened when I was wasting my youth in the Army: I was walking to the corner PX when I passed three guys walking the other way. One of them, a black guy, was talking and I couldn’t help thinking there was something funny about the way he was talking. About 15 minutes later it hit me – he was talking with a Southern accent, but, the kind of Southern accent a white guy would have! “More nasal” is the easiest way I can sum it up, but there must be better ways to describe it. Maybe a guy who grew up in a largely white neighborhood or school?
Weird world, ain’t it?
Your voice is largely a product of your state of mind, and if you’re determined to change it. Come to London and see the non-white actors playing Shakespeare.
One of my favorite lines in the TV show “Third Rock From The Sun” was when Mary’s brother Roy comes to visit her at work and runs into Nina (who is black) and says, “Gosh, you don’t sound black over the phone!”
So WEIRD to have TV coming to life in the real world.