(September 27, 2018 at 10:28 pm)Joods Wrote:(September 27, 2018 at 10:24 pm)outtathereligioncloset Wrote: Mine is a Carolina girl twang. As soon as people hear the grits flying, in their minds my IQ drops several dozen points. I was born in South Carolina, raised in North Carolina, have a B.A. from a respected (and expensive) private college and have a respectable IQ. Graduated cum laude and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, Kappa Nu Sigma, Psi Chi and Delta Psi Omega. I was the department's official tutor for one of the two most difficult psychology courses. But the accent is never going away, so I suspect I will always be viewed as "less than."
Of course all that pales by comparison to how much my value as a human being (in the bible-belt) dropped in the minds of the people in Tinytown upon revealing my atheism.
Well I for one, look forward to hearing your accent tag. We vacationed at OBX towards the end of July. My second time there. I love visiting that place.
Oh, the OBX brogue of the natives is quite different from the drawl of the inland people.
I have family in both areas. There's a wide range of NC accents.