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Originally posted by Mr Dickovitch
Bullshit. No white person says that and I lived in the South many many years. They may say other fucked up shit, but they don't say "ax".
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Care to place a wager on this? There are non black members on this board from the south who say it. Gross generalizations are always so easy to disprove. But I would be happy to take a video camera out with a time stamp and walk about talking to people and get one on tape if you were willing to put a nice chunk of money up. You lived here for a while, I lived here my whole life.
The south ESPECIALLY New Orleans has a problem with the way things are dropped, slurred or mispronounced. Each area of the nation has what is called a dialect, it is a definitive regional way in which the same language is used by people of the same nation. Generally dialects are stronger amongst those who have had family in an area for long periods of time as well as those who are not of influincial famalies. Drop and slur is a southern thing, I do not care what color you are, if your family has been here long enough and you do not make it a point to pronounce everything you say you will begin to drop and slur.
It is like the british accent, it is thicker amongst the older famalies, especially the poorer ones.