Crossposted from Town Called Dobson & My Left Wing
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To do this strip, I listen and read a LOT of right wing crap and yesterday’s painful brush with idiocy was with Rush Limbaugh.
I heard Hillary’s clip from Selma during her rendition from Cleveland’s hymn. It sounded so atrocious and fake, I thought it was a satire piece from Limbaugh’s production staff – it almost sounded like Whoopie Goldberg in A Color Purple. It wasn’t until later yesterday when I realized, it was a real recording.
Holy crap! It was like she was trying out for Spielberg. It wasn’t a Southern accent, I can detect those, this sounded to me like a slave accent.
Yes, I know Hillary spent 17 long years in Arkansas, but surely, she would have a passable Southern accent by now. Ya know?
Maybe if you took a course in American literature, you would understand that one assumes the dialect of the writer or the orator one is reciting.
It is a convention that acknowledges the language of the writer or the orator as an authentic language to be respected and not a patois to be denigrated. Obama was also speaking with a false accent, by the way.
So if you are doing Romeo and Juliet, do you do it with an Italian accent?
No, most perform it in a Renaissance English accent.