Anybody following the Karen Read trial in Boston?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Although in fairness, some of the parties were mocking each other's accents privately (I'm thinking specifically about one of the cops disparaging KR for a Fall River accent, if I recall).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

I've lived in every region of this country during my more than half century of living, and in every region where I have lived, people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents. You and your classist buddy talking about 'lower class' people are pigs, as I said and maintain.

You might want to do some actual reading, upper class person that you think yourself to be, about regional accents around the world and how they exhibit across the socioeconomic spectrum. What you have posted is laughable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

I've lived in every region of this country during my more than half century of living, and in every region where I have lived, people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents. You and your classist buddy talking about 'lower class' people are pigs, as I said and maintain.

You might want to do some actual reading, upper class person that you think yourself to be, about regional accents around the world and how they exhibit across the socioeconomic spectrum. What you have posted is laughable.

Of course we all have accents, but the high- and low-SES accents within a given region tend to be quite different from one another.

Karen Read is a great example of this—she is from working-class roots (made good in her personal job, it sounds like) and her friends and associates are people who have assets, but it is because of union jobs in the public sector, not generational wealth.

They all sound very different from Boston Brahmins located 50 miles away.

Read’s accent is not just “thick”—it is totally different from the accent of people one hour’s drive from her. My family is all up there (on the RI side of the line) and if you have listened enough to these accents you can hear the difference between Woonsocket RI and Bellingham, MA—which share a border and are about 20 mins from
Canton.

It is not classism to note that this is true; it is linguistics.

[Anonymous]

This woman is so freaking guilty its nuts shes not sitting in prison already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

Completely agree. Great assessment of pp.

And I grew up along Rt 139 (south shore) and am typing from a Boston suburb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

I've lived in every region of this country during my more than half century of living, and in every region where I have lived, people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents. You and your classist buddy talking about 'lower class' people are pigs, as I said and maintain.

You might want to do some actual reading, upper class person that you think yourself to be, about regional accents around the world and how they exhibit across the socioeconomic spectrum. What you have posted is laughable.

Of course we all have accents, but the high- and low-SES accents within a given region tend to be quite different from one another.

Karen Read is a great example of this—she is from working-class roots (made good in her personal job, it sounds like) and her friends and associates are people who have assets, but it is because of union jobs in the public sector, not generational wealth.

They all sound very different from Boston Brahmins located 50 miles away.

Read’s accent is not just “thick”—it is totally different from the accent of people one hour’s drive from her. My family is all up there (on the RI side of the line) and if you have listened enough to these accents you can hear the difference between Woonsocket RI and Bellingham, MA—which share a border and are about 20 mins from
Canton.

It is not classism to note that this is true; it is linguistics.

Do you really not get that this is relative? They sound their accent isn’t as strong to you bc it’s closer to your accent. To someone from Newfoundland or London or Edinburgh I can assure you the Nashville country club set has an accent that’s quite strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

I've lived in every region of this country during my more than half century of living, and in every region where I have lived, people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents. You and your classist buddy talking about 'lower class' people are pigs, as I said and maintain.

You might want to do some actual reading, upper class person that you think yourself to be, about regional accents around the world and how they exhibit across the socioeconomic spectrum. What you have posted is laughable.

Of course we all have accents, but the high- and low-SES accents within a given region tend to be quite different from one another.

Karen Read is a great example of this—she is from working-class roots (made good in her personal job, it sounds like) and her friends and associates are people who have assets, but it is because of union jobs in the public sector, not generational wealth.

They all sound very different from Boston Brahmins located 50 miles away.

Read’s accent is not just “thick”—it is totally different from the accent of people one hour’s drive from her. My family is all up there (on the RI side of the line) and if you have listened enough to these accents you can hear the difference between Woonsocket RI and Bellingham, MA—which share a border and are about 20 mins from
Canton.

It is not classism to note that this is true; it is linguistics.

Do you really not get that this is relative? They sound their accent isn’t as strong to you bc it’s closer to your accent. To someone from Newfoundland or London or Edinburgh I can assure you the Nashville country club set has an accent that’s quite strong.

You’re arguing with another PP, not me. I think every American English speaker has an accent and that they are all class signifiers. The other poster thinks rich people “don’t have accents” and poor people do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This woman is so freaking guilty its nuts shes not sitting in prison already.

A man hit and killed by a car, so hard that the taillight exploded all over the front lawn, yet is left without a single bruise. Uh huh. Okay.

Or, he got attacked by the dog in the basement, fell and hit his head on a dumbbell, and then got dragged out to the front yard so they could pretend he never went in, was drunk and got hit by a plow. Makes more sense with his arm and head injuries but what do I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

I've lived in every region of this country during my more than half century of living, and in every region where I have lived, people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents. You and your classist buddy talking about 'lower class' people are pigs, as I said and maintain.

You might want to do some actual reading, upper class person that you think yourself to be, about regional accents around the world and how they exhibit across the socioeconomic spectrum. What you have posted is laughable.

Of course we all have accents, but the high- and low-SES accents within a given region tend to be quite different from one another.

Karen Read is a great example of this—she is from working-class roots (made good in her personal job, it sounds like) and her friends and associates are people who have assets, but it is because of union jobs in the public sector, not generational wealth.

They all sound very different from Boston Brahmins located 50 miles away.

Read’s accent is not just “thick”—it is totally different from the accent of people one hour’s drive from her. My family is all up there (on the RI side of the line) and if you have listened enough to these accents you can hear the difference between Woonsocket RI and Bellingham, MA—which share a border and are about 20 mins from
Canton.

It is not classism to note that this is true; it is linguistics.

Do you really not get that this is relative? They sound their accent isn’t as strong to you bc it’s closer to your accent. To someone from Newfoundland or London or Edinburgh I can assure you the Nashville country club set has an accent that’s quite strong.

You’re arguing with another PP, not me. I think every American English speaker has an accent and that they are all class signifiers. The other poster thinks rich people “don’t have accents” and poor people do.

I guess they are too NOKD to hang out with FFV mushmouths

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

I've lived in every region of this country during my more than half century of living, and in every region where I have lived, people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents. You and your classist buddy talking about 'lower class' people are pigs, as I said and maintain.

You might want to do some actual reading, upper class person that you think yourself to be, about regional accents around the world and how they exhibit across the socioeconomic spectrum. What you have posted is laughable.

Of course we all have accents, but the high- and low-SES accents within a given region tend to be quite different from one another.

Karen Read is a great example of this—she is from working-class roots (made good in her personal job, it sounds like) and her friends and associates are people who have assets, but it is because of union jobs in the public sector, not generational wealth.

They all sound very different from Boston Brahmins located 50 miles away.

Read’s accent is not just “thick”—it is totally different from the accent of people one hour’s drive from her. My family is all up there (on the RI side of the line) and if you have listened enough to these accents you can hear the difference between Woonsocket RI and Bellingham, MA—which share a border and are about 20 mins from
Canton.

It is not classism to note that this is true; it is linguistics.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Karen Read grew up in Taunton, attended private Catholic schools and her father was Dean at Bentley University. She grew up middle to upper middle class and made good on her tuition free education at daddy’s university and her employment opportunities in the financial sector thanks to daddy’s connections, including daddy hiring her to be an adjunct at Bentley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Feisty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

I've lived in every region of this country during my more than half century of living, and in every region where I have lived, people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents. You and your classist buddy talking about 'lower class' people are pigs, as I said and maintain.

You might want to do some actual reading, upper class person that you think yourself to be, about regional accents around the world and how they exhibit across the socioeconomic spectrum. What you have posted is laughable.

Of course we all have accents, but the high- and low-SES accents within a given region tend to be quite different from one another.

Karen Read is a great example of this—she is from working-class roots (made good in her personal job, it sounds like) and her friends and associates are people who have assets, but it is because of union jobs in the public sector, not generational wealth.

They all sound very different from Boston Brahmins located 50 miles away.

Read’s accent is not just “thick”—it is totally different from the accent of people one hour’s drive from her. My family is all up there (on the RI side of the line) and if you have listened enough to these accents you can hear the difference between Woonsocket RI and Bellingham, MA—which share a border and are about 20 mins from
Canton.

It is not classism to note that this is true; it is linguistics.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Karen Read grew up in Taunton, attended private Catholic schools and her father was Dean at Bentley University. She grew up middle to upper middle class and made good on her tuition free education at daddy’s university and her employment opportunities in the financial sector thanks to daddy’s connections, including daddy hiring her to be an adjunct at Bentley.

Fair enough—maybe it was a two-generation transition and not one. But Taunton is not Newport. Neither Bentley nor the private Catholic Read attended (which is now closed) are or were particularly high-status institutions.

She’s been an analyst at Fidelity for 17 years; her dad has been a W2 employee of Bentley for nearly 50. He went to UMass-Dartmouth—and good for him—but that is not a move you make using multi-generational affluence, and neither are the accents being mocked here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This woman is so freaking guilty its nuts shes not sitting in prison already.

A man hit and killed by a car, so hard that the taillight exploded all over the front lawn, yet is left without a single bruise. Uh huh. Okay.

Or, he got attacked by the dog in the basement, fell and hit his head on a dumbbell, and then got dragged out to the front yard so they could pretend he never went in, was drunk and got hit by a plow. Makes more sense with his arm and head injuries but what do I know.

You are insane.

The ME just testified to all his bruises no less than 15 minutes ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?

Thicker accents are more common among lower class or blue collar people. This is consistent across all states and even countries.

Well aren't you a disgusting classist pig.

And by the way, tell that to the Kennedys, you pig.

I'm eastern MA born and bred, my family's been here 400 years. Thick MA accents are very common across the social classes here.

Again, you're a classist pig.

Your reaction is common for someone in New England. Overly aggressive and combative. Calling someone a pig because they acknowledge an accent?

Yes, upper class people still have an accent in MA, but it’s typically less pronounced.

You likely can’t process this but lower class people in other parts of the country also have strong accents. Go visit hillbilly in Tennessee and listen to how they talk and then compare that to the accents you don’t hear in a wealthy suburb of Nashville. This really isn’t a concept that is worth getting upset over.

I've lived in every region of this country during my more than half century of living, and in every region where I have lived, people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents. You and your classist buddy talking about 'lower class' people are pigs, as I said and maintain.

You might want to do some actual reading, upper class person that you think yourself to be, about regional accents around the world and how they exhibit across the socioeconomic spectrum. What you have posted is laughable.

Of course we all have accents, but the high- and low-SES accents within a given region tend to be quite different from one another.

Karen Read is a great example of this—she is from working-class roots (made good in her personal job, it sounds like) and her friends and associates are people who have assets, but it is because of union jobs in the public sector, not generational wealth.

They all sound very different from Boston Brahmins located 50 miles away.

Read’s accent is not just “thick”—it is totally different from the accent of people one hour’s drive from her. My family is all up there (on the RI side of the line) and if you have listened enough to these accents you can hear the difference between Woonsocket RI and Bellingham, MA—which share a border and are about 20 mins from
Canton.

It is not classism to note that this is true; it is linguistics.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Karen Read grew up in Taunton, attended private Catholic schools and her father was Dean at Bentley University. She grew up middle to upper middle class and made good on her tuition free education at daddy’s university and her employment opportunities in the financial sector thanks to daddy’s connections, including daddy hiring her to be an adjunct at Bentley.

Fair enough—maybe it was a two-generation transition and not one. But Taunton is not Newport. Neither Bentley nor the private Catholic Read attended (which is now closed) are or were particularly high-status institutions.

She’s been an analyst at Fidelity for 17 years; her dad has been a W2 employee of Bentley for nearly 50. He went to UMass-Dartmouth—and good for him—but that is not a move you make using multi-generational affluence, and neither are the accents being mocked here.

Okay, she's middle class, not UMC or Boston Brahmin. But not working class.