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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it makes you racist and little ignorant. Do you care that a teacher from Boston does not pronounce their r's? No. Because when white people don't pronounce things correctly it is cute when black people do it, [b]you [/b]think they are uneducated.[/quote]

NP here. I have no problem whatsoever with aks, but I am seriously put off with Boston (and Brooklyn) accents which butcher the english language. What does this make me?[/quote]

It makes you narrow minded.[/quote]

Any regional dialect tends to make a person sound uneducated.  That may not be a fair assessment, but it's a generalization people make about how we speak.

A boss once told me to add 10 points to the IQ of anyone from West Texas, and to subtract 10 points from the IQ of anyone from England.[/quote]

No, SOME regional dialects tend to make a person sound uneducated -- specifically, the dialects from the lower-status parts of a society/country. And OTHER regional dialects tend to make a person sound educated. You say so yourself, in your post.

And, strictly speaking, it's not that they make the person sound uneducated, it's that [i]we perceive [/i]the person as sounding uneducated. This is something we do, and therefore it's something that we can try to stop doing.[/quote]

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