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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know plenty of folks in MA and none have these accents. Is it regional?[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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.

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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, [b]people native to that region OF EVERY CLASS had accents.[/b] 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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.

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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.[/quote]
Okay, she's middle class, not UMC or Boston Brahmin. But not working class. [/quote]

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