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Reblog to escape containment, just curious here!!
#polls#Appalachia#Appalachian#pronunciation#United States#regional differences#makewavesandwar#katie shares#dialects#America
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Bless your heart. No - really
It seems to be understood, at least through the southern US, that "bless his/her/your heart" is a thinly veiled insult. However, when I was growing up, technically southern, my mother always used it more literally. F'rinstance, if I took her flowers she might say "Oh, bless your heart" and would 100% mean it. Based on that example, I use it the same way. I've wondered a little about that, since I realized how other people mean it.
Anyhow. I posted a scan of a letter from my great grandmother (daughter of Irish immigrants on both sides) to my grandmother dated 1944. At the end of that she refers to a Valentine's card that my very young mother had sent to her, and added "Bless her heart." Clearly meaning it sincerely. It made me wonder if the southern Bless-your-heart met up with the Irish diaspora tendency to use the term 'Bless' frequently and literally and created a little coal-mining-town pocket of folks who say it when they're truly delighted with someone or something.
Just pondering. Anyone else out there use B-y-h in a positive, loving way? Is Bless-your-heart George's Creek* an outlier that should not be counted?
'* George's Creek follows a major Appalachian coal seam and has lots of tiny, defunct mining towns.
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…was no one going to tell me it’s praying mantis and not prang mantis?
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Hi linguists of tumblr! I know there are some of you out there.
Can y'all explain the "I dunno" noise? idk if this is a southern thing specifically or if it's all over the place, but where I live people commonly just. Make A Noise, no vowel sounds, just a hum that (so far as I can tell) goes low pitch-high pitch-middle pitch (fooled around on a keyboard a bit to see if I could assign intervals. Kinda like anywhere from an augmented sixth to an octave up then maybe a third down, but that last note bounces a little?) that we all just acknowledge to mean "I don't know".
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hello upper middle class northern usamerican tumblr user. i want to play a game. you will notice that you are in a super america convenience store in rural kentucky - you have three minutes to purchase a snack and drink of your choice and make normal small talk with the cashier. however, if you use the word "cryptid" or generally make reference to appalachia and its inhabitants as "wild", uncivilized, or lacking restraint around alcoholic beverages during your time here, i will personally tie you to the chassis of a four wheeler and tip it into the river. live or die. make your choice
#speak friend and enter#i can appreciate mothman as much as the next guy but can we stop treating appalachia like it's the subject of a richard attenborough doc#i come from a long line of hillbillies and i like to think i've got a good sense of humor about it but sometimes i am tested#like. this is not a lawless land with a moonshine still in every holler and nameless voices in the woods!! this is a normal town!!#idk maybe i'm reading too much into it but i'm just tired of the cultural fetishization of appalachia by people who aren't from here#and who don't know anything about it. like yeah you know mothman and what hooch is and that's all well and good#but do you know what the opioid epidemic really is. do you know about the structural injustices that keep people like mcconnell in power#i'm not saying you have to apply dialectical political analysis to every issue that occurs in the region to be able to have an opinion#but also like. i'm tired of people looking at places like where i grew up and making them into things they aren't#like. on the one hand we have ''ooh spooky hills!! run if you hear the trees whisper your name''#and on the other we've got ''isn't appalachia so depressing...so hashtag ethel cain core...shame it's got no value beyond aesthetics''#and on yet another hand we have ''i - a person with no ties to the region - am going to take up the cause of every social issue#occurring across the entire appalachian region so the world will see just how bad these poor hill people have it. i am very smart''#and like. it's frustrating#i'm not saying you should never speak about appalachia if something we have is interesting to you#nor am i implying that i want to gatekeep discussion of the region's issues to the community bc that won't accomplish anything#i'm just saying that like any place it's complex. it's got its good things and it's got its bad things.#and you shouldn't isolate the good from the bad or vice versa - especially if you don't know the context in which those things happen.#and for the love of god dont let your own ignorance cause you to boil down those issues into a reductive and inaccurate set of stereotypes#learn about us from us. not from tiktok not from movies and for christ's sake not from hillbilly elegy. i hate that fucking book#anyway that got weirdly serious but i mean it. putting appalachia as a talking point up on the shelf until y'all can speak intelligently#ok to rb
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i do really like masakox's goku performance tho. it sounds more like if masako nozawa was american, compared to official english goku.. which i guess is where he gets his username from! huh!
#wishy speaks#only thing i wish he had more is like.. kind of an appalachian thing#goku is a Mountain Boy give him some mountain speak#im glad the manga gave him southern dialect but its like every single other english goku forgot hes an uneducated mountain boy
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Of all the things I expected to get emotional about while reading fanfic, the casual and extremely accurate portrayal of Midwestern culture via Superman and his adopted human family was not one of them. I'm totally not happy crying about the fact that a few throwaway lines in a story made me feel more at home and connected to my culture than I have in years.
I spend a lot of time being ashamed of where I come from because it's a red state and there's a lot of bigotry here, but this is also the place where people literally drive around in snowstorms in their pickup trucks looking for cars that need pulled out of ditches. We eat our cinnamon rolls with chili, we call soda 'pop,' and it's not a proper holiday until we've cooked so much the smoke alarm goes off. This is my home, too. This is where I come from, and it's just as real and important as any of the bad stuff.
I learned to drive in a cow pasture. I still like country music. And yes, I really do say 'ope.' I've spent a lot of time being embarrassed about my dialect, too, but tonight I'm kind of proud of it. After all, Superman speaks it too.
#hylian rambles#yes i am actually crying about this#i know being from the midwestern us is a huge privelege. i know that. that doesn't mean i'm not allowed to be proud of it or#be upset about how the internet likes to say places like this are full of bigotry and boredom and nothing else. it's not true.#i know the fact that there is a hero - arguably THE classic superhero - who is from where i'm from is a huge privelege#it's not even like it's unusual it just hit me tonight. most characters written as midwestern come across as generically american but this#this version of clark kent is so deeply and obviously KANSAN and it just reminded me so much all the sudden of my family#usually when i see characters who talk like they're from here they get made fun of about it. but this was just so casual and normalized.#it's not even like my dialect is stigmatized - it's not like it's appalachian english or AAVE. but it's not standard american english eithe
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it don't matter how hard someone from appalachia tries to train themselves out of their accent. every single one i know--me included--can't for the life of us make the words "pin" and "pen" sound different. at least we'll always have that besties
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nobody asked but one of my main gripes with the whole "appalachian english is actually the closest dialect to elizabethan english so all shakespearean era actors would've sounded like modern day rednecks" (which has been debunked. so.) is that the implication is that appalachian culture and dialect has not evolved in centuries. yes, it's a culture that holds its past close to the chest. yes, there are direct influences that trace back centuries (see songs like knoxville girl that can be linked directly to specific events 400+ years ago, food that's been cooked and eaten by generations, instruments like the banjo that have evolved directly from west african music traditions, etc.) but it isn't stagnant. the culture and language has changed over time. geographic isolation or no, appalachia experiences cultural evolution like every other community.
and while it's usually a good-natured attempt to legitimize appalachian dialects as Real English and civilized, it directly references the idea that we're stuck in time and unevolving. appalachian english does not have to resemble elizabethan english to be beautiful and culture-rich and worthy of recognition. we don't have to lower ourselves to simplifications meant to make close-minded people stop demeaning the accents so many of us have been made to feel ashamed.
#hick manifesto#IT JUST GRATES AT MY NERVES AND THATS A NITPICK TRULY BUT#appalachian words are beautiful for no other reason than they're appalachian#we have rich stories in song and poem and literature both written and spoken.#nothing wrong with shakespeare. nothing wrong with shakespeare spoken in appalachian or other dialectal tongues. but they ain't the same.
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Dialect
As a person who uses any of the dialects of formal, grammatical English (and let’s admit there are several) and has a bonus dialect for ‘home use’, you get one and only one chance to shock a new acquaintance by code-switching. It is therefore necessary to time this reveal for maximum hilarity.
Last night at the fair, as we sat around a funnel cake breaking it into small, sugary pieces, the Beau was teasing my daughter gently about her, ah, spicy personality and language. I paused a moment, then looked him dead in the eyes* and said, “After taking time to reflect on your comment, I must advise you that If ya cain’t handle a bay-ad bitch, Don’t Get One.”
My son cracked up instantly. The Beau looked massively shocked, then cracked up as well. K paused to be sure that this meant as a compliment (of course it was), and then joined the laughter. Just a small moment so savor in my old age.
* Which I normally avoid doing because Eye Contact is Bad. Bad with an extra syllable. Bay-ad.
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Oh hello. I have a new Stucky fic I am working on. Why yes, it IS a meet cute where they are chained to the same backhoe in a direct action to stop a quasi illegal pipeline that is being built near Bucky's home. I have the playlist and the moodboard together. The moodboard has MOVING PICTURES. I'm not sure I like the moving pictures?
Wait, do I have to also write it? Well sheeee-it.
I will hopefully post the first chapter this week. I am having some folks beta it to make sure it makes sense because it's a bit niche. Let me know if you are one of the angels who might be interested in this.
#stucky au#stucky#stucky fanfic#fanfiction that is set in west virginia#small steve rogers#Bucky will have a southern accent#but actually a central appalachian accent#and yes#I have been reading so many dialect guides to make sure I get it right#cain't wait to hear what y'all think I got wrong
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dude no disrespect to all the brave fic authors fighting in the trenches but why do so many people make crane talk like foghorn leghorn 😭
#txt#this is just personal preference but ive also always HCed jon as Southern In An Appalachian Way which has such a different sound#i also think he deliberately dropped the rural dialect-isms once he entered academia. deliberate act of distancing yk.
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something i regret about the way i wrote Sanya's dialogue in the past is i never typed out any of their vocal quirks.
it's IMPERATIVE that you know they pronounce it as "yer," NOT "your," they are OHIOAN.
#sanya#saltyemoo text#i know ohio has diverse dialects but i'm talking southern ohio#i'm talking the hillbilly highway#i'm talking urban appalachian#not too jarring but it'll make your head turn#it's the irish/scottish influence
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k so either every ohioan i've ever met has a heavy wisconsin accent or i just need to get out more
#i'm saying this an ohioan btw#i was raised between my mother's general midwestern dialect + my dad's heavy appalachian dialect so that might be my problem lmfao#maddie speaks
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Reading list for Afro-Herbalism:
A Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies and Rituals for the Body and Spirit by Stephanie Rose Bird
Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker
African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era by Heather Butts
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory by Gertrude Jacinta Fraser
African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments by Herbert Covey
African Ethnobotany in the Americas edited by Robert Voeks and John Rashford
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect by Lorenzo Dow Turner
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples by Jack Forbes
African Medicine: A Complete Guide to Yoruba Healing Science and African Herbal Remedies by Dr. Tariq M. Sawandi, PhD
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh, African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed by Bryant Terry
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
Big Mama’s Back in the Kitchen by Charlene Johnson
Big Mama’s Old Black Pot by Ethel Dixon
Black Belief: Folk Beliefs of Blacks in America and West Africa by Henry H. Mitchell
Black Diamonds, Vol. 1 No. 1 and Vol. 1 Nos. 2–3 edited by Edward J. Cabbell
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese
Black Indian Slave Narratives edited by Patrick Minges
Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry edited by Camille T. Dungy
Blacks in Appalachia edited by William Turner and Edward J. Cabbell
Caribbean Vegan: Meat-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free Authentic Island Cuisine for Every Occasion by Taymer Mason
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane Diouf
Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life by Emilie Townes and Stephanie Y. Mitchem
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit: John Lee – An African American Herbal Healer by John Lee and Arvilla Payne-Jackson
Four Seasons of Mojo: An Herbal Guide to Natural Living by Stephanie Rose Bird
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica White
Fruits of the Harvest: Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays by Eric Copage
George Washington Carver by Tonya Bolden
George Washington Carver: In His Own Words edited by Gary Kremer
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia by Cornelia Bailey
Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia by Karida Brown
Ethno-Botany of the Black Americans by William Ed Grime
Gullah Cuisine: By Land and by Sea by Charlotte Jenkins and William Baldwin
Gullah Culture in America by Emory Shaw Campbell and Wilbur Cross
Gullah/Geechee: Africa’s Seeds in the Winds of the Diaspora-St. Helena’s Serenity by Queen Quet Marquetta Goodwine
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica Harris and Maya Angelou
Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers by Charlene Gilbert
Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Faith Mitchell
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisah Teish
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
Leaves of Green: A Handbook of Herbal Remedies by Maude E. Scott
Like a Weaving: References and Resources on Black Appalachians by Edward J. Cabbell
Listen to Me Good: The Story of an Alabama Midwife by Margaret Charles Smith and Linda Janet Holmes
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination by Melissa Cooper
Mandy’s Favorite Louisiana Recipes by Natalie V. Scott
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington
Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald
Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife’s Story by Onnie Lee Logan as told to Katherine Clark
My Bag Was Always Packed: The Life and Times of a Virginia Midwife by Claudine Curry Smith and Mildred Hopkins Baker Roberson
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles
Papa Jim’s Herbal Magic Workbook by Papa Jim
Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens by Vaughn Sills (Photographer), Hilton Als (Foreword), Lowry Pei (Introduction)
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Diane Glave
Rufus Estes’ Good Things to Eat: The First Cookbook by an African-American Chef by Rufus Estes
Secret Doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans by Wonda Fontenot
Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South by Marli Weiner with Mayzie Hough
Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane Diouf
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time by Adrian Miller
Spirituality and the Black Helping Tradition in Social Work by Elmer P. Martin Jr. and Joanne Mitchell Martin
Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo & Conjuring with Herbs by Stephanie Rose Bird
The African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama’s Renowned Tuskegee Institute by Carolyn Quick Tillery
The Black Family Reunion Cookbook (Recipes and Food Memories from the National Council of Negro Women) edited by Libby Clark
The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales by Charles Chesnutt
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller
The Taste of Country Cooking: The 30th Anniversary Edition of a Great Classic Southern Cookbook by Edna Lewis
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders’ Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men by Fred D. Gray
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret E. Savoy
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine by Bryant Terry
Vibration Cooking: Or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
Voodoo and Hoodoo: The Craft as Revealed by Traditional Practitioners by Jim Haskins
When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by Patricia Jones-Jackson
Working Conjure: A Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic by Hoodoo Sen Moise
Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michelle Lee
Wurkn Dem Rootz: Ancestral Hoodoo by Medicine Man
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles by Zora Neale Hurston
The Ways of Herbalism in the African World with Olatokunboh Obasi MSc, RH (webinar via The American Herbalists Guild)
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