Word: accents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Achebe, Western writers often accent primitive aspects of African culture to form a stereotype of "the authentic African...
...What if you're talking to someone who has a distinct Southern accent?" a client asks. "Does it make a difference...
...people. "What's wrong with forward tongue carry?" says John Tinkler, who teaches history of the English language at the University of Tennessee. "It doesn't sound like Indy-goddam-ana." Tinkler is a vast, round man with silver hair, dark skin and flashing, protuberant eyes. He describes his accent as "educated rural Southern," the language college graduates in his family have spoken for generations. He wishes Inman-Ebel would attack the stereotypes and the attitudes, instead of the accent. "She's teaching people how not to talk like folks," he says. "That offends...
Inman-Ebel plays a recording from an earlier session. "Gross. Ugh. I can't believe I sounded like that," says the client, a 23-year-old announcer on public television, who says she was turned down for a job at one Chattanooga station because of her accent. They practice another sentence with the recorder on, and Inman-Ebel plays back the tape, exulting in her client's progress: "If all I had was that sentence, I wouldn't be able to locate that person anywhere. It was a nonaccent." Her highest accolade...
...beguiling as she is fickle, Bizet's Gypsy Carmen is a temptress whose passions run the emotional alphabet from A to Z. Even on ice. For Debi Thomas, the accent is on P. Her Carmen is usually powerful, plucky, practical and pretty. Katarina Witt's Carmen is a study in S, at once sensuous, seductive, stylish and shrewd. But last Saturday night, when the long-awaited skate-off between the two Carmens got under way in the Olympic Saddledome, America's sweetheart proved an unexpected B: a bobbly bundle of nerves capable only of bronze...