Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Y'all talk funny
Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed by southern diction used in this book? Living in Missouri has exposed me to a certain extent but this is too much for me. I noticed it in There Eyes Were Watching God as well and it bothered me just as much then. I think it helps establish the setting and time period to a certain extent but does the author go a little overboard with it? It groups all the characters together under a certain stereotype, which may help in the beginning, but i personally enjoy diverse characters much more. My thoughts in a nut shell, tell me what you think....
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OH MU!!!
You would complain about something like this.... get over it...
They DO live in the south!!
If you've lived in Missouri for so long you wouldn't even know how they talk down there... it seems quite ridiculous to read in a book but if you only knew...
You might as well need a passport to go to a southern state....
You can get over it I'm sure. You'll probably start talking that way when the book is over... just watch. :)
Southern small town--the world did not really exist outside of Maycomb County. "...nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" (5). I think that you will see stereotyped behavior broken, but certainly not the dialect! If you grow up and live in the South all your life, you will have a Southern accent--no gettin'around that one!
Yeah I'm from the south so it doesn't bother me. But yeah this is the author's style of writing in dialect and it really gives more depth to the characters. Or something like that.
Haha Don't worry. I noticed it too! I was on one page and there was a paragraph that was so "southern" that I couldn't tell if it was on purpose or if the book has some serious grammatical errors! It can be sort of funny, though, to see how much our language has evolved. If someone today talked like that, they would get some awkward looks, but back then....it was normal!
Hey mu....
I agree with what you've said about the seting and how the diction helps exemplify that. But they do live in the south. Not to pop your bubble or anything but I don't agree with what you said about the author going to overboard with the dialect. I mean, if that's what they really talk like than i think that it's completely legitamit to have the characters talk like that.
I agree...sort of.
Being from the North, the book is a bit hard for me to follow. Although, I'm sure people don't understand a lot of what I say. So I can see why the author would use the way people talk to develop the characters or setting.
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Good thought.
Hmm...I can only agree with you to a certain extent. I do agree with you in the fact that their southren slang can at times, be quite annoying. However, I don't think the author is going overboard at all here. I have an aunt from Alabama...Lord God Almighty help her say a word right. It's their culture that is still present today.
Also, I think the characters are very diverse. Yes, they all can be sterotyped into Southerners(sp?) but yet each one is so very different in their beliefs and thoughts. I can even name off quite of few differences between Scout and Jem that show diversity.
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