I Assimilate into Mere Bubbles
It’s subtle, the violence of language.
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Posts Tagged: accent
On Becoming a Person of Color
I finish counting and start over, trying, always, to solve the equation of myself.
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TORCH: Twitch
America: land where anything can and does happen. Doors blow open by magic when you step on a rubber mat.
...moreThe Sound of White Flight
Over at Catapult, Kashana Cauley explores the origins of the Midwestern accent and discovers its roots in racial segregation: Apparently it wasn’t enough for GLVS [Great Lakes Vowel Shift] speakers to move very far away from minorities in order to avoid us: They desperately needed to adopt a nasal accent to make sure they didn’t […]
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