Listening to a Pirates radio broadcast, I heard a commercial for the national personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan that was voiced by a guy with a highly distinctive, pronounced western Pennsylvania accent -- an accent very familiar to me, since that's where I grew up. As a connoisseur of regional accents, you would, I think, have appreciated it. I couldn't find it on the internet or I'd attach a link.
It's interesting that this large national firm uses local accents to market itself to specific markets.
Mr. Nordlinger, I totally agree with you about J.K. Rowling; I have thoroughly enjoyed her books and admire her refusal to be bullied about her very realistic and humane views concerning human sexuality.
Concerning "the Englishes", as a native Texan, when circumstances have taken me away from Texas for prolonged periods, I always feel good when I return home to Southern drawls and West Texas twangs. I agree with you that Irish English is musical.
Cheers to ‘The Englishes’ I love and the attitude I grew up on, The Clash…and still act like at my age. And here’s wishing the D.S.A., I mean the D.N.C. had not blown there wad on Vindman’s face, not once, but twice. He rightfully narked on the perfect phone call, only for the Democrats to ludicrously pursue The Don to be removed from office for that, not for Trump betraying 50,000 lost souls at the D.M.Z. And Florida Democrats seem to be following the stench of another Zoo Yorker strait outta some Manhattan high rise and wanna one up Zohran Mancommie. God help U.S.
Never read a J.K. Rowling book, for I never much have cared for fantasy, except in 25 th century Star Trek, where everything is free and man (oh, no, I have to add the 21st century qualifier note that this word also still means woman too) can go wherever he dares. I have a hard enough time buying Matthew, Mark, Luke and John’s Sir Jesus’s real fantasies.
To one up the darling of the day Senator Jon Ossuff (should I like him to be a potential D.NC., not D.S.A. nominee for you know what in two years - 👍), be even more crude, does not everyone already know the reason Natalie Harp gotta a stage job at the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office is because she makes President Hefner sport wood…After all, I can only think of one really shrewd …at the table in the back room of The Bing that does not have a pretty face, and here name will not be mentioned for even i have standards of decorum to not make fun of a lady because she is overweight in mind, body and spirit
The G.O.P. Crasher is not a Republican. I do think he might be Scottish, which in the 60’s…the 1860’s was the virtual equivalent of being pure white trash all dressed up in grey rampaging and murdering the good guys because they did not have the cards. God HELP U.S.
Ever notice how much The Don King Trump has in common with his fellow dick tator from day one Saddam Hussein…from the golden toilet seat to the skyscraper size vote for me posters…to the murderering of innocents that his defenders call domestic terrorists…oh well, any man’s wife that does not sleep in the same house, let alone bed is really just along for the power trip, as love is transactional amongst reptiles and predators.
To The Village Idiwitt, this I am NOT flexible - “FOR GOD’S SAKE THIS GUY CANNOT REMAIN IN POWER”. Here’s hoping and praying the D.S.A., I mean D.NC. grows a sack and finds the collective brains to make a third time a charm and three strikes and The Don is out. Our Civilisation (love how we the people deliberately spite our former enemies language) is hanging on by the skin of our teeth while a President of the United States makes midnight love calls to his fellow monsters, I mean monsters. GOD HELP U.S. Gotta run on. Thanks for Jaywalking, I mean taking my rant. Peace through superior mental firepower
One recalls that Ronald Reagan was accused of snoozing at meetings. He met the accusation head on with, "They say hard work never killed anyone, but I say, why take chances."
Listening to a Pirates radio broadcast, I heard a commercial for the national personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan that was voiced by a guy with a highly distinctive, pronounced western Pennsylvania accent -- an accent very familiar to me, since that's where I grew up. As a connoisseur of regional accents, you would, I think, have appreciated it. I couldn't find it on the internet or I'd attach a link.
It's interesting that this large national firm uses local accents to market itself to specific markets.
Mr. Nordlinger, I totally agree with you about J.K. Rowling; I have thoroughly enjoyed her books and admire her refusal to be bullied about her very realistic and humane views concerning human sexuality.
Concerning "the Englishes", as a native Texan, when circumstances have taken me away from Texas for prolonged periods, I always feel good when I return home to Southern drawls and West Texas twangs. I agree with you that Irish English is musical.
'You and I may not have agreed with her on everything—but she was “sober as a judge,” as we used to say. (This does not mean she was staid.)'
1) Would it have been bad if Senator Kassebaum were "staid"?
2) What is a specific example of her being not "staid"?
Cheers to ‘The Englishes’ I love and the attitude I grew up on, The Clash…and still act like at my age. And here’s wishing the D.S.A., I mean the D.N.C. had not blown there wad on Vindman’s face, not once, but twice. He rightfully narked on the perfect phone call, only for the Democrats to ludicrously pursue The Don to be removed from office for that, not for Trump betraying 50,000 lost souls at the D.M.Z. And Florida Democrats seem to be following the stench of another Zoo Yorker strait outta some Manhattan high rise and wanna one up Zohran Mancommie. God help U.S.
Never read a J.K. Rowling book, for I never much have cared for fantasy, except in 25 th century Star Trek, where everything is free and man (oh, no, I have to add the 21st century qualifier note that this word also still means woman too) can go wherever he dares. I have a hard enough time buying Matthew, Mark, Luke and John’s Sir Jesus’s real fantasies.
To one up the darling of the day Senator Jon Ossuff (should I like him to be a potential D.NC., not D.S.A. nominee for you know what in two years - 👍), be even more crude, does not everyone already know the reason Natalie Harp gotta a stage job at the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office is because she makes President Hefner sport wood…After all, I can only think of one really shrewd …at the table in the back room of The Bing that does not have a pretty face, and here name will not be mentioned for even i have standards of decorum to not make fun of a lady because she is overweight in mind, body and spirit
The G.O.P. Crasher is not a Republican. I do think he might be Scottish, which in the 60’s…the 1860’s was the virtual equivalent of being pure white trash all dressed up in grey rampaging and murdering the good guys because they did not have the cards. God HELP U.S.
Ever notice how much The Don King Trump has in common with his fellow dick tator from day one Saddam Hussein…from the golden toilet seat to the skyscraper size vote for me posters…to the murderering of innocents that his defenders call domestic terrorists…oh well, any man’s wife that does not sleep in the same house, let alone bed is really just along for the power trip, as love is transactional amongst reptiles and predators.
To The Village Idiwitt, this I am NOT flexible - “FOR GOD’S SAKE THIS GUY CANNOT REMAIN IN POWER”. Here’s hoping and praying the D.S.A., I mean D.NC. grows a sack and finds the collective brains to make a third time a charm and three strikes and The Don is out. Our Civilisation (love how we the people deliberately spite our former enemies language) is hanging on by the skin of our teeth while a President of the United States makes midnight love calls to his fellow monsters, I mean monsters. GOD HELP U.S. Gotta run on. Thanks for Jaywalking, I mean taking my rant. Peace through superior mental firepower
One recalls that Ronald Reagan was accused of snoozing at meetings. He met the accusation head on with, "They say hard work never killed anyone, but I say, why take chances."