The Princess and the Frog

[Shine]

are we really still arguing about this?

[Fe 26]

The fact that you keep insisting I'm wrong and you know people with the exact same accent they had 150 years ago.

no one is talking about how people talked a 150 years ago. Everyone in this thread is talking about cartoons made in the late 40s. Are you actually implying that Disney tried to make everyone in that movie sound like they did 150 years ago? I realize the movie is suppose to take place in like 1867, but come on, 1940's Disney never went to that kind of trouble for anything.

I'm sorry, I'm a bit slow. You're going to have to come out tell me what the fuck you are splitting hairs over.

All anyone said is that there are still people who talk like the people in song of the south, a movie that IS NOT historically accurate for dialect and accents.

[Shine]

I like cartoons, how about you guys, like cartoons much?

[Dolemite]

So this movie sucks, huh?

[Frogacuda]

All anyone said is that there are still people who talk like the people in song of the south, a movie that IS NOT historically accurate for dialect and accents.

I know it's not totally accurate, but James Baskett was old enough that he had met freed slaves in his life and knew how they talked. And there are characteristic differences between that accent and the modern southern black accent.

[Dolemite]

Don't all black people talk like this?

AWESOME RAMBO NECKLACE, BTW.

[Fe 26]

I know it's not totally accurate, but James Baskett was old enough that he had met freed slaves in his life and knew how they talked. And there are characteristic differences between that accent and the modern southern black accent.

Oh shut the fuck up. Next thing you're going to tell me is that Pecos Bill represents how people talked during the early settlement of Texas.

[Frogacuda]

Don't all black people talk like this?

AWESOME RAMBO NECKLACE, BTW.

It's an actual documented thing in phonology that black people tend to have one of two accents (roughly "city," and "country") in America, and various degrees in between those, but routinely defy the accents of white people in the same region. Like black people in Boston have roughly the same accent as black people in Oakland, both of which are different from the white people in those areas. Sort of interesting.

[Fe 26]

I wouldn't want to talk like the white people in Boston or Oakland either.

[Shine]

Don't all black people talk like this?

AWESOME RAMBO NECKLACE, BTW.