Harris the accented chameleon.
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This kind of stuff comes off as disingenuous to me. IIRC, Hillary did it too... but she actually was from the south.
Something about the donkey mindset makes them want to "fit in" or make their audience more "comfortable", idk which. It reeks too much of desperation and/or pandering in my eyes.
For better or worse, you rarely see an elephant do this sort of thing.
OTOH, I had respect for Bloomberg when he would do announcements in Spanish, albeit w/ a terrible accent. The bad accent underscored the sincerity of his effort. I guess to others it would just appear as a failed attempt at exhibitionism.
Does it work? I'm tempted to say yes, a bit, but your guess is as good as mine.
Something about the donkey mindset makes them want to "fit in" or make their audience more "comfortable", idk which. It reeks too much of desperation and/or pandering in my eyes.
For better or worse, you rarely see an elephant do this sort of thing.
OTOH, I had respect for Bloomberg when he would do announcements in Spanish, albeit w/ a terrible accent. The bad accent underscored the sincerity of his effort. I guess to others it would just appear as a failed attempt at exhibitionism.
Does it work? I'm tempted to say yes, a bit, but your guess is as good as mine.
It's simply a rhetorical device and a personality expression, aka "humour". Women also mimic more than men. There are studies.
Reagan had similar quirks meant to key into an audience. (Youtube clip)
She would probably have been a good/passable actor, her husband is an entertainment industry litigator so she would be around many.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1TI-N6vwP88?si=g7XJvh1LBhkYSpZ6
Bloomberg speaks more stilted and robot sounding Spanish than I do. But they would appreciate the effort. When their nerves jumped back into their bodies anyway.
Reagan had similar quirks meant to key into an audience. (Youtube clip)
She would probably have been a good/passable actor, her husband is an entertainment industry litigator so she would be around many.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1TI-N6vwP88?si=g7XJvh1LBhkYSpZ6
Bloomberg speaks more stilted and robot sounding Spanish than I do. But they would appreciate the effort. When their nerves jumped back into their bodies anyway.
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You should hear my brothers visiting family in Louisiana... They can't stop it slipping in certain words 
I tried to be no Cajun or just go full on (being the only actual union card actor in the family).
Actors and accents.. But remember prosecutors are also gifted at connecting to a jury. Much of the barrister tradition of born of stage acting.
https://youtube.com/shorts/LAehWt4imhw?si=rc6B-pJL8_j3UqEh
I tried to be no Cajun or just go full on (being the only actual union card actor in the family).Actors and accents.. But remember prosecutors are also gifted at connecting to a jury. Much of the barrister tradition of born of stage acting.
https://youtube.com/shorts/LAehWt4imhw?si=rc6B-pJL8_j3UqEh
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If you were attempting a sexual innuendo, you should have quoted do it instead of donkey. Since you're an ass I don't expect you to know this
That's the thing with humor... we don't all share the same sense of it. And, if it misses, it can come across as quite distasteful.
I see the dialect switching, at least from a politician, as a very cheap trope. I wonder how Trump would sound as a cowboy?
Well, idk, read my post. You want me to enumerate every single time I've seen a politician switch dialects purposefully? Take your own guess Ricter, I'm not a final authority.You know the difference between a donkey and elephant in this context, right?
You should hear my brothers visiting family in Louisiana... They can't stop it slipping in certain words
Actors and accents.. But remember prosecutors are also gifted at connecting to a jury. Much of the barrister tradition of born of stage acting.
https://youtube.com/shorts/LAehWt4imhw?si=rc6B-pJL8_j3UqEh
Yeah, colloquially slipping is one thing... the politician is on stage speaking to the entire country. This isn't some county courthouse. I'd reel it in if I were her because it's "a lot of slipping" and gets interpreted as intentional.
Which brings me back to my suspicion... Democrats have a propensity for dialect switching because they love identity politics. OTOH, Republicans want to keep the republic together.
Just some food for thought.