Why Bernie Sanders tawks that way - a linguistic analysis

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[napi21]

1. That's really interesting. I always equated the way Bernie speaks to Brooklyn.

Also similar to Boston too. I never realized that it was a dialect that was intentionally rejected some years ago.

[appalachiablue]

2. The way Bernie talks is great, love it! Whatsa matta with you people, seriously.

Mario Cuomo's accent like many others was cool. Have you listened to nasalman Brian Williams, Jersey Boy or Chris Christie lately. How about Spike Lee, Randi Rhodes, Joy Behar, De Niro, Pacino, Larry David? A Long Island friend asked me asked me if they sounded like Fran Drescher. I said no but so what?

[Sanity Claws]

3. As a New Yorker, I loved this video.

[NanceGreggs]

4. Thanks for sharing this ...

As a native NYer who has never lost my Brooklyn accent (despite having lived in Toronto for 40 years), I found it very interesting.

It's true that what we think of as the "classic Bkyln accent" differed among ethnic groups in the era in which Bernie was raised there. Brooklyn Jews pronounce certain words differently than Irish Brooklynites or German Brooklynites. I've noticed the same thing in Canada. My Jewish friends from Montreal pronounce certain words differently than their French or English counterparts who grew up there at the same time.

The first language of parents (German, Italian, Yiddish, etc.) impacts the way their children will say certain words or phrases, while their accent is more a matter of the environment in which they grow up.

Really fascinating stuff.

[Basic LA]

5. I worked at Use Aircraft

That's how I pronounced Hughes Aircraft (in L.A.), even after working there 32 years. Guess my accent remained solidly Newark NJ.

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6. So Hillary would be pronounced Yillary?

[Basic LA]

7. Has to begin with H U

Funny, though.

[milestogo]

10. I'm going to Yoover the rug before the Yugenots

come back from the Yumane society.

[Basic LA]

11. The second two are spot on.

I like when the woman in the video said that making a proper HU sound takes too much energy.

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12. I knew a man named Hugh Hughes

Seriously. It must have been tiring introducing himself.

[madfloridian]

8. Interesting and informative.

Thanks for sharing.

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. This was very very intarestin !!

Thanks for posting, milestogo.

[Octafish]

13. End their speculation with othah people's moneY!

Thanks, milestogo! That was uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge in facT!