{"id":249,"date":"2007-08-02T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/249"},"modified":"2007-08-02T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T04:19:00","slug":"accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my better memories of my father involve performing, discussing, and recounting accents.\u00c2\u00a0 The root is in the family&#8217;s love of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bertandi.net\/listen.html\">Bert and I<\/a> (holy cow that link is good &#8211; listen, and then buy ALL of the CDs).\u00c2\u00a0 We listened to more than Bert and I, and explored all sorts of New England accents.\u00c2\u00a0 I still use New England Brahmin, Maine, and Vermonter lines as half-decent party tricks.\u00c2\u00a0 People say to me &#8220;But Dan, you don&#8217;t have an accent&#8221; and I quickly show them that I can have one when I want to.<\/p>\n<p>Getting to my point: check out <a href=\"http:\/\/accent.gmu.edu\/browse_language.php?function=detail&#038;speakerid=142#\">this site<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re collecting a kind of history of accents, time, and place.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun to listen to.\u00c2\u00a0 The navigation isn&#8217;t great, but there are highly entertaining rewards.<\/p>\n<p>It brings up all sorts of questions about the effects of the web and globalization on speech and language, but I&#8217;m not going to try to tackle them.\u00c2\u00a0 At least not today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my better memories of my father involve performing, discussing, and recounting accents.\u00c2\u00a0 The root is in the family&#8217;s love of Bert and I (holy cow that link is good &#8211; listen, and then buy ALL of the CDs).\u00c2\u00a0 We listened to more than Bert and I, and explored all sorts of New England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}