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Ethnic Backgrounds Speech Patterns
2,615 wordsMinnesota EngL 3851 Fall 1998 Minnesota Iron Range Dialect I am a Minnesotan. I have lived here all my life and may continue to do so. Stereotype me: The 10 oclock news is my window dressing for the 10 oclock weather (Mohr, 9). You betcha it is. Yah. I wouldnt want you to think that Im not happy here-it could be worse. Lutefisk... umm, my favorite. Are you close; is this representative of myself and most my fellow Minnesotans? Forgive us, but this is slightly, no this is completely ludicrous. Fo...
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Faulkner Negro Dialect
2,948 wordsIn the writings of William Faulkner, the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi, where he is from, during the post-Civil War period. It is most frequently Northern Mississippi that Faulkner uses for his literary territory, changing Oxford to? Jefferson? and Lafayette County to? Yoknapatawpha County, ? because it is here that he lived most of his life and wrote of th...
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