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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8876154" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>I hope you can appreciate that there are reasons why we talk now of Mumbai and not "Bombay" or Sri Lanka and not "Ceylon." Likewise recent events saw many people learning to how to say and spell "Kyiv" rather than "Kiev" or "Ukraine" rather than "The Ukraine." Plus there is Derry or Londonderry. How you choose to call these places is both a cultural and political matter that can communicate how you view them.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The issue here for me is that this is false, and you would know that if you lived in the Appalachia heartlands. There may not be people telling me my local pronunciation is wrong on this thread, but that is not true in the real world and the actual lived experiences of the Appalachian people. I have been told repeatedly to my face that our pronunciation is wrong, redneck, hickish, uneducated nonsense, and more. My experience is not unique here. My sister faces the same in her experiences in New York and Conneticut. There is more than a century of non-Appalachians telling us that our dialect and pronunciations are wrong, with "Appalachian" being one word in our long list of mispronunced words. We have transplants who come down south who are quick to "correct" how locals speak. We are called hillbillies, rednecks, hicks, and bumpkins for our dialect and culture. There is "poverty porn" exploitation and condescension directed towards us. There are Appalachians who feel forced to shed their dialects because of the judgment against the dialect. There are people who stop saying Appalachian here because they believe it makes them sound "more educated" and believe that the Southern Appalachian pronunciation must be wrong because of the enormous biases against it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 8876154, member: 5142"] I hope you can appreciate that there are reasons why we talk now of Mumbai and not "Bombay" or Sri Lanka and not "Ceylon." Likewise recent events saw many people learning to how to say and spell "Kyiv" rather than "Kiev" or "Ukraine" rather than "The Ukraine." Plus there is Derry or Londonderry. How you choose to call these places is both a cultural and political matter that can communicate how you view them. The issue here for me is that this is false, and you would know that if you lived in the Appalachia heartlands. There may not be people telling me my local pronunciation is wrong on this thread, but that is not true in the real world and the actual lived experiences of the Appalachian people. I have been told repeatedly to my face that our pronunciation is wrong, redneck, hickish, uneducated nonsense, and more. My experience is not unique here. My sister faces the same in her experiences in New York and Conneticut. There is more than a century of non-Appalachians telling us that our dialect and pronunciations are wrong, with "Appalachian" being one word in our long list of mispronunced words. We have transplants who come down south who are quick to "correct" how locals speak. We are called hillbillies, rednecks, hicks, and bumpkins for our dialect and culture. There is "poverty porn" exploitation and condescension directed towards us. There are Appalachians who feel forced to shed their dialects because of the judgment against the dialect. There are people who stop saying Appalachian here because they believe it makes them sound "more educated" and believe that the Southern Appalachian pronunciation must be wrong because of the enormous biases against it. [/QUOTE]
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