[lsaferite]

How about this:

> One of the things this article doesn't touch on is the very deep roots of hog farming in rural NC and the general prevailing attitude of "This is how we've always done it and I don't want no gubment telling me what I can and can't do with my land!"

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One of the things this article doesn't touch on is the very deep roots of hog farming in rural NC and the general prevailing attitude that this is how they've always done it and that they don't want the government telling them what they can and can't do with their land.

By fabricating a direct quote purporting to be from a local hog farmer you are pointing out the dialect difference to put them into a group of people that are stereotyped as lower intelligence. You are meant to read that in your internal 'dumb southerner' accent and chuckle at how backwards they are in your opinion.

For you to say "Accent is unrelated to intelligence" is great and I commend you on that outlook. Unfortunately, a large portion of the crowd online doesn't share your enlightened view. For them, only ignorant people speak like that. By using that 'quote' to highlight the speech pattern, they are attempting to disparage the quotee and their peer group.

[jjeaff]

And at the same time, it tries to invalidate the point of view being expressed. They don't want the government over regulating their business. Something that many, even in this forum agree with. But only in their own area of expertise.

Regulation for thee but not for me.

[posterboy]

There's a lot to say about how ya'll're jumpin' to conclusions on intelgence 'sif ya'll was a buncha nucular scientist. But that's not my intention. I just wanna note:

A nasal accent caused by elevated exposition to manure would be literally dumb -- some phonemes are silent. That's funny in a cynical way and even if that's nothing to laughe at, it's noteworthy.

There's also the thing about the mere mention of bad things invariably eliciting negative emotions, which is why we have curse words, and perhaps why farmers don't wanna take shit from noone. And there's the disphemism-treadmil, which is why, IMHO, the substitution of curse words for clinical terms is a vain effort.

This whole subthread is purely about NC and language, so it's rather off-topic.