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An internet cartoonist by the name of Bubby Wade writes and illustrates these in heavy redneck dialect, illustrating the life and times of a group of West Virginia yokels living up in a holler somewhere.
DidgeryDrew
Lived in Branson, MO for four years. This is incredibly accurate.
NinjaCongo
I done stealt dis.
Gdub1337
I waz dun bornt n razed in Nawth Cackalacka an I'm here ta tell youns it's pernuncified "crawdiddy"!
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Mais la. I come from da bayous in Acadian and I te' ya now dey is "crawfeesh", cher.
giraffytaffy
I think I'm related to most of these people either by blood or marriage >.<
VosperOfAntarctica
That's not an exclusive or
giraffytaffy
Nope very inclusive lol but not both for the same people thankfully xD
thelonepig
I really enjoyed this, and I find it interesting some people think of it as bad or mean. I realize it's not a flattering art style but I think it really captures a tiny bit of America. Like when Stephen King writes about a certain small town characters and he gets the accents and the colloquialisms down? I've been to some tiny Midwestern towns and you really meet people like this, and for the most part they're alright, getting by just fine.
Jonson71
This is how I feel about it as well.
biglongusernamethatidontgiveashitabout
LOL, this guy lives a county over from me, I always crack up at his content.
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
gawl darn if these ain the Lord's truth.
Jonson71
Aren’t they though?
ToasterDent
Peanut can (and the related Pringle can) snakes, the scourge of the 90's. I remember the fear.
jjw9
15 🤣
WolfgangVonTittySprinkles
As a resident of Tennessee, this is almost exactly spot on with how some of these knuckle-draggers are around here. I found this both hilarious and sad.
ObiWanKenobitch
As someone working and living in the Ozarks in Arkansas… all of this hit real close to home.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Former resident of Tennessee now stuck in the ass end of Louisiana.
Can confirm.
Jonson71
That's how I feel too. People like this are fucking up our country but I still love things like this, or King of the Hill or Lurleen and Cleetus the slack-jawed yokel on The Simpsons. Redneck dialect is hilarious to me.
lgkinasen
Some folk'll never eat a skunk!
fartharder
I love people being able to just be who they are so long as it doesnt harm others.
NotAnotherFNG
#8 's tattoo is missing a good chunk of the western part of the state. Does the rest of WV not like the westernmost parts or something?
ToasterDent
the western part is flat, the east is in the Appalachian Mtns, different cultures
ConfusedConda
Western peoples're uppity. They got paved roads over dere.
HarperLee
I lived all over the south. I got pretty good at understanding all the accents. In NC, I had an electrician at my house and he brought his son (early 20s) to help him. We were in the garage and the kid noticed my fishing poles and said something. I just stared at him for a second and asked him to repeat. He repeated the same syllables which might as well have been a dead language. I looked to his dad for help and he says "he grew up with his mom in FL, he asked what you fish for"
HarperLee
I swear to you, I would have never figured that out and to this day, I have no clue what words he used to ask me that
Emjayen
Funny. What did it sound like? hot-yarl-feesh?
HarperLee
Oddly no, if it had been that, I could have figured it out. The old man said the boy and his ex wife lived in central Florida. Not an accent I was familiar with
WolfgangVonTittySprinkles
Carolina Brogue? Isn’t that typically found around the Outer Banks area and some coastal towns further south?
wouldClimbForCash
This mostly does not feel like humor, it feels like meanness.
TorrentialUpPour
As someone who grew up in the south, I would describe these as 'uncharitable, but not inaccurate.
Jonson71
I genuinely think it's written with affection and I know for a fact it's written by a local who was not only born and raised in W. VA but who lives there still.
wouldClimbForCash
I suppose my biases are showing? Dunno. It's def not all mean, just too often to ignore when many characters are also drawn unattractive and overweight. I'm probably not the audience, and the perceived funny/mean line probably moves based on how close to the culture the reader is.
Jonson71
Well, now I’m curious about your demos, are you from the south and does this hurt because it feels too close to home or are you one of us, the coastal liberal elite and you feel like this is picking on low hanging fruit?
wouldClimbForCash
White Midwesterner who was bullied for difference. Looking again, most if them read a bit differently. Less Family Matters, more King if the Hill.
herpb4uderp
Its just poking fun at the south an tha appalachas. Imo this very much feels like it was written by someone deeply immersed in that culture. In-group teasing. You know?
MsHissyPants
Why is the redneck accent so similar all over Canada and the US? City accents and even ‘burb accents change so much, but when you get out to the sticks you could just as easily be in West Virginia as you could be in northern Ontario. What’s going on there?
dbish2828
Where have you been in north Ontario? I’m from northwest Ontario, have worked, traveled and/or visited in almost all Canadian provinces (in rural areas) and I never heard another Canadian speak like this.
Emjayen
Inbreeding of language.
DrScocttopus
I think the Canadian abote is way stronger in rural Canada
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Isolation creates a lack of change. Cities have a lot of cultural mingling. Burbs mostly work in cities and get exposed to it that way.
Rural countryside rarely ever get exposed to anyone that they didn't already grow up with.
Probably also a lack of education about how to read makes it hard to learn to pronounce words.
udmurt
But that doesn't explain why the accents are similar in different places. You seem to assume that "lack of education" is going to lead to the same "faulty" pronunciation in more than one place. You're right that isolation creates lack of change, so it is more likely that areas with similar accents were settled by people who already spoke similar accents.
Jamesstin
Its literally faked by 90% is why. See George Bush jr
Az663
The soup of melting neurons is universally similar, I guess.
udmurt
A lot of comments here poke fun at the lack of education among people who speak like this. I want to point out that the consensus among linguists is that it is arbitrary to consider any linguistic variety as superior. It hinges on what is spoken (chiefly among the elite) in whatever area happens to have power. Basically if the capital of the US was some backwater in the deep south, these comics would be considered educated language and the way I'm writing now might be "poorly educated".
MsHissyPants
I agree on some level (which is why I purposely avoided using any sort of language that could be construed as judgmental), but I’m not sure it’s correct. ‘Poor’ accents range a lot within cities. No one would confuse the accents of someone from the rough bits of Compton with someone from the rough bits of Boston, for example. And both those accents definitely hit with negative social connotations.
Darkwell
But the deep south does have an upper class version of these accents. If the US capitol was in the south, they'd be speaking with the Southern Gentleman style (think Doc Holliday from Tombstone). If it was in the north east, they could use Boston Brahmin.
There's no superior variety of speech, but at least in English the powerful don't utilize speech heavy with colloquialisms or poor grammar.
udmurt
Well, can you define poor grammar? One dialect's poor grammar is another dialect's correct grammar. One dialect's colloquialisms is another dialect's formal speech. For instance, many people would consider double negations poor grammar, "I don't know nothing" etc. But double negations were very common in Old English (and in many modern languages, including in formal speech.)
I'm not saying it's bad to have a standard for grammar and spelling, 1/2
TorrentialUpPour
Sure, I can define poor grammar. My grammar's so poor her fixed income is a negative integer!
udmurt
2/2 but I do resent it when people say that having a different dialect is down to stupidity. "Melting neurons" and "inbreeding" are two comments in this comment section, for instance.
droFnasb
Finally, a descriptivist take on language here. I hate when people use language rules as a cudgel to beat others with. Anyone who mentions Old English gets upvotes from me as well.
Jonson71
This is the first I've heard of that, and that's a fascinating point. I (resident of Los Angeles) would be blown away to be out in the middle of Winnipeg and run into someone who sounded like they were from Birmingham AL.
SteelyDad
David Cross has a whole stand-up bit about it. You should try to find it. Heck, I might try to find it for you later...
Jonson71
Dude, my favorite people on this entire community are people who sent me shit that I enjoy. Thank you in advance for even suggesting that you would do it.
MsHissyPants
I used to have a job where I did tech support servicing US and Canada where I often had to look at post/zip codes (something to do with weather towers) - it was so weird how similar people in the middle of nowhere sounded when they were literally across the continent from each other.
MsHissyPants
Though this does come with the caveat of they needed to be PROPER rural - think like; an hours drive to the nearest store rural.
Jonson71
Do you ever imagine living that life? I've lived in three (huge) American cities in my life and whenever I'm in a spot like that, somewhere an hour from a store, I think who the fuck is doing this and how? It's feral almost.
MsHissyPants
Yes. I dumped two men because they changed their mind about the city and wanted me to move back to their wretched one-horse hometown with them. As a non-driver (medical reasons), I would rather gnaw off my left arm than lose access to public transport, thanks.
RainierCamino
I've got relatives who run a ranch. Nearest town is 15 miles away and has maybe 1,000 people in it. "Feral" isn't the right word, though it's not entirely wrong. I'd say more "libertarian". Very "work hard, play hard" attitude. Like working 60+ hours a week outdoors then spending your free time shooting tannerite, bull riding, or putting a $10,000 500hp engine in a 40 year old $500 Camaro "for the fuck of it."