JD Vance Is Wrong - Kamala Harris Isn’t Changing Her Accent

[@williamzook410]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

[@thatsmemikael9919]

So the title says she isn’t changing her accent but yet shares voice clips of her changing her accent 😂😂

[@ChuckAngelHawk]

You missed the *entire* point of the pod, champ. No surprise there, though. Mayo go'n mayo.

[@MikeJAk49]

​@@ChuckAngelHawk😂 how's it going after the fake Latin one.

[@weston.weston]

This is the first time I have agreed with John McWhorter!

[@marknixon5915]

I have a French Canadian mother and a Brit father. when I speak French, I speak 'correct' French in formal settings, and 'jousl' when with my friends. When I'm in the UK, where I went to school for a few years, I switch from Canadian English to RP with people I don't know, and Yorkshire English when with family. It's all perfectly normal.

[@robotron1236]

In the context of speaking different languages, sure, but Kamala isn't doing that, she's speaking the exact same one, but with cringe phony accents that aren't her natural speaking voice. Cope all you want, but this is straight up cringe...

[@ShankarSivarajan]

This is one of those cases where hypocrisy is very easy to identify: what would you say if _Trump_ started speaking in a Southern drawl?

[@robotron1236]

Exactly, the copium over this is strong...

[@mattvmalone]

Trumpet TO THIS DAY make fun of Bidens speech. Get real.

[@mygetawayart]

I'm Sicilian, i grew up speaking Sicilian and Italian simultaneously. I only use the actual Sicilian language with close friends and relatives, but my accent is still noticeable when speaking Italian. When i studied for a few years in Turin, i instinctually polished my Italian, to the point that it sounded northern by imitation. I thought I was being weird but then I started meeting more and more southerners in Turin who were disguising their own accent with a polished somewhat northern one, and when we got to know each other's southern origins, we IMMEDIATELY code switched back to our native accents.

[@brandongarland1841]

This is different because it's completely different languages you speak.

[@mygetawayart]

​@@brandongarland1841 yeah but i'm talking about accents, not languages. I'm saying that he accent in which we speak the same language (Italian) changes once my speaker and i are aware of our shared origin.

[@brandongarland1841]

@@mygetawayart Why doesn't she have an Indian accent if she grew up around an Indian mother?

[@mygetawayart]

@@brandongarland1841 there's more into a person's accent than just what your mother's accent is. She also has a Jamaican father and doesn't have a Jamaican accent. Most people who surrounded her over the course of her life as well as at school didn't have an indian accent. Could be that she used to have a slight indian accent when she was really young and eventually corrected it as she grew up. My mother isn't Sicilian, yet i don't share her accent.

[@brandongarland1841]

@@mygetawayart so where did she get the southern accent from?

[@florianwalch5639]

Unfortunately, this line of attack works well with people who 1) only speak one language 2) never talk to people who aren't where they're from.

[@Connor-xz7kn]

Bruh come on now

[@MikeJAk49]

😂 she's caught faking multiple ones now Even a Latin one which she is not.

[@juliocesarpereira4325]

I once had to write a paper for my Liguistics discipline here in southern Brasil. I had no ideas, so I turned on the radio and tuned in to a local AM station at night and paid attention to the way the host spoke. He talked to listeners over the phone and read the news. While talking to listeners, he used a more informal dialect, which we call here "Caipira dialect". It is talked by people born in the midwest and part of southeast. The word caipira means "hick" or a country dweller. When reading the news or talking about more serious subjects, he would use the "Gaucho dialect", whose origins are from the southernmost state of Brasil. The word Gaucho is also used to descrive a country dweller, but one who is from a the southernmost state that shares some of its borders with countries that were colonized by the Spanish. Brasil was mostly colonized by the Portuguese. The state where I was living at the time, although still part of the southern region, shares one of its borders with a southeastern state and is also heavily influenced by it.

[@robotron1236]

Cope some more...

[@trudilarose2260]

What I hear when K does the "code switching" is someone who went to college, has college age kids in her life, understands even a tiny bit about slang and went to church. When she talked about the benefits unions brought us it felt like a preacher getting a congregation energized and I loved it. She had strong feelings and she was expressing them. And she'll pick up some 'sota accent if she spends enough time with Tim. Hearing her say Ope would be priceless!

[@ariabritton9669]

"she's not changing her accent" OH, OKAY, I GUESS WE'RE ALL HAVING COLLECTIVE AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS THEN. OUR BAD. I TRUST YOU, NYT.

[@annasofienordstrand3235]

"She is changing how she speaks, but here's why it's okay." - New York Times

[@MrFinnyous]

"She is changing how she speaks in a way all people do" -New York Times ftfy

[@smangy5442]

@@MrFinnyous Trump doesn't. Vance doesn't. Most people don't. The people that do are mostly fake politicians who only care about securing votes

[@meijiishin5650]

I can't even believe this has to be explained to people.

[@CarlosIowa]

Only to white folk. Especially hillbillies.

[@MikeJAk49]

😂 what's the excuse for the Latin one?

[@pacificatoris9307]

As always, the point is beautifully made by the professor.

[@jq8974]

🤨 Dude. She is nuts. And her boss is gone. Wake up.

[@Fjaloeat1]

I can’t believe we have a felon candidate and we’re talking about the non-felon candidate’s accent. The world is broken.

[@robotron1236]

This world is broken, but not because of the "felon."

[@ariabritton9669]

what "crime" did trump commit specifically? and what is the evidence? you guys never seem to answer that...

[@dennisreed3382]

Excuse me, but we heard her change her accent. She the original scam artist.

[@MrFinnyous]

What she does is very normal and something we all do> Trump is a scam artist by trade though. The fact that you can compare a former AG to a guy who paid out 20 million dollars in fraud settlement charges due to Trump U is pretty crazy

[@ChuckAngelHawk]

Right. *She's* the scam artist. Not Drumpf. Cool story, bro. You're excused

[@kahlilbt]

I'm a Black linguist and I generally hate John McWhorter but this was a well done episode for the lay folks. Thanks, John.

[@davidsabillon5182]

Hate? Seems extreme. Why use that word?

[@kahlilbt]

@@davidsabillon5182 because it's how I feel.

[@ChuckAngelHawk]

​@@kahlilbtDid he personally cross you?

[@davidsabillon5182]

@@ChuckAngelHawk that's what I'm saying. I dislike very much Trump but I can't really say I hate Trump. I would expect a linguist to have a wider depth of words to use.

[@ChuckAngelHawk]

​@@davidsabillon5182One would think. But... who knows? Maybe there's a personal encounter there. **shrugs**

[@jaynick1223]

I wish that this would help but when you have people like Janet Jackson agreeing with JD Vance that Kamala is feigning blackness, I don't really think there's any hope

[@Sun18Jul]

And you know who's a big ol' code switcher? Donald Trump. Take a listen to his address to the New York Economic Club -- or his court depositions! -- versus the way he talks to his base at rallies.

[@smangy5442]

gaslighting

[@erickm2399]

That's stupid bro, how can you code switch into another dialect that isn't yours. I get trying to fit with the audience but why you trying to sound like them?

[@socialliz6805]

JD Vance seems like the type of person who would talk at home like he's making a speech. I think he doesn't understand code switching because he does it to a lesser extent than most of us do.

[@robotron1236]

Well, yes, and it's because you are phony. Only fake people code switch and use different accents. My old friends that I grew up with did that all the time, whenever they were talking to black people, and you could just see the people they were talking to cringe. I just continued being myself, and it's why the people they were code switching to, liked me more. They felt like I wasn't trying to be something I wasn't, they thought that I was real. I was my typical NJ guinea self, they were pasty ass white dudes from the suburbs pretending to be ghetto, and I never acted like I was something I wasn't. You are fake and the people around you probably hate it.

[@ReluctantSpirit]

Not code-switching its plain fakery.

[@carynnehooper9728]

Your reply is not malice - it's pure stupidity. Hanlon's razor attests.

[@mary_puffin]

As an African living in the US, let me say anyone crossing cultural boundaries is going to code switch. Not just that, I am sure you code switch when talking to kids vs. adults, or when talking with your restaurant server vs. your boss. It's life. Don't be ignorant.

[@everydayispoetry]

JD Vance spends every day trying to impersonate a human being. And failing. Contrast Harris' cultural fluency as heard here with Vance's pathetic attempts to connect with the workers in that donut shop, for example.

[@christinerobertwellens-aes7109]

Why does Kamala Harris have three braincells more than a cow? 1. To remember her pronouns “she” and “he” to prove not to be a sexist 2. To produce word salads 3. Not to shit on the podium floor

[@robotron1236]

Straight copium...

[@ariabritton9669]

you are coping coping and seething

[@pilardaffodil8564]

He's an automaton, perhaps a sociopath, so....

[@txDDS]

This podcast is pure cope. NYT as hard as they try can't carry this turd into the Whitehouse.

[@Edo9River]

Amen😂❤

[@quonsethutstudios]

Yall are insane

[@GeRom831]

Ok, so your podcast title is misinformation. She actually IS changing her accent, as you yourself are admitting, however you are just saying that it is ok for her to do this because everyone else does it too. That's fine, you are entitled to your opinion. But don't try to gaslight us by saying that she "isn't" changing her accent when we can all clearly hear with our lying ears that she is. Typical liberal spin though... we can see something plain as day but you still attempt to tell us that what we are seeing isn't really happening.