True or false: Sanders speaks with the exact same accent regardless of where he is campaigning?

[Vote2016]

Gathering some comparative data to follow up on an earlier discussion. A one-word answer in the subject line is all I need. Thanks for your help.

[dchill]

1. True

[LexVegas]

2. False. nt

[merrily]

27. Link or slink.

[LexVegas]

40. The former. nt

[merrily]

41. Um, no. No link means you slink.

[LexVegas]

43. Huh? nt

[Bread and Circus]

45. I think it means you are full of baloney

[Politicalboi]

3. True

IMO. The other only does it for pandering. Shame on you Donald Trump!

[Fearless]

4. True.

[Bjornsdotter]

5. True

His accent is very distinctive and doesn't change.

[peacebird]

6. True

[Wilms]

7. True.

[asuhornets]

8. FALSE

[merrily]

26. LOL! Link or slink.

[forest444]

9. True as the man himself - and not only that:

He says the same things today, in the same way - and yes: with the same accent - he has said for 50 years.

[center]

Bernie then and now: it doesn't get much more real than this.[/center]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. True.

[blm]

11. True.

Of course, it's true. Only northerners who spent many years in the south end up slipping into the speech pattern. As far as I know Sanders never lived in the south, so it is HIGHLY unlikely that he ever would have adopted that speech pattern. I know midwesterners pick it up fairly quickly - I did to a degree, after about 6 months of living there.

What is False is this……the idea that it is fake for someone who spent many years in the south to slip back into the accent when they return there. It's completely natural. She lived in Arkansas for 18 years.

Absurd to try and gin up something else to throw at the wall and see if it sticks.

Sanders is a common sense candidate - please respect that theme.

[JimDandy]

13. That wasn't the question. n/t

[blm]

17. Heheh…Of COURSE it's true.

My extended reply is absolutely true, too.

[JimDandy]

19. Ok.

[merrily]

28. No, it's not. It's apologia for Hillary's deliberately feigning an accent when she thinks it might

do her some good. Sanders doesn't do it, not because he's from Brooklyn originally, but because he's not cut from that cloth.

[blm]

29. Do you live in the south? Did you MOVE to the south after living up north?

How silly of anyone to pretend this is an issue when it slipping back into the speech pattern is one of the most normal things that happens when people who LIVED in the south for a number of years return.

You are welcome to show one study that was done proving that after people leave their homes in the south it is not normal for them to slip back into the southern speech patterns when they return.

Heh…quite certain that NO ONE would be that stupid to try and prove what you and a few others claim to believe because you WANT to.

Seems people are letting this primary drive away their common sense.

Thankfully, Sanders is made of stronger stuff - his common sense is REAL. And he doesn't slip into the southern speech pattern because HE NEVER LIVED THERE, let alone for the 18 years HRC lived in the south.

[merrily]

31. Hillary grew up in a wealthy suburb of Chicago and went to college and law school in

the Northeast. She didn't grow up with a Southern accent. Her "speech patterns" were more than formed by the time she first lived in Arkansas and she lived in Arkansas only a small portion of her life.

My sister's kids spent their grade school years in Columbia, South Carolina, much more formative than the years Hillary spent in Arkansas. They don't have a Southern accent. Never did, even the youngest, who was three when my sister moved from NY to Columbia. They moved back to NY after several years, but Hillary didn't stay that long in Arkansas either and none of the years she spent there were her formative years.

Moreover, Hillary does not affect that accent only when she is in the South. She affects it when she is making a speech to African Americans or Southerners, wherever they may be located, including NYC or D.C. IOW, when she thinks it might do her some good. So you're facts are wrong on all counts.

Heh…quite certain that NO ONE would be that stupid to try and prove what you and a few others claim to believe because you WANT to.

Very rude and very false.

I have nothing to prove. Youtube abound with videos of Hillary making speeches in her fake Southern accent, even describing the f*cking United States Senate as a "plantation." Now tell me how moving to Arkansas as an adult and staying there for 16 years out of your 67 forces anyone to make that kind of bizarre, tone deaf comparison when speaking to African American people. Or talking to Latino/Hispanic people about "my abuela."

You, however, have not proven that a Southern accent is natural to Hillary or ever was, or that it's natural for her to go into a Southern accent when speechifying In Manhattan or D.C.

BTW, the OP did say a word about Sanders and the Southern "speech pattern." The OP asked whether Sanders ever affected any accent, regardless of where he is. That you are fixated only on a Southern accent, even when it comes to Sanders, proves my prior post about your post being an apologia for Hillary.

[blm]

32. And she lived for 18 YEARS in Arkansas and lives with a heavy-accented southern spouse.

But, YOU are so certain it's fake when SHE does what millions of other transplants have done, do, and will do.

Common Sense Sanders is my vote. I believe in common sense. The two threads attempting to make slipping into an accent an unnatural action are utter horsepoo.

[merrily]

33. 16 of 67, starting well after her formative years. You keep repeating common sense, but you're not

using it. And you carefully avoid the fact that the accent comes when she is giving a speech in NY. I am going with the common sense answer and the ones my niece and nephew prove to me. She fakes it. Who you say you vote for has nothing to do her faking it. Not sure why you keep repeating as though it's some kind of magic formula. I am not sure I'm buying it anyway, but it's irrelevant.

[blm]

37. She LIVES with a heavy-accented spouse, too. You're so blinded by hate you deny common sense.

I'm saying it because I started saying it here many months ago - Common Sense Sanders. It's a mantra you choose to ignore because…..blindhate.

[merrily]

39. She really doesn't live with him that much and he doesn't always have an accent either.

He puts it on too.

It's a mantra you choose to ignore because…..blindhate.

Um, no. More insults. It's all you've got apparently, your default mode because you can't back up anything.

I ignore it because it's irrelevant to her faking her accent.

[blm]

46. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Do you box? You certainly have one heckuva reach.

[merrily]

47. I don't need a reach. You don't have facts. You have ad homs, nothing else.

[blm]

48. Fact: MOST people who lived in south for a long time slip back into the speech pattern

NATURALLY. It can be someone who lived there for 18 weeks, 18 months, or 18 years. It's natural, not unusual.

Fact: Anyone who denies this simple fact is doing so for reasons personal to them as they refuse to show acceptance of natural acts.

[merrily]

49. Again, ignoring the inconvenient truth that there is no reason to "slip" when giving a

speech in NYC. Or to refer to the US Senate as a "plantation." You just keep ignoring anything that does not fit your narrative. I can't respect that kind of posting.

And, btw, FACT: nothing is either a "fact" or "natural" simply because you claim it to be.

[thesquanderer]

34. Agreed. And I've also heard Hillary slip into a little bit of Southern...

...even in non-Southern events. She can fall into it a bit wherever she is. Though she may not try to *avoid* it when speaking in the south as she does elsewhere.

And yes, horsepoo. No relevance to anything. If you want evidence that Hillary panders, you can find much stronger stuff than this.

[blm]

44. Exactly. I was HRC's biggest critic here for over 10 years, and not once did I use frivolous

charges or RW propaganda sources to make my case against her. There are plenty of substantive criticisms to make, and I didn't NEED to reach far to make those criticisms.

I think people are becoming so conditioned to the manipulations that they are now openly accepting the horsepoo crafted by professional propagandists.

Knee meets Jerk.

[JimDandy]

12. True

[TheProgressive]

14. Once in awhile, he'll say China instead of his usual Chiner...

Just teasing!

[Art_from_Ark]

25. John F. Kennedy used to add an -r to the ends of words like "idea",

making it sound like "idear"

http://articles.courant.com/2012-12-09/features/hc-word-watch-1209-20121209_1_accent-sweet-potato-words

[thesquanderer]

36. I've noticed the same thing in a couple of friends from Massachusetts

It's almost like, in trying to be aware that they have a tendency to leave off final R, they sometimes overcompensate by tossing it on when it shouldn't be there!

[TheFarS1de]

15. True

He has no need to fake anything .

[olddots]

16. very true

N.T.

[MrMickeysMom]

18. Yuuuugely True!

[MaggieD]

20. Who cares?

[onecaliberal]

21. True

[Attorney in Texas]

22. true

[Ino]

23. true

[autonomous]

24. sometimes if he really concentrates

he can make an h's sound like h's instead of a y.

what a panderer.

[CBGLuthier]

30. True

Only a phony hack would change their accent depending upon who they were talking to.

[Cobalt Violet]

35. true

[bigwillq]

38. Seems to be his does (nt)

[Orsino]

42. Communist Jackie Mason is nothing if not consistent.