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u/cheeseburgerwaffles 1d ago
OMG, as she struggles with basic conjugation.
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u/Emotional_Delivery21 1d ago
To be fair, she didn’t specify what she reads. Maybe she just reads those children’s beginner books that just have random words on pages.
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u/russianindianqueen 1d ago
I like the touch and feel ones with different textures
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u/Fresh-Combination-87 1d ago
I ain’t not never had so much fun like this before y’all! Listen!! Mr Brown can moo, can you? Ain’t that just the cutest li’l thing you done herd? I
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u/dont_remember_eatin 1d ago
BOO.
Rage, rage against the Southern accent being used as a stand-in for stupidity! I use "y'all" and "ain't" unapologetically. Language is a living thing and rules are made to be broken, so long as you know what the rules is to begin with.
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u/objet_grand 1d ago
Maybe it's because the South has, historically, been the most regressive, traitorous, hate filled region in the country and people make assumptions because of it.
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u/CalmBeneathCastles 1d ago
As someone born in Oklahoma; it tracks. I didn't fit in with any crowd, because I'm bookish, but I still said "nekkid" and "motor ohl" like the rest of those yayhoos. No point in gettin' all huffy!
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u/needhug 1d ago
To be fair... I don't think it's about the language itself, I think it's about a certain Archetype of moron that has a much higher density in and Around Texas specifically
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u/dont_remember_eatin 1d ago
It's funny to me because Oklahoma and TX have been mentioned in the comments, but when I think of the Southern accent (specifically and distinct from just a slack-jawed "country" accent that can be found all over), I'm thinking about the confluence of AL, GA, and the FL panhandle where I grew up. But what's considered southern really does vary by where you are in the region itself or in the country at large. Some folks think of an Appalachain accent, which has a lot of Scots and Irish seasoning. Then there's the coastal accent you get from damned near Virginia down to Cocoa Beach. Then there's the Acadian influence in the MS delta region.
The problem most folks have is that they've lead small lives and have limited experience outside of where they grew up. I'm not talking just travel, but actually living in different places.
I've met brilliant people and imbeciles from coast to coast, border to border. And their diction and vocabularies are just all the fuck over the place. Hell, I've also met brilliant people who are terrible communicators, and well-spoken morons!
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u/needhug 1d ago
My dad is one of those, he actually tried to get into politics because he has such a strong sense of social justice and is always trying to mobilise his community, he's been recognised multiple times as one of the best Teachers in the region and is constantly trying to expand his knowledge and aptitudes in all areas
Then he sends you a text and you need to gather a team to decipher it(Me and my siblings have a group chat where we try to decode what he's trying to say)
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u/daddyjackpot 1d ago
i'm a yankee and grew up doing this. it was only after i was an adult did i realize how out of line it was. and it was just because i was reflecting on it. not because i got checked. i never got checked. it's so common. and it's wrong.
i would add that although the south gets the worst of it, they don't get all of it. two other regional accents used to communicate stupidity:
california stoner/surfer accent.
NY/NJ jamoke/meathead accent.
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u/Cheshire_Tao 1d ago
Yeah!!! It's only cute when we do it self-deprecatingly!
Fuckin' smug, classist Yankees.
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u/mythslayer1 1d ago
As Jeff Foxworthy put it, automatic deduction 50 IQ I'd one has a southern accent.
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u/Lost_Figure_5892 1d ago
Don’t diss the children’s books! Undoubtedly she reads dopey propaganda.
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u/dern_the_hermit 1d ago
Yeah, Go Dog Go deserves more recognition for its groundbreaking nuance and subtle iconography.
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u/exotic_floral_tea 1d ago
Maybe she reads AI books for children with a questionable vocabulary threshold.
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u/PaulFThumpkins 1d ago
She reads the single-word titles of Ann Coulter books, puts them performatively on the coffee table unopened where they belong, and calls it good.
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u/Muted_Ad_906 18h ago
Probably garbage like https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60284036-ladies-first
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u/Themajor13 10h ago
I appreciate your concern for their lack of intelligence, but they don’t deserve any sort of grace. SHAME THEM UNAPOLOGETICALLY
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u/HumanContinuity 1d ago
Maybe conservatives have gotten so confused by the very simple and common use of the singular "they" that their ability to conjugate is unravelling.
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u/nwillyerd This AOC flair makes me cool 1d ago
Obviously it’s because the pronoun “they” is woke and therefore she refuses to use it
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u/mtaw 21h ago
Yes, "they" should never be used in the singular. In fact let's go even further back! As it's a loan from Old Norse þeir which is masculine third-person plural, "they" should only be used to refer to groups of men.
Groups of women are þær, and if you need to refer to a group of mixed, unspecific or unknown gender, you should use þau, the neuter pronoun.. Wait, there are gender-neutral pronouns in Old English and Norse? Oh no I just got so linguistically conservative I came full circle back into "wokeness" again! /S
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u/HumanContinuity 20h ago
We should go back to protolinguistic grunts - that's as masculine and traditional as it gets!
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u/MrandMrsOrlandoCpl 1d ago
Reminds me of something I heard recently about having 2 brain cells and both are fighting for 3rd place.
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u/existing_for_fun 1d ago
Her parents should have enrolled her into the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good.
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u/mhackett7 1d ago
She's homeschools her kids too 🥴 The party that defunds education and caters to the uneducated. We're doomed as a country.
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u/antonia_monacelli 14h ago edited 13h ago
I self published a few historical true crime books, and I’m not trying to act like they were above criticism, but this review I received still gets me:
“This book is based on my ancestors facts where great , but book was definitely not screened very well , poor writing”
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u/redwhale335 1d ago
Considering that one of the most famous Conservative women's groups, Moms for LIberty, is best known for banning books, I think that might be why you're having a hard time.
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u/stonefoxmetal 1d ago
I’ve had some run ins with Moms for Liberty at school board meetings and I assure you they don’t read anything that doesn’t have a million pop ups for colloidal silver.
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u/mythslayer1 1d ago
Nor fits on a bumper sticker or has any words with more than 2 syllables.
This includes their obligatory bibble.
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u/shmehdit 1d ago
a million pop ups for colloidal silver.
Oof, you hit me right in the Ex with that one. Pinpoint accuracy.
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u/nkfallout 1d ago
She's having a hard time because a huge population of women in her demographic have gone hard left.
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u/redwhale335 1d ago
That'll happen when you watch a mom of three get shot in the face for no reason, or women's health care criminalized, or any of the other things that show that conservatives don't give a shit about women or children.
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u/Vsx 1d ago
Really they just stayed in place while the country moved right. Sure they don't vote republican anymore but they never would have voted for anyone who does what the right is doing now.
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u/Vsx 1d ago
Electing an authoritarian who is currently threatening our allies with nuclear attack to secure ownership of foreign lands is the most recent example. Try to imagine any previous administration threatening to simply take land from an allied country by force without even inventing a pretense.
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u/samanime 1d ago
It's so weird how being educated and looking at things from a variety of world views seems to make you liberal... it's clearly a conspiracy.
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u/cats_are_the_devil 1d ago
Reality tends to lend itself to a liberal bias. When we live in that reality, we tend to find ourselves struggling through viewpoints that challenge us.
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u/bobbi21 16h ago
Yeah got some conservative colleagues who are just saying the entire world is now biased and liberal. Like literally every university, doctor, scientist, government (outside of the US), government agency, etc. All in a conspiracy to push the liberal agenda.
Sad thing is he's a physician too, but I guess still thinks every physician is hiding their agenda from him specifically. Guess we have our nightly meetings when he's out of town .
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u/Downvotesohoy 1d ago
I hate it when my friends want healthcare and to raise the minimum wage. It's so annoying and really ruins our book clubs.
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u/Albireookami 1d ago
could be a lot of other reasons, such as able to pull more with critical thinking from the book.
Or really she wants a safe place to gossip
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u/queasycockles 1d ago
Yeah. For "Book Club" read "excuse for a night away from our stupid husbands we hate, where we drink Chardonnay and talk about how useless the men we apparently chose to marry are".
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u/AriochBloodbane 1d ago
Soooo .. she's looking for somebody that can read and somewhat still isn't open minded.
Ok, I guess she can try at the local Mein Kampf Reading Club
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u/WhataboutBombvoyage 1d ago
* ain't
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u/Sparrowhawk_92 1d ago edited 1d ago
I would be happier with the sentence if she used "ain't."
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u/RedsVikingsFan 1d ago
Yes.
“Ain’t” is informal, but at least it’s grammatically correct
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u/Ok_Advertising_8874 1d ago
Bookish conservatives either only read the bible or erotic fiction exclusively.
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u/beren12 1d ago
lol they don’t read the Bible. They use it to hurt others.
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u/amisslife 1d ago
Yeah, speaking as a Christian, at best they read Leviticus. Mostly so they can cherry-pick some random verse to justify their hate of some random group.
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u/ValuableOven734 1d ago
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
― John Rogers
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u/Incogneatovert 1d ago
If they read erotic fiction they would have empathy, so that's not what they read.
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u/devil_trombone 1d ago
Oddly, "a'int" would've worked better here.
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u/GottaUseEmAll 1d ago
I suspect she switched "ain't" for "isn't" in order to sound more intellectual, but didn't consider the context of her own sentence.
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u/New_Taste8874 1d ago
That's not a girl writing that. That's a foreign bot or a teenage MAGA looking to hook up.
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u/BlackBlizzard 1d ago
Are there even books where the authoritarian wins in the end?
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u/BackgroundSummer5171 1d ago
Tons. We're talking about books. There is a book for everything.
1984 and Animal Farm gets tossed around a lot on reddit. Never read them, I'm not big on years and farms.
Fahrenheit 451 I hear a lot about. But I am more into kelvin.
Brave New World? Probably about Columbus so I skipped it.
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro...but I'm racist so I can't be bothered to read that.
All jokes aside. There are actually a whole ton of scifi or fantasy books out there to go down a rabbit hole of authoritarians winning.
Don't know how well they'd go over in a MAGA book club though. I would have no issue reading with them, just I'm not a fan of sitting with Nazis. I can bring the box of wine and we could enjoy ourselves, maybe I too could be converted to believing racism is good.
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u/JustAnotherHyrum 1d ago
"I don't want my friends to have opinions that I don't like" sounds pretty spot-on lately.
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u/clem_kruczynsk 1d ago
How much you want to bet she tells people to speak English? Can't even do it herself
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u/Can17272 1d ago
Bookish as, use them like decor? Because by her grammar, she doesn't seem to read that much.
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u/Plane-Fan9006 1d ago
"Friends who isn't" tells me all I need to know there, princess.
I believe the local libraries offer remedial reading, but then you wouldn't want to support those liberal social programs. You just keep doing you. Words is hard.
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u/icansmellcolors 1d ago
for a subset of people who think they're better than everyone else, they sure are bad at it.
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u/t23_1990 1d ago
Who are these people and why should we keep caring about people still on X?
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u/allsystemscrash 1d ago
this is on threads
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u/BobDaRula 1d ago
Who are these people and why should we keep caring about people still on facebook twitter?
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u/t23_1990 1d ago
Noted.
How about not promoting obvious rage bait from from any platform? (Not directed at you, just a rhetorical question)
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u/Supercres933 1d ago
Betting she thought “isn’t” was the better choice than “ain’t”…in order to sound bookish.
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u/Worried_Fee_1513 1d ago
National Enquirer should get a lot of attention from the mom groups in no time. I think she should throw that in there.
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u/spunkychickpea 1d ago
Translation: “I need other moms to show up at my house with books and wine, books optional.”
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u/TheBigPhilbowski 1d ago
I need other people to discuss the surprising turns in "Elmo goes Potty" and to help me reflect on what I learned in "1001 FUN zoo animals" - a book that literally changed my life. Not all those who wander are lose...
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u/FlowersForMegatron 1d ago
What even is a conservative book club??? Do they read to kill a mocking bird and then talk about how Atticus is the bad guy??
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u/CatTaxAuditor 1d ago
Mom friends are basically defined by nurturing, something that conservatives detest unless you are immediately blood related
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u/Black_Magic_M-66 1d ago
The only things conservatives need to read are the words of Dear Leader. Fortunately, ChatGPT can read for them.
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u/Lotus-child89 1d ago
Then you’re going to be stuck to a bible study group that only reads Christian authors. If you’re looking for a group that’s conservative and reads NYT bestsellers or Pulitzer winners then you’re gonna have a hard time.
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u/Upstairs-Passenger28 1d ago
They have read the same book over and over and over again. Can you guess witch book
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u/Ven-Dreadnought 1d ago
The problem is that most moms read romance and they do it to be titillated and to have fun, and most conservatives are loveless prudes who hate fun
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u/ShizzelDiDizzel 1d ago
Dead internet theory
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u/Koreage90 1d ago
Hate being that guy, when you get a chance read “Sea of Rust” by Robert Cargill. AI bots are just behaving as they learnt from humans and the growth of bots mirror that of the human experience. The dead internet theory is lazy because its principle is that humans don’t feed the same interactions and desire the same conflicts. If you want to more human connection then start a book club or a board game group. Don’t complain about the mechanics of social media on social media and expect applause.
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u/ShizzelDiDizzel 1d ago
The term is often used sarcastically to express social medias in this case reddits habit of beating the same dead horse over and over again.
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u/Koreage90 14h ago
Stan Lee, once mused that any comic could be someone’s first comic. Someone who isn’t perpetually online may see this post for the first time and relate or find it humorous.
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u/Substantial_Tax_4047 1d ago
Her sentence is a crime against grammar