- Feb 2025
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slate.com slate.com
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“I think it shows that young people value inclusivity in group interactions, and I love that about this generation,” Intlekofer said.
This makes me think about how older generations couldn't connect like out generation can now, with technology. Those older generations may feel more grouped and separated (like described in the mountain talk video) but today because our generation is more interconnected we talk the same and feel more inclusive.
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Everybody, regardless of the size of the intended audience, is chat.
Goes back to my statement on how we allow social media affect what we say, this term "chat" is from streaming when the streamer refers to the viewers as "chat" and how it has found its way into our everyday language.
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The miscommunication began in person, she clarified, but quickly trickled online. Carter, frustrated with the way it was handled on social media, decided to delete her Instagram and TikTok
I feel like since everything and everyone is on social media that this affects the way we talk but also how we react to certain things. We let the way others speak influence the way we talk.
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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Roughly 9% of Appalachian residents are Black, and this renders many of the region’s Black people “hypervisible,” meaning they stick out in primarily white spaces.
Even in cities with high Black populations, in a racial period African Americans were viewed as "sticking out" I couldn't imagine how African Americans felt then let alone feeling this where the population is only 9% Black.
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared his “war on poverty” in 1964, it was with Appalachia in mind. However, as pernicious as the effects of poverty have been for white rural Appalachians, they’ve been worse for Black Appalachians,
After watching the video in class it reminds me of how they spoke of being "a decade behind everyone else" and this really puts into perspective their poverty levels as white folk, but this truly puts into perspective how life was for Black Appalachians.
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But as Black poets and scholars living in Appalachia, we know that this simplified portrayal obscures a world that is far more complex.
I couldn't imagine how the lives of African Americans were affected by living in the Appalachia. This honestly didn't cross my mind of how their lives were in this time during such a racial period.
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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quotative “be like” has its highest rate with the higher social class in West Virginia.
I think that's almost funny because this term almost seems like it's for lower-middle class because of upper class mannerisms I wouldn't expect them to use the term "be like"
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“leveled ‘was’” (“We was going to the store”) and the “quotative ‘be like’” (“She was like, ‘That’s great,’”) – illustrate the types of changes occurring in Appalachian dialects,
I didn't know "be like" was an Appalachian dialect, I figured that was a genZ slang type of term.
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