Dr. Bob

Quebecois French split from France ~400 years ago and has its own history. Acadian French has an even earlier split and can be very hard for Quebecois to understand.

Only if they copied the movies. Stewie in the Family Guy speaks in a Mid-Atlantic accent which is why he pronounces his H’s etc.

Everyone I know has met a killer.

I never really understood it until I met people from Iowa for the first time. They didn’t have an accent in the way that San Diego doesn’t have weather, just a climate.

Never really. Mid-Atlantic was taught in elocution lessons but didn’t really exist outside film and theatre.

Midwest is classic “broadcast English”. It’s considered an almost neutral accent without a strong sense of place associated with it.

Kardashian

At a party hosted by a billionaire hedge fund manager, Kurt Vonnegut turns to Joseph Heller and says, “Our host made more money yesterday than you’ve made from Catch-22 over your whole life.”

Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he’ll never have—enough.”

Mangina

Ursula K LeGuin?

Not anymore.

It’s difficult to follow. It’s like they are drunkenly telling their side of the story to someone who already knows what happened.

You haven’t lived until you’ve had a pissing match on Quora, the home of the Superior Intellect™.

Fun fact: this is simply incorrect. It was simply an occupational descriptor. OED has a citation from 1380 when none of our current cultural baggage applied.

Hutterites in the West. First Nations have pretty good vac rates. There is a separate federal health system that handles public health for First Nations.

We did. We have religious communities who are very anti-vax in Saskatchewan and Alberta. They are insular but travel between communities for weddings and funerals and disease spreads. 5000 cases in the last couple years.

Basically a still suit.

Are you made from sugar? I’m part of the two-a-day club. When I wake up and after the gym.