Keeeeeeeeevvvvv! (and other fedgov-MMS propaganda rubbish)
Posted by freedomforall 1 week, 6 days ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"Almost as insufferable as the (it is not our) government sluicing billions of dollars of our money to the dictator of Ukraine is the way the capital of that frictious far-away country is superciliously enunciated by the so-called “elites” in government, as well as the “media” that is their PR firm.
They say keeeeeeevvvv rather than Kiev. The latter being the American English way to say it. Just as one says Paris – if one is an American English speaker – rather than Paree. To say it the latter way would be to adopt an affect – and people would look at you funny. Like Richard Simmons/Liberace funny.
But we’re supposed to take this Keeeeeeeevvv business seriously. That is, respectfully. Those who say it with an affect are educating us Deplorables how to say it properly. More finely, they are letting us know they know how to say it properly. And that we require them to elocute for our benefit.
It is also why Peking is now “Beijing” – and Turkey is “Turkii.” Though – interestingly – one never hears foreign elitists elocute Atlanta with the proper southern drawl. Supercilious affectations are a curiously native phenomenon.
One might say with more than a small measure of plausibility that this affectation is a manifestation of the loathing of the “elites” in the United States for the people of the United States."
"Almost as insufferable as the (it is not our) government sluicing billions of dollars of our money to the dictator of Ukraine is the way the capital of that frictious far-away country is superciliously enunciated by the so-called “elites” in government, as well as the “media” that is their PR firm.
They say keeeeeeevvvv rather than Kiev. The latter being the American English way to say it. Just as one says Paris – if one is an American English speaker – rather than Paree. To say it the latter way would be to adopt an affect – and people would look at you funny. Like Richard Simmons/Liberace funny.
But we’re supposed to take this Keeeeeeeevvv business seriously. That is, respectfully. Those who say it with an affect are educating us Deplorables how to say it properly. More finely, they are letting us know they know how to say it properly. And that we require them to elocute for our benefit.
It is also why Peking is now “Beijing” – and Turkey is “Turkii.” Though – interestingly – one never hears foreign elitists elocute Atlanta with the proper southern drawl. Supercilious affectations are a curiously native phenomenon.
One might say with more than a small measure of plausibility that this affectation is a manifestation of the loathing of the “elites” in the United States for the people of the United States."
Cecil Sharpe, an English folklorist, in the early twentieth century researched folk songs---authentic folk songs---in the Appalachians. He had this to say:
"The mountaineer is freer in his manner, more alert and less inarticulate than his British prototype and bears no trace of the obsequiousness of manner, which, since the Enclosure Acts robbed him of his economic independence and made of him a hired laborer, has unhappily characterized the English villager. The difference is seen in the way the mountaineer, as I have already said, upon meeting a stranger, removes his hat, offers his hand, and enters into conversation, where the English laborer would touch his cap, or pull his forelock, and pass on."
Note: what in the world is a forelock?
(Compare with the Frontier thesis, by Frederick Jackson Turner: "...that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom.")
Cecil Sharpe also had this to say:
"A few of those we met were able to read and write, but the majority were illiterate. They are, however, good talkers, using an abundant vocabulary, racily and often picturesquely. Although uneducated, in the sense that term is usually understood, they possess that elemental wisdom, abundant knowledge, and intuitive understanding which those only who live in constant touch with nature and face-to-face with reality seem to be able to acquire. It is to be hoped that the schools which are beginning to be established in some districts, chiefly in the vicinity of the Missionary Settlements, will succeed in giving them what they lack, WITHOUT INFECTING THEIR IDEALS, or depriving them of the charm of manner and the many engaging qualities which so happily distinguish them."
Some of the mountaineers told him they never sang 'love songs' in front of the children.
Now look at this country.