Those "ugly" accents

[ritaxis]

Gawker's done some tripe of a tournament to give a prize to the "ugliest" American accent, and of course the accents in the running are working class ones. One of the linguists whose work they've appropriated to illustrate their trash is calling bullshit.

I want a campaign to record literature read passionately aloud by people from all the accents people call ugly. 

Comments

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

Oh ick. I shared the link on Facebook. Class discrimination is far too invisible and far too tolerated.