There was a way to tweet this as an actually funny clapback, probably, but it needed way more workshopping in draftshttps://twitter.com/zachheltzel/status/1348081364776570881 …
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british heritage is a thing one can choose to hold on to
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I'm just saying it's like if someone was born in Brooklyn and moved to Ohio when they were five and now as a grown adult who spent the subsequent 25 years in Ohio talks like Chick Venerra doing an impression of Joe Pesci as one of the pigeons on Animaniacs
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A sociolinguist might be interested in what makes him want to identify with that accent. Prestige is its own sub-branch of linguistic studyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_(sociolinguistics) …
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It's an idiosyncratic, inverse sense of prestige, since growing up on the Gulf Coast I don't see how having a "proper British accent" wouldn't be a magnet for bullying It's of a piece with his thing with the silly hats
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