| re: Happy Talk racist?/Oklahoma |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 12:47 am EST 02/21/19 |
| In reply to: re: Happy Talk racist?/Oklahoma - Chromolume 10:24 pm EST 02/20/19 |
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***I won't dispute that Hammerstein may have borrowed from Riggs, Michener, et al, but...do they really say things like "womern" and "meader" in the state of Oklahoma? Do Oklahomans and people from Maine really say "keer" instead of "care"? Or "hev" instead of "have"? I've never heard ANYONE talk like that -- except in Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals lol.****
I think all of those dialect words are Hammerstein's not necessarily successful or accurate attempts to indicate various dialects by re-spelling words, rather than by using the phonetic alphabet :-) And I think this method of doing so is always going to read as kind of silly and embarrassing, regardless of the level of accuracy. (I would say that applies to PORGY AND BESS as well, regardless of the authenticity of DuBose Heyward's life experience of the way the real-life equivalents of those characters spoke.) |
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