I really want to listen to the Rufo-Lomez podcast, but their intonations are driving me up a wall. Can anybody do me a favor, listen to them for a bit and tell me where this pronunciation is from? In Rufo it’s particularly noticeable. Is it regional? Class-based? Or what?
Rufo is from California. It’s not a strong CA accent, but I can hear it in there. CA accents are awful.
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“their intonations are driving me up a wall”
They sound pretty…. normal? to me. It’s not a pretty accent but it’s well within the norms of GAE (General American English).
Some of the ‘ah’ sounds are kind of over-emphasized which is weird since American English has been losing the cot/caught distinction for many decades and California has kind of led in the levelling of different vowels.
IINM the tendence to merge unstressed i with the schwa also came from Caluhfornia.
The intonation is a bit repetitive but it’s not ‘youtube intonation’ which drives batty (esp the tendency to stress the same word in two or more consecutive sentences).
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“where this pronunciation is from”
I think this might be an individualized counter? anti? ASMR effect on your part.
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They are talking like girls! The long vowels, brr.
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“Rufo-Lomez podcast”
Listened to a bit more and the Lomez guy seems more irritating to me as he has multiple terminal intonation drops in the middle of sentences with elongated vowels.
“I thiiink. They operaaate. Under the assummmption. That things are gonna get soooo baaad.”
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I don’t trust Rufo one bit. This somali thing is just bait, while Manhattan Institute, his employer is all in on “legal” immigration. Infinity H1Bs while boomercons keep screeching about somalis.
The Manhattan Institute immigration reform proposal described in this report—combining low-skilled immigration reductions with high-skilled expansions and market-based visa allocations—offers a blueprint for a conservative immigration reform that prioritizes merit and protects public finances, with the additional benefits of reducing crime and bringing about more assimilated immigrants.
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OT: did you see this? I was hitting my head against a wall over the absolute idiocy of all this:
“The Noel Troll
By Abe Greenwald
One of the most salient aspects of the fringe right’s new Jew-haters is that they don’t seek merely to offend but also to taunt. There’s a difference. An offense is meant to wound, but a taunt is designed to provoke a reaction.
Case in point: The invitation sent out for JD Vance’s Hanukkah party.
The virtual card is covered in green and gold Christmas imagery. At the top, it reads, “The Golden Noel” and beneath that “Celebrating 50 Years of Christmas at the Vice President’s Residence.” Then it gets around to, you know, Hanukkah.
Now, given that in 2008 then First Lady Laura Bush accidentally sent out a Hanukkah party invitation with a Christmas tree on it (her spokesperson apologized), this could be another innocent mistake. But, once again, a preponderance of evidence indicates otherwise. Vance’s friends promote a mode of anti-Semitism that specifically posits Jews as enemies of Christianity who seek to de-Christianize the nation.
The taunt is clear and deliberate. If Jews express offense over the card, it “proves” two of the Jew-haters’ contentions. First, that you can’t even do something nice like invite Jews to a Hanukkah party without them yelling “anti-Semitism.” Second, that Jews really are enemies of Christians—why else would they be upset over a little Christmas cheer?”
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lol I can’t be bothered to spend even a femtosecond thinking about this.
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