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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Is "DC accent" a euphemism for ebonics? BC almost nobody is from DC except for the black population. Or so I have been told.
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No, it seems to be pretty white-specific. I associate it with mid-level bureaucrats & civil servants - the lifers, who are just staff and so aren't important enough or disposable enough to come and go every few years. They may or may not be from the immediate area, but they sure pick that shit up and it bugs the hell out of me. Maybe it is just a jumbled wash everyone else's accent acquired by listening to accents from all over all the time. Anyhow, it is much more whiney than Sandra Bullock's accent appears to be (I haven't heard her interviewed that I can remember to know if she uses her "real" accent or not).
GWNC, do you know what I mean when I say it is like the Ottawa accent? Just sort of flat and affectless?
