Good try, but nope.
editListen, buster. We have been working very hard to actually balance the General American article to remove the trashy biases that have affected it up until this point.
Everybody knows how the Midwest and West feels about the topic, so stop flogging the dead horse please.
General American is not a neutral dialect, and it never will be. Unless the media in the United States brutally murders all other dialects that are spoken in the country, General American will continue to be "that one dialect that some numbskulls from the Midwest tried saying was neutral".
So stop your nonsense please. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 18:18, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, I agree with you on that. I've decided to keep what you've stated. My apologies.Crezyman099 (talk) 00:31, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- No problem. Since Wikipedia is a work in progress, we do our best to keep trying to improve pages to the highest quality as we can. It is through the efforts of many that Wikipedia can (perhaps someday) become what it wishes to be: the sum of all known human knowledge. It's a lofty goal, yes, but... who knows how far we'll go. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 03:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- To answer your (now removed) question: yes. However, documented studies and/or articles either online or off would have to be found and referenced. These are a bit hard to come across, but they are out there. The problem is finding them. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 04:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yeah, I did add something about it on the main page. But decided to remove it. I really wasn't sure it if was a widespread issue or not anymore to be honest. Being born in 81 there was accent prejudice moreso back in the 90s then now. It seems to have lightened up a bit in recent years. Although I'm not sure if you are job discriminated or not anymore for having a heavy regional accent or not. For instance, I'm from the midwest and my dentist is from the south.Crezyman099 (talk) 04:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- A lot of young people nowadays are growing up speaking a variant of General American, so many businesses don't really care how you speak, because they figure that they won't have to deal with the likes of you for very long in the long term.
- It's a shame, but that's the common attitude.
- Of course, this could be reversed if enough people cared to try to reverse it, but... the likelihood of that seems relatively low, unfortunately. The best that we can do is make sure that Wikipedia doesn't get itself snatched away by such biases, and retains a "balanced" (metaphorical) scale.
- Now, this is just from my personal observations, but there seems to be two current minimovements going on right now within the youth population: a movement towards General American, and a movement towards the preservation of regional dialects. At least in my area, I see both at about roughly the same level (perhaps the movement towards General American has slightly more supporters, but that really depends on the city, state and region).
- The thing is, it's not just in the United States that things like this go on. England is having similar (though not identical) issues at the moment, and they seem to be in a far bigger rut than the United States in the matter. It seems that they were at the point that we are at now in their equivalent of this issue back in the 1980s. By this point, it's possible there may be no turning back in their case. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 05:13, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- Well, there is something mentioned about it in regards to Steven Colbert and how southerners are portrayed in media. So there is that. I don't think we should turn this wikipedia into a General American bash-fest. I do agree with you that many people call it neutral. I myself am guilty of this. Crezyman099 (talk) 05:15, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yeah, I did add something about it on the main page. But decided to remove it. I really wasn't sure it if was a widespread issue or not anymore to be honest. Being born in 81 there was accent prejudice moreso back in the 90s then now. It seems to have lightened up a bit in recent years. Although I'm not sure if you are job discriminated or not anymore for having a heavy regional accent or not. For instance, I'm from the midwest and my dentist is from the south.Crezyman099 (talk) 04:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- To answer your (now removed) question: yes. However, documented studies and/or articles either online or off would have to be found and referenced. These are a bit hard to come across, but they are out there. The problem is finding them. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 04:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- No problem. Since Wikipedia is a work in progress, we do our best to keep trying to improve pages to the highest quality as we can. It is through the efforts of many that Wikipedia can (perhaps someday) become what it wishes to be: the sum of all known human knowledge. It's a lofty goal, yes, but... who knows how far we'll go. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 03:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)