“if you’re listening, God, please don’t make it hard to know if we should believe the things that we see

Tell us: should we run away? Should we try and stay? or would it just be better just to let things be?”

this line from Dorothy‘s headline song “home” from “The Wiz” never really resonated with me … until recently

now, I think about it all the time

#thewiz #oz #AI

I also enjoy that Charlie Smalls has rhymed the word "God" with "hard"

Which works (just) if you have the right NYC accent... but not otherwise.

Diana is from Detroit and makes it work. And is so good at singing that... why would you even care if it didn't?

Stephanie Mills is from Brooklyn but doesn't make it rhyme. Maybe it's too old school for her.

Or maybe she was just in a pit of despair because she's singing a song that Ross ... defined. She is excellent... But listen I would never want to try to be a follow up act to Diana Ross. Just cry and go home.

Is this the "dying NYC accent" everyone is so sad about?

My *students* think "God" rhymes with "hard"

@futurebird oh thank goodness they don't have the Cartoon Network accent

@catmisgivings

That's what people from California think NYC sounds like.

The worst fake NYC accent is that one that Meowth has. I have never heard ANYONE who sounds like that in my life.

IDK maybe that's how Pica sounds but she pretends she can't talk around humans.

@catmisgivings

That's what people from California think NYC sounds like.

The worst fake NYC accent is that one that Meowth has. I have never heard ANYONE who sounds like that in my life.

IDK maybe that's how Pica sounds but she pretends she can't talk around humans.

@futurebird @catmisgivings I'm from California and i love hearing people from New York saying things like "dogs" and "coffee" - it makes me chuckle.

@flipper @futurebird I see your DAWG and I raise you one FLAHRIDUH ARRINJIZ

@flipper @futurebird I see your DAWG and I raise you one FLAHRIDUH ARRINJIZ

@catmisgivings @futurebird lol, goes well with my cwawffee.

@flipper @catmisgivings

Yall are mean.

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I can't even explain what's going on out there. Here is a sample of what sounds like "a heavy accent" to my ear.

@catmisgivings

That's what people from California think NYC sounds like.

The worst fake NYC accent is that one that Meowth has. I have never heard ANYONE who sounds like that in my life.

IDK maybe that's how Pica sounds but she pretends she can't talk around humans.

@catmisgivings

That's what people from California think NYC sounds like.

The worst fake NYC accent is that one that Meowth has. I have never heard ANYONE who sounds like that in my life.

IDK maybe that's how Pica sounds but she pretends she can't talk around humans.

@futurebird @catmisgivings The (I think NYC) accent that really surprised me, when I heard him for the first time, was Isaac Asimov. I just hadn't expected him to sound like a cabbie from some film.

@darkling @catmisgivings

I like the way both of them say "robits" ... this seems to be going away. But it was common in US English a generation ago.

@futurebird @darkling @catmisgivings I have never in my lifetime heard anyone in person (or on live/modern TV) say "robit" but wow they sure said it a lot on a lot of really old TV/movies. I guess Asimov was a product of such times, so he certainly would have heard it that way a lot.

I just... I don't understand where that pronunciation even came from. It's literally spelled rob*ot, not robi*it... How do you just suddenly randomly change an 'o' to an 'i' every time despite seeing how it's spelled?