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WCDT strips 4281 to 4285 (8th to 12th June 2020)
Theta9:
LOL, Faye FTW.
St.Clair:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 Jun 2020, 19:51 ---Mrs. Whitaker is either being decent or is in shock. Let's see how she does when they hit the end of Southern good manners.
--- End quote ---
I think they just did, and broke clean through to the other side.
Which is quite the thing, because Southern Nice is... yeah.
BenRG:
So, if we accept the rule that stress brings out home region accents in QC characters, does "Howdy" and "pardners" indicate that Bubbles is, by origin, a western girl? Maybe Colorado or Wyoming?
I love the idea of her being originally a farm machinery management and operations system who paid off her indenturement fee by sheer hard work (as well as renting out bits of her brain for other purposes when the sun was down). When the day came when she became an employee rather than a a bit of the farm machinery, she volunteered for the Combat Android program. Not just to get off the farm (truth be told, operating all those autonomous repair sheds and operations systems was satisfying) but because she genuinely wanted to do something for the greater community of intelligent life. Such a back-story could only make things easier for her with Faye's home community: A military veteran and a wholesome salt-of-the-earth farm girl!
Meanwhile, if there was any doubt at all that Faye is Mrs W's daughter, it's gone. Same speech patterns and the same 'oh my god, get me out of this conversation' grimace! :laugh:
Tyr:
It's also possible that Bubbles was suffering a bout of some form of echolalia/echopraxia(Meaningless or subconscious repetition of someone else's words/actions) due to nervousness, was mimicking Momma Whitaker's accent and started slipping in 'cowboy' terms due to the strong association between southern accents and cowpunching.
On a personal level I do like it instead being her 'home' accent coming out as an idea, though.
Tova:
I do think it's most likely Bubbles was subconsciously mimicking Mrs Whitaker's accent in her attempts to connect.
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