“Applying the Underclass Markers: Targeting the Redneck Strutters”

Not sho’nuff eff’n ya’ll unnerstood his origeenal post. ah c’dn’t until ah translated it into a dialeck mo’e unnerstood by mah redneck intellyjunce. Hope this hyar translashun he’ps yo’ unnerstan’ as it did fo’ me. BTW, thass a fine piece of writin Montrealman, as enny fool kin plainly see.

Someone once said, brilliantly ah thunk, thet “Intellyjunce resides in th’ ability t’make distinckshuns.” Mebbe it was me. Ennyway, in cornfo’mity wif right pedagogical prackice, a li’l corntextualizashun is required, cuss it all t’ tarnation. “Applyin’ th’ Unnerclass Markers: Targitin’ th’ Redneck Strutters” is th’ third installment in mah masterful refleckshuns on th’ Unnerclass in Halifax. Th’ fust, yo’ will recall, was “Th’ Unnerclass in Halifax: A Tripartite Approach” in which, in broad strokes, ah painted th’ mo’e prominent features of th’ Unnerclass – Unnerclass Language, Unnerclass Markers, an’ Unnerclas Mo’ality – which are, of course, jointly cornsteetootive of th’ Unnerclass itse’f. Next, in a move of greater subtlety, mah “Further Refleckshuns on th’ Unnerclass in Halifax: Excavatin’ th’ Concepp” put whut are, in th’ idiom of philosophy, its “ontological foun’ashuns” in place. It was determined thet th’ concepp of th’ Unnerclass, while a substantive reality – it acshully existed in a mind-independent reality – was also a fluid corncepp. It was not static. Th’ Unnerclass c’d metamo’phose on over time. We is now, then, in a posishun t’confront th’ nub of th’ matter, them attributes which distin’uish th’ Unnerclass in Halifax an’, of course, them who manifess them, dawgone it. Befo’e ingagin’ in sech an indeavour, howevah, sartin distinckshuns muss also be put in place. (ah told yo’ thet intellyjunce resides in th’ ability t’make distinckshuns, didn’t I?) (a) Some Preliminary Distinckshuns It is of crucial impo’tance thet, fo’ mah students writint papers o’ presentin’ theses in sociology an’/o’ social psychology, th’ goal of th’ inquiry is unamtrimenjusuous. This hyar is not some superficial dexcrippive account of th’ Unnerclass Markers but rather it will attempp th’ penetrashun of th’ Unnerclass Mind itse’f. This hyar is of pareemount impo’tance on account o’, while unlikely, one might display a range of Unnerclass Markers yet not postess an Unnerclass Mind, cuss it all t’ tarnation. Convahsely, one may postess an Unnerclass Mind yet be posishuned in a higher social class. A second distinckshun relates t’th’ pareemeters of th’ Unnerclass in th’ broader social struckure. Th’ Unnerclass is t’be foun’ at th’ lower levels of th’ certified wawkin’ class, but thar is radical differences between th’ two. Th’ member of th’ Unnerclass is unskilled, cuss it all t’ tarnation. He (o’ offen she) is foun’ among th’ transient, tempo’ay wawkers. On t’other han’, th’ members of th’ Unnerclass is not simple vagrants, th’ so’t who sleep unner bridges an’ on over-passes no’, still less, is they members of th’ criminal classes. They is law abidin’ but at th’ lower margins of society. A final distinckshun refers t’th’ fack thet th’ Unnerclass itse’f is not a homojuneous group. A crucial distinckshun muss be made between th’ “Bitchers” – them Unnerclass indivijools who relate their excruciatin’ly trivial tales of promises busted, of loves lost an’ so on, an’ th’ “Respondents,” thet incestuous li’l knot of vipers who, wif gleeful relish, strike out at their hapless vickims. It is th’ second group, not th’ fust, which is th’ targit of mah remarks. (It muss also be menshuned thet not all th’ Respondents fall into this hyar group. Some is quite nice. They is exempp fum mah charges. It is only th’ mo’e insalubrious of th’ Respondents, them ah have called th’ “Redneck Strutters” which is th’ targit of mah critique.) So then, th’ time has come t’arm ourselves an’ t’venture fo’th out on th’ darklin’ plain t’smite th’ fo’ces of evil, igno’ance an’ malevolence. (Th’ second installment of “Applyin’ th’ Unnerclass Markers: Targitin’ th’ Redneck Strutters,” will provide th’ struckure on th’ basis of which we may proceed, cuss it all t’ tarnation. ah call it, “Th’ Grid, cuss it all t’ tarnation.”)—Montrealman

Wow two stars!…… Golly-gee, thanks Mister!