South vs. north

After the reading the article that I had chosen, it dawned on me that either this article is making fun of southerners or it is actually supporting the rich heritage that we have. The reason that I say this is because of the way that the website is set up. For instance, when you scroll down there is a dictionary starting from the letter "A". All the words that were in this dictionary were real " shady", some of them I have never heard before so it made me feel that they were making fun of the accent of the southerners. But, when I read the article written by the website creator he said stated in his written biography this message " So, if you change your accent, remember, the reasons are all economic or social; they should not be linguistic". So after reading this statement I realized that he was not considering the southern language a “monolith and or a disgrace. When I finally realized this I felt very foolish, because like some people will judge others based on the way someone sounds, I judged on the way that the website had appeared. Also, after reading this article I came to the understanding that this is not considered a “strategy of condescenation.” The reason that I believe this is because as stated in the reading we did in class, Lippigreen states that “the contrast in presentation of two kinds of language- correctly spelled and ‘literally,’ northern and incorrectly spelled and ‘illertate’ southern” (208). This quote states that even though some people consider the southern language to be incorrect and the northern language to be correct, it is not true. For example, there is no difference in language. The only difference in the northern and southern dialects is its accent. In conclusion, southern and northern dialects are different, but it doesn’t make either of them right or wrong.