Mencken Speaks Part II
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@greenmthiker This is actually a quintessential Baltimore accent. If you notice, Mencken pronounces Baltimore as "Bawlamer" and Maryland as "Merlin"; both typical of the Baltimore, or Mid-Atlantic, accent.
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Mr. Mencken had the sniffles in this interview; his summer allergies.
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@GeoffreyTransom Until hearing his voice on this video I had assumed Mencken sounded more or less like W. C. Fields.
They actually corresponded, by the way. I went to a W.C. Fields exhibit in New York last year. It was mostly movie clips on tape loops, but there was a glass case with postcards and letters. There was a letter from Mencken referring to so some meeting they'd had. I don't think they knew each other very well, but ithey must have realized they shared a world-view or two.
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@greenmthiker He does call Baltimore "Bawlmer," but likely there're few traces of the accent (actually, an Eastern Seaboard accent; my dad from Aberdeen, up the road from Bawlmer, said "wooder" & "hunnert") because he didn't grow up in a Bawlmer-speaking household.
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Enjoy it!
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LOL he does sound like Jimmy Stewart. After reading his works...he sounds exactly as I had imagined.
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He sounds like a cross between Jimmy Stewart and my great uncle! I've read Mencken for years. A master of comic argument was he. He championed uncompromising novelists. His autobiographical books HEATHEN DAYS, HAPPY DAYS and, I think, one more, are works of great, placid humor.
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"I don't believe in teaching writing"
lol
though he does have a point...
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You're welcome.
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Sir, thank you so much for taking the time to post the rest of this interview. I, like many others, have been searching internet-wide for ways to hear this man speaking and now you've made it easy for millions of his fans. Bless you
viewingiseasy 2 years ago
I'm touched that it means as much to uou as to me.
KaiserAl32 2 years ago