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Lol, either or will work
Does america have a speech problem? vol...jameis winston
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Why is being country used as an excuse to not speak clear and coherent? Word to D Rose, that dude don't need to do too many interviews.
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I take it you've never been to the country?
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Then take it somewhere because my family is from Charleston, SC. Country as hell, they make deer meat for thanksgiving :x What's your point? Talking like the cookie monster is acceptable?
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Someone should troll that lady every time she makes a grammatical error on twitter.
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That's just how some folks talk man. Like I said, I chuckle at it because it's foreign to me. But that's how they talk and that's that. Truth be told, country folks have ragged on me for speaking so "proper", even though I don't really speak that way.
Also, the dude is a football player. Why does he have to be articulate and well-spoken? His job is to deliver on the field, not into the mic after the game. Dude was all over the place with his interview, and yes I clowned too. But he just drove down the field and threw the national championship game winning touchdown pass. And he's country. Cut the kid some slack.
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Don't do that. Everything he said was clear and coherent to me. I agree it was scarambled, but the message was there.
Besides Manziel, dude is the most prolific QB in college football right now. Dude brought an aura back to FSU.
There's a reason that this so called "speech issue" is just now coming about so obviously this isn't a real problem.
As I stated, he's a country teenager that had just become the first freshman to win the National Championship. Are people serious with this?
My question is, why hasn't anyone brought Tebow into the discussion and why didn't he recieve the same scrutiny?
He most definitely has a problem articulating himself. Those awkward pauses are cringeworthy.
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I think the connotation of "country" equating to him/anyone being dumb or slow is the issue here.
My point was the label of him being country, as in us saying "oh well he is country" should not be used as an excuse for him or anyone for being a poor speaker and not speaking properly, ESPECIALLY when you're the face of the university and it's football team.
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Nothing is wrong with his speech. He's just country as hell. Nothing wrong with that.
If you ask me, the hilarious thing was how giddy he was that God won the game for FSU.
If you ask me, the hilarious thing was how giddy he was that God won the game for FSU.
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Personally, I don't think he is a poor speaker or unable able to speak properly. If you feel differently, then so be it. Also, even if he were the face of the university and the football team as you put it, he's just that.......the FACE, not the mouthpiece.
He's not the pubic relations manager, not the spokesperson, not the dean, not the chancellor or any other title that is associated with and more importantly directly PAID by the university to perform said task. He's a just recently turned 20 year old student athlete, 20.........that most likely had an influx of emotion and adrenaline all at one time as cameras rushed up to him after he just won the biggest game of his life.
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black/white/whatever, i think it's a southern/country thing going on
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My dads side of my family all talk like dude 
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Bruh... Sit down somewhere...
Dude is 20 y/o, got accepted to Stanford, and was hype as hell after winning a national championship.
Where's that preacher gif when you need it....
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Exactly I just don't like the " oh he just a county bwoy" excuse, what does that even mean? What does being country mean in terms of speech?
It has nothing to do with race, at least not me AJ sounds slow too
It has nothing to do with race, at least not me AJ sounds slow too
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why aren't yall concerned about honey boo boo and her family of inbreds?
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What's funny is put ya'll up there in front the cameras and you wouldn't have his poise, turn into straight radio, stuttering up there. Gotta love the internet.
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If jameis was white , millions of ignorant black people would be calling him a cocky redneck trying to be black, i dont know why people turn everything into race, all ignorant people are prejudice
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People fear what they don't understand.
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Oh, the irony.
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You sound dumb...let me know when this has happened? As a whole most don't even care about stupid **** like this
Just wish y'all showed the same concern for tebow who constantly repeated "it's cool" 20 something times when he signed with the jets
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@venom lyrix When you grow up in a place where everyone is speaking a certain way from the time you come out of the womb, you inherently adopt that kind of "accent"... There are some things that I'm sure if he were to be making a presentation for a class he would clean up i.e. "they were" instead of "they was" etc.
If you're from the south surrounded by people who speak that way its going to be your natural way of speaking. If they all had British accents in Alabama then he'd sound like a character from some Guy Ritchie film talking about "I WAS ON THE BOUNDRY WITH ME LADS AND THE LOT OF US MUSTERED THE STRENF TO WIN THE MATCH!!".
I'm confident that if he wanted to tighten up his grammatical errors he could easily do so. But the accent isn't going anywhere any time soon.
If you're from the south surrounded by people who speak that way its going to be your natural way of speaking. If they all had British accents in Alabama then he'd sound like a character from some Guy Ritchie film talking about "I WAS ON THE BOUNDRY WITH ME LADS AND THE LOT OF US MUSTERED THE STRENF TO WIN THE MATCH!!".
I'm confident that if he wanted to tighten up his grammatical errors he could easily do so. But the accent isn't going anywhere any time soon.
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lol wut?
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@venom lyrix
When you grow up in a place where everyone is speaking a certain way from the time you come out of the womb, you inherently adopt that kind of "accent"... There are some things that I'm sure if he were to be making a presentation for a class he would clean up i.e. "they were" instead of "they was" etc.
If you're from the south surrounded by people who speak that way its going to be your natural way of speaking. If they all had British accents in Alabama then he'd sound like a character from some Guy Ritchie film talking about "I WAS ON THE BOUNDRY WITH ME LADS AND THE LOT OF US MUSTERED THE STRENF TO WIN THE MATCH!!".
I'm confident that if he wanted to tighten up his grammatical errors he could easily do so. But the accent isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Definitely. I grew up in a Vietnamese and Mexican neighborhood with Portuguese and Indian parents but went to 80% white schools for high school and college. My current accent confuses the @#$% out of many people