The_Adventures_Of_Huckleberry_Finn_Dialect

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Dialect The land of the Mississippi is well known for it’s rich heritage and unique dialect. Mark Twain had a good understanding of this, and lifetime of experience with it. He knew a person’s history could roughly be predicted by the manner of their speaking. Such as rich, well bred, educated citizens often had a voice containing a large vocabulary, finely pronounced words, and produced easily understood sentences. This gave them the essence of ellegence and class, and as Twain put it, “He was well born, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse.” On the other end of citezenship was the un-schooled, un-privilaged, and poor slaves and servents. Their upbringing was focused less on impressing people with their intelligense, and more on survival, tolerance, and hard work. Their speech was hardly understandable. It consisted of broken words rich, words, ways, unique, twain, survival, raised, poor, personality, half, class, caring, yet, worth, workers, work, woman, voice, vocabulary, very, upper, upbringing, understood, understanding, understandable, unconforming, un-schooled, un-privilaged, two, twain’s, tolerance, though, that’s, teaching