tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post406324872889907828..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Tuesday Night Blogs: Accents and Cape CodersHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-17566976729188657802016-04-26T00:13:14.904+01:002016-04-26T00:13:14.904+01:00Oh all right. Let her have a slight exaggeration. ...Oh all right. Let her have a slight exaggeration. Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-89761719751811591672016-04-21T08:42:51.547+01:002016-04-21T08:42:51.547+01:00Okay, our Phoebe was eight generations in Mass. on...Okay, our Phoebe was eight generations in Mass. on her fathers side, going through grandfather, ten on mothers side going though grandfather and eleven on mothers site going through grandmother. Paternal grandmother only traced back to mid 18th century! Latecomers!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-11275049256738527052016-04-21T08:03:27.297+01:002016-04-21T08:03:27.297+01:00I didn't say write 12 generations, but her fam...I didn't say write 12 generations, but her family went back in Massachusetts for nearly 300 years before she was born, so I imagine you would stop least settle for ten? I think there actually is accessible data in her case so may be able to give an exact count.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-9970066032872322922016-04-20T11:54:42.040+01:002016-04-20T11:54:42.040+01:00This is the only early one I have read so there ma...This is the only early one I have read so there may be darkness in others. Not my comment: I am quoting. This one has a narrator as well, not a spinster but a wife and mother; a singularly stupid woman. I am not sure settled for twelve generations is an accurate way of describing Europeans in New England but, I suppose, it depends on how you define generations.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-22388068851785864942016-04-20T11:16:20.607+01:002016-04-20T11:16:20.607+01:00I don't believe I would say that any of the As...I don't believe I would say that any of the Asey Mayo books are "dark." At least not that I've read. The earlier ones do have middle-aged "spinster" narrators reminiscent of the HIBK books, which distance us a little from Asey.<br /><br />One would have to read them in sequence to be certain, but I have the impression in my mind that the later ones get zanier. I imagined this was the influence from the Tiltons.<br /><br />As for Asey and the accent, there I have the impression Taylor turned him more and more over the series into a sort of Superman. So the accent had to be made part of an act. Her family on both sides went back generations and to the 17th century in Cape Cod, so she must have known her stuff.<br /><br />Sayers did make a big thing about authentic accents. The Scots stuff in Five Red Herrings can be tortuous to American readers, but seems rather impressive in its way. The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.com