That's exactly what I mean. I would expect Berlinerisch, due to its association with working-class inner-city[*] Ossis, to have about the same cachet as the Chicago accent. (I have rather warm feelings toward "Chicagoese", but that may be precisely because I didn't grow up around here.) Or the "New Yawk" accent, which is so negatively perceived that a substantial proportion of New Yorkers and New Jerseyites actually get instruction to reduce their accents. (A guy I met a couple months ago says his [Scottish-born] mother used to make him read the newspaper out loud so she could correct his New Yorkisms.)
But who knows? "Estuary English" or "Mockney" is spreading at the expense of more posh accents in Britain, so perhaps there's been a similar revaluation of (traditionally) working-class speech in Germany.
[*] Well, outer city, technically, but you know how European cities are often inside-out vis-à-vis American ones, with the big housing projects located far from the centre.
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Date: 2011-01-26 02:54 am (UTC)But who knows? "Estuary English" or "Mockney" is spreading at the expense of more posh accents in Britain, so perhaps there's been a similar revaluation of (traditionally) working-class speech in Germany.
[*] Well, outer city, technically, but you know how European cities are often inside-out vis-à-vis American ones, with the big housing projects located far from the centre.