{"id":4346,"date":"2021-10-24T04:46:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2021-10-24T04:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:46:30","slug":"transcribing-speech-of-the-oppressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2021\/10\/24\/transcribing-speech-of-the-oppressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcribing Speech of the Oppressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was actually a bit creeped out by the excessively phonetic transcription in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blackhistoryandpolitics.quora.com\/History-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school-Slavery-days-was-hell-I-was-growed-up-when-de-War-come-and-I-was-a-mother-be\">this harrowing account<\/a><\/em> that was reproduced by Cheryl Brown in Quora&#8217;s &#8216;Black History &amp; Politics&#8217; section. Commenter Linda Keres Carter shared this feeling and started an interesting thread of back and forth on the issue of how much phonetic transcription is appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>To me it\u2019s not so much a matter of the &#8216;dem&#8217;s and &#8216;dere&#8217;s being obtuse as disrespectful. There is a fine line between using phonetic transcription to create genuine atmosphere and sympathy and using it for mockery (of which there has been a long tradition). In the 1930\u2032s, even sympathetic recorders (such as the one quoted by Cheryl) often quoted with a level of attempted phonetic \u201crealism\u201d sufficient to raise the suspicion of condescension and at least the enablement of outright mockery.<\/p>\n<p>PS Cheryl (the OP) responded quite positively to Linda\u2019s suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was actually a bit creeped out by the excessively phonetic transcription in\u00a0this harrowing account that was reproduced by Cheryl Brown in Quora&#8217;s &#8216;Black History &amp; Politics&#8217; section. Commenter Linda Keres Carter shared this feeling and started an interesting thread &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2021\/10\/24\/transcribing-speech-of-the-oppressed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}