Mountain Talk | movie | 2004 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Mountain dialect, culture and identity are revealed by the true experts on Southern Appalachian culture--the people whos | dG1fZW0tLWduLXdOSWc

Transcript

00:00Well, I'm located about a hundred miles west of Asheville and about a hundred miles south

00:07of Knoxville, Tennessee, right here in the corner of North Carolina, joining Tennessee

00:13and Georgia.

00:14To outsiders, the accents and pronunciations in mountain speech may sound quaint, uneducated,

00:22or worse.

00:23Well, the way people talk around here, I guess it'd be what, more like you'd call hillbilly

00:26style or something, I guess.

00:27I don't know.

00:28Just mountain talk.

00:29Nothing stops.

00:30It's like a singing, you know.

00:31We're kind of like we're singing.

00:32Lita said, we're singing, not talking, you know.

00:36But they often resemble the English dialect spoken in Scotland and Ireland.

00:42Instead of calling a tire on a car a tire, you call it a tar.

00:46You call it tars, I call them tars, and they used to call them caissons years ago.

00:51You ever hear anybody say, hook them caissons on that vehicle?

00:56Every region of Appalachia, there's usually, if you come there, even from another county,

01:01people use expressions you don't understand.

01:04It's something that means something only to them, and that's one of the delights of mountain

01:10culture.