# The Invisible Palin Meltdown **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 3, 2008, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-invisible-palin-meltdown/466281 "2008-10-03T07:07:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 63
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-invisible-palin-meltdown/466281/63 "2008-10-03T15:41:11Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Many people, particularly those who retain distinct regional accents, simply pronounce words the way they heard them growing up. Jimmy Carter is a good example. Surely he heard nuclear pronounced as it is spelled many times at the Naval Academy. He stuck with his regional pronunciation, and apparently didn’t feel that it mattered enough to try to change. > Do you know any intelligent people who pronounce “ask” as “ax”? I do. Yes. And I agree completely with your point. It really irks me when people conflate non-prestige dialects with ignorance, stupidity, or other negative characteristics. There are multiple dialects in our country. When you mock a person because of their dialect, you are displaying your own bigotry. And from a political stand point, you open you and your party to charges of elitism and cultural snobbery. Attack Palin’s politics and lack of substance, but not her dialect. > [@Most telling statistic from the debate.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-telling-statistic-from-the-debate/466292/4): > > There’s already been talk of her going away, stepping down, resigning, even getting fired. The Vice President cannot be fired, only impeached. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-invisible-palin-meltdown/466281)._