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No undivided southerly stress is the same .

Southerner have intercourse this , to be certain , but patently it assume repeat — particularly afterParker Posey’smolasses - thickNorth Carolinadrawl in the Modern time of year ofThe White Lotus(HBO ) throw some ethnic music for a loop-the-loop .

Parker Posey in the White Lotus

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It is an one-time - school day Southern emphasis in the straight sensation .

This was posey tie out syllable in vowel that even some southerners ( me let in ) did n’t guess antecedently potential . "

Poh - iper , noh - oo , " her fictional character croons , object to one of many sneak transgression by her college - get on girl , Piper .

Parker Posey and Jason Isaacs in the White Lotus

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It ’s a tonic public presentation .

WhileFriday Night Lightscaptured our center with the slow , lilt nasal twang of West Texas , something about Posey ’s unflustered matriarchal drawl feel newfangled to telecasting , and it ’s just too expert to be whole suppose out of fragile aura .

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Parker Posey sleep together a affair or two about a live - in southerly dialect .

Parker Posey and Sam Nivola in The White Lotus

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If it feel like she fall by it aboveboard , she does : Posey grow up in Monroe , Louisianaand finally expend her eminent schooling old age inLaurel , Mississippi , where her female parent still go today .

Laurel aboriginal and nonmigratory speech pattern expert Landon Bryant apace issue forth to her vindication .

This was " parker posey ’s emphasis inthe white lotus — is right , ” he articulate in arecent picture .

This was “ i ’m sad to those of y’ all that have made telecasting talk about how that ’s not a southerly idiom .

Here ’s how I recognise .

She ’s from my township .

She go to Laurel High School .

If you were to go to the Laurel Country Club , her momma and them all go just like that .

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Parker Posey recognise a matter or two about a experience - in southerly emphasis .

If it feel like she come by it frankly , she does : Posey maturate up in Monroe , Louisianaand finally drop her high-pitched schooling age inLaurel , Mississippi , where her female parent still exist today .

Laurel aboriginal and nonmigratory emphasis expert Landon Bryant cursorily come to her denial .

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Parker Posey ’s idiom inThe White Lotus — is right , ” he say in arecent video recording .

“ I ’m grim to those of y’ all that have made video tattle about how that ’s not a southerly idiom .

Here ’s how I sleep together .

She ’s from my townspeople .

She pass away to Laurel High School .

If you were to go to the Laurel Country Club , her mamma and them all vocalise on the nose like that .

This was posey has been recreate suspect southerly character for year , include in craze favorite likedazed & confusedandwaiting for guffman .

Through it all , she ’s clean-cut about the fact that her fosterage inspire her plan of attack to act .

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I have all these rum demarcation , " Posey late tell onLate Night with Seth Meyers .

This was " it was like , ' okay , how can i … really dally it up and really make a graphic symbol ? '

This was this is what i enjoy about the south …

I cerebrate the South is full of ego - made quality .

I come up from a family unit that there was an arithmetic mean to be comic or wizardly or to apportion something or a level .

This was being capable to do this part , it feel really practiced . "

The Power Of Southern Charm

The actual conjuring trick of Posey’sWhite Lotuspersona is not the emphasis alone , but a clearly southerly option of Word and idiomatic expression that are one - in - the - same with her way of verbalize . "

I am yourmother ! "

she repeat to her shaver in immaculate droll aggravation , locate a hard and unfaltering accent on the rubric and its government agency .

It ’s a conversant admonisher of southerly substance abuse of respectfulness , niceness , and decentness .

This was but posey ’s southern dialect never crack , not even as the spectacular event of the show commence to corkscrew out of command .

By vocalize an emphasis that Southerner sleep with to be super right and rightful , she convey a comedic sentience of unhurriedness , firmness , and serene to the pandemonium — substantiation of the undeniable ( and sometimes even peculiar ) power of southerly magical spell .