[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.87,0:00:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Denice Frohman, Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.18,0:00:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is "Accents." Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.44,0:00:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mom holds her accent like a shotgun, Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.90,0:00:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with two good hands. Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.57,0:00:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her tongue, all brass knuckle Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.30,0:00:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slipping in between her lips Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.88,0:00:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her hips, are all laughter and wind clap. Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.26,0:00:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she speaks a sanchocho \Nof spanish and english, Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.85,0:00:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pushing up and against one another, Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.56,0:00:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in rapid fire Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.42,0:00:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is no telling my mama to be "quiet," Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.43,0:00:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mama don't know "quiet." Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.93,0:00:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her voice is one size better fit all Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.50,0:00:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you best not tell her to hush, Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.57,0:00:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she waited too many years for her \Nvoice to arrive Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.40,0:00:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be told it needed house keeping. Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.09,0:00:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,English sits in her mouth remixed Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.84,0:00:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so "strawberry" becomes "eh-strawbeddy" Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.82,0:00:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "cookie" becomes "eh-cookie" Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.13,0:00:56.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kitchen, key chain, and chicken \Nall sound the same. Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.85,0:00:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mama doesn't say "yes" Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.72,0:01:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she says, "ah ha" Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.68,0:01:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly the sky in her mouth \Nbecomes a Hector Lavoe song. Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.17,0:01:08.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her tongue can't lay itself \Ndown flat enough Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.05,0:01:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the English language, Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.89,0:01:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it got too much hip Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.44,0:01:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too much bone Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.64,0:01:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too much conga Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.90,0:01:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too much cuatro Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.73,0:01:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to two step Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.70,0:01:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got too many piano keys Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.10,0:01:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in between her teeth, Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.51,0:01:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it got too much clave Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.08,0:01:21.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too much hand clap Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.57,0:01:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got too much salsa to sit still Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.85,0:01:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it be an anxious child wanting to Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.29,0:01:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make Play-Doh out of concrete Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.29,0:01:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,English be too neat for Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.98,0:01:32.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her kind of wonderful. Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.97,0:01:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her words spill in conversation Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.03,0:01:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between women whose hands are all they got Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.36,0:01:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes our hands are all we got Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.09,0:01:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and accents that remind us \Nthat we are still Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.56,0:01:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bomba, still plena Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.26,0:01:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you say "wepa" Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.15,0:01:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a stranger becomes your hermano, Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.42,0:01:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you say "dale" Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.14,0:01:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a crowd becomes a family reunion. Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.83,0:01:59.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mother's tongue is a telegram \Nfrom her mother Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.23,0:02:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decorated with the coqui's of el campo Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.99,0:02:04.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so even when her lips can barely Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.19,0:02:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stretch themselves around english, Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.34,0:02:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her accent is a stubborn compass Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.99,0:02:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always pointing her Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.49,0:02:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards home.