I abhor the whole 'black dialect' thing, myself, but history is history and I've read that, on MANY occasions, black servants - in particular - were at one point EXPECTED to talk in that servile patois and if they didn't they were seen as acting 'above their station', though this was FAR FAR more so in the US, if memory serves. I'm woefully poorly informed on a lot of history (I tend to get really huffy and cheesed over things that happened generations ago, so I tend not to retain the things that peeved me), but I THINK the UK relaxed on the equality thing sooner than the US. Please, correct me if I'm wrong here.
SO, my point here (yes, had one, just a moment ago, aha!) I could see the elevator chap talking the way he's 'expected' to and then breaking character in an intimate moment, which might work quite well in a little ficcish fun.
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Date: 2009-05-03 08:41 pm (UTC)SO, my point here (yes, had one, just a moment ago, aha!) I could see the elevator chap talking the way he's 'expected' to and then breaking character in an intimate moment, which might work quite well in a little ficcish fun.