Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Dialect 1 key example

Chapter 17
Explanation and Analysis—Intelligent Man:

In Chapter 17, after Rick and Rachael have sex and he decides not to kill her, they listen to the radio in the car. Oscar Scruggs, the man on the radio, speaks in a dialect that Rick disparages with verbal irony:

The radio said, “—ah jes wan ta tell ya, folks, that ahm sitten hih with my pal Bustuh, an we’re tawkin en havin a real mighty fine time, waitin expectantly as we ah with each tick uh the clock foh what ah understan is the mos important announcement of—” Rick shut the radio off.

“Oscar Scruggs,” he said. “The voice of intelligent man.”