This doesn't mean that one should avoid engaging them politically: talking with populists is not the same as talking like populists.
On black English, Bailey is also too uncritical of a 1962 survey that documented black Chicagoans as talking like their white neighbors except for scattered vowel differences (as in "pin" for "pen").
Again and again, Mrs. Clinton had branded Mr. Obama as an elitist, while Mr. Obama had mocked Mrs. Clinton as "talking like she is Annie Oakley," after she waxed nostalgically about shooting guns.
Zoref's crowd-sourced lecture was a case in point — a talk designed, by TED watchers, to be as TED Talk-like as possible.
Reality series, as well as talk shows like "Oprah," keep asserting that material goods can brighten prospects, that a community can come together to help a silent sufferer in their midst, that it helps to share one's woes with someone who can do something about them.
As in, "You talk like a bitch".
Use some of the same language patterns, but say it nonchalantly, as if you talk like that all the time.
Talk like Batman, as well.
As if we could talk like Macbeth".
