supposably and incercenrated drive me crazy. We no long have a regional dialect around here, tho, which is kind of a shame. I enjoy listening to those old pineys talk.
Well, my drawl is not very strong...just certain words that slip out a certain way when I am not paying attention. I dont notice it much but when I lived in Boise , people just thought I was the sweetest little Southern Belle which I thought was hilarious because I am not very Texan sounding. Shooter is the only member in here that has heard my voice. He did not notice any drawl because his is sooooo thick.
Sometimes, when I forget how to speak English the proper way , I say,
"I was fixin to do that." I mean, "I was going to do that."
I cant say Oil the right way..I say OLE...
There are different accents in different regions of Texas. Some Texans say AT instead of that. ie, "Would you look at AT!" Translation, "Would you look at that."
I lived in Houston for so long that I sound more like I am from Houston than Austin.
My parents first language is Spanish so they pronounce all their words very accurately. They always corrected us when we came home saying some Texas slang drawl sounding thing or incorrect grammar. They do say Ya'll, but that is rare.
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Don't get me started on NVA... My Gods the things they do to the language here. I gotta GTFO ASAP, my daughter is starting to speak with that Friggin' down home twang/drawl...
Something has to give. between that and the encroaching gang activity I'm going to Eastern Washington State really soon, before I have to send my daughter for ellocution lessons, or kill some thug wannabe for hitting on her.
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Some call me the Dark Lord, you can call me Master...
Some take delight in the carriages a rollin' and others take delight in the Hurley and the Bowlin', I take delight in the juice of the barley and courting pretty lasses in the mornin' bright and early...
What crazy shit do people in your neck of the woods say that just kills the English language??
IN Pittsburgh people dont even call it Pittsburgh, its pronounced PICKSBURG.
Or they say YINZ, as in "Yinz going dahntahn or to the Sah side?"
In other words Are you guys going downtown or to the SOuth Side?
A vaccuum cleaner is a sweeper....
Ok yinz continue......
And I've always heard that we southerners couldn't speak proper english, someone sure is wrong. I don't believe that I could understand anyone that speaks that way, I'd be lost. I think that I'll stay down here.
Them Stillers are gittin ready fo anotha supa bowl run an'at.
Picksburgers sure talk funny, n'at. Supposed to be and that, but ends up n'at. Picksburghese is a very lazy Appalachian language. We have a neighborhood in the east end called East Liberty and most pronounce it S'liberty.
You know,,, I have to comment on this one. For many years I hated slang/distorted English of any type. Blacks and hill-billies the most. But over time I started dealing with allot of stuff over sea’s and after listening to those people try to speak English, OR them try to understand mine,,, I realized that there is no universal language. Never was really. (At least not after the Babylonian days.).
Then I hired a guy that spoke hill-billy. And I mean bad. It drove me nuts. Over time my respect for the person dropped because of it,. I began to look at it as a sign of, “unintelligence”. Course, the dude wasn’t the smartest apple in the barrel, but anyway…. Then I ran into a group of people in my field and many were from down south. They had the accent but were very bright. To be honest, it fucked with me. I soon realized that there maybe reason to “look down” at things different, or aggravating, but don’t do it too quick because you never know.
In the end you might find yourself being the “rich snob” that looks down at other people that don’t drive a BMW. Might make sense to the snob, but in the real world, it doesn’t mean a thing.
Then there was the time I was way down in Ar-Kansas, and this kid at a gas station yells to his dad "Look pa, yonder come a gully washer!!!"
A what!!?? Sure enough, here came the gully washer, or in English, a street sweeper.
I dont say Yunta or Aight...that is regional. East Texans sound totally different from West Texans and Central, Southern Texans. I am more Central Texas sounding...we all understand each other though.
We say Potata, not Potato. We say Armadilla not Armadillo. Hmmmmm....
We say Gimme a holler...meaning...Call me.
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