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Ulyranger
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 03:59 pm: | 
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From a cool article recognition, to "proper" english/grammer to food.......
....as the thread turns.....always amusing here. |
Mnrider
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 04:19 pm: |
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I stayed with family friends in Dallas as a kid and they would say things like yall goin to the party tonight.
It's just me there's no all.
Ya you betcha=perfect english. |
Davegess
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 04:25 pm: |
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There is no such thing as "proper" English. It is very much a living language and it's speakers are constantly changing it with new words, expressions, punctuation, grammar, syntax, etc. An educated, articulate person from 1911 would sound very stilted and odd to us but we could communicate well both with the written and spoken word. We would both find the handwriting very hard to read however.
If you plucked that person out of 1812 it would become very hard and from 1712 almost impossible.
The only real "rule" for English is that one be understood. |
Fast1075
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 04:30 pm: |
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The most perfectly enunciated english I ever heard was from a neighbor when I was a child. He constantly scolded us for our "distasteful abomination that we called english"....He was.....Bahamian. |
Britchri10
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 04:46 pm: |
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English was, is & always will be a fluid language. I couldn't agree more w/Dave. So long as you are making yourself understood & the person/people you are speaking to are able to understand you then you are speaking good English.
"Proper English" to me comes from the fact that I was educated at an overachieving Grammar School whose lecturers/teachers looked down their noses at "oiks" who didn't speak English the way they wanted/expected.
Fast: Bahamians suffered a similar education to me, hence their enunciation proclivities!
So long as we can all get along & understand each other, it's all good.
Chris C |
Buellkowski
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 06:15 pm: |
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I still don't quite understand the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all".
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Britchri10
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 06:49 pm: |
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Y'all is you, All y'all is all of you.
Easy Peasy. (LOL)
Chris C |
86129squids
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 09:06 am: |
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So, Blake, did youn's check out the second link in my previous post?
Well, here's one more, a little more edumukational...
Michael Reno Harrell, "Southern Suggestions"!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6uNXtOirs8
Also, a true story from college: I once took a speech class, basically a 101 level... the professor was the head of the speech department, AND- from South Africa!!
Her "patois", or accent was so thick, it was fascinating. Never got over the absurdity of that...
Blake, your head would've exploded...
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Doerman
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 09:18 am: |
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Listening/watching the Youtube video about "Southern Suggestions" was a GREAT start to my day!
Thanks! |
Mnrider
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 11:21 am: |
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When I stayed in Dallas as a kid they would take me to their friends and get me to talk then laugh their heads off. |
Blake
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 11:37 am: |
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Accents? No problemo! I be okay wit dat.
Nice tune Brad. I can't believe I used to put ketchup/catchup/catsup on my hotdogs.
Ditch the fingernail polish on chiggers treatment! That's just a recipe for horrible torment. Dip finger in water and then salt and rub the spot until satisfied and a little red dot appears.
Tractor tire planters and tire swings, not just in the South!
He missed "all'o'y'all", the ultimate all-inclusive reference.
One of my favorite southern turns of phrase is "cold drink". The emphasis being on "cold" has a special meaning down here. Up north it was just plain old "drink". |
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