I’ll tell you, folks, I personally do not mind some crazy language. Down here in the South (always capitalized) we say reckon, fixin’, and other words that might seem poor English. People all over say ain’t (at least when Mom cannot here it.) Where my Dad comes from, in the Pittsburg area, people pronounce "battery" like "battry." They drop some "e’s", which are made up for by people in the far North East with all the extra "e’s" on names, such as the Olde Towne Taverne. But people are taking language too far when they mash pronunciation.
This rant is caused by a lady pronouncing bathroom baffroom to her young children. If you want to sound like a complete f**king dumbass fool, please, continue. It’s not even acceptable languge when drunk as a skunk.
My grandmother used to say drekly, as in I will do it directly. I’ll do it dreckly. Funny thing is in the context she used it, she actually meant the opposite. Directly means, I’ll get right on it. So obviously “drekly” meant “after while.”
Teach, I hear ya.
It drives me up the wall whenever I hear some twit (and they are almost always twits) talking to her children/young relatives/pets/whatevers in that mindless mush known as “baby talk.”
My English isn’t perfect, and I know it, but how does intentionally screwing up the pronunciation of words in a child’s formative years help them learn in the slightest? It seems to me that you’re only hurting them.
By the by, I have spiffy Yellowstone photoblogging, if you’re interested. Also a nice picture of Devil’s tower. Vacation was a blast!
Whatchu meen? Liken you-uns dunnu use da bafroom. Lemme axe u summin, you fiddy-cent hore. Whose you to be the one what makes all dem rooles?
Here in Pittsburgh (they also say yo-uns for what you in the South would say ya’ll.