...and All is alright with the World.

[meatloaf109]

None of you knows how to speak correctly.
I am from the one place that all those people send their "news" anchors to learn correct pronunciation; Plymouth, Minnesota.
There is a long standing school of enunciation there that teaches proper, by the "Webster's Dictionary" diction.
So, if any of you would like to hear "correct" English, please feel free to P.M. me, and I will give you my phone number and you can hear it for your own darned selves.
So there, PFFFFT!
Bacon!

 

[N4521U]

Foot paths, kurbs, bonnets and boots, piling food onto the back of a fork, schooners and pints, baked dinners and not a decent sausage to be found.

It's a crazy place.

 

[meatloaf109]

You, my friend, have been away too long...

 

[yulzari]

Oh dear. I thought I was just sharing a memory not inciting an english grammar war.

Us were learned properer than like what you weren't.

Tomm a vydh hedhyw, del hevel. Na wra ankevi dri an dehen-howl. Duw genowgh hwi!

 

[Readie]

Accents enrich, poor English is just that... poor in any English speaking country.
The thing I really do not get is why people see a virtue in poor granmmar, spelling and speaking.
WHY?

 

[vikingBerserker]

Says us rednecks from SC and AL.

Ok, I had to laugh at that one!

 

[N4521U]

Why?

Cuz it's thar!

 

[Readie]

Guess you are right Bill.

 

[Njaco]

Hey Paul, dijeet? Onetwo?

 

[Readie]

Oh god... I turn my back for 5 minutes and there is incomprehensible American English posted by the master of incomprehensible American English Mr N

BACON !!

 

[Njaco]

aconbe!

 

[Njaco]

Hey Paul, dijeet? Onetwo?

and for those not familiar with American colloquial English, I shall translate:

Hey Paul, did you eat? Do you want to?

 

[GrauGeist]

den der iz peps wut spel lyk dis an i wunna hit dem in da azz b cuz we spen 2 muc munny 4 dem 2 go 2 skul an stil b a dumazz

Ay ask dems Y u no lern, dumazz, Y??

 

[Readie]

I have to ask.... what the **** are saying?

Something about hitting them in the bottom?...

 

[Readie]

Where in the great spaces in America lives the most incomprehensible English speakers? I mean, noy just to tourist visitors but, to born and bred Yanks?

I'd guess the 'hells kitchen' drawl must figure somewhere in the list.

Here in Britain.. the hardest to understand accents are northern. Newcastle, Liverpool and Birmingham plus our NI friends in Belfast of course. Southern English diction is clear and concise.

 

[GrauGeist]

That's an example of where the kids in the U.S. are going with their spelling. It's becoming a text-form of phoenetics or rather a lazy form of spelling.

You'll encounter this type of garbage in social media like twitter or facebook and it becomes even more abbreviated in "texting"

And unfortunately, thier speech is is about as terrible. We spend huge amounts of money to educate kids this day and age and it sure doesn't show in thier ability to communicate

 

[vikingBerserker]

Probably NSFW


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUFL2GT1-2g

 

[yulzari]

I can recall my english mistress saying to a fellow pupil that 'wodgergonnadoo' might be a town in Australia but it certainly is not a legitimate english question.

 

[Njaco]

I will say that I believe it started with Detroit car makers. When they stopped printing words in their vehicles and just used pictures and graphics, it went downhill.

 

[GrauGeist]

I remember a time when the highway signs here in the U.S. appeared with both standard and metric distances and speed limits...those didn't go over too well...but about the same time, they tried to use European style icons instead of worded instructions (do not enter, merging traffic, slow/caution, etc.) and that sure didn't work out too well either...

So I doubt that's the cause, Chris...I thing that peope are simply getting lazy. You know it takes up too much time time and is so stressful to go to the extra effort of speaking and writing properly!