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Originally Posted by Bullitt
I've noticed that ever since I moved to Ohio, I end half my sentences in prepositions when speaking.. and it bugs the crap out of me.
of course I guess that's better than my previous Tennessee lingo.. "You done yur homework yet?" "Fixin to!"
What parts of your regional dialect do you despise?
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Just don't start saying "N-that" or I'll start having to hate you.
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
The 80's in me still makes me sometimes say "totally." I totally hate when I do that.
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Has taken me a while to get rid of "like" even with years of theatre and dialect training. It was more deeply ingrained than my southern dialect, which I allowed back for my daily speech.
I didn't say it a lot, but hated it and became very aware of it when my training started... so when I
did say it, it was glaring for me.
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Originally Posted by Pangloss62
It's a love/hate thing for me. Regionalisms are cool in a purely anthropological way, but Southern talk has always irked me. Waiting "on" somebody rather than "for" them. One "mashes" an elevator button here. Then they torture place names: Albany is pronounced All-binny, etc.
But what I hate most is when people tell me to "Have a blessed day."
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I used to work on the phone, up to sixty calls a day sometimes (depending on what I was doing) and live in Central FL. Though I took calls from all over the nation, we got routed calls from our area first and I worked nights, so talked to the SE about 80% of the time. Got preached to much of the time... learned just to agree with them then tell them that it was something I was not supposed to talk about, it was best, trust me. Lord some of the stories I could tell.
Something I don't do but a lot of people from this area do that I cannot STAND is pluralize everything, Wal-Mart is Wal-Marts or Wals-Mart, you go to K-Marts or the Olive Gardens... It really drives me nuts and I can't figure out why, nothing else about southern colloquialisms do, but that one really does.