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Old 04-18-2007, 08:26 AM   #345
Perry Winkle
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: A little south of sanity
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Originally Posted by SadistSecret View Post
Any form of baby/idiot talk. Includes, but certainly not limited to babytalk and ebonics.

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The word "like" is this gross mispronounciation of what we who speak English call a pause in between words, better known as a comma. I don't know if this one counts, but it sure puts me into a homicidal mood.
That's strange because when people call Ebonics or, less colloquially, African American Vernacular English idiot talk it throws me into a homicidal mood. Let me assure you that no matter what dialect of English you speak there's someone out there who thinks it's an undesirable way of speaking.

The pet-peeves I can stand, barely, but writing off an entire language is completely off-base in my book.
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