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what are some examples of this creative lingo? (serious question)
i'm not sure where most of the country gets its lingo from...i think it has more to do with region. the youth in particular regions are more likely to get their slang from the largest area in the region in sort of a trickle down way, IMHO.
i have to disagree on women looking better in atl...but i will say that it seems like more women know how to cook in the south, which is a huge plus.
honestly, so many ppl want to be us, threads like this seem...foolish.
i can't tell you how many times ppl have tried to mimic the way that i sound, outside of the north.
all of a sudden, after i speak, ppl that were born and raised in the south that never stepped foot outside of their state go from:
"yeah, mane, we bout to go to the sto' right quick and pick up some juice. then caowll nikeisha sister to see what she wont..."
to
"yeah son...afta i get back from the stoa, i'ma holla at..."
Wow.....don't impress yourself. No one is trying to be like New Yorkers down here. We have our own slang, swag, style, culture,etc
what are some examples of this creative lingo? (serious question)
i'm not sure where most of the country gets its lingo from...i think it has more to do with region. the youth in particular regions are more likely to get their slang from the largest area in the region in sort of a trickle down way, IMHO.
i have to disagree on women looking better in atl...but i will say that it seems like more women know how to cook in the south, which is a huge plus.
LOL....ok well I put it to you like this...the black women in ATL looks MUCH better than those in NY...now back to the original topic!
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Yea same here, but when they were personally giving me speech classes they practically forced me to speak with the general American accent because i guess i had a thicker accent than that particular generation.
So no, the class wasn't meant for the accent itself, but they mixed it in for better progress.
which barely did crap
Well, they don't teach speech based on specific accents, lol. I took speech growing up and also had private speech lessons. They showed me words pronounced in a general American accent too.
honestly, so many ppl want to be us, threads like this seem...foolish.
i can't tell you how many times ppl have tried to mimic the way that i sound, outside of the north.
all of a sudden, after i speak, ppl that were born and raised in the south that never stepped foot outside of their state go from:
"yeah, mane, we bout to go to the sto' right quick and pick up some juice. then caowll nikeisha sister to see what she wont..."
to
"yeah son...afta i get back from the stoa, i'ma holla at..."
Yes, eek, everyone wants to be like you. Oh mygawd, oh mygawd, you're like soooo cooool!!!
lots of the time when people emulate an accent they are mocking somebody.
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