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No: OP's a Choctaw Indian from Oklahoma with a French mother. Who grew up on an Indian reservation with Navajos, Hopis, Mormans and Chicanos.
Hilarious - someone from Oklahoma complaining about a person that speaks with an accent. All of the people that I have met from Oklahoma sound like Larry the Cable Guy.
In OK:
wash = warsh
creek = crick
liberal use of the "word" ain't
lack of use of "ing" ending - walkin', talkin', complainin'
I guess since they are white, as far as the OP is concerned everything is A-OK.
Oh please. Lots of white Chicagoans (Da Bears!), New Yorkers, Wisconsinites as mentioned, and people all over the country say "d" for "th". It might not be the King's English, but it's colloquially accepted. And speaking of the King's English, by those standards none of us speak properly.
Oh please. Lots of white Chicagoans (Da Bears!), New Yorkers, Wisconsinites as mentioned, and people all over the country say "d" for "th". It might not be the King's English, but it's colloquially accepted. And speaking of the King's English, by those standards none of us speak properly.
Yeahyeahyeah... but we're talking about da Blacks. I mean, what is with them?
You have 194 posts and you were new here a few hours ago? I'm guessing the real story is that you were banned and you're back--especially because of the nature of your posts.
I speak better than most white people I know. No one I know irl says "axe" instead of "ask". And if Forrest Whitaker was in a movie, maybe he was acting. Just a thought.
It's dialectical. Every black person I know is capable of saying words with TH in them, and every black person I know is capable of pronouncing the word "ask" correctly. In informal speech, TH is replaced with D and "ask" becomes "axe".
Tho not all "Black" people talk that way; even with other Blacks.
Sometimes I think white people think I'm mocking them. Many of them look shocked when I begin talking. It is impossible for me to sound more stereotypically "black". I tried really hard to do so in high school and my early 20s. Now I just speak naturally. F#*# what people think I'm supposed to sound like. O/T I've had just as many white people say I "talk white" as black people. It's offensive either way.
OP, you and I could probably never have a vocal conversation. I was born in the south and raised in the rural midwest. I'm perfectly capable of speaking "proper" English but, quite frankly, unless I'm interviewing for a job or interacting with people who regularly use proper grammar, I sound like a redneck southerner.
Like another poster here, I had a problem with pronunciation when I was young that led to several years of speech therapy. On top of that, I had a nervous stutter that took years to get under control. To this day, if I'm intoxicated, highly stressed, or extremely tired I will 'hang' on certain sounds. The stutter, along with the internalization method which I was taught in order to control it, leaves me with a speech pattern that is slightly unnatural to most. Those who have been around me for a while have learned to accept the odd pauses in my sentences, but new people tend to think I'm done speaking when I'm actually in the middle of a sentence.
If the simple acts of exchanging a "d" for a "th" or an "x" for an "sk" bother you, a conversation with me would probably put you in therapy.
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