Does it make you shake your head in disappointment when Black people say "AKS" instead of "ASK"? (female, work)

[saganista]

It would be a good idea for everyone to master standard English for use in times when it is appropriate, and there is also the fact that being able to speak and write well when called upon can add hundreds of thousand of dollars to your eventual lifetime earnings. But slang and dialect in everyday life are hardly any drawback. Some are perhaps not familiar with the America of fifty years and longer ago when mass media had not yet homogenized culture and society to the degree that is has today. Every burgh had its own beer and nearly every one had its own dialect. No harm, no foul, as I figure it...

[Reelist in Atlanta]

Originally Posted by chattypatty

Don't things "lay" while people and animals "lie?" Oy, I need review of that verb!

What is an "innernet"?

The innernet is a lot like the internet except that it looks inward instead of outward.

- Reel

[Reelist in Atlanta]

I bet the OP never figured his race baiting thread would turn into a fun thread on people's problems with the English language.

**giggle**

[chattypatty]

Originally Posted by Reelist in Atlanta

The innernet is a lot like the internet except that it looks inward instead of outward.

- Reel

Well, I learned something new today!

My apologies to delusianne for correcting her when I'm apparently the illiterate one!

[Peggy Anne]

Lawdy. Some of the black speak doesn't bother me at all. What really gets me is when a WHITE drunk gets in my face, and says "Do yew mind if I axe you a question?" I always say "Yes I mind" and I walk away. I don't mind the black dialect "I be heppin'" (I am in the process of helping). Their sentence structure has been handed down. I don't mind "Yall's" or "Uh huh" if it is simply the way people talk. I don't like people who talk like dopers. (as in brain has been damaged) Instead of saying "What ?" They say "Whuuuuut ?" with their mouths open, and they are breathing through their mouths.

[delusianne]

Originally Posted by chattypatty

Don't things "lay" while people and animals "lie?" Oy, I need review of that verb!

What is an "innernet"?

It's a series of tubes.

Lay, lie, no, no! You lay something down. An animate being lays itself down. But: "Lie lady lie, lie across my big brass bed."

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by saganista

It would be a good idea for everyone to master standard English for use in times when it is appropriate, and there is also the fact that being able to speak and write well when called upon can add hundreds of thousand of dollars to your eventual lifetime earnings. But slang and dialect in everyday life are hardly any drawback. Some are perhaps not familiar with the America of fifty years and longer ago when mass media had not yet homogenized culture and society to the degree that is has today. Every burgh had its own beer and nearly every one had its own dialect. No harm, no foul, as I figure it...

I asked a friend from Wichita why people down south still have accents when most TV programming doesn't.

He said that everyone in Wichita knows that "that's just TV talk".

[delusianne]

Originally Posted by Reelist in Atlanta

So . . . bottom line . . . the guy who says aks instead of ask . . . if that's his only grammatical problem he's got it goin' on!

- Reel

You remember that scene in Airplane!: "Excuse me, stewardess. I speak Jive."

[Reelist in Atlanta]

Originally Posted by delusianne

It's a series of tubes.

Lay, lie, no, no! You lay something down. An animate being lays itself down. But: "Lie lady lie, lie across my big brass bed."

What about it's? When is it correct to use its?

[CityPerson09]

Originally Posted by Iwillthink4u

Does it diappoint/upset you?

No

Do you say anything?

No