Prolly? Not meaning to pick on you directly, umgud, but it frustrates me considerably to see what's happening to the English language and the way it continues to be (intentionally) misused, undercut, degraded, and cheapened. I fear we've gone too far in this country to turn back to a time when proper English, grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc., was the norm. Frankly, the new normal is shameful.
"Axe me this, axe me that." "Yah, yah, yah, chilren, prolly, he don't, and she don't, we was, etc."...and in some cases, I'm talking about so-called college educated! More and more, I encounter people who don't speak right, yet alone spell correctly, use proper grammar, etc.
Amongst a number of black Americans, I frequently hear speech I don't understand, unable to make out what's being said. It's like they are deliberately trying to speak a language they can "call their own." I'm on the phone occasionally with an account representative for the Charlotte Bobcats, and he's constantly saying "yah, yah, yah," when speaking with me.
Doesn't anyone know how to say "ladies" anymore? When I'm with other women, we're frequently called "guys," such as in a restaurant, "what can I get you guys?" All I can think of is "do we look like guys to you?" Shopping for furniture last weekend, this nice, young sales lady kept referring to my husband and me as "guys." He's 70 and I'm 56. Guys?
When it comes to the use of English anymore, we're drowning in pond scum. Seriously, the magnitude of the mess wrought on our country knows no bounds.
Consider me properly chastised.
I agree. People should use well English when they comprise they’re posts.
Thanks for about this matter speaking up. Spelling and grammer matter.