"Ahhhh ain't no ways tahhhhhhhrd..."
ya’all
is more precise than
you (plural).
Hey, no dirty talk here! ;o)
Yes.
You mean are Northerners losing their accents?
With every home having cable TV, it was kinda inevitable that learning and sophistication would eventually penetrate even the most backward areas of the country. ;-}
Maybe we should have a paypsee!
"Ahhhh ain't no ways tahhhhhhhrd..."
This article misses that there are different Southern accents.
It matters not where a person is from, be it New York City, Jersey, the West Coast, Kansas or some foreign country. You put a CB mic in their hand and within thirty minutes, they'll be sounding like they're from south Alabama!
Now it is “Hey, like did you go to that uh, like party last night it was killer, ya know?! Uh so what’s up? Dang that guy was ho—o-t. Yeow! You know what I’m talkin’ about? Way hot!” And that is just with the 45 year olds. LOL. I haven’t even gotten into text language with the young uns. The language is mono rap with a lot of the younger crowd or party girl NY/California (established from TV and movies). Give me a southern drawl anyday!
Watched the premiere of “Kid Nation” (because of the controversy—still haven’t decided whether it was a bad idea), and it seems that regional accents (such as Southern drawls and Massachusetts.....accents) are still in existence and will be for at least a while more yet.
Overall, the article tends to take a biased-against-Southern-accent slant.
I bought into Lenny Bruce’s routine about Lyndon Johnson that made much of northerners’ unwillingness to accept any sort of intellectual comment from a southerner. When I moved north to Virginia, I had to lose the Carolina drawl or be pegged for a bumpkin. As Bruce said, “They damn you for your sound.”