What was his reply?
A lot of the students spoke like that and I think THEY thought it made the sound cool or intelligent
It doesn't. It just makes a person sound too lazy or to ignorant to speak properly.
Some Greeks speak their language so well that it's called the ‘the clean tongue’.
Most people (especially young people) have a ‘lazy tongue’ and it shows. When I watch the weather, some of the announcers say ‘metorology’ instead of meteorology and they omit a whole syllable. Duhhhh...they can't even pronounce the name of their profession!! TV new is populated, wall to wall, with people who do not speak like the professionals they insist they are! If you speak like you drank a case of beer, then tied a brick to your tongue ....you are NOT a professional!!