Posted on 05/05/2022 9:22:03 AM PDT by WXRGina
After years of wondering what caused the last couple of generations of kids to start speaking in such an irritating manner, like silly children, I finally made a short audio recording with an overview of the bad speech habits of young people and brief advice for breaking those habits.
Millennials have problems pronouncing their Ts.
Wish I had a nickel every time I heard one refer to Putin as “Pu-in”.
I can generally ignore most things, but moronials finishing each sentence as if it is a question makes my teeth itch, like oh my god
They sound like muppets, kind of swallowing their words.
They use the same words over and over. The word “like” and “basically” are used so many times in the course of a 60 second conversation that it seems that’s all they are saying.
When my daughter was in High School I broke her from that. Tell me your story without using the word “like”. It really stumped her at first and she would storm off. I was persistent and every time she repeated that word I would stop the conversation. It actually worked.
Now I have “educated” employees who never got the lesson. It’s like basically irritating, you see what I’m saying?
Yes, just like Sesame Street, I see what you are saying.
🤦🏻♂️
Yes, that's part of the dropping consonants, the Dih-un and Impor-un, ghetto-type speak I noted.
Yes, those are some heavy verbal crutches!
Ya know?
ping
The words “like” and “ya know” have been used as filler speech by young people since I was a teen and I am 68. The difference is parents and teachers used to correct it. Not so much now.
Diction, grammar, syntax, rhetorical tools - it seems progressive, state-run education has got rid of them all.
When helping my parents clear out my deceased grandfather’s house years ago, I came across a high school textbook he used - entitled something like “Logic and Rhetoric.”
Being a public school educated Gen X, it was like reading an abstruse religious text for the first time. It covered public speaking and writing, logical fallacies, and rhetorical devices - chiasmus, anaphora/epistophre, tricolon, etc.. And they learned this in High School!
Educated people of 100+ years ago would have, as you say, modeled themselves on accepted models (often ancient Greeks and Romans, Shakespeare, etc...) - and would have easily recognized the rhetorical tools used by great speakers like Churchill or MLK.
Now we have no clue.
Even 25 years ago, I heard very little kids using that nutsy ‘upspeak’. They hear it in the media and just adopt it, thinking it’s cool.
It’s kind of scary how impressionable kids are. They learn bad habits and never get rid of them.
We used to have teachers correct us when we made mistakes like this. I had a public speaking teacher in high school who was at pains to teach me to say ‘get’ instead of ‘git’. I still slip up.
(Unfortunately, teachers today often speak like ignorant teens themselves.)
Oh, yes, verbal crutches are nothing new, but there’s definitely a devolution in knowledge of proper diction.
Kids funna do what kids do.
Yes, it’s truly sad to see to downward spiral in motion.
Their speech habits are totally annoying like pronouncing probably as “prolly”, pronouncing Maryland as Mary Land, and the worst one is pronouncing filet mignon as fill let mig (pronouncing the g) non.
Do these schools not teach pronunciation anymore?
Learning disabilities might be prevalent among them.
And they don’t got gooder grammar
The voice of our current and future overlords is wretched.
I have complained about every single one of those. She didn’t spend enough time on “like”, though.
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