Millennials have problems pronouncing their Ts.
Wish I had a nickel every time I heard one refer to Putin as “Pu-in”.
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.
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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.
Kids funna do what kids do.
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
I have complained about every single one of those. She didn’t spend enough time on “like”, though.
For me, the Vocal Fry is the most irritating. If someone is speaking with this on TV, I immediately turn it off.
Having family members in public education and their explanation of what goes on in the typical English class, I’d say the problem is unfixable.
It’s complex involving failure of parents & school administrators, dumbed down curriculum content, teachers limited authority to correct grammatical, pronunciation and spelling errors without being accused of ‘racism’, cell phone use and texting instead of conversation and social media that has created cultural and generational isolation in young people and more, much more.
And, I believe it is deliberate.
Like, I was literally just thinking about this the other day.
They can’t talk or write to save their lives. It’s pathetic.
The “didn’t” and “important” speech is how Blacks talk, which has been tragically adopted by White kids, along with the endless “bruh” and “imma” (formerly “I’m going to”)
Didn’t we have this exact discussion 60 years ago?
Thank you!
The prominent one I noticed is beginning every sentence with “I mean...”.
I find it really annoying when someone uses an exaggerated version of the word “What.” Instead of simply saying “What?”, they say “Whhaaaatttt?”