Posted on 12/31/2009 11:04:42 AM PST by don-o
For some examples, tune in to Hannity's show in the afternoon and hear young (I assume) females who speak in some sort of Valley Girl / Munchkin combination of vocabulary and inflection.
In the interest of equal treatment, many young males also exhibit poor communication skills; but poor in a different way. Many sound like remarkable apes who have learned rudimentary human speech.
What is the cause of this loss of standard speech?
This has been troubling me for quite some time. The last day of the year is a good time to get it out of my head and out there for discussion.
Thank you for letting me share!
Demosthenes Practising Oratory by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy (1842–1923). Demosthenes used to study in an underground room he constructed himself. He also used to talk with pebbles in his mouth and recited verses while running. To strengthen his voice, he spoke on the seashore over the roar of the waves.
-Wikipedia
The tagline.
Ya shoulda been sayin’ “poke” or “sack” any way....LOL!
[I wonder how many fights start because of “linguistic misunderstandings”?]....;-D
I love listening to Cajuns.
[and I LMAO every time I talk to somebody from Wisconsin]
I know. Just picking! Although, the Cedar Islanders have been there since...forever.
A customer came in the other day and we were talking about the early settlers in our area. He said the CI’s came from England. I just looked at him and laughed and said “Scotland.”
He looked at me like he wanted to argue.
I said, “William Wallace. Do you have any idea how many islanders are named William Wallace, or variations thereof? NO Englishman on the planet is going to name his son WW.”
He just burst out laughing and agreed.
There was a local chain of small, corner stores down here, precursors of the modern convenience store, named “Tote-A-Poke.”
Word'gee git 'atair maddock?
Hit was a lyin' ova yunner.
Makes sense ‘cuz that’s exactly what ya do....;D
[but never poke a tote because the person might have a possum in there]
Hilarious.
On dem first day of Christmas, my true love she gave to me:
A crawfish in a fig tree.
On dem second day of Christmas, my true love she gave to me:
Two voodoo dolls
And a crawfish in a fig tree.
On dem third day of Christmas my true love she gave to me:
Three stuffed shrimp,
Two voodoo dolls,
And a crawfish in a fig tree.
On dem fourth day of Christmas, my true love she gave to me:
Four pousse cafe',
Three stuffed shrimp,
Two voodoo dolls,
And a crawfish in a fig tree.
On dem fifth day of Christmas,
I could not believe in all my days what she come up with:
Five poules d'eau,
Four pousse cafe',
Three stuffed shrimp,
Two voodoo dolls,
And a crawfish in a fig tree.
The name Wallace was actually originally Welsh.
[a race who also loathes the Anglos]....LOL
“Stob” was what really got them. The guy’s mother laughed about stobs until the day she died.
LOL!
*Years* ago I “translated” part of Romeo & Juliet into “hillbilly” for a friend.
It was funny as all get out.
Wish I knew what I ever did with it.
I even know middle-aged people who do that and it annoys me to no end. In my experience when someone does that, it's usually a punctuation to some "know-it-all" comment preceding it.
Oops. And a lot of German Lutherans, too. Not like my people, German Catholics. Rheinpfalz, y’see. A different ‘race’.
What part of East Tennessee? I can probably tell you which Cherokee clan his people came from. Off the top of my head it might be </i>Ani’-Kawi’</i> - Deer Clan.
If you ever encounter very odd animal town names, in western NC, eastern TN, or north GA, names like Duck Town, Turtle Town, etcetera, it was the main settlement of a Cherokee clan in the days before resettlement.
I can answer that - Cocke County - specifically Bat Harbor.
Well, that’s a tough one, since it’s on a trading path/war path. Did his forebears come over in the wave immediately preceding statehood? Any connection to the Free State of Franklin, the Wautauga Settlements of many former Regulators, or the Over-The-Mountain Men of The Battle Of King’s Mountain fame in the Revolution? John Sevier was the only governor of Franklin, the first governor of Tennessee, and a former Regulator.
Sorry for so many questions, I’m a history buff, a genealogy buff, have Cherokee ancestors myself as well as a large number of younger sons in my lines who struck out for “the backcountry” from here, beginning just shortly after the Revolution, and a few even before.
Your husband’s Cherokee ancestry doesn’t happen to include a woman named Dorcas with an English surname but many German Lutheran connections, by any chance, does it? If so, tell him howdy, cousin. She was fathered by the so-called black sheep of the Tuttle family, along about 1792.
Your comment about German Lutherans also fits. They came from “around here,” the Moravian towns in northwestern NC, I’ll bet.
Sorry to ramble, I find it fascinating.
Your example reminds me of something. In high school, I was on the way to a Keywanettes convention in San Antonio with the others from my club. Our sponsor's cheeky son made the trip with us. We stopped at a Dairy Queen in some small town along the way. In the one of the large tubs of ice cream in the case at the counter was a dead roach.
The sponsor's son said to the weathered, 50-something clerk, "Hey lady, do you know there's a cockroach in the ice cream?"
As laid-back as could be, she drawled, "Yeah, I seen it."
Lol, needless to say...no one ordered ice cream.
I still laugh about both the woman's grammar and her utter lack of concern.
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