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!
Another variation I have heard: "supposively".
Same here. Except I have one more that you guys have
probably never heard of, Melungeon.
Wayne Winkler was / is associated with our local npr station - WETS-FM
What is amazing to me are the voices of presumably adult males who seem to lack any trace of resonance or baritone quality.
I am sometimes flabbergasted to hear someone who sounds so young to turn out to be in his 50s or 60s.
Why, thischere thread ain’t nuthin but a big ol family reunion! LOL
Re post 246, I did not say as such, but I am talking about people who call into radio talk shows.
And I've enjoyed it thirlly, but the Big Orange is about
to play, so I'm outta here.
I did the John Wayne movie “Rio Bravo” in rhyming couplets. It was the hit of my high school.
I do wish I knew more about my own ancestors. They were all people who fled from Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf (German for Hopenchange) in Germany in the 1870's. Good German stock: wine-barrel makers and draft dodgers.
I have a few stories. There's the one about my father's grandfather, the barrel-maker. In the late 1800's, a fellow offered to put him in charge of his whole barrel-making operation for the newfangled petroleum industry --- a fellow named Andrew Carnegie. But did greatgrandfather take the job? No-o-o. He was no fool. He said, “There's no future in oil. The future's in beer!”
So that was my father's side: skilled, stubborn, and not notably talented at making money.
Thirly. Heh. I’ll get back to you on that terreckly. My husband’s devoted the whole Orange thing, but me, I’m an agnostic in the Church of Football.
Forgot to ping you to #245. Or was it #247?
Anyway, here’s your invite!
Daddy’s people are Welsh and Cherokee. :) No Wallaces. Lots of Forrests, and Malcolms and Shades and Grovers and Keiths and....
And then, there's Frank Zappa again, lol. He was a highly intelligent and very strange fellow. He very well could have known the origin of poodle doo, lol. I'm not about to post those lyrics, though. We're still in prime time, the chilluns, don'tcha know.
Oh, so you're a real ridgerunner, then. One of my fifth great grandmothers was a Sizemore. Ring any bells, lol?
That family goes all the way back to James Cittie, and has legendary claims of descent from the half-Spanish brother of Powhatan.
All joking aside... you are 100% correct. It is maddening.
That would be pig skins :-)
The perfect snack for Bowl games.
Result of text messageing?
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