I'll get the easiest - Ronald Reagan
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!
Are you directing ME to hell?
If so- you’re wasting your time. I was born and raised and still live in hell- AKA the New Orleans area. Wet,hot, moldy,backward, geologically doomed hell.
ROFLOL!
I'll get the easiest - Ronald Reagan
Somewhat. Wisconsin sounds better, imo. Not too many people grow up in north dakota though. So it’s pretty rare to run into someone with a genuine dakota accent.
No. Ju?
Nah. Junto?
Sho.
trying out a new tagline
I talk to a fellow from Georgia, and as the same type of tag-on, he say “on it”. Usually with a little pause. Literally 2 out of 3 sentences in a conversation have this tag.
One need not speak with a British accent to improve their American elocution. Simply begin by to say your consonants, especially at the end of words, rather than skipping them. If you want practice, read a story to anyone who will listen. If you want an example, listen to any good singer and you'll hear they have learned their lesson—even Willie Nelson (compare him to Toby Keith in “Whiskey for My Men and Beer for My Horses.”
When we first moved to Southern Middle Tennessee, I occasional had to ask a local (and you could tell the real “locals” in one sentence!) to spell words, because I absolutely couldn’t puzzle out what they meant.
I remember I called the Tullahoma Parks office to get directions to a park, and it was just frightful. “Ya go o’er da vy-dut ...” “Excuse me, sir, over the what?” “The vy-dut.” “I’m sorry, I’m from Oklahoma. Could you spell that for me?” “V-i-a-d-u-c-t, miss. O’er da train-trat.” “Oh, you mean the overpass! Then where do I turn?”
Hostage Rescue Team?
Oh, yes, I loved “Foyle’s War.” I think I finally got all the episodes from my library. And a good observation about Willie Nelson.
One of my sons is competing in Oral Interpretation next weekend, and I’ve been coaching him for his reading. “Look at the words, and think about what they mean. Slow down and crank out the consonants, they’re there for a reason. You can shout if you want, it’s about people being killed!” Fun stuff, and I hope he sticks with the public speaking; this is his first try.
Weird. diddent annoys me.
You get the funny characters when you cut-and-paste the quotation marks. It will work if you type them in from the keyboard.
I’m just glad I can hear anything from their mouths. The teenagers I talk to on a daily basis talk so quietly and low that I have to constantly ask them to repeat their grunts.
It is different. Where did that come from? Reminds me of Canadian a lot.
In New Orleans they have Louisianan French. Georgia they have their own southern type of speak.
Californians are the only ones without any. /grin
It got to the point I could understand all this perfectly.
That's often the problem. Super-fast speech gives an impression of something that isn't really there. I've been telling my daughter to slow down.
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It’s OmiGawd for true valley talk.
Like OmiGawd, you won’t believe the gnarly surf yesterday.
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