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!
Like, what are trying to get at?
It’s like, you know...
What standard of speech?
Like - there’s like a whole like generation that can’t like speak like with coherence. It could make one like crazy, if one like let it.
Don’t axe me.
That is so, like, gay.
FMCDH(BITS)
I used to think Valley Girl dialect was annoying until I heard those chicks on Jersey Shore talking. Now after 2 minutes of listening to them you’ll be dying to talk with a like girl like from the valley, you know.
Is that a real question or just a cynical comment? Please advise.
I, like, broke my like, 9-year-old daughter from like, talking like that, when I was, like, talking this way for like, 20 minutes.
I think she realized how ridiculous it sounded after that. ;)
What I think?
Is that it’s like
Some kind of weird thing?
Where like
Everybody talks really weird?
So that every sentence or so?
Ends like a question?
Ya know?
Call me and I’ll make you sick of the “Highland Southern Dialect” [aka Hillbilly-speak] in an hour or less....LOL!
When I hear ‘ di-int’ I could bitch-slap the offender into the next millenium.
You nailed it; and in a very poetic manner. Thank you.
It is a real question, regional and generational dialects have always existed. It isn’t a ‘loss of standard’, simply changes in said dialects. Clear communication is always a challenge and has, throughout history, been one of the guideposts of those who successfully advance in society.
I believe what is different now is that with the mass distribution of media, we are exposed more to different regional and generational dialects and those often spread further than what would have been their isolated enclaves in the past.
Yo, dude, like, no duh!
Jus cuz we ain speek like you doan mean weez stupid or nuffin.
Yoo racis!
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