OH MY GOODNESS...words fail me.
Rather than being a source of embarrassment, it is a point of pride with the locals that “we don’t talk like ya’ll, Yankees”.
I hear things like “We goin to see nana at the hospik. (hospice). She got oldtimers (Alzheimer's)." or "Man I sho is sick today. I drinked me too many beers last night." on a daily basis.
One of the funniest and most pathetic things that I've noticed is teenaged girls, I guess in some effort to sound less "southern", have adopted a sort of valley-girl sing-song manner of speach. Unfortunately it's even more annoying than their former way of speaking.
BTW: February 14th is Valentimes Day here in Newnan.