I went down to Tennesee on vacation and I could barely understand what they were saying.
2006-09-08 16:39:59 · 43 answers · asked by posture 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I agree with you, they've added their own slang to the English language and they've ruined it. I'm talking about slang like y'all and honky tonk, the list goes on and on.
2006-09-09 08:05:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Now that is the misconception that non-Southerners have about the South, a person can be from any region of the United States and not possess proper English. You should not be so judgemental,a person's dialect does not neccessarily determine what their intellect will be. I am from the South and I make sure that everything I say is enunciated clearly. And I can honestly tell you that since living in the state that I live in now,I have encountered some very flat speech,so it does not matter where you are from but how you were taught.
2006-09-08 16:54:35 · answer #2 · answered by T.Mack 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am from the south . I use proper english. I have an enormous vocabulary and I am an eloquent speaker. I also speak 2 Native American languages.People from the south speak slower and drawl their words. People from the north speak very fast and run their words together. I lived in Pa for awhile . I had a very difficult time understanding the people there. If you asked the people in Tenn. about the way you speak, I bet they would say the same about you.
2006-09-08 18:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by chitchenitza 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Better to ask why Americans do not speak proper English. As with all languages, new inflections, idioms and slang become a part of the language through use.
I suspect you would also have a problem understanding people in parts of England.. which is where most actually speak the language to some degree. In the US we do not speak English, we speak American, and usually poorly.
2006-09-08 17:13:53 · answer #4 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Texan who was born in Mississippi I want to know why you forgot the comma in your compound sentence. I would suggest a comma between "vacation" and "and". I would also like to suggest you spell "Tennesee" correctly. Why can't some northerners use proper grammar?
I once lived in Pennsylvania, and I found some of the fast-talking dialect difficult to follow.
Please don't base your opinion of southerners on the few people you know from Tennessee or Crawford, Texas.
2006-09-08 16:49:15 · answer #5 · answered by LorettoBoy 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Basically it does not matter where you are from. What matters is that a person have a good education. Southerners have a different accent than someone raised in the north. That is just the way it is. Proper English can very well be taught in the north, south ,east and west. It is all about EDUCATION.
2006-09-08 16:46:15 · answer #6 · answered by GiGi 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, I live in the south now and I'm used to the way they talk down here. I also realized that where I come from people just have a different way of speaking. For instance when I first moved here, people said that I had an accent and talked funny. I'm from Philly.
2006-09-08 16:41:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
We have many accents in our country and some are more difficult than others to understand unless you are from that particular area. Learn to appreciate the variety and whenever someone says something that you can not understand it is OK to say "I didn't understand what you said - can you repeat it?" It could be worse - they could be speaking another language rather than merely having an accent.
2006-09-09 00:42:16 · answer #8 · answered by Cheryl Hampton 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey kid go to Brooklyn and you will not understand one word... Every place says it different.... It's not that people in South don't speak proper English, it's just that dummies like you think that you speak the perfect language and you are not a good listener... Where u from anyway..
2006-09-08 16:43:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
For one they have a heavy and thick accent. Have you ever heard people from New Orleans? Or from Boston? It is more of a regional accent than "improper" English. There are people who are very well educated and have very thick accents and speak more "proper" English than a lot of us do and depending on where we grew up or are used to and we can't understand them either.In Tennessee, it is called a 'Southern drawl" not improper English.
2006-09-08 16:52:29 · answer #10 · answered by sharkscue 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it is like that everywhere you haven't been. Heavy accents are everywhere or at least most places. It can take a while but after a while you get used to it.
I moved across the US and all my friends said I developed an accent and so did the people where I moved say I had one.
2006-09-08 16:42:33 · answer #11 · answered by dayakaur 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋