How come if i talk like dis people tink i am colored?

Question

But if i talk like this noone knows. I can talk like dis an say we b chillin in da hood yo. Or I can say we are relaxing on the fron porch. I am white I think it is good to be able to talk different when the situation calls for it. Do you? How many of you can talk both ways?

Answer 1

no i think u just sound ignorant...just speak proper english!...the situation ALWAYS calls for that!

Answer 2

For a very long time, far too long, uneducated people who were disadvantaged were required to communicate under great restraints, both physical and mental. During this hard time, the spoken word, however it was spoken and then heard and repeated again could have entailed quite some time. Mis-spoken words were not corrected as most who communicated with those disadvantaged knew no better themselves. So few were truly educated to understand the language, much less articulate, enunciate well.
While my family are not black, we did have a long history of black persons working near and around and have heard their speaking. The elocution was very relaxed and laid back and almost "lazy" sounding, running many of the words together sounding as if slurred speach. While I believe most of that was a result of children copying what they hear their parents and grandparents speak, some have exaggerated it in a way of "blacktalk" or a sub-language.
Since many of the colored folk did talk like that for real, it became an identifier of sorts. However, due to the fact some of my folks shared in the same type of speach, it isn't a correct or absolute characterization, just a common assumption. Just a sign [to me] of persons living life away from a life needing deeper interaction between others requiring a deeper and more refined language of speech. English is very detailed and the knowledge of it not all that easily grasped.

My tall, very white son was told in his High School that he sounded just like a black person. He was a basketball player and being around his buddies, had picked up talking like they do when they're just shootin round. Most of these young men could speak as well as anyone when challenged, however when relaxed in their play modes would also speak such as you're question using d instead of th. To speak well takes effort and concentration. Guess it's sometimes just easier to go wit da flo.
When my mom was a little girl elocution was very much a part of a young persons grooming for adulthood. Since she was hard of hearing, it was difficult for her and grandmother hired an expressionist to train her. My grandfather was a barber so they weren't wealthy by any definition, but people seemed to be more into grooming their young. Now days we feel fortunate if we can get them grown and avoid drugs and/or unwanted pregnancies. They had music lessons, piano and saxaphone, guitar, dance and as mentioned before elocution and expressionist training. Know what's funny? My mom was taught to use and read other people's hand & body movements as part of understanding the world around her and in the near past, it was circulated about that people who used their hands while talking belonged in psycho-therapy. Boy do times change. So for language, it's a medium to communicate. Do you send out a letter of wrinkled up paper, scribbled up and messy, or do you meticulously write on your best paper, careful to not make mistakes and deliver your best? It's your call! How do want to be perceived? That is one area we can change, if we want to.
Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Most ordinary people would probably consider it a waste of time. Those in the entertainment industry, specifically the performing arts, may work at perfecting an accent or a dialect for a particular role. Perhaps this is what you do?

Answer 4

Not to sound condisending but normally colored people speak in slang, so most will assume. Yes being able to speak in different way is nice but personally I think speaking in slang makes you sound stupid I dont care what color you are.

Answer 5

I don't care what color you are. I think you're too lazy to speak properly. What situation calls for you to speak like that? Hmmm?
Do you also think it's good to be able to speak like a white supremist, just in case you're in a situation that calls for it?

Answer 6

You do sound like speaking vernacular english (lingitic term for english spoken by uneducated colored people)

Answer 7

It sounds like you would like to fit this sterotype in which case just makes you sound uneducated and silly... just speak your lanuguge properly. If you do want to learn to speak difrently take up a new language and learn to speak to new people.

Answer 8

Because people are accustomed to general stereo-types...and usually associate styles and differences with what current media plays.

Answer 9

i can talk 4 ways!
American gangsta
and a good old fashion talk, i can do that!
I also can talk in Portuguese, from brazil.. not Portugal.
And i can also talk like a Brazilian gansta.

whut up with your ''point?
;-D

Answer 10

I am sure many can speak that way but most prefer to speak so others may understand.

Answer 11

Because that's how some black people talk, so people are going to automatically assume you are black when you type like that.