Wednesday, January 25, 2012

counrty talk

I am from Greensboro NC, I believe my features are a mixture of all. Considering my mothers grandparents were from the hills and my dad was from the city, it changed my parents dialect. For instance most of these sayings I have heard or said with the exception of a few. My mother is more mountain talk so i tend to Jumble more of my words together like "aint, yagonna,oveyonder, and so on. As to where my dad he was from what was called the city at the time, so he sounded a little more proper 'if that is what you want to call it in the south' he would use words like soda pop, light bulb, plumb bob, and so on. My mother picked her language up from her parents and so did my dad so when i came about it was a cluster Fu**. So leaning how to speak from them had me talking funny to anything not associated in or from the south. As I grew up I attended school in the 80's and
was introduced to other forms of speech(slang). This consisted of some of what other kids in my area grew up learning from their parents: cool, jive, thats bad, hot, and so on which half the words meant the oppisite of the real meaning. (80s long hair rock music/rap) Southeast Greensboro is considered country slang because even in charlotte when I talk to some folks they half to ask me twice what i said. I am pretty sure it is because i am not speaking proper English. I think most people look at southerners as not so bright because of the way that we talk or the accents we have, but from experience certain people(say northerners) cannot perform or do as many different tasks as we do. Either way i do not judge by the way a person speaks I am proficient in what I do I am neither proud or upset, its just the way I am. On another note most of my friends from service were from up north(Mass). So whenever i would go home on leave with them the accent would help out a lot, because most of the girls up there love to here southerners talk.

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