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Optimistic Cynic |
Comes from listening to too much rap (one track may be too much). More seriously, I think this, and many other ghettoisms come from people wanting to appear to be "hip" and "woke." | |||
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paradox in a box |
I’ve noticed that Candace says “woman” when referring to “women”. She has corrected this lately but I just assumed it was some local accent. These go to eleven. | |||
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I can tell you we don’t talk like that for any particular reason, just the way we say words. Like Mondee, Tuesdee. But apparently I’m an ignorant lazy person. Go figure. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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Add tada lis da portmanteau “ginormous.” Man I hae hearing dat word. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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I worked with a girl in the late 90's that was from New Jersey. I noticed she did this... Kitten - Ki-en Mitten - Mi-en etc. etc. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| I swear I had something for this |
To give Candace some credit, her husband is English and could be picking it up from him. | |||
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There is also an epidemic of people who substitute "a" when "an" is called for. Drives me nuts. | |||
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People mimic who they are around. There was a book written- Race to the bottom. it was written about England, but, I think it applies here. People glorify being poor and low class | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
Same. All these guys commenting about how stupid and lazy you and I are must sound like 1930’s radio announcers. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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| If you see me running try to keep up  |
Exactly, not sure why it annoys be but it does. | |||
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| Sigforum K9 handler |
I actually sound like a 1930s DJ, thank you very much. | |||
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Political Cynic |
Intellectual laziness | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
I don't think dropping a hard T sound is equivalent to vocal fry. Dropping Ts , at least IMO, is a bit of laziness in speaking, may be regional as well. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
It sounds ghetto to me | |||
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[IMG] [/IMG] | |||
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More light than heat |
My eighteen year old daughter does this. I’ve never understood it, but I’m hoping it goes away. _________________________ "Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It's only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it--probably doesn't; I don't--but he knows it's so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it." Robert Heinlein | |||
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I wonder how they ask for a tattoo? Wawwoo? “That’s what.” - She | |||
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W07VH5 |
I disagree. If I imitate a caricature cockney accent it’s still an accent. Wah-uh boh-uhl. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
Tah-ooh. The leading T is pronounced. | |||
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