Southern accents, Eastern accents, Northern accents and Ebonics

[cheerfulgreek]

I was looking at some recent and old posts on here, and I was noticing the dialogue that was being used. Some of it is hilarious, but some people really do talk like some of the posts we read. greekchat even has it's own translator (DS) (lol). While it was very funny reading the translations, there really are definitions of some of the English words we're using today that we didn't use 100 years ago. I got a PM recently and the member who PMd me used the term "bitchassness" in conversation. I never heard of that term before. I asked what it meant and the member PMd me an actual definition from the internet. Then some of the words that are used in the South vs the North, East and West are totally different from one another. o.k. I use some slang here and there, but now it's getting to the point where I just don't understand some of the words that are being used today.

After reading a lot of the posts on here and having conversations with some of the people I know, eventually or so it seems, it's certain to me that more new words will form, meanings will migrate, and obsolete words will die out.