Southern accents, Eastern accents, Northern accents and Ebonics

[starang21]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I know it's a real part of the English language

:wassat:

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by starang21

:wassat:

Excuse me?

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I don't think you know what Ebonics is.

Glad I read ahead. *high five*

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I don't think you know what Ebonics is.

bitchassness.....lol

Why does that sound like sumn u made up?

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

bitchassness.....lol

Why does that sound like sumn u made up?

Actually, the phrase was recently made popular by Diddy (aka Sean Combs) on Making the Band 4. Why don't you pop over to MTV.com, see if you can catch a streaming episode and watch in wonder as his stupid ramblings turned into an overnight sensation!

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

bitchassness.....lol

Why does that sound like sumn u made up?

Seriously Daemon, I didn't make it up. I would post the link, but I don't think that would be a good idea.

DSTCHAOS, I wasn't making fun of the slang that was being used, I was laughing at the translator. I wasn't trying to offend anyone and I totally apologize if I did.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

DSTCHAOS, I wasn't making fun of the slang that was being used, I was laughing at the translator. I wasn't trying to offend anyone and I totally apologize if I did.

No harm no foul.

But once again, Ebonics isn't "slang" and you should find another way to joke about a GC translator than to call the crappy translated sentences Ebonics.

[SWTXBelle]

Earponics?

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

No harm no foul.

But once again, Ebonics isn't "slang" and you should find another way to joke about a GC translator than to call the crappy translated sentences Ebonics.

o.k. I was wrong, and I went back to edit the original post.

[Fawn Liebowitz]

I have a friend from Boston that introduced me to the word "bubblah" - it still makes me laugh every time he says it - you don't hear that very much here in Alabama.

[modorney]

No, I drink my wattah from a tumblah.

There is a "test" (as in MMPI, MBTI, etc., ) that measures how many words you have spoken in life, up to that date - some linguist, or speech therapist here may be familiar with that test?. My college was into the psychology of engineering design, and that test was floating around. I grew up near Boston (in one of the Tonic Towns) and spoke few words. So, I lost my Boston accent quickly.

English has always been a fluid language, variations like Ebonics are frequent through history.

[LegallyBrunette]

Originally Posted by modorney

No, I drink my wattah from a tumblah.

There is a "test" (as in MMPI, MBTI, etc., ) that measures how many words you have spoken in life, up to that date - some linguist, or speech therapist here may be familiar with that test?. My college was into the psychology of engineering design, and that test was floating around. I grew up near Boston (in one of the Tonic Towns) and spoke few words. So, I lost my Boston accent quickly.

English has always been a fluid language, variations like Ebonics are frequent through history.

hijack--I grew up outside of Boston too, but I've never heard the phrase Tonic Town. What towns does that refer to/what's the reference all about?

Generally, I don't speak with an accent (although both my parents do), but I was 24 before I realized that people in the rest of the country didn't know what a bubbler (pronounced 'bubblah') was

ps, I'm with Ree, Dunkin Donuts munchkins are calorie free and delicious. /hijack

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by LegallyBrunette

Generally, I don't speak with an accent . . . .

I bet a Brit would disagree with you on that.

Everybody speaks with an accent.

[LegallyBrunette]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I bet a Brit would disagree with you on that.

Everybody speaks with an accent.

True.

I meant that I don't generally speak with a Boston accent.

[catiebug]

My husband is from Charlestown (a part of Boston - it's where the Bunker Hill Monument is). Until their deaths, his parents still lived in the same house he grew up in. In 1997, my husband and I were living in Chile. I was pregnant (about 5 months at the time) with our first child. I came up to the States for a month tho see my in-laws (Boston), my grandmother (San Diego) and my mom (Houston).

My FIL took me baby clothes shopping in Boston one day. This was a discount place where nothing was more than $10, but they had some very nice things. I picked out quite a bit, mostly things at the $10 price level. We went to check out and the clerk said, "You didn't get any bahhhhgans." I could not for the life of me understand what she was trying to say. My FIL, who had an accent as thick as anything, had to "translate" for me - he spelled the word - b-a-r-g-a-i-n-s. I said, "Ohhhhhhhh, barrrrrrgains!"