Black = Education-less?

[tld221]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

That's horrible. People share this sentiment on the college level too, though. I am very well spoken, but when I was an undergrad, I had several people look at me funny when I pronounced words correctly. I'm like "Are you serious? Why are you here if you want to remain ignorant?"

Seriously - my freshman year, my white friends said i sounded too "black" when pronouncing words like "water" and "dinner" (r-less-ness and all) but my black friends said i sounded too white pronouncing "milk" and "mother."

i didnt even know you can pronounce "milk" any other way!

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by tld221

Seriously - my freshman year, my white friends said i sounded too "black" when pronouncing words like "water" and "dinner" (r-less-ness and all) but my black friends said i sounded too white pronouncing "milk" and "mother."

IIRC, you're in NYC, right? When I lived on the east coast, I only heard "water" and "dinner" pronounced one way (black, white, or otherwise). Interesting.

i didnt even know you can pronounce "milk" any other way!

Exactly! lol

I actually started going out of my way to make sure folks used proper grammar when speaking with me (ex. I'd correct them mid-sentence). When I started doing that, I didn't really hear much about my "white-isms" :shrug:

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

IIRC, you're in NYC, right? When I lived on the east coast, I only heard "water" and "dinner" pronounced one way (black, white, or otherwise). Interesting.



Exactly! lol

I actually started going out of my way to make sure folks used proper grammar when speaking with me (ex. I'd correct them mid-sentence). When I started doing that, I didn't really hear much about my "white-isms" :shrug:

You have to remember though, she went to NYU IIRC. If so, then most of the people she knew were probably from out of state. I met a group of 8 NYU undergrads recently, and only 2 or 3 of them were locals.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

You have to remember though, she went to NYU IIRC. If so, then most of the people she knew were probably from out of state. I met a group of 8 NYU undergrads recently, and only 2 or 3 of them were locals.

Many of the TX universities have a large out-of-state population, but they wouldn't bat an eye at the use of the word "y'all."

[DrPhil]

"Hey, look at me...I'm a different kind of Black person...I don't speak Ebonics or broken English...people say I talk white....whewwwwwww!!!!" *doing cartwheels*

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

"Hey, look at me...I'm a different kind of Black person...I don't speak Ebonics or broken English...people say I talk white....whewwwwwww!!!!" *doing cartwheels*

*hides before lynch-mob shows up*

[ladygreek]

My concern is not only talking "proper", but writing "proper" when it counts (not on social networks.) I can't believe how many college-educated folx say I seen, Me and her went to the store, end sentences with propositions, etc.