Posted on 12/31/2009 11:04:42 AM PST by don-o
For some examples, tune in to Hannity's show in the afternoon and hear young (I assume) females who speak in some sort of Valley Girl / Munchkin combination of vocabulary and inflection.
In the interest of equal treatment, many young males also exhibit poor communication skills; but poor in a different way. Many sound like remarkable apes who have learned rudimentary human speech.
What is the cause of this loss of standard speech?
This has been troubling me for quite some time. The last day of the year is a good time to get it out of my head and out there for discussion.
Thank you for letting me share!
Like, what are trying to get at?
It’s like, you know...
What standard of speech?
Like - there’s like a whole like generation that can’t like speak like with coherence. It could make one like crazy, if one like let it.
Don’t axe me.
That is so, like, gay.
FMCDH(BITS)
I used to think Valley Girl dialect was annoying until I heard those chicks on Jersey Shore talking. Now after 2 minutes of listening to them you’ll be dying to talk with a like girl like from the valley, you know.
Is that a real question or just a cynical comment? Please advise.
I, like, broke my like, 9-year-old daughter from like, talking like that, when I was, like, talking this way for like, 20 minutes.
I think she realized how ridiculous it sounded after that. ;)
What I think?
Is that it’s like
Some kind of weird thing?
Where like
Everybody talks really weird?
So that every sentence or so?
Ends like a question?
Ya know?
Call me and I’ll make you sick of the “Highland Southern Dialect” [aka Hillbilly-speak] in an hour or less....LOL!
When I hear ‘ di-int’ I could bitch-slap the offender into the next millenium.
You nailed it; and in a very poetic manner. Thank you.
It is a real question, regional and generational dialects have always existed. It isn’t a ‘loss of standard’, simply changes in said dialects. Clear communication is always a challenge and has, throughout history, been one of the guideposts of those who successfully advance in society.
I believe what is different now is that with the mass distribution of media, we are exposed more to different regional and generational dialects and those often spread further than what would have been their isolated enclaves in the past.
Yo, dude, like, no duh!
Jus cuz we ain speek like you doan mean weez stupid or nuffin.
Yoo racis!
chalk it up to another Gramscian success: ‘the long march through the institutions’ has impacted just about everything. Dullards are so much easier to herd than bright, articulate people.
Who needs an education when big-daddy government just gives you everything you need?
Worked with a young man who used that term all the time. Tried to correct him to no avail. It's a shame because he was ordinarily very intelligent, but using “axe” for “ask” made him look like a dimwit.
I'm not talking about regional dialects, which I happen to love. I'm talking about the affected and adopted speech patterns that young people are picking up.
People rarely converse. They listen to music, radio, tv, games...but they do not know how to process and speak.
Fo’ shizzle, dog!
Anyways
Oooooh......”di-int” is my biggest pet peeve.
I think it’s just lazy speaking. Hate it.
(like, you know?)
Hormone Replacement Therapy?
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
Veni, Vidi, Vicki: “I came, I saw, and I’m like, Omigod!”
“Uhhhhhhh?”
ping
Often, the young of today are only able to utter three and a half words of any sentence, before the thought wanders off to oblivion. When you ask them what they are trying to say, it is answered with, "Whaaa??"
Real idiots out there these days and its only getting worse...
Guy goes into a bar, man, there’s a robot bartender.
The robot says, man, “What will you have?” The dude says, like, “Martini.” The robot brin’s back thuh best martini ever and says to thuh man, man, “What’s your IQ?” The dude says, like, wow, “168”. The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, like, space exploration and medical technology.
The dude blows, man, but he is curious, man, so he goes back into thuh bar. The robot bartender says, What will you have?” The dude says, fer shure, “Martini. Again, man, the robot makes a awesum martini, like, gives it to thuh man and says, like, wow, “What’s your IQ?” The dude says, man, “100.” The robot then starts to talk about NASCAR, fer shure, Budweiser and John Deere tractors.
The dude blows, fer shure, but finds it super cool, mostly, so he thinks he will try it one more time. That dude goes back into thuh bar. The robot says, like, “What will you have?” The dude says, mostly, “Martini, man, and thuh robot brin’s that dude another awesum martini. The robot then says, mostly, “What’s your IQ?” The dude says, oh, baby, “Uh, oh, baby, about 50.” The robot leans in real close and says, like, “So, man, you guys still happy you voted for Obama?”
A show I love to watch the is Rachel Zoe project. Her speech is ultimate valley girl. I mean “like” it is “bananas” and “I die.” The weird thing is her two assistants talk just like her. I thought valley girl speech went out in the ‘80s but not so.
I am a Valley girl but never caught the speech unless someone calls me valley chick,then I have fun with it.
+100
Veni, Vidi, Vicki: “I came, I saw, and I’m like, Omigod!”
LOL! And you have to say “omigod” with an uplift and then quick downturn in the voice and two syllabus in ‘god’ (ga-ahd).
You had to know that was coming. :)
hormone replacement therapy?
ping
This is going to be a fun thread.
Once at Taco Bell I ordered two tacos and a burrito supreme. The girl verified my order: “You say you want two taco and one burrito supremes?”
I'm doing good.
I seen it he/she/it.
Are just a few used by the executives running the company where I work.
I hate to get my hopes up. So, thanks.
“When I hear ‘ di-int’ I could bitch-slap the offender into the next millenium.”
If you got the meaning, go to hell!
I spent some time Northern England several years ago and in some areas of the South. There is English and there is what people speak. They understood me but I will be damned if I understood them, until the ear got tuned.
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