Analyze my dialect

[mrmitchell]

I was thinking about how people speak. Even in one language, there's tons of different regional variations. English English, Australian English, Canadian English, Southern English, Yankee English, they're all different and although not an actual pain in the ass, the differences are there and noticable.

Knowing how many language nuts there are here, here's an examples of something I said lately. Analyze it.

"Down at th'ol' house, we had a winder that went from one room to another"

That's not all! Here's a few words and phrases.

"ain't", "y'all", "fer," "whut fer" (also whuffer sometimes.)

And there's lots of double negatives and extra words here and there.

"I done got the book"
"I ain't no sucker"

"Yo," "Ya," and "yer":

"Yo! Whazzup y'all?"
"Shut yo trap."
"Ya dropped yer pencil."

My parents are "ma" and "pa". My relatives are my "folks," and I have cuzins and gramma and grampa. What fer? Jus' becuz.

Lastly, I don't care for the obscenity level. There's usually a "sh*t" or "d*mn" every here and there.

"You can't see sh*t, son. It's right in front uh ya."
'Damn book's worse'n the phone book fer story."

It's not like I don't know proper English, it's just that I don't speak it without a conscious effort. Of course I write this stuff correct all the time, but who'm I to worry about how I speak?

"I'll pick up some Cokes if'n the corner store's still open."

One a y'all English nuts lemme know if there's any details ya can glean from this about my dialect or which century of English English it's closest to, or other things like that.

Sometimes I get "Winder?" or "You had an ideer?" But them're all just haters anyway. Overall there ain't no reaction.

[Al B. Sure!]

you talk like you come from North Philly

[Al B. Sure!]

do you also say "I'm a go to the store"? or "I done did it"

if so... then yeah, you a ghetto boy. though we don't say "whut fer?", we say "whut fo?" it's not "yer car" it's "yo car"

"Shut yo trap."
"Ya dropped yer pencil."

first one is philly pronounciation of your... second is what you said you use.

[loinburger]

How about this: "Dere are tree tings you godda know about da bus." Spoken by my bus driver back in high school. Guess my location.

[Al B. Sure!]

mitchell:

you probably say greezy as opposed to greasy, right?

[Asher]

In the neighborhood I'm in, they pronounce "ing" as "ingk". They're mostly Jewish. It's so strange.

[Solomwi]

Somewhere in middle Appalachia, mrmitchell?

[Nubclear]

Something

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, I'm guessing Appalachia or rural South.

[Sprayber]

Id say more like the Ozark mountains than Appalachia

[Al B. Sure!]

didnt i already say he speaks identical to someone from North Philly? he's clearly an east coast urbanite in his dialect... he's inconsistant with 'your' and 'for' and what not though... half the time he says "yer" and "fer" (god knows where that came from) and the other half he says "yo" and "fo" (definently east coast city)

[Imran Siddiqui]

Nope, not clearly at least... I've heard the exact same stuff from people down here in Atlanta.

[Al B. Sure!]

Atlanta being an east coast urban center... just like philly... well except for south philly where they sound like Rocky or your typical Italian-American featured in mob and ww2 movies.

[Imran Siddiqui]

White folk, Speer... I don't think they speak with the 'urban' dialect. Rednecks aren't known for talking ghetto .

Though the phrases about shut yo trap and wazzup are outliers and could have been picked up from commericials and TV.

But 'Winder' and 'ideer' are definetly redneck.

[Al B. Sure!]

Imran:

of course southernors and urbanites share the same basic dialect... there's differences between plantation, highlands, etc. but yeah... east coast city dwellers share a dialect with the southernors...

the italian dialect also has some southern features though not really.