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Becks19

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danie said:
I'm from Kentucky and made my mind up at around the age of 10 that I would write and speak correctly, no matter how everyone else around me talked! I had gone to Ohio to visit friends, and some neighbors asked my name. "Dana," I said. "Hi, Dinah, nice to meet you," they said. After that vacation, I made sure I changed my accent so that I sounded very northern. I quit using "y'all" and I started putting Gs on the ends of words like "walking" instead of "walkin." I say, "Fine," instead of "Fahn." When someone meets me for the first time, they never can guess where I'm from.
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=DI was raised in the South too. I also made a conscience effort to speak properly. It is just easier for people to understand you. I still talk with an accent, apparently that is one thing I can't shake! I try to get my girls to speak properly as well. I hear them saying warshed instead of washed and pronouncing buried as burryed....( they haven't spent all that much time in Ky they just mimic their father)
 
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Becks19 said:
=DI was raised in the South too. I also made a conscience effort to speak properly. It is just easier for people to understand you. I still talk with an accent, apparently that is one thing I can't shake! I try to get my girls to speak properly as well. I hear them saying warshed instead of washed and pronouncing buried as burryed....( they haven't spent all that much time in Ky they just mimic their father)
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Accents can be endearing, and can sound lovely (including those in Maine =D). I agree about "warshed", and "burryed" - lines have to be drawn. But some of the best, nicest, most genuine people in the world, and those with the biggest hearts, talk kinda funny. My personal favorites are people who think kinda funny.
 
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Becks19 said:
=DI was raised in the South too. I also made a conscience effort to speak properly. It is just easier for people to understand you. I still talk with an accent, apparently that is one thing I can't shake! I try to get my girls to speak properly as well. I hear them saying warshed instead of washed and pronouncing buried as burryed....( they haven't spent all that much time in Ky they just mimic their father)
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Here's an example of a grammatical error......The word I used was conscience, it should be conscious! Silly me!;;D
 
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blunthead said:
Players of the SKMB game The Person Below Me (TPBM) are forced to do this - to use their or they even though in reference to a single individual - since no player necessarily knows the gender of the next person to play, and since we universally refuse to be forced into a disruptive-sounding rule. To use the plural with the singular, though technically incorrect, simply sounds more acceptable, and so is.

What frightens me in modern English usage is that certain mistakes seem to be have come to sound better to most than the correct ones. The word "less" is chronically used when "fewer" should be, for example. It bothers me no end.
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Hi Blunt! In the game TPBM you can just use your imagination and pretend to be the other sex (that works, too!) or just not get too excited about it as it's a game, after all, not an English test.

What I find interesting is that after a few days away I had not seen this Grammar Nazi thread and in hardly any time at all there were over 218 posts in here! (How many other message boards would find grammar so fascinating?)
 
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