Yours up there...?
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Started by P o e t i q R e i g n
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Sep 2004
P o e t i q R e i g n
Greensboro, NC
i'm workin' on this paper about dialect due later on tonight for my speech phonetics 4 non-majors class....& i ran up on this site...
http://www.slanguage.com/
lol see if ya city's up there....& if u can relate to any of the words or phrases they have up there (& if u don't c ya city, u can maybe look up the next big city near tha one u live or go 2 school in)....
i only picked up on a few of tha phrases for Los Angeles...none of which I've eva used....guess I've been in Raleigh long enough 'cuz i caught onto a lot of those....again, tho, none of which i use...LOL @ "Yenny Kinta" lol - that iz kun-tree fo REAL
& "Beltline"...yea that one's always gotten me too since i came out here...in Cali, it was just "Freeway"...in Raleigh, it's "the Beltline" :roll:
Lemme add on....
GAH'BAGE- roun here we dont say trash, or gaRbage...we say GAHBBAGE! :lol:
Mova-Mother
Fava-Father
every other word has SON or MAD in it :lol:
dolla-dollar
A hunnit twenny fif-125th street harlem
block pawty-block party
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A'Kaye47 wrote:Lemme add on.... GAH'BAGE- roun here we dont say trash, or gaRbage...we say GAHBBAGE! :lol: Mova-Mother Fava-Father every other word has SON or MAD in it :lol: dolla-dollar A hunnit twenny fif-125th street harlem block pawty-block party
