do you have one? when do you use it? have yall ever noticed that having one can sometimes get your **** out of trouble?
i mean i kinda have one cause i was raised in arizona for a while....there it's considered bad to pronounce "going to" "gonna"!
but yeah i use it whenver i do a class presentation, or whenever a police officer or someone with authority has questions for me...otherwise, i can be just as ghetto and country and the next negro... 8-) (nessa)
I don't consider calling it a "white boy accent" is ignorant unless your real serious about it. I am a very stereotypical person when it comes to jokes and humor. I play with some stereotypes around people who are cool with it. All in all tho if the people I'm around don't find me talking about how black people like chicken or how mexicans (not all hispanics just mexicans) pack cars out with 10 people then I just won't play around with that.
So with that being said I speak a mix of correct english with jacked up english when I'm around my friends, family and cool teachers/counselors. Most other situations I try to speak as correct as my english teacher taught me.
I don't consider proper English the "white boy accent"
THANK YOU!
I'm sorry, Demmeri...but some things you say are so ignorant....
No offense to you or anyone else who have replied in this post, condoning the misconception that what Demmeri is referring to is a "white boy accent"....
I'm not calling either of you ignorant...but that statement of his is...
For everyone's information...."white boys"..."white girls"....various members of the White race....do not speak "correct English"....so is THAT the "white boy accent" you're referring to?
there is no such thing as a "white boy accent" in the manner that you use it.....a few in this thread have called it what it really is....simply "correct English," by definition of American standards..."correct grammar," by definition of American standards...."articulation," by definition of American standards....but NOT a "WHITE BOY ACCENT"...
that bothers me so much.....even "talking 'proper'"....my speech phonetics professor from last semester raised an excellent point - who exactly determines what "talking 'proper'" means? who is to say that speaking Ebonically isn't "talking 'proper'"?
because of the society we live in, there is a certain way of speaking that we are expected to use when in a professional environment...which is what has contributed to everyone thinking that this is what "talking 'proper'" means....however, who says that's what it is?
it's all about "code switching"....the way you talk when you are conversing with a professor 9 times out of 10 will not be the same way you talk when you are hanging out with friends....and the way you talk when hanging out with friends 9 times out of 10 will not be how you talk to your employer....and the way you talk to your employer 9 times out of 10 will not be the same way you talk to a 1-year old baby (well umm, that needs to be 10 times outta 10, lol)....and so forth & so on....
there is no such thing as speaking "properly"...when people say this, they usually mean they are speaking correct Standard American English....
...which I again stress should not be referred to as "the white boy accent"....
please, people....let's eradicate this mentality....
