MendotoManteo
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I start so many threads that I never carry out and respond to. But I got to thinking: what is the nature of the Southern dialect with our youth?
I'm 40 now and have lived in California for the past decade. Only get back home around Christmas. All my friends and acquaintances still have the thick drawl. And you get a few beers in me out here, and I am basically a backwoods Appalachian snake handler despite having an English PhD. They really seem to love it out here and is a point of curiosity.
But do the youths use words like "yuns"? Or even "ya'll?" I feel like "ain't" has become somewhat ubiquitous. And for good reason. It's an incredibly versatile word. "Will not." "Won't." "Isn't." Etc.
When I go back home, it always strikes me the way people sound. Much more "Southern" than I remembered. But I'm no longer connected to younger people. Do they speak like many of us do/did?
I'm 40 now and have lived in California for the past decade. Only get back home around Christmas. All my friends and acquaintances still have the thick drawl. And you get a few beers in me out here, and I am basically a backwoods Appalachian snake handler despite having an English PhD. They really seem to love it out here and is a point of curiosity.
But do the youths use words like "yuns"? Or even "ya'll?" I feel like "ain't" has become somewhat ubiquitous. And for good reason. It's an incredibly versatile word. "Will not." "Won't." "Isn't." Etc.
When I go back home, it always strikes me the way people sound. Much more "Southern" than I remembered. But I'm no longer connected to younger people. Do they speak like many of us do/did?