Lexicon of Bawlamarese
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:50 am
by Slava
Well, we have our own list of
Southernisms, but there's a whole site devoted to what many of us would call Baltimore.
http://www.baltimorehon.com/
Hope you like it.
Re: Lexicon of Bawlamarese
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:47 pm
by Philip Hudson
People from Balamer do talk differently. I have spent time there. Some of this Bawlamarese is used more widely.
I have been told repeatedly that accents or dialects are passing out of our language in favor of Standard English, whatever that is. I believe if one listens to the lingo of the great unwashed of America, one will find that accents and dialects are still widely used.
When I go to rural Smith County, Texas, I automatically change my accent in order to fit in. Years ago I had an employee from Oak Cliff, a part of Dallas known for its Red Neck vernacular. She visited her grandmother in Paris, Texas, and remarked on her return, "Them follks frum Parrs, Texiz, shore do tallk funny!"
A lady joined our church and I immediately spotted her as a denizen of Van Alstyne, Texas by her accent. Later I missed her at church for several weeks. Having performed my haptic osculatory duty toward another Van Alstyne native, I asked why the lady was not coming to church. She answered, “ Oh hunney, she jest cuden’ git uste t’ our citified ways ‘n she done went and gone back to Van Alstyne.”
So there! (Red Neck for QED).