Is "prolly" a new word I don't know about??? Is it only the youth who are saying it??
Is it being used here because it's too hard to spell or type "probably"???
Is it spelled that way on text messages maybe??
Is it a West Coast thing??
Inquiring minds want to know. I'm getting old but I have to stay UP on things! Posted by HaplyCarlessdave (Member # 413) on :
Prolly you have it right; but you probably wouldn't want to use it here. But I think that it prolly doesn't appear in the Scrabble dictionary yet! (I'll let you know if I find otherwise...)
quote:Originally posted by Lymetoo: Is "prolly" a new word I don't know about??? Is it only the youth who are saying it??
Is it being used here because it's too hard to spell or type "probably"???
Is it spelled that way on text messages maybe??
Is it a West Coast thing??
Inquiring minds want to know. I'm getting old but I have to stay UP on things!
Posted by charlie (Member # 25) on :
I guess it's just an attempt to type things informally the way people talk.
Anybody who actually says 'prolly' would likely be difficult to understand on the phone.
The way I speak it comes out 'probly' as I assume most people pronounce it unless you're doing a Paul Harvey imitation or something.
Charlie
Posted by sometimesdilly (Member # 9982) on :
goggle "prolly"
see the first hit..
where's the tabasco when you need it?
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
The "dumbing down of America" comes to mind!!
Posted by Itsy_bitsyone (Member # 12635) on :
Here, people warp language too. Every area has its things.
Some funny ones that used to IRK THE DAYLIGHTS out of me that now I just laugh at:
Pacifically instead of specifically. This is rampant. I'm think...hello...like an ocean??
Irregardless. Isn't that redundant??
They think Ignorant means mean or nasty (I was called ignorant once for being a jerk to someone. I said, "if you weren't ignorant about what ignorant means you wouldn't say that!" lol)
"They was" "You was" "We was"
Posted by sometimesdilly (Member # 9982) on :
twotwo:
i'm really going to have to learn how to keep my mouth shut and not offer opinions about anything until my brain has congregated more than one cell in one place.
the first google hit on prolly provided a expletive-filled example of how prolly could be used in a sentence, but duh, i conflated that with how the word itself is defined.
i'm going to go now to throw myself a great big- my brain is dead- pity party.
sobs, dilly
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
oh, boy, let's all say the usual things. what i learned to hate at work were:
out of the box watershed.
i mean i heard those phrases/words almost constantly. i hate them....ugh...
and then saying letters to mean phrases, like "goft" which is "get out of town". i can't understand a word these kids are saying anymore....
Posted by Geneal (Member # 10375) on :
I once worked at a school where the entire population was African-American.
I am not sure if any of you have ever been down south (way down south-Katrina took the school out),
But it was a quick lesson in eubonics!
As a Speech Therapist I could not qualify someone for language therapy if they didn't have
errors/difficulties in their native language.
Black Standard English in the South is really an entity to itself.
For example "Who dat say day gonna beat them Saints? Who dat? Who dat?"
Hugs,
Geneal
Posted by charlie (Member # 25) on :
....The one that gets me about Louisiana is the odd mispronunciation of 'ask' into 'ax'.
Most people think it's a racial thing but it isn't...I think maybe it's bad translation from French or something.
practically everybody in Louisiana including blue-eyed blondes who enunciate rather well still do that 'ax' thing. Strange.
Charlie
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
OH yeah...the ax!! I heard that in the classroom as a teacher in TX. One of our teachers even said it.
dilly....Now I feel dumb....not sure what you're upset about!!
Wow...I've never heard the Pacifically!!
Now I have heard EXpecially a lot....and supposeably [how would that be spelled??] instead of supposedly.
Too bad our language gets butchered so badly!!
In South Texas you hear "Those ones" instead of those or "these ones" instead of these.
The young kids would say "Gots" instead of "has",,,, He gots the ball. I'm pretty sure that comes from translating Spanish to English. {Tengo}
Gotta tell you ....The "he gots the ball" would be like fingers on the chalkboard for me, but it was next to impossible to break some of those kids from saying it!!
Posted by Geneal (Member # 10375) on :
Okay. I have never said Ax for ask.
I've been in Louisiana for over 30 years.
My biggest grammatical problem has been the word "got".
Down here, you don't have, you got.
I got to go to the store.
I have had to really be concious about using have with got.
I don't think the Ax thing is French though.
I know too many died hard true cajuns, who don't say Ax.
Around Mardi-Gras time, there is a song they play on the radio that goes,
I went on down to the Aububon Zoo
And they all axed for you.
They all axed for you.
They even inquired about ya'.
We sure do have some lazy speakers in the South.
It always amazes me to hear a professionally dressed person say
"I'm goin to make my groceries."
Hugs,
Geneal
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by Geneal: It always amazes me to hear a professionally dressed person say
"I'm goin to make my groceries."
What does that mean??
Posted by beach4so (Member # 3832) on :
Ya'll just had to pick on us down south huh?
General you don't live far enought south to have ever had to ax your parents anything...lol
See being as far south as me you have to ax your mama if you can go down the bayou.
We seriously give directions by "go up the bayou or down the bayou" and yes you need to know which bayou since just where i live there is one in front of my street and another in the back of our street...
And never tell someone from up North to go 3 red lights and then turn right to get where they are going. My cousin (from Missouri) never got a "street light" red so she kept driving until she caught 3 red... by that time she drove about 5 miles out of the way!!
Living down here and visiting Missouri so much I see so many differences.
Louisiana you order your sandwich dressed in Missouri they look at your crazy if you say that.
In Louisiana you have a hose pipe, in Missouri it is a Garden hose.
In Louisiana if someone asks if you want a Coke the next question is what kind? Coke, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi? In Missouri if they ask you if you want a Coke you are getting a Coke-Cola. lol
I love traveling all over and seeing the difference in language/culture. But I agree with Lymetoo i am getting old but I feel over the hill with teenangers now days.
All this text messaging is killing their grammer.
Starr Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
OH yeah....that Coke thing is true for Texas too! When I was a kid we called it soda water. POP was the name of a father, not a drink!!
I still hear people offer a "soda" in Texas, but rarely have I heard "soda water" in the past 25 yrs. Maybe they still say that in rural areas or certain sections of Texas.
Beach...I've never heard anyone say hose pipe. That's interesting!
Posted by charlie (Member # 25) on :
hose pipe??? reminds me of when we used to call a few feet of garden hose and a bucket an 'Alabama credit card'
Posted by meg (Member # 22) on :
In Louisiana you have a hose pipe, in Missouri it is a Garden hose.
On the West Coast a hose pipe is the pipe that you screw the hose into!
My cousin (from Missouri) never got a "street light" red so she kept driving until she caught 3 red... by that time she drove about 5 miles out of the way!!
Now that's funny!
Posted by Geneal (Member # 10375) on :
Makin' groceries means going shopping at the grocery store.
Here's another good one. "Hows yer Momma' and dem?"
I remember a refrigerator being called an "ice box"
I remember soda pop too.
I have worked as far south as Boothville/Venice High School.
That is pretty far south. On the tip of the end of the Southeast part of Louisiana.
Have done many home health visits in da' bayous too.
It has always been fascinating as a Speech-Language Therapist to
listen and try to understand what people are saying.
I remember my first teaching job...Believe it or not, it was as a 1st grade teacher
In a place called Buras, La. (Mostly wiped out from Katrina).
One child in my class raised his hand and asked "I can lose it?"
I said "pardon me?"
Child said "I got to LOSE it!!!!"
Then I inquired as to what this child needed to lose when he came to school.
Finally, one of the other children piped up and said "He's got to pee!!!"
It was like being in another country.
Many stroke patients I had could only speak cajun french following their stroke.
Beautiful language.
I used to give suckers/small candy to children if they did their job in Speech Therapy class
As a reward. They always wanted more.
I told them that I was on a limited budget and that I could only afford so much.
I was told many times to play cards with my "food stamps" and win more stamps to get more candy!
Sad really.
When shrimping season opened up, most of the children would just disappear from school.
They were out working the shrimp boats.
Hugs,
Geneal
Posted by beach4so (Member # 3832) on :
My kids got a hard lesson this weekend. Dominic had his birhtday party and invited some new friends over this year.
One boy lives with only is dad, mom left them. They have no house phone, no car and evedetnly little extra's. This child was the best behaved, awesome manners and all around great kid.
My kids could not beleive someone would not have a phone or car. They ride bikes everywhere they go. This child couldn't believe the food we had in our pantry or even that we had 4 laptops and 2 desktop computers in the house. (It was a computer gaming party)
The kids couldn't believe he never been out of the state. I always liked to think all our traveling was educational for the kids (they have been all the way up the East Coast and back down the middle of the US) but now i am wonder if they are so use to it they don't realize how much they do have and others don't.
I mean we donate big time to all kinds of organizations and help out our community. But I wonder if they really understand their are many people who don't have their next meal in front of them. Or are they to young to understand what is not infront of them they are 11, 7 and 5?
My best friend teaches at a school down here and General is right there are many, many kids that do not go to school when shrimping season starts. It is a sad fact that alot of these families need the labor from someone as young as 5 on the boats.
2 of my nephews quit school as soon as they turned 16 (after missing many, many days during shrimping season) to start shrimping or trapping full time. It is sad that their main goal in life was to own a shirmp boat.
I truly believe it depends on where you grow up at and how you are raised. Where I live at seems to be ok, but you drive 15 miles "down the bayou" and you are entering a different time zone. It is like going back 30 years!!
Genearl my biggest pet peve is when my kids need to wash their hands in the "zinc".
Starr
Posted by sometimesdilly (Member # 9982) on :
i well remember moving from berkely CA to a red-necky suburb outside DC when i was in 2nd grade. that's culture shock.
i had a horror of a teacher who positively LOATHED my entire family because we had a VW bus with peace stickers on it and were different and worst, actually were friends with black folk.
on one of my first days in class she came around, child to child, and gave them instructions i couldn't hear. when she came within 3-4 kids away i heard what she was saying- PUT YOUR PENCIL AND PAPER UP.
Eh?
I was too confused and scared to notice what the others kids did in response to this bizarre request. but since it was unthinkable to either defy her or to ask her what she meant, fine, she came to me and told me to put my pencil and paper up and i did- i held them straight up into the air.
a dreadful and complete silence came before she grabbed my arm, pulled it down and hissed at me that she would not forget my making fun of her. (she didn't).
dilly
Posted by lymemomtooo (Member # 5396) on :
I can relate to this conversation. I was from an area where there is a cross between Balmorese, PA Deutsch and Welsh and when 5 moved to the Eastern Shore. (As backwoods of an area as anyone would find in many ways. But I love it and it is home.)
Now I am back to where I was born.
I know almost all of the irregular words that I have read in the above posts.
And ZINC is almost correct!!. Many early sinks were made of zinc.
If I go home for even a day, I slip back into a very thick dialect. If you used correct grammer and pronunciation, some would not understand you.
It does make it very difficult when I have to write professional material. I have a rough time proofing because mistakes often sound more natural than the correct word or spelling.
From the variety of dialects I have been exposed to, I can understand many but still have trouble with some of the text messaging abbreviations.
And have been teased for some of my pronunications of some words, including roof and creek. lmt
Posted by sometimesdilly (Member # 9982) on :
lmt-
"ruf" and "crick," right? Posted by MysteryGirl44 (Member # 10201) on :
Yep, lots of teens use that instead of writing out 'probably'. But it's such an annoying word!
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