Can I Aksed You A Question???

its not a black thing i think its a southern thing because my mom is southern and white and says all of those things lol.. wrestling is rassling.. verizon is verri son.. squash is sqarsh.. crap i wish i could think of all of them lol

I think it's just a habit or custome to themselves, how is it a big deal? people have their own cultures and habits and we should respect that.we think these peoples that way and what would you expect from them?

Well now I's or eyes ain't an expert on speech, but I certainly am an expert on extended informational linguistic electronic telecommuncative interconnections and I have the ability to interpret the intentional if not subconscious meanderings of some expanded thought processes that include bold and normal concepts with symbols that create pictures in the minds of mere mortals. All the gibberish is completely decipherable if you just add a few hand gestures into the mix it all becomes both audible and visually clear. The transparency of the mind of the pea son who accesses the questions is flip pin' ole taught sand see in if dare is any office able to cipher his thinning. Eyes seeing if he gets what he is looking four. I think I spent too much time washing T.V. my pick sure is not spelled white. So don't ask where I learned.

As for the CRICK and WARSH thang.... that's hillbilly tawlk! (I'm fluent in that language!) I mean....... IF I had an accent... Why do Yankees call it cooffee instead of cawfee??? huh? I could sit and listen to you guys tawlk fancy all day and never get tarred of it! hahaha!

Tongue problem bro. I think they are just styling.

I think it is their habit,the language is always updated everyday!All the language ia always like this,it is just a tool to communicate,the important thing is that it can be undersatood by the people! Thanks for your experience!Best Regards!

thank goodness,you reminded me,i have got lot of warshing to be done.actually,you neednt remind me,the room stinks!!so lucky for the kids,they dont have do their warshing.i have to do theirs also(rant)

LOL I see that you put "eh?" in one of your replies and all I have to say is 1 I am canadian and 2 if find it really funny that all the americans say we say it when in reality they say it all the time. eh! is slang for hey and I always use hey LOL I hear the natives say it more so than anyone else so that must be where you all get the idea that we all say it. Oh and to get back to your topic, I think alot of times it is also how you are taught to speak. I have a friend that says weird things and sometimes I don't understand her so I ask her what the heck she is talkin about and she tells me LOL People from the east coast of canada say things weird too. Like "Shoore" instead of sure. and instead of saying "so" they say "Some" LOL like "I am some Mad" Or "you must be some happy" LOL it is all in how they were raised they had no control over it but one thing that has always gotten me thinking is how did our ancestors even begin to speak that way LOL

Now can I AXE you a question? Are you making fun of our accents? Fine I'll switch to my irish one. I'm givvin er all I got captn.

I dunno sconi, but i'm glad you axed somebody.

I think it is just different accents. It has alot to do with how your parents said words, etc. I'm from Missouri and yes, I have a bit of a "country" accent, but nothing like my niece in Arkansas. Everyone does tease me about my accent and my daughter has the same accent as I, so I would definitely say it has to do with hearing your family say words.

Ok, I was sitting here reading that whole thread on the south. Just for the record, I have lived in the south all my life, and I don't say any of those things, especially not warsh, or ranch/wrench. That makes me nuts!

Don't have clue other than slang, but really with school and phonics and what nots, you'd think that people would pick up on standard speech. I know this older couple. 83 he is and they was WARSH. Said their parents did and their grandparents. So didn't know if that was how they understood it being said when they first got off the boat when they were learning English or what. Accents are different everywhere you go. Northern states have a french influance and the Southern ones, well I have to really slow down to understand them. hmmmm, maybe I should aksed them next time I'm warshing my stuff down by the crick.

O.O im kinda southern....and i say warsh....those clothes warshed yet? sounds better then washed yet....idk crick makes me think of cricket..... and the aksed thing is just really really annoying

Yes, I know you are curious and its just a very common mistake which many people are not aware of. English is a very widely used language over the world yet there are not many schools and teachers who actually teach the language properly and with proper diction. There are many nitty gritty applications and pronunciations which, if someone is not from a good English school, will never understand. Here in India, English is widely taught, though not flawlessly, and you will find many such mistakes all over. And by the time you point out that its not ‘aks’ but ‘ask’ they are already habituated to speaking it that way!

I went down there by the crick and warshed my clothes, then hung them up on that there tree to dry. I don't know why people of the African American Persuasion say Aksed, but then again I have nothing to say, I say Warshed sometimes... lol.

I'm Strine (as in "Australian" in your accents). People never AXE questions here ... they ARKS questions! ... and I CARNT understand why anyone would put an R in WASH.

Hey sconi! I see that you still are wearing your Nigeria shirt! I guess you are still waiting for that "windfall"! I know what you mean about "aksed" and that drives me nuts! I don't know why that is such a difficult word to say! And there's others too! My bf is black and there are a few words that he mispronounces that I keep correcting him on all the time! I don't know why or how he learned to pronounce them wrong, but it bugs the crap out of me! He doesn't say aksed! I'm not racist by no means, but it does seem to be a racial thing with that particular word and some others. I just want him to speak correctly because I love him and he knows it! But, then again English was one of my best subjects!

I find myself correcting both white and black people from trying to "aks" me anything. The one that really gets on my nerves is "finsta". You may have heard it as "fiddenta" or "fixing to". That on is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I have to keep from screaming it GETIING READY TO, PREPARING TO, ABOUT TO DO!

Its all a matter of upbringing and where people come from. words and accents like that are a product of many generationd of talking like that. To people who speak in that manner you probably sound just as funny when you speak. It's our job as hun=mans to accept oters for who they are.