Chicago is country (Part 2) (neighborhood, gated, live in)

[GreatLakesStateofMind]

Originally Posted by aragx6

If you believe Chicaogans sound southern I must assume that you've never actually met a southerner.

Let me be a bit more accurate... (Black Chicagoans) do sound southern and im not saying they sound like their straight outta Jackson, MS bro but you can easily hear it their speech On another note when i visit my family in Memphis I heard a lot of similarities and again yall (THATS NOT A BAD THING)

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by aragx6

If you believe Chicaogans sound southern I must assume that you've never actually met a southerner.

This sums it up.

[dewthedru]

to be fair, he's speaking of a specific subset of the black community he visits here. i think it's entirely possible that the ones he's referencing have adopted such an affectation due to their affinity to the southern black culture.

you see it with some country white people up here as well. more than once when i've been traveling through MI/WI/IN i've been addressed by waitstaff with strong fake southern accents. i've asked and sure enough, they're yankees but love them some toby keith, tractor pulls, etc. and decided that's how they should talk in spite of living 500 miles north of the mason-dixon line.

[GreatLakesStateofMind]

Originally Posted by dewthedru

to be fair, he's speaking of a specific subset of the black community he visits here. i think it's entirely possible that the ones he's referencing have adopted such an affectation due to their affinity to the southern black culture.

you see it with some country white people up here as well. more than once when i've been traveling through MI/WI/IN i've been addressed by waitstaff with strong fake southern accents. i've asked and sure enough, they're yankees but love them some toby keith, tractor pulls, etc. and decided that's how they should talk in spite of living 500 miles north of the mason-dixon line.

Thank You...Now that about sums it up

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Lorielicious

Sorry, dudes, but "y'all" is the only acceptable way to pluralize "you." And don't give me any of this same-singular-as-plural crap, because I won't have it.

You can always go for the Pittsburghese "yinz."

[DoneWithDallas]

Or the Jersey/NY "yous guys"

[Lorielicious]

My dad from Rhode Island says "yiz." It kills me.

[snoylekim]

or the Dallas / Texan 'all y'all' ..which at first sound seems redundant , but I'm told it really ain't ....

[DoneWithDallas]

Naw, y'all ain't just a Texan sayin' anymore. Just like I'm fixin' to go to the store or a double negative like I aint never gonna stop ridin' my horse to work.

Oh, stereotypes.

[rparz]

Originally Posted by DoneWithDallas

Or the Jersey/NY "yous guys"

I grew up in near the SW side and when I get really excited (yelling) this is how I start to sound.
Product of the environment I guess.

Or, more accurately, think Bill Swerski's Superfans.