A great blog where I pursue my literary concerns of comics: includes reviews, recommendations, and poetry.

 

jirasol:

it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCK
I hate how people here think that “proper general English” is the only way to speak English and all the others are considered “idiocy” like if language has anything to do with intelligence. I’m not even from the U.S. and I know this better than most of you.
Below is a list of all English dialects in North America:
American English - Standard American English is the general form
Cultural
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)
Chicano English
New York Latino English
Pennsylvania Dutch English
Yeshivish
Yinglish

Regional
New England English
Boston accent
Boston Brahmin accent
Hudson Valley English
Lake Dialect or Lake Talk
Vermont English

Inland Northern American English (includes western and central upstate New York)
Northeast Pennsylvania English

Mid-Atlantic dialects
Baltimore dialect
Philadelphia dialect
Pittsburgh English
New York dialect
New Jersey English dialects

Inland Northern American English (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York)
North–Central American English (primarily Minnesota, but also most of Wisconsin, the Upper peninsula of Michigan, and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa)
Yooper dialect (Upper Peninsula of Michigan and some neighboring areas)

Midland American English
North Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)
St. Louis
South Midland (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)

Southern English
Appalachian English
Tidewater accent
Virginia Piedmont
Virginia TidewaterCoastal Southeastern (Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia area)
Cajun English
Harkers Island English (North Carolina)

Ozark English
Southern Highland English
Gullah or Geechee
Texan
Yat dialect (New Orleans)
Ocracoke

Western English
California English
Boontling
Pacific Northwest English

Hawaiian Pidgin

jirasol:

it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCK

I hate how people here think that “proper general English” is the only way to speak English and all the others are considered “idiocy” like if language has anything to do with intelligence. I’m not even from the U.S. and I know this better than most of you.

Below is a list of all English dialects in North America:

American English - Standard American English is the general form

aleeyago:

hokeyfright:

my dashboard is like 80% drama when it should be 100% skeleton gifs let’s get this started

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This is way too spookly for me.

typette:

strangeasanjles:

farewell-kingdom:

 Scott Newkirk - New York cabin

oh my god that porch deck, oh man what I wouldn’t do for a tour of this magical place. It looks so professionally built, yet super rustic, oh man I love it

friendlytroll:

tychosexual:

cuteosphere:

The innocence of youth

YES THANK YOU

omg weh

yes exactly

i think this is why mable and sable understand, too

or at least Sable does. I don’t think Sable has had the luxury of that naievete, either. 

i mean

do you know how kind someone is, to upgrate your tiny little shack…? No matter how long it took you to pay him? with no gaurantee that you’ll ever decide to pay him back? 

it’s basically a gift. he makes sure you’re comfortable…