The Way I Talk....

When thinking about the way I speak the first 2 things that comes to my mind would have to be slang and Ebonics. I speak that way because that’s the way I am most comfortable speaking. I grew up in an environment where everybody spoke this way, people didn’t use proper or should I say formal language and/or English and if someone did they were considered things like square, nerd, stuck up and etc. Although it wasn’t very often that I heard people speak in this language, when I did I thought those things about them too. I would think that that person thought they were better than me for some reason so I stayed away from these types of people and kept to ma kind. Almost every word that I/we (we as in the people I grew up with) use I/we turned to our own language. I’ve always used words like shoulda instead should have or cant instead of cannot. I guess the reason is because I am a fast talker and I like to shorten things down as much as I possibly can. I use to be on public transportation talking and would see people looking at me like I was from another planet because of the way we spoke. I hate to be judged so I would give out mean looks with hopes that they would understand that that’s just the way that I expressed myself. I am learning now that formal English is the American way.