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 Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:19 pm
People say I need to learn how to reply to a question without adding "Yes/no thank you".
I correct my family's grammar, but it's kinda weird to correct anyone else's. xd
After reading a book I'll start using words from it (that I think are pretty) but most people don't use them when just talking. My family thinks I'm weird for doing that. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:18 am
I simply try to speak politely and clearly. Of course using proper grammar as well. Speaking slowly helps to give you time to think while you speak. Speaking too quickly can cause you to sound jumbled and uncivilized.
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:55 pm
Yes, I do speak rather politely. I use the word 'tis often as previously stated but I don't think it sounds absurd at all. With me it comes naturally. Also I do say "one" a lot rather than point out a specific person. That also comes naturally. For me "'tis" is the same as it's, it's still a contraction of "it is", just an older one.
When I am speaking to strangers in a really polite way I tend to have a higher pitched voice ^^;
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:50 pm
I use the word Tis quite a lot, and I have a passion for proper grammar.
People often tell me that my "big words" confuse them, and get annoyed when I correct them.
:O
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:33 pm
I'll speak a bit more formally around strangers, but other than that I talk like a normal teenager. I do use 'tis' sometimes and little things like that but, I am trying to improve my language a bit since I have a bit of a foul mouth when angry. I do make cutting remarks and have a poison tongue to people I dislike, but I'm trying to be nicer.
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:08 am
When I was younger I used to talk "proper" but as others have said, it can be a setback when you're in your early teens! So I made a conscious effort to stop doing it; now if I'm with my friends I use a lot of local slang (eg. "Oh my God, did you see that? It was proper grim 'cos I know she was well upset about it.") although I tend to stick with better English around people I don't know well.
I'm always correcting my family' grammar, even though it drives them nuts. My mum always uses "Welshified" words like, "he learnt the dog to sit" instead of "he taught..." I mean, how could anyone resist correcting that!? Lol.
I often find as well that if I'm dressed up I speak with better English anyway - maybe it's a psychological thing? *shrugs*
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:01 pm
Aeronwyn I often find as well that if I'm dressed up I speak with better English anyway - maybe it's a psychological thing? *shrugs* I often find myself doing the same things. On days when I'm wearing a t-shirt an jeans, I find myself acting a lot more like a regular teenager than I do on days when I dress loli, or even just wear somthing nice. I, like many others in this thread, tend to use a lot of olde English in my vocabulary, long with large words... but that's merely a habit which developed out of my obsessive reading. Alongside that, I will admit, I speak differently to/around different people. When I'm around strangers I'll be quiet, shy, and overly polite. When I'm with my friends I'll use an extensive vocabulary, though I talk very rapidly, and people will sometimes find it difficult to understand me. When I'm around my boyfriend I speak more slowly, and use simpiler vocabulary because English was not his first language, and he's only known English for 2 years.
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:06 pm
I think how one speaks and carries themselves depends on their mood, and moods can be affected by all sorts of things including where you are, what you are doing, who you are with, and what you're wearing. I know when I'm wearing one of my many hats it cheers me up so of course the way I talk will be affected by that as well. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:23 pm
I use "tis" a lot when I'm typing, but I don't really say it. ^_^;
How I type and how I talk are very different, when I type I (usually....) sound more logical and I use larger words...and people often think I'm in college.
But in real life I just talk normally... ^_^;
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:41 am
Actually I have to agree somewhat with you parfaitsama, I've been accused of such things myself. I do say 'fancier' words in real life as well but definately not as often. I think it's mostly because when I'm typing I can think about what I'm saying and change it accordingly as I go along. When speaking I don't generally have that luxury.
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:07 pm
I think I speak more old-englishly in reality than online, online I speak more...bubbly I guess haha. I guess speaking old-englishly kinda rubbed off on me, I used to find old - english fun ... sweatdrop even when I was younger
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:16 pm
Actually I kind of switch between the two of those, both bubbley and old-englishy, but when I'm with my friends I'm sound very forceful and mean
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:05 am
Just thought y'all might like to know that 'tis isn't proper English at all. xd It's actually very un-Lolita, just like 'thusly (A made up psuedo-intellectual word which basically mocks the upper classes).
You should say it is if that's the approach you're going for - 'tis is quite unproper.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:18 pm
Thusly may be a longer version of "thus" and 'tis may be a contraction of "it is" but 'tis is very shakesperean in nature.
CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?
Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,
And that your love taught it this alchemy,
To make of monsters and things indigest
Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
Creating every bad a perfect best,
As fast as objects to his beams assemble?
O! 'tis the first, 'tis flattery in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
--William Shakespeare
If he is wrong then I don't want to be right.
On top of that I doubt any man can claim to have never used a single contraction in their everyday speech. Last I checked there was nothing wrong with contractions anyways.
Also you yourself used two in your statement, y'all and you're, which are contractions for 'you all' and 'you are'. wink
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:42 am
Honey, I said that those wanting the "proper" approach shouldn't use it - I didn't say that I do not use it! :'D
I do make them - often. I never said that I don't.
Shakespeare was not an upper class man, he was just another lowly druggie who happens to get in good books with the upper classes. Most of his English language was not dialogue at the time, but made-up fiddle-faddle, basically.
Also, really, "'thusly" is from the word, "'thus" - but it isn't a proper word. xd It's a mockery. I use it a lot, and it was used a long time ago from people in lower classes basically mocking the upper classes on their dialogue. It's a crude smashing of words.
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