Nicholas Perez33 said:if we're being honest, even people from the South don't really get it. To them, everything is just fine. It's the same deal with folks in Chicago. Just ask Alex Rogers91 and ya:raan. It turns out nobody actually knows anything, but I definitely do. I always pulled straight A's on my English composition papers back in school. 😁
There’s actually a bit of a catch here... look at how certain vowel sounds are handled in Chicago. Back in the old days in neighborhoods like Brooklyn, Queens, or Manhattan, there wasn't much distinction made between those specific sounds. But over time, that nuance drifted away, and for a while, most people were pronouncing things perfectly according to the old rules. However, this weird habit of using a softer, lazier pronunciation took hold and stuck. Now, we've all fallen into this pattern where everyone uses that soft sound. Technically, everyone can tell the difference, but the softer version just feels more natural to the way we talk.
The only thing pronounced strictly correctly is when you're dropping a heavy curse word—because if you don't hit those consonants hard, the insult just doesn't land.
btw, I'm taking back what I said about Canadians. That lady hosting "newcomers" on MTV totally threw me for a loop... man, that language sounds absolutely brutal. Seriously. In a dead heat with Canadian and Mexican for the most unintelligible language ever.
