what are these words called...

[Iamsubmissive]

Not sure how to phrase this, but what do you call the words...or letters blended together to make a sound? Ex: Hmm...pfft...psst...ooof...argh...oooh...eww... know what I mean yet? I don't even know if I'm spelling those right...but if I knew what it's called maybe I could look it up...

And how do you spell this? Excitedly, she jumped up and down, clapping her hands and yelling, "yay! ...yea!...yaey! ...???"

Or how do you combine two words that are slurred together? Ex: it's not = 'snot?

I know these aren't real words, but is there a proper way to write them? Eh, just thought I would ask. Ya never know who might have the answers, huh?

 

[oggbashan]

Expressive interjections:

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/100-mostly-small-but-expressive-interjections/

 

[Iamsubmissive]

Expressive interjections:

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/100-mostly-small-but-expressive-interjections/

Perfect! THANKS!

 

[My I]

Or how do you combine two words that are slurred together? Ex: it's not = 'snot?

That would actually work for me. The apostrophe tells me that she's not just saying "snot" but is compressing words. Might help if it were 's'not but you got the idea across.

And don't take the rules too seriously. They're more like guidelines.

Seriously, when I read stories that are so grammatically perfect as to make a Cambridge scholar swoon, it actually detracts from the story for me. Even Cambridge scholars do not talk like that. Well... Maybe in the presence of other Cambridge scholars but not when talking to their friends or the fish monger and such.

You want to breath life into your characters? Stop trying to breathe air into them and just let them breathe. Portray them as real people, without the rules. Let them talk and act as real people do.

I'll admit I have had an idea for writing a piece about Queen Elizabeth II talking Cockney behind closed doors, but I have too much respect for the Queen to actually write it.

But the same works in reverse. Don't make your Bowery harlot sound like the Queen giving a speech at the Prime Minister's swearing in. It just doesn't work.

Or should I say, "'At ain't gonna fly."

 

[Kantarii]

I call it lazy, slurred American English - Fucking ghetto lingo

 

[My I]

I call it lazy, slurred American English - Fucking ghetto lingo

Oh... Pardon me.... Do you have any Grey Poupon?

 

[Iamsubmissive]

Oh... Pardon me.... Do you have any Grey Poupon?

I actually laughed out loud at that!

I don't speak in "fucking ghetto lingo", but my uneducated, backyard mechanic might say, "Pfft! 'Snot gonna matter if you speak all proper an' shit. You still ain't smart enough to fix this here engine yourself."

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

My daughter is 19, an honors student, always corrects my writing because it isn't proper. I try to explain everyone doesn't speak proper.

A few years ago I was with some friends in Chicago. Friends were from Arkansas, some from Canada, I'm from southern Illinois. We were all just hanging out in our hotel room and decided to start getting ready to go out. We were all there to see a band we all love.
Anyway one of the Canadians asked if anyone was going to shower and my friend from Arkansas said she was fixin to. One of the Canadian girls said Fixing? Is the shower broken?
me and my Arkansas friend laughed so much and still laugh about it. We had to explain what 'fixin to' meant.

So I wouldn't say it's all ghetto lingo, I think sometimes it's just regional dialect.

 

[holliday1960]

Oh... Pardon me.... Do you have any Grey Poupon?

hilarious!

 

[holliday1960]

I actually laughed out loud at that!

I don't speak in "fucking ghetto lingo", but my uneducated, backyard mechanic might say, "Pfft! 'Snot gonna matter if you speak all proper an' shit. You still ain't smart enough to fix this here engine yourself."

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit, 'cuz I jus' tol' my backyard mechanic that same shit yesturdy.

 

[My I]

Now both of you take that shit and write a story with it. Break the rules and be real.

 

[AwkwardMD]

"Fixin' to" is not regional dialect. That's an idiom.

Idioms are when words are understood to mean things they really don't.

"I'm going to head out." "Take a left at the stop sign." "She's a looker." All idioms.

Dialect is the difference in pronunciation. Ruff instead of roof. Wooder instead of Wah-ter

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

"Fixin' to" is not regional dialect. That's an idiom.

Idioms are when words are understood to mean things they really don't.

"I'm going to head out." "Take a left at the stop sign." "She's a looker." All idioms.

Dialect is the difference in pronunciation. Ruff instead of roof. Wooder instead of Wah-ter

I stand corrected

Kind of like how my youngest has lived in southern Illinois way too long and she says things like ank and pank instead on ink and pink.

 

[Iamsubmissive]

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit, 'cuz I jus' tol' my backyard mechanic that same shit yesturdy.

I love it!

 

[NotWise]

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit, 'cuz I jus' tol' my backyard mechanic that same shit yesturdy.

God that makes me laugh! "Butter my butt and call me a biscuit" doesn't sound like anything that would ever be said outside the South. At the same time, I'm trying to imagine those delicately refined white flowers of the South ever reeling off something like that.

 

[ElectricBlue]

God that makes me laugh! "Butter my butt and call me a biscuit" doesn't sound like anything that would ever be said outside the South. At the same time, I'm trying to imagine those delicately refined white flowers of the South ever reeling off something like that.

Miss Holliday ain't refined, as we've just established but yup, that made me spit my coffee too!

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'll admit I have had an idea for writing a piece about Queen Elizabeth II talking Cockney behind closed doors, but I have too much respect for the Queen to actually write it.

This seems like a good opportunity to share Al Pacino's unique rendition of a Cockney accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5rEeH5JQs

 

[My I]

This seems like a good opportunity to share Al Pacino's unique rendition of a Cockney accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5rEeH5JQs

That had to be the worst cockney I ever heard.

 

[Handley_Page]

That had to be the worst cockney I ever heard.

Reminds me of Dick van Dyke's attempts

 

[Downfor]

I call it lazy, slurred American English - Fucking ghetto lingo

I could not agree more!

 

[holliday1960]

God that makes me laugh! "Butter my butt and call me a biscuit" doesn't sound like anything that would ever be said outside the South. At the same time, I'm trying to imagine those delicately refined white flowers of the South ever reeling off something like that.

What heck you mean NW? I say stuff like that outside the south all the time...I live in Texas these days and contrary to popular opinion, Texas ain't the south. These cowboys like to think it is...but it ain't. And, just to prove it...every time I say that, these Texicans' heads spin backerds and they choke on their bean burritos. If'n they was true southerners, they'd be used to it by now. Dontcha think?

Besides, no self-respecting southern belle would eat beans for breakfast. It just aint done. And, whoever heard of cooking beans twice anyway? Down home, if you didn't cook the shit right the first time, why bother refryin' it a second time? It aint gonna get no better after you burn 'em once.

 

[holliday1960]

Miss Holliday ain't refined, as we've just established but yup, that made me spit my coffee too!

I'll have you know, Mr. Smartypants, I was refined...once. It was Easter Sunday, 1973. I went to sunrise services at the local revival hall...even wore a pair of drawers under my dress and everything! That one time was enough for me. Sugar is refined, baby and it'll kill you if you eat enough of it. I'm like honey, plenty sweet in my naturally raw state and so far as I know, I've only been responsible for one or two near heartattacks over the years.

 

[49greg]

Reminds me of Dick van Dyke's attempts

I saw an interview of Dick van Dyke where he gave an apology of sorts. He blamed it on the voice coach. He said that at the time he had no knowledge of what a cockney accent was, and so the studio gave him a voice coach from Ireland.

Surely the Brit members of the cast would have, should have, said something to him during the shoot. Assuming we're talking about Mary Poppins?

 

[Handley_Page]

I call it lazy, slurred American English - Fucking ghetto lingo

Agreed. And we've had one contributor who writes like it all the time.
Quite what he/she hopes to achieve is a bit of a mystery. . . .

 

[My I]

Agreed. And we've had one contributor who writes like it all the time.
Quite what he/she hopes to achieve is a bit of a mystery. . . .

Awww.... Are you still upset because you couldn't get in her pants? Maybe if you hadn't edited her story in such a way that you KNEW she didn't want, you'd have stood a better chance. And even though she's a fictional character, she'd prob'ly be the best sex you ever had.

What I hoped to achieve was writing from a mindset so different from my own that it would take a great deal of thought and focus to pull it off. Especially for 15,000 words. I believe it was a success.

And while she may be simple minded, I'd wager she showed more complexity than you do.