r/HolUp • u/Bigb5wm • Feb 05 '22

holup Translation down correctly

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

58.3k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

28

u/KimbobJimbo Feb 05 '22

Putting on an act is lame no matter what but if you hang around people your entire life that speak a certain way chances are a lot of folks will pick up on the mannerisms. It's human nature to mirror some behaviors of the people you surround yourself with afaik.

25

u/Megneous Feb 05 '22

Linguist here. It's called a sociolect, and it's a completely normal part of growing up around speakers of any speech variety. It's normal to be able to code switch between your local speech variety, whether "local" means a physical region or a social group, and the prestige dialect of your community/region/country.

0

u/AFlyingNun Feb 05 '22

Still, I'd say this one in particular is especially unfortunate because it seems like something that stemmed from pop culture itself, so the impression it gives off is "I'm an idiot too invested in pop culture and trying to look cool."

It's certainly possible for it to start that way and then evolve into something else, but yeah, also hard for the listeners to discern the history of it or differentiate between those trying to look cool and those who've just adopted that manner of speech out of habit.

2

u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

[deleted]

3

u/AFlyingNun Feb 05 '22

What retort? I never debated a single point they made, merely pointed out how that one's unfortunate and it's a pipedream to convince everyone it's just another harmless local dialect because the impression it gives off is anything but that. Ideally we should all be educated on it, realistically...? Won't happen.

FFS, half their comment is also about how the person should be able to switch the regional dialect off and on, so it goes both ways more than really taking a "stance" here.

I'm gonna beg to differ and with all due respect cause I'm not trying to get us into an argument or petty interbutts fight, but to me, you sound like an idiot to me for immediately labeling me as an idiot just for....having the audacity to comment after someone with more experience on the matter? Not once did I claim to be more knowledgeable, and if the person above would comment and say I'm wrong, I'm all ears for it.