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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The towels "need washed" or the baby's diaper "needs changed."  I understand this is a regionalism but it sounds so uneducated.[/quote]

It's a PA thing (central and western, specifically). I agree that it's annoying, though I recently learned that particular construction is based on German grammar rules.  Given the influence of German immigrants on PA, that's not surprising.  [/quote]

What I have learned most in this thread is that DCUM people are just now learning that we have different regional dialects and don’t all speak exactly the same language.

Generations later it’s not really an excuse for people who can’t speak German.[/quote][/quote]

No, the rest of us just grew up and realized that our "regional dialects" were poor grammar and corrected our errors. If you know better, why do you want to sound uneducated? [/quote]

Then we should all be speaking British English.  Or maybe our English is actually closer to “right” for some arbitrary point in time to decide when evolution should stop?  Or maybe we should speak the English of Beowulf?

Language evolves, especially spoken language.  There are absolutely rules to written language, but we have the ability to change our language to express ourselves differently.  In fact, of European languages, English may be unique in the way you can manipulate it to create complex nuance and subtleties.

Maybe if you were better educated you’d know that and not be so focused on tsk tsking on a list of memorized no-nos.[/quote]

Imagine hating yourself so much you won’t even say simple phrases that are dialectically common where you grew up because you’re so desperate to come across as some bland, featureless, non-regional bot. [/quote]

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