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Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
She is very well spoken and very smart..... until one of her ghetto friends calls her on her cel phone, she starts speaking another language. We laugh at her sometimes and ask why she talks wrong to her friends. She has no answer except to respond thats they way they talk to each other.
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I was having an alignment done one time, and there was this white woman at the counter. Sharply dressed, very articulate, I figured her for a lawyer/doctor/etc. Then her S/O shows up to pick her up. This guy could probably be best described as a black metrosexual with just a hint of hip-hop. What was
interesting is the way she talked to him compared to the way she talked to the counter guy - it was two completely different languages, like the
jive translation scene from the movie Airplane! Any guesses as to what their mission was at the tire shop? Yep - 22" spinners on their blinged-out Escalade.
I dated a chick for a while who was a speech therapist, and learned that the technical term for this is called
code switching