Yall, I live in Texas. I actually did really well in school in the classes that I thought were interesting, but others, and English is one of them, I didn't give two craps about. But I read a lot of books, and that's where I get my grammar. However, I don't speak the same as I write. I still have a tendency to speak in "Texan", if you can call it that. By Texan I mean using lines like "I seen that car over there" or "I ain't gonna do that" and such. But that's how I was raised, and there are people that speak worse than I do around here. It's just the way the English language is spoken around here. It doesn't mean people are dumb.
I work in the oilfield. I know many very intelligent, very smart people that work in this field, and it is a very technical field for those of you who don't know. There is a LOT to making a well produce, you can't just poke a hole in the ground and natural gas starts flowing out. But what I'm getting at is that most of these people speak the same way that I do, and actually some of them write the same way. But that doesn't make them dumb.
Maybe I'm getting off topic a little too much.
I'll tell you what is dumb is kids that think using the word n---- is cool. I play XBox Live alot, and you should hear some of the kids on there. N---- this and n---- that and did you see that n---- jump and get that n-----! and so on. THAT is a sign of unintelligence. Well, apparently unintelligence is not a word because it keeps underlining it in red and it doesn't have a word to replace it with. Oh well, yall understand what I mean.
