What's the worst form of English?

[Retink]

Is it Chinglish, Niglish, or what?

 

[Phenomena]

Jamaican English. I can't understand a word when they talk.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

British English

This, but unironically
When the only defense you have for your shitty-ass dialect is "we were da original country to speak da language, so our dialect is da best", that's a fucking problem
Luckily, British English will likely go extinct in a few generations, due to based American globohomoism making movies and vidja everyone wants to watch/play

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

African American Vernacular English - It's bad enough you already talk in a gimped version of English then you have to make it worse.

Roadmen Dialect of English that's depressingly common in some youth circles and in the South East of the UK.

Odd one to include but Pitcairn english, that's a odd dialect take a dash of brum, add some shropshire and cornish with lots of naval slang leave alone for 100 years and see what results - that result is odd.

 

[Milkis]

I think Hinglish is the most deleterious if only because of how much momentum it has behind it. When you have a billion souls all trying and only partially succeeding to speak English, all sorts of little errors quickly become magnified into established parts of speech. That's how we got "prepone" (the opposite of "postpone", ofc) and "do the needful". God help us if any of these formations flow back into regular English.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Odd one to include but Pitcairn english, that's a odd dialect take a dash of brum, add some shropshire and cornish with lots of naval slang leave alone for 100 years and see what results - that result is odd.

I imagine it would be odd. Pitcairn Island is giga-inbred, and it's inhabitants should probably all be killed-off

 

[Caesare]

Both India as a country and Indians as a people are just inherently uncool. Like that one autistic kid who tries to relate to normies by dressing like a normie and playing COD/Madden and shit. That's what thousands of years of caste-system induced inbreeding and arranged marriages does to a nation. It's kinda tragic

I remember reading an article about the way they court women in India. The accepted method is: you don't talk to her or make eye contact at all if you like a girl. Instead, you stalk her for a few weeks as she walks home from school. You start out sneaky, then you eventually become slightly more obvious, to the point where she starts noticing you angrily following her home each day. Then, if she kinda likes you based on your stalking skills and good looks, she'll tell her parents about the nice young man who's been stalking her, and eventually, they'll set something up, like a supervised date or something equally as wholesome.

Very strange people, those indians. The street shitting is just the tip of the iceberg with those folks.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I remember reading an article about the way they court women in India. The accepted method is: you don't talk to her or make eye contact at all if you like a girl. Instead, you stalk her for a few weeks as she walks home from school. You start out sneaky, then you eventually become slightly more obvious, to the point where she starts noticing you angrily following her home each day. Then, if she kinda likes you based on your stalking skills and good looks, she'll tell her parents about the nice young man who's been stalking her, and eventually, they'll set something up, like a supervised date or something equally as wholesome.

Very strange people, those indians. The street shitting is just the tip of the iceberg with those folks.

That's implying most men in India even attempt to court women. Most just get their mommies to set them up with an arranged date with some local daughter

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

I think the worst form of English is when people use text speak all the time. It's so lazy and it makes it really hard to understand what people are trying to say.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Patois

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Southeast Asian English

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Hinglish.

She was bhunno-ing the masala-s_ jub_ phone ki ghuntee bugee.

Translation: “She was frying the spices when the phone rang”

 

[trailcamwhore]

Portland-American sounds the worst, and international "simplified" English is the most horrifying.

 

[The Foxtrot]

It's a tie in my opinion between "ebonics" and whatever you call Damn Yankees' speech. Instead of saying "I'm a New Yorker!", it'll come out like "Oiym ah Neh Yorkah!". And they look down their Communist noses at me for being from the South, but even a drunk Gopnik from somewhere, Russia over Discord can understand my English!

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

and international "simplified" English is the most horrifying.

Are you referring to the "Simple English" language option on Wikipedia?

 

[augment]

Any form of british English (all 10 million dialects of it)
How is this even a contest

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

This.

Domot - BBC News Pidgin

We dey give una latest tori on top politics, environment, business, sports, entertainment, health, fashion and all di oda things wey dey happen for West and Central Africa come add di rest of di world join. For better informate plus explanation of all di ogbonge tori wey pipo never hear about...

www.bbc.com

It's like the BBC hired Ali G to write the news. Crazy it's a real supported language.View attachment 3438703

That looks so fucking hilarious holy shit, its like a guy with a broken jaw speaking English

Also whatever the Afro Americans speak, its not even English I forgot the acronym

 

[The Foxtrot]

Also whatever the Afro Americans speak, its not even English I forgot the acronym

Ebonics?

 

[Begemot]

Ebonics?

AAVE, Edomite.....

 

[The Foxtrot]

AAVE, Edomite.....

In English?

 

[Begemot]

In English?

AAVE is an acronym for African American Vernacular English. Other terms for it in academia are African American Varieties of English, African American English (AAE), Black English (BE) and Black English Vernacular (BEV). [EDIT: since I wrote this post in 2014, a new term has gained a lot of traction with academics: African American Language (AAL), as in the Oxford Handbook of African American Language edited by Sonja Lanehart (2015), or the Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL). I now use either AAE or AAL exclusively, unless I’m specifically talking about an informal, vernacular variety, however “AAVE” has gained traction in social media just as AAL replaced it among academics]

In popular culture, it is largely misunderstood, and thought of as "bad English," "ebonics" (originally coined in 1973 by someone with good intentions, from "ebony" and "phonics," but now starting to become a slur), "ghetto talk" (definitely a slur), and the "blaccent" (a portmanteau word of "black" and "accent") that NPR seems to like using.

Why do I say it's misunderstood? Because it is emphatically not bad English. It is a full-fledged dialect of English, just like, say, British English. It is entirely rule-bound -- meaning it has a very clear grammar which can be (and has been) described in great detail. It is not simply 'ungrammatical'. If you do not conform to the grammar of AAVE, the result is ungrammatical sentences in AAVE.

https://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/2014/6/8/what-is-aave