I watched a crapton of Amy videos today, and it has me wondering about her education and upbringing. Other than dropping out of kindergarten, which says a lot, do we know much about her childhood? I know she has said it was a broken home with abuse and frequent moves.
I ask because apart from her being profoundly uneducated, as evidenced by constant mispronunciations and unfamiliarity with some common vocabulary, I'm also struck by how she stumbles over word usage and the basic building blocks of language. She just constantly says the weirdest shit. It goes beyond simply misspeaking, getting interrupted mid-thought, or being inept about verb tenses. It's like she took Amberlynn's "I mispronounce cause I'm QUORKY!" and applied it to, like, prepositions. I don't think Amy does it on purpose, but I bet if her attention were called to it she would be like "well that's just how I talk," instead of being mortified.
I can't stop noticing her getting words wrong in the strangest ways. She says she "went with half a year" (instead of through / for), and that she thought about placing an ad for her business ON a newspaper. "My body is triggered to caffeine." "We ran out that errand." HAFTING. KIDSES. And the recent "blow [her] under the bus."
In "Cleaning and organizing day" (linked about a page ago) she mentions the frequent moves in her childhood and every home feeling temporary, having learning disabilities, being "lost when it came to school", and getting her GED. But was she not socialized? Did she somehow grow up not hearing normal speech? The way she stumbles around honestly sounds like she's new to the language. In nearly every sentence, she makes bizarre, scrambled verbal errors I've never heard from a native English speaker. Was she perhaps raised in an ultra-sheltered (though apparently not safe) environment, by speakers of broken English? This is my only theory.
This has made me realize that my fascination with most lolcows boils down to pondering "so... what happened there?" What in the shit could even happen to a person to result in a speech pattern so thoroughly fucked? Help me out gorls.