Oh, and for the record, my white, female, 31-year-old, solidly middle-class and college-educated boss says, “Supposably.” It’s the only thing I ever hear her mispronounce, and it drives me nuts.
Why don’t y’all just un-thaw? 
This idiot sitting next to me, I hear him all day…
"Let me ast you a querstion",
and the other one is
“as for as I’m concerned…”
AAAAARGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!
No, i do not think everyone posting here is white.
I KNOW everyone here is isnt white.
As for the pronouncing of water, I (and most of the people i know) sar Wort-er.
My proplem is not with people who were brought up speaking a certain way (take cajuns, for example) but people who intenionaly start saying that doesnt make sense in the hopes that it will become a “word” (as do some teenagers)It is one thing to use slang. If not over used, it can add flavor to a language. But i feel that you are going overboard when you have a audacity to insist that your particular type of slang has to be noted as a language in its own, not just the simple slang that it is.
The SDMB. The place, that no mater what you say, or when you say it, somone will be offended.
Yeesh!
If the world was full of Passive, politicaly correct people, it would suck.
I once had an electronics instructor that was a nuclear engineer(not sure of the exact designation) when he was in the navy that would without fail pronounce it “nukular.” I tried to correct him. And if he thought about it he would pronounce it correctly, but if he was just speaking in general, it’d come out wrong every time.
Having spent my entire life in the South, I tend to forget the “g” at the end of words, but I CAN and do try to pronounce things correctly. My grandmother was a librarian. I had no choice. 
I’m always correcting my girlfriend. She hates it. Not that I’m any better, really. But certain things just grate on my nerves.
Feel free to point out anything above that peeves you.
AAVE is not slang, Justin. I can’t say it any more clearly than that. It isn’t slang. It just . . . it isn’t. “Phat” and “izzo” and “blunt” and all of that have no more to do with AAVE as a dialect than “nifty” and “cool” and “keen” have to do Standard English.
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~bryan/AAVE/
http://www.linguistics.uga.edu/AAVE/
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/English302/aavedesc.htm
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/aave.htm
http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/AAVE.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/ebonics/
http://www.ausp.memphis.edu/phonology/features.htm
There are some links. Educate yourself before you embarrass yourself. It has nothing to do with PC or being offended. It has to do with knowing the difference between a language and a dialect, between slang and dialect, and recognizing how languages work.
Incidentally, if you say “Wort-er,” I say “Wah-ter,” and two of my co-workers say “Wood-er,” which one of us is right? Pondering this question will give you some insight into just what is going on with dialects like AAVE.
“So I go, what ticks you off about people speaking incorrectly?”
“Well, you semi-literate piece of fluff, when you say ‘go’ or ‘goes’ instead of ‘said’ it makes me want to scream. YOU’RE STILL STANDING HERE TALKING TO ME! YOU DIDN’T GO ANYWHERE!”
Thank you.
Zap!
Or the even worse “So I’m all…” or “So she’s like…”
RRRGGHH!
Read the first quote, then read the second. I think you’re saying that it’s “ok” to use slang. How do you think slang gets started? By “people who intentionally starting saying … blah blah blah”.
As for the OP: I had a manager once who would use “boughten” as the past tense of “bought”. Grrr.
Even worse? An exboyfriend that would say “My parentses car/house/whatever” instead of “My parents’…” Oohhhh, that one had my gritting my teeth every time he said it. It’s probably good we broke up or I’d be in jail for beating him with a baseball bat while screaming “It’s parents’!!!”
“Yeah, and then I’m, like, why don’t you try to construct your sentences a little more clearly?”
I know a girl that when she’s describing a conversation insists on giving her non-verbal replies the other individuals comments: “So he said that he really liked me. and I’m, like <facial expression>.” And more often than not, the facial expression is no different than the one she previously wore.
When I hear her talk, I’m like <facial expression>.
Again, feel free to point out grammatical errors above. Or below, for that matter…
Choo mean yore not?? Cripes, yall is, like, integrated??
L I B.
I might could think of somethin’ ta post, since we was just talkin’ about this yesterday.
I don’t mind too much when I hear it from people I’m talking to. But when I hear this on the radio, it drives me bonkers. These people are supposed to be professionals, for chrissake!
Ek cetera is all I can think of right now, but I’ve heard others.
Justin - if you are honestly frustrated with your offending other posters, then keep an open mind and try to understand why we don’t like certain things. Among other things most of us consider racism, even in benign forms, ignorant and intolerant. And the one thing this board is truly intolerant of is intolerance. 
OTOH, if you just want to whine about how PC we are, take it to the pit.
One of the first things I larned on the helldesk was propor command of language == more satsfied customers. If you can communicate clearly via the spoken word, you’ll have fewer misunderstandings, and greater success in resolving the issue at hand, thus, less fustration.
Uh, Justin, a nitpick. It’s “doesn’t” not “don’t,” as in “doesn’t it seem like most…” When commenting on the way people talk, it makes your point a little clearer if your grammar was correct to begin with.
My mother-in-law says “worsh” for “wash.” Worshington, worshing. It makes my teeth ache to listen to her.
<Obligatory Coen Brothers Reference>
Look at ‘em! They’s miscegenatin’ right up there on the computer in front of everybody!
</Obligatory Coen Brothers Reference>
Zap!
Be it under your approval or no, Justin, AAVE is a valid dialect. It was not “made up” more than any other dialect of English.
You need to realize that AAVE has, like every dialect, regular rules of pronunciation, grammar, lexicon, ect. It is not at all casual in construction and has been completely analyzed by linguists. People can speak it incorrectly.
If we cared about not raping the English language, then like, we’d like go back um… a few hundred years when English as a system was… um… more uniform. Like whatever.
Oh, and William Shakespeare made up thousands of words in the course of writing his plays. If you want to talk about creating new words and hoping that they catch on.
There’s also a linguistic thing known as “code switching.” When I’m at home in Delaware speaking to people from Delaware, I speak with a (faint, but still there) Delaware accent. At school I pick up on some New England pronunciations.
Perhaps a better example are those people who come from the South who can turn their accents on and off like so much tap water. The point is that people can and do switch between dialects, and a persons ability to switch doesn’t mean that learning one or the other came later.
-Andy the linguistics major
eXpecially I hate it, I hear it all the time.
Zappo
An’ that ain’t even proper old-timin’!
Code-switching was what the first “Ebonics” drive was all about, but it was given an unfortunate name, and advertised in an unfortunate manner. All people do it, no matter where they’re from: They adjust the language they use to be appropriate to the forum in which they speak. Ebonics was supposed to be an attempt to teach inner-city kids how to do it consciously, and to their advantage. It’d have gone over far better if it had been billed as “Communication for Success” or “Business Language”. You can see code-switching here on the boards, if you wish. Look at GQ, then look at the Pit.
Oh, and andygirl, Delaware don’t have no accent, dammit! It’s all them furriners that have accents!