I sound like Mutley imitating Burl Ives.
By posting in ASCII, you’ve identified yourself as a newb yourself.
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ETA: I probably should have done that in binary Baudot instead, but whatevs.
I sound like a demon-possessed Swedish chef.
I get teased for using words like “y’all” and “reckon” in some of my groups.
I’m the love child of Lovey Howell and Harvey Fierstein.
What does it take to get you to write with fourth grade comma placement?
That was a common greeting during my high school days. Especially with my teammates. Its just an informal and shorter way of asking a guy how they are doing.
I still use the expression talking with my old friends from high school. Never with anyone else.
Yes, we do see some regionalisms here, like “soda” “pop” “a coke”, “Soft drink”, etc. I started a cool thread about what one calls a sub-sandwich.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/09/american-regionalisms/
I use a few spellings which are #2, such as “Thru” and “Nite”.
Meaning a dialect that is considered prestigious by the community of speakers. I learned to read and write in Standard American English and it’s not a big departure from my native dialect but that’s irrelevant other than I write the way I feel most comfortable which just happens to be the socially approved way to write. I was born on third base; I didn’t hit a triple.
Actually, my posts here are filled with vulgarities and colorful turns of phrases compared to how I speak in real life.
IRL, I speak only using prepositions.
Brooklynese, “hillbilly,” and African American Vermacular English are non-prestige dialects of American English. If you speak in these dialects, people will think you’re stupid no matter how smart you actually are. Learning to speak standard English if you grew up using one of these dialects will be an advantage.
I wasn’t thinking about kids and their text speak in the OP. I don’t think they actually talk that way. Isn’t that a written dialect?
What I really was thinking of was the dialogue great writers use to define their characters. Tennessee Williams was masterful in writing Southern characters. Some of that was brilliant acting and some his dialogue.
Writing at that level, on message boards and emails is beyond must people. It’s definitely beyond me.
Great typo! That word really struck me funny. It means … No wait, it means …, No that isn’t right, it means …
I can’t settle on what it does mean, but each of the several possibilities is an awesome mix of erudite and silly. Bravo.
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Oh, ok. I am aware of that but I guess I never thought of , just, ya know, like talking regular and stuff as prestigious 
But, aren’t people who grow up using those dialects still taught to read and write in standard English (aside from those that don’t / can’t attend school)?
Most of my deviations from General American are in pronunciation, and that doesn’t come through in a text-based medium. I try to avoid regionalisms that may be ambiguous, or that I think will be so unclear or obscure even in context that a significant portion of the audience will be brought up short, but other than that I don’t avoid posting “in dialect.”
When you speak to someone face to face you have context. You have your facial expressions, your hand gestures, your emphasis and intonation. Plus, you probably know the person you are speaking to and you have some history or familiarity. You can also backtrack and instantly correct yourself if you misspeak.
Typing anonymously on the internet you have none of that. All you have is grammar, punctuation and (properly spelled) words to convey your meaning. You have a need to be precise in order to get your point across correctly the first time.
Ha ha ha… oh wait, you’re serious?
Everyone should embrace “y’all”. The loss of a distinction between singular and plural second-person pronouns is a bug in standard English. “Y’all” is the fix. I employ it without shame.
As for txtspk: Of course, I would *never *write like that. It mostly makes me go “WTF”. That’s just IMO, though, YMMV. 
I don’t understand why that’s funny, RickJay. There is a standard American English (both spelling and pronunciation) and there is standard British English.
A standard “American English” accent is similar to the one used by anchors on the national news, and has no overt locale or class-based accent.
ETA: Martin Bigfoot – I still use y’all, and because of that one of my Indian pals now does as well. You ever heard “y’all” said in an educated, Indian-English accent?