There's things I'd like to change about myself.

[Droopy]

One of them is the way I talk. If I make a conscious effort to talk like an educated person, I guess I can do it, but that's not really the way I am, an my folks probly wouldn't recognize me. We're from southwest Ohio an we got a little different way uh talkin around here. I been told I got a southern drawl when I meet people from de north. Down south dey think I'm from Canada. Maybe it's dis little section of Ohio I'm from. But I've heard people around here talk in a way dat makes dem sound educated. Maybe it's just dis little town dat has dis weird dialec. I don know. People assume all kins of things about you based on a way you talk.

But one thing is for certain. If you can string a few sentences together in a coherent fashion and you have a dictionary, you can sound just as intelligent and refined as the next guy on the internet.

[Skittles]

1. aw Droopy

don't ever, ever worry about sounding "educated". I work with a lot of very educated people and many of them are complete boobs. THEY'RE SUPPORTING McCAIN FER CHRISSAKES. :o

[Droopy]

3. Thanks Skittles

:pals:

[Skittles]

6. remember, intelligence has nothing to with education

my grandparents were among the smartest people I ever knew and they didn't go past grade school. And look at bush with his Yale degree. YES INDEED!!!!

[MissHoneychurch]

2. Don't make yourself smaller than you are

you are an intelligent person. Period.

[Droopy]

4. Thanks Miss H

I guess there are different kinds of intelligence that can be acquired without going to school. :pals:

[MissHoneychurch]

5. Exactly

you are someone who understands people and who is able to articulate those conversations. Your street stories are always interesting to read.

You are street wise in a very positive way. :hug:

[elshiva]

7. Great advice.

I love your sig line. What a cute little puff ball! :loveya:

[Wapsie B]

8. Don't worry about the way you talk.

I've got a college degree and in many settings, especially amongst a lot of talkative extroverts it's hard for me to get a word in edge-wise. That lack of verbal expression has made more than a few people look at me as a less intelligent person I'm sure. As a matter of fact I know it has, but it's been mainly extroverts seeing me this way. :eyes:
But nuts to them. Sometimes I think the more a person talks the more I believe they're hiding something. You are who you are. Don't back away from that.

[MissHoneychurch]

9. Hey there

:hi:

[Wapsie B]

10. Hello there

:hi:

Come around here often? ;-)

[MissHoneychurch]

11. Not so much anymore

alot of people I knew left.

Good to see you though :hi:

[Wapsie B]

12. Good to see you too MissH!

:hi:

[raccoon]

13. There's things I'd like to change about you, too.

If you aren't married, find some woman who wants to change you. It shouldn't be hard. :silly:

[NJmaverick]

14. Be true to yourself Droopy

It's not worth selling youself out, to try and impress a few strangers on the internet. Besides the good people will listen to what you have to say, not how you say it.

[billyoc]

15. There'RE

:evilgrin:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there're

[auntAgonist]

16. Droopy, .. the way you talk eh?

You have a very pleasant voice. You speak with intelligence. I detect a slight (to me) southern accent. Not at all Canadian. Don't go changin'

Billy Joel has a song, a love song but the words do fit.

I dont want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

Many people want you, just the way you are Droopy.

:hug:

aA