On Friday, our class watched the movie "Country Boys" and noticed their language has an understandable but slightly different diction. Throughout this movie one of the main characters named Chris gave a few examples showing how the word choice is used because he lives in the south. He said "Allot of people have thought that you was nothing but a failure" while in Indiana, and average person would say "Many people think that I am a failure." He also went on to say "Everyone thinks him stupid because how he speaks" when a Hoosier would say "Everybody thinks that he is stupid because of the way he speaks" The sentence structure that is used in these sentences have a sense of slang in them with the integration of simple words.
There are many reasons Chris might have this poor diction. As seen in the movie, he is poverty stricken and in a poor society. He has also been put into a poorly structured school system and is given a seventh grade education while he should be acquiring a high school education. His family members have also lived through similar experiences and because they raised him, Chris was taught a poorly developed diction.
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