B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for March 16, 2024

That confused me.

Say it ain’t so.

Diction-ary.

I don’t get it.

I’m confused!!!

Oh, lots of “literary scholars” here commenting ;-D

Me no get it. Me ain’t no literally schooler anyways.

Colloquial = is how we speak every day. Every day language for us non-scholars. Diction = can be defined in how we speak, the words we use and if we speak with an accent or not. It is how you pronounce or enunciate your words but you choose your words in which you speak. So to confuse each other, they would speak like “regular people” and choose their words instead of the fancy words they would use normally that would confuse us.

Me.. I like to confuse them highfalutin literary scholars by speaking in the vernacular!

Colloquial Diction is a good name for a cocktail.

…and us!

Y’all gotta be kiddin me.

Ain’t a happinin, thar Slick.

“Literary Scholar” is not only an oxymoron but something completely unheard of to the social media addicted mushroom generation.

It’s not what you say but how you say it!!!!!!

300 years ago, what was said and how it was said were distinctly different between the varied populations of the New World. Those variations were gradually blended in the ‘melting pot’ that is America. It continues with every new addition to the census.

Case in point … the Bible.

Ain’t that the truth?

‘taint nothin’…

Diction? Heck, colloquial definition!

eschew obfuscation

The rest of us just use obfuscation.

Reminds me of the phrase “The pot calling the kettle black.”