Broken English Language Research Paper

As an adolescent child growing up in Chicago, Illinois I was always complimented on my proper English. Nevertheless, being told I was illiterate was never my problem, until I moved cross country to Richmond, Virginia. The southerners of Virginia had a very different vernacular than me. Sooner or later, it was very noticeable how the two places differed in dialect. Being from another part of the United States, I sort of expected the “Oooh’s & Aaahh”s of my slang. They would sometimes mock my accent or look at me sideways because the things that I would say. One day, on the way home from school walking with a group of friends having casual conversation; this guy walked past friend to whom she thought was attractive and she leaned in and said “Girl he looks BUM!”. We being from two different coasts the word “bum” automatically had a negative connotation to me. In my neighborhood it means “dirty” or that he looks like a raunchy man. Me being uneducated on their
My English can be considered broken English because most things I say I would repeat or reword when speaking because I unconsciously say things as if I was still back home in Chicago. Having a basic conversation use to take forever because my peers and I would take long pauses so that we could take the time to put context clues together on what we meant because of the accents and the 8 different kinds of slang that we would use.
In the group of people that I hung around we were all from different places me being from Chicago, my best friend being from New York, and most of my friend being from Virginia. There were several different words that we had to teach each other or get use to each other using the opposite. In Chicago we use the word “pop” but when I came to Virginia everyone was saying “soda”. The grammar that my parents taught me and the English that I was use to in school is what was supposed to be the correct way for