'Ask' or 'Arks'

[Pferdestarke]

Why do some folk insist on saying 'arks' or 'axe' instead of 'ask'?

It boils my piss!

[MadRob6]

'cause they is street, homie!

[trooperiziz]

<pulls jeans down below arse>

You get me?

[PLamborghini]

MadRob6 said:

'cause they is street, homie!

[Lois]

0.5/10 for rant

[TheEnd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics

It's cool to be a failure and give off an image you didn't pay attention at school.

[PLamborghini]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

That's cruel, ill say 2/10

[4988cc]

They just do.

Naa'atameeninnitblud.

[Teppic]

MadRob6 said:

'cause they is street retarded, homie!

EFA

[tank slapper]

Not this again.

Chaucer said:

"I axe, why the fyfte man Was nought housband to the Samaritan?"

It's nothing to do with 'street' or whatever, it's a result of a different dialect and dates back to the use of Old English.

[4988cc]

Teppic said:

retarded

Just as much of an annoying term, even when used in its proper context.

[mrmr96]

Pferdestarke said:

Why do some folk insist on saying 'arks' or 'axe' instead of 'ask'?

It boils my piss!

Apparently it's a different dialect from that which you and I speak. More detail here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vern...

wikipedia said:

(examples include) Use of metathesised forms like aks for "ask"[35] or graps for "grasp".

Edited by mrmr96 on Sunday 2nd January 01:46

[TheEnd]

tank slapper said:

Not this again.

Chaucer said:

"I axe, why the fyfte man Was nought housband to the Samaritan?"

It's nothing to do with 'street' or whatever, it's a result of a different dialect and dates back to the use of Old English.

mrmr96 said:

Pferdestarke said:

Why do some folk insist on saying 'arks' or 'axe' instead of 'ask'?

It boils my piss!

Apparently it's a different dialect from that which you and I speak. More detail here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vern...

wikipedia said:

(examples include) Use of metathesised forms like aks for "ask"[35] or graps for "grasp".

Convergent evolution. I doubt Snoop dogg and Eminem read the Canterbury tales, and it's current popularity doesn't stem from the archaic use.

[Pigeon]

The word itself does though... West Country dialect speakers -> Southern plantation owners -> their slaves -> rappers and gangsters -> English divots.

[HOGEPH]

He only arsked!

[GetCarter]

I knew a bloke at school in the 1960s called Kishaw Ragiwala... (not of this parish), who always said 'arks'... so it ain't new.

[Pints]

I'll just throw "someink" into the mix.

No, you window licker. It's "something".

[SC7]

tank slapper said:

Not this again.

Chaucer said:

"I axe, why the fyfte man Was nought housband to the Samaritan?"

It's nothing to do with 'street' or whatever, it's a result of a different dialect and dates back to the use of Old English.

Is it bks.

[Aused]

This is a major annoyance of mine, and I am not one to usually get worked up over language.

how do you gets "arksd" or "arks" out of asked or ask.

It isn't just dullards either from my experience

8/10 for rant

[The real Apache]

GetCarter said:

I knew a bloke at school in the 1960s called Kishaw Ragiwala... (not of this parish), who always said 'arks'... so it ain't new.

it is when Wayne from Peckham starts using it