I do this too, and should note that in practice* this seems to be extremely common in everyday speech in a wide range of modern North American English dialects (even though the exact details of such may vary significantly).TaylorS wrote:I have already described my phonology around here ad nauseum and will not repeat.
As for grammar:
There is a profound degree of phonetic reduction of verbal auxiliaries that are also encliticized to the Subject.
"I'm going to have been going to the store."
[aː.mn̩.nəv.vɪn ɡoːn tʰə.d̪ə.stɔːʁ]
I'm'onna've been goin' to da store.
This, that is, the use of the dynamic** get-passive seems to be a shared feature of practically all modern NAE dialects.TaylorS wrote:"got" is often used as a passive voice marker instead of "was"
"he got robbed!"
NAE dialects seem to be amongst the most conservative with regard to the subjunctive amongst English dialects in general, but that definitely outdoes most NAE dialects with regard to conservatism if it is not a newer innovation which has reverted much of the erosion of the subjunctive.TaylorS wrote:My dialect in unusually conservative in the usage of the Subjunctive Mood, even the Present Subjective for of "Be" is very common.
"You be good, young man."
My dialect has this too, and unlike many of the features above this is really dialect-specific and is not just a general feature of colloquial NAE. (For instance, the actual use of this varies significantly in my own dialect depending on the degree of GA influence, with greater GA influence correlating with lower frequencies of the use thereof.) Note that this might be a substratum feature inherited from Germanic languages other than English, even though I myself have not seen this firmly documented per se.TaylorS wrote:The preposition "By" is often used in place of "at" or "to".
"I'm'onna go by the store 'n grab a pop"
He's stoppin' by Eric's to get the car"
* The matter is that the actual study of North American English or, for that matter, English in general seems quite behind the times in that while much has been written about English, such seems to actually concern what I would call classical English rather than actual contemporary everyday spoken English. For all that has been written about English in linguistics literature, there is a lot going on in NAE at the present which is simply not written about in such.
** This is in opposition to the static be-passive inherited from what could be called classical English.