Kool A.D.'s Article - An Analysis

  Below is a paragraph analyzing Kool A.D.'s article "How to Pay for a Baby" where we were tasked to analysis the author's use of dialects.

  In Kool A.D.’s article, “How to Pay for a Baby”, there is a strong sense of a Southern U.S. regional dialect which is presumably spoken by a male of a younger age. This can be seen from the constant use of informal, slang and colloquial dialects that are found in the text with a shortage of formal dialect. The informal dialect is used strongly in this text throughout Kool A.D.’s explanation of how to pay for your baby, the respective title of the article, and is seen to even slip into slang and colloquial dialects when he appears to be passionately annoyed at a certain fact about raising a child. An example of his informal dialect is when he begins to speak about the toys that can be used or given to the children. He states that, regarding books, “[the babies] like kid’s books but they’ll even listen to illuminati conspiracy theories or a Kehlani interview if you read it with some drama and funny voices.” His lack of a formal tone and the relaxed and laid-back way of addressing the solution is a clear use of informal dialect and could relate to how young he truly is. But, as said before, he does slip into slang and colloquial dialects when he begins to become passionate about a problem, showing how his temper could also relate to his possible young age or gender. When speaking about money, he states that you, the new parent, must “get your yaper up. Yaper, also known as feddy, bread, guap, clams, smackerinos, legal tender, coinage, etc., is crucial to child rearing.” The vocab used here can be connected to the Southern U.S. regional dialect as these terms are mainly used by natives of the Southern-most states and, as he continues to cuss throughout the article, it shows how young and temperamental he could be. It is through his strong use of Southern U.S. regiolect slang terms that we are able to understand how his idiolect is that of a young Southern U.S. male who has a strong accent and commonly uses informal and colloquial dialect – associated terms that point him out to be so.