Something to delight in

It annoyed me too until I read a book by a man called Eric W Stevick called Meaning Memory and Method. Stevick has been teaching English for "fifty years" and has learned a handful of other languages to boot. Apparently not even he can go back to his home town without breaking into the old holly four barrel dual exhaust vernacular. As I recall he says it bothers us because we like to think that we have a unique identity seprate from our relationships with other people, but that that is an something of an illussion. Who are you outside of your relationships to other people? Nobody really. And when you move from one group to another you naturally absorb and reflect their mannerisms, attitudes etc. A personality can change and grow, it's a natural, positive thing and something to delight in rather than feel bad about.