Snape's Speech patterns (was CHAPDISC: HBP 2, Spinner's End)

[potioncat]

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> Pippin:
> Another giveaway is that his speech patterns change when he is 
talking to Filch and believes 
> he is unobserved (in Book One, where he is having his wounded leg 
attended to.)  It was this 
> contrast that made me think Snape's background was less lofty than 
it seemed right from the 
> start. I always got a good chuckle out of fan fics set in "Snape 
Manor." 

Potioncat:
Ya'll thanks he tawks diff'rent 'round Filch?

Erm, excuse me. I just finished talking to my brother back home in 
South Carolina.

Could you be more specific? I just went back to SS/PS and to GoF, but 
I don't see (hear) the difference. He does swear around Filch, but 
that may be the editors allowing him to actually use the word when no 
students are around.

And as to AGDisney's question about Filch being his father. Looking 
at the way Snape speaks to Filch, I think this is nothing more than a 
faculty member to a lower staff member. I don't see any friendship or 
family connection at all.

Potioncat, who suddenly wants to hear, "What it was, was football."