Colloquialisms, localisms and general bastardization of the English, French, Spanish and German languages = American speech.
I just finished a case where we used six interpreters. Someone joked about interpreting "Texan". I told them that was easy, just add "fixin' to" before the infinitive of any verb, and conclude one-third of any statements with, "y'all."
In Western Colorado, it's typical to drop the "to be" and, replace with the helping verb "needs," then just use the -ed form of the verb... "The lawn needs mowed, the car needs washed."
