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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Lynne:
--- Quote from: ekeby on August 07, 2006, 06:01:54 pm ---I find myself using a nonverbal Brokieism . . . After Alma says "You got a postcard. It come general delivery," Ennis whirls around to pick it up off the kitchen table. I find myself whirling in my tiny galley kitchen from one side to the other exactly in this way . . . did I always do this, I wonder? It's got to the point where I cannot turn from the stove to the sink without seeing that scene in my mind's eye . . . .
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I catch myself doing similar things, ekeby. I wonder what causes this sort of phenomenon? For me it's things like 'seeing' Ennis walking away whenever I check my sideview mirror, or when walking, sometimes I'll feel like I'm apace with Jack and Ennis walking to the bar the first day they met. On the way to work today, I did a double-take, then another because I was sure I saw a realty sign that said Farm and Ranch (one-line) Employment (next line). What it really said was Farm and Home Realty. ;)
Katie77:
--- Quote from: Rutella on August 21, 2006, 10:04:02 am ---My husband's name is Jack and I also have this problem! He also is a mountaineer and spends most weekends away with his mates, sharing v small tents with them.... at least I think he climbs mountains :laugh:
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If he says he's "goin fishin", tie a note to his fishin line.........
Whenever anyone says to me now, that they are going fishing, I think "are they really goin fishin?"
Penthesilea:
I used a Brokieism lately:
My son, who had his third birthday yesterday, is behind the normal acquisition of language for his age. He barely speaks at all. One day last week, he didn't eat his bread I had made him for kindergarten. I asked him *why* he hadn't eaten it. He pointed at it and said "Eeeeee" (like in eerie), which means as much as Yuck!
I answered: You don't say much, but you get your point across :). It occurred to me at this moment, that this sentence just nails it for him: he doesn't say much, but he has no problems to let the world know what he wants (or doesn't want).
ekeby:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on August 22, 2006, 05:46:31 am ---I used a Brokieism lately:
My son, who had his third birthday yesterday, is behind the normal acquisition of language for his age. He barely speaks at all.
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My nephew was like that until about age four. He rarely did more than utter monosyllables until a thanksgiving dinner my sister was hosting. Suddenly, out of nowhere, he turned to one of my sister's friends and said, "Hans, will you please pass the rolls?" My sister was stunned. It was the first thing he ever said. From then on he talked, and always in complete sentences. We figured before that he just didn't have anything important enough to say. (For the record, he turned out to be very, very intelligent.) So . . . hang in there!
moremojo:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 28, 2006, 06:59:24 pm ---It's good to get your hands on something long and hard. ... ;D
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Touche, and it is also sometimes reported that a hard man is good to find! ;D :D ;)
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