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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Meryl:
That's true for me, too, Katherine. In fact, when Spooky first published his list of all the "huh's" of Ennis, he used the usual spelling, but for Cult purposes I had to qualify it by saying he used the "archaic" spelling. ;D
"In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Heath, and the Word was Hunh...."
For the full list, go here.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on January 25, 2007, 02:34:36 pm ---Interesting that you should bring this up, Jeff. As an editor, how would you spell that word normally? I'd spell it "huh." But to me, "hunh" is a Brokieism itself. Maybe because that looks more like the way Ennis pronounces it? For whatever reason, that spelling is so common at BetterMost that, while I might not use it when writing something for somewhere else, I ALWAYS use it here. It connects me with my Brokie identity. I have talked other Brokies into switching to that spelling, too.
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I always spelled it huh also, until I picked up hunh here. Using hunh to my supervisor was kind of like making an inside joke with myself; I'm sure she had no clue, maybe didn't even notice the n.
I have come to the opinion, though, that adding that n does convey the nasal quality that many people, including me, and not just Heath/Ennis, use when they make the inquiring noise customarily spelled huh.
I really don't know who is responsible for adding that n, however.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 25, 2007, 02:48:04 pm ---I have come to the opinion, though, that adding that n does convey the nasal quality that many people, including me, and not just Heath/Ennis, use when they make the inquiring noise customarily spelled huh.
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Good way to put it! Not only do I now say "hunh" more than I ever used to, I say it with more of that nasal quality than the kind of higher, breathier "huh" that I used to say.
Ellemeno:
I use "hunh" anywhere and everywhere now, spoken and written. It's one of my favorite and most primal ways of being ein Brokie.
Lynne:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 25, 2007, 03:19:54 pm ---I use "hunh" anywhere and everywhere now, spoken and written. It's one of my favorite and most primal ways of being ein Brokie.
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Sure enough. ;D
'Hunh?' and 'Sure enough.' convey most of what I have to say most days to most people ;).
Wayne was saying on the way to WV that he's pretty sure that if it can't be said by a Broke aphorism, it doesn't need saying. Of course, I had to go look up aphorism:
Aphorism (from the Greek αφοριζειν, to define), literally a distinction or a definition, is a term used to describe a principle expressed tersely in a few telling words or any general truth conveyed in a short and pithy sentence, in such a way that when once heard it is unlikely to pass from memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism
Ennis was master of the aphorism, wasn't he?
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