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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Lynne:
I have had the privilege of saying both "Ain't nobody's business but ours" and "serious money" - that last one was in relation to what I have to pull together for Denver and Alberta in the coming months...if only I had some farm machinery to sell!!
::) 8)
Lynne:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on April 13, 2007, 01:35:13 am ---I actually once upbraided someone who kept calling me darling or sweetheart or something like that. ...
From you, Jeff, it just sounds nice! :)
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I agree - it bugs me when people with no personal relationship with me use diminutives - servers in the south are particularly bad about it - I think they believe they are being folksy, so I try to cut them slack.
Jeff's 'Little darlin' is affectionate - like Ennis with his girls and horses (and Jack!) - and doesn't bother me a bit...I think context matters the most in such situations.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Lynne on April 13, 2007, 01:47:24 am ---.I think context matters the most in such situations.
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That's it exactly, Lynne. When Jeff says it, it's really nice. When a waitress says it, I'm OK with it, too, because it's usually friendly and sort of reflexive. What bugged me when the receptionist said it was that there was a power issue going on that made it seem condescending, a way to put me in my place in comparison to her big powerful boss (whoever the hell it was; I can't begin to remember) who didn't have time to talk to me.
When I asked her to quit calling me that, she acted all flustered and felt obliged to apologize (coldly) and change her ways. That actually gave me a little leg-up in our stupid little power struggle.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Lynne on April 13, 2007, 01:47:24 am ---Jeff's 'Little darlin' is affectionate - like Ennis with his girls and horses (and Jack!) - and doesn't bother me a bit...I think context matters the most in such situations.
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--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on April 13, 2007, 03:20:17 am ---That's it exactly, Lynne. When Jeff says it, it's really nice.
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Awww. ... ::)
We used to have a diner in my neighborhood--it closed back around the turn of the century--where everything, the furniture, the fittings, and, I'm afraid, the waitresses, had been around since the 1950s. The waitresses called everybody, indiscriminately, "Hon"--as in, "What'll ya have, Hon?" As Lynne says, context matters, and in that context, it was kinda cute and even endearing.
Lynne, you want a make some serious money in farm machinery, it better be hunnerd-thousand-dollar tractors 'n' sh*t. ;D
HerrKaiser:
it's somewhat amazing how more and more of the lines come to play in "real Life".
frequently I also use "don't have nothin', don't need nothin' " to replace the usual response of 'whatever' or 'c'est la vie' or 'thats the way it goes'
sometimes, folks will cast a semi-bland stare and then say 'I like that'.
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