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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Lynne:
I finally have one I haven't seen yet...I use most of the common ones that have been mentioned, like 'Friend' and 'Tell you what' and 'The truth is...' and 'Not often' and 'Me neither' and 'You bet'.
But at lunch Friday, my boss and a co-worker got on the subject of their teenage daughters and how kids don't tell parents everything...I got to pipe in with 'All them things you don't know...' I stopped there, of course, and just kinda shook my head and grinned.
;)
Another thing is that I was once given grief about how I drop the 'g' from words endin' in '-ing', which I always attributed to the southern accent. I'm not lettin' that one bother me anymore.
-Lynne
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Lynne on June 25, 2006, 12:52:44 am ---Another thing is that I was once given grief about how I drop the 'g' from words endin' in '-ing', which I always attributed to the southern accent. I'm not lettin' that one bother me anymore.
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Good one, Lynne. One thing I love about Brokeback is that it gives us permission to fire our inner English teacher. Did your lunch companions think it weird when you said "them things"?
I always want to say "in them days," and I have sneaked it in a few times, but it's hard for me to be subtle about that sort of thing because it's pretty out of character.
Ellemeno:
Tell you what, I'm pretty much droppin' endin's all the time when I write these days. For a while I did it a la Annie Proulx, sans apostrophe, but got corrected too often, so I've been puttin' apostrophes in.
I wrote on another thread the other day about how in ten minutes time, 4 differnt signs I passed reminded me of BBM or one of you all. So the last couple of days, when drivin', I've been challengin' myself with any sign I look at to find a connection. And it's usually not hard a do.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: BIRTHDAY-FARKEEN-MENO on June 25, 2006, 03:08:50 am ---Tell you what, I'm pretty much droppin' endin's all the time when I write these days. For a while I did it a la Annie Proulx, sans apostrophe, but got corrected too often, so I've been puttin' apostrophes in.
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I've been writin sans apostrophe, myself. The one Annie-esque thing I can't bring myself to do is write "a" for "have" or "of." As in, "I shouldn't a let you out a my sights."
--- Quote ---I wrote on another thread the other day about how in ten minutes time, 4 differnt signs I passed reminded me of BBM or one of you all. So the last couple of days, when drivin', I've been challengin' myself with any sign I look at to find a connection. And it's usually not hard a do.
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Good idea! I live near a Monroe Street, so that's a start. But I'll keep goin.
Lynne:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on June 25, 2006, 02:14:49 am ---Good one, Lynne. One thing I love about Brokeback is that it gives us permission to fire our inner English teacher. Did your lunch companions think it weird when you said "them things"?
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As a rule, they would have thought it weird because it would be outta character for me, but I think they attributed it to local color/emphasis. It's Alabama, after all.
Just as a test, it did pain me to type 'outta,' so I guess inner English teacher is not totally standing aside. :)
-Lynne
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