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Expressions You Hate!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on December 16, 2008, 10:50:10 pm ---
around here, people will say (which drives me NUTS) "We have to conversate!"
One time, I turned to the person and said, "There's no such word as "conversate"! You can have a conversation, or you can converse.
::)
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Conversate? Hey, I think I kinda like that one! :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 16, 2008, 10:53:18 pm ---I ain't coming coming up with anything for "being have," though.
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I wonder whether that's related to "ax." You know, as in, "Let me ax you a question."
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 16, 2008, 11:02:08 pm ---I wonder whether that's related to "ax." You know, as in, "Let me ax you a question."
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Maybe. I always figured that was just kind of careless pronunciation, but ...
Because they say that a lot in New Orleans, I was going to jump from there to a discussion of all the New Orleans expressions that are weird ("making groceries" instead of "grocery shopping," "neutral ground" for "median," "earl" for "oil" and "oil" for "earl," "when I was coming up" for "growing up" -- there's a ton of them) but then I remembered another kind of expression I hate. I hate cutesy names for cities that get way overused, such as "The Big Apple," "The Big Easy," etc.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 16, 2008, 11:14:05 pm ---Maybe. I always figured that was just kind of careless pronunciation, but ...
Because they say that a lot in New Orleans, I was going to jump from there to a discussion of all the New Orleans expressions that are weird ("making groceries" instead of "grocery shopping," "neutral ground" for "median," "earl" for "oil" and "oil" for "earl," "when I was coming up" for "growing up" -- there's a ton of them) but then I remembered another kind of expression I hate. I hate cutesy names for cities that get way overused, such as "The Big Apple," "The Big Easy," etc.
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They say "ax" (or, perhaps, "aks") for "ask" in NOLA? I remember reading something about the "aks" pronunciation for "ask" years ago, in the midst of the Ebonics controversy. Remember that?
Well, I guess a media is sort of "neutral ground," between two or more lanes of traffic. And didn't Archie Bunker say "earl" for "oil"? Or was it just "terlit" for "toilet"? ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 16, 2008, 11:29:28 pm ---They say "ax" (or, perhaps, "aks") for "ask" in NOLA? I remember reading something about the "aks" pronunciation for "ask" years ago, in the midst of the Ebonics controversy. Remember that?
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Yes. Well, they use a lot of Ebonics in NOLA.
--- Quote ---Well, I guess a media is sort of "neutral ground," between two or more lanes of traffic.
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There's a more literal meaning in this case, dating back from when the city was half English and half Spanish, and Canal Street, with its particularly wide median, ran between them.
--- Quote ---And didn't Archie Bunker say "earl" for "oil"? Or was it just "terlit" for "toilet"? ;D
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Yeah, he did say those things. (and "Goils were goils and men were men ...") New Orleans and certain parts of New York share an eerily similar accent, I guess because of similar immigration patterns.
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