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Early Open Thread | 202 comments (202 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Lissen up, bubba, ya hear. yuh g'wine batmouth da peeples, i'm gonna see ya down the crossroads.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:15:27 PM EST
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No. you're mixing southern black and Appalachian white, not Mississippian. Mississippians are fixin' ta go to the polls and give all y'all a real nice showin'. Yessah, gonna be a right fine night. Massa Clinton ain't go' be none too proud, though.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:22:20 PM EST
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Ain't nothin' to worry about, though. Them ol' Mississippi Democrats is jussa buncha no-good polecats.

You see?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:25:11 PM EST
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Re: Early Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Massa Clinton is the lady in the couple? Or Bill?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:28:07 PM EST
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It's Bill. Hillary would be Miss Hill'ry. Gotta address the man of the house first in Mississippi. Very early-1900s.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:30:58 PM EST
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"Massa" would obviously be Southernspeak for "Master," hence it's Bill.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:32:12 PM EST
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That's what I thought. Childhood reading. Unca' Tom's Cabin. (No, not Mississippi.) Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn? (Honky childhood reading...)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:39:26 PM EST
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Hey, afew, don't you go getting all Samuel Clemens on us.

Unless

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:56:15 PM EST
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Huh? German is... (none / 0)

"The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain

slipshod and systemless

Perhaps I should read all of it and find he's joking.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 03:00:22 PM EST
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Re: Huh? German is... (none / 1)

Twain (IIRC) also wrote a piece where he lamented the French translation of one of his stories, which he then proceeded to translate back into English word-for-word, with humorous results...

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 03:04:10 PM EST
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Re: Huh? German is... (none / 1)

"Gretchen.
Wilhelm, where is the turnip?
Wilhelm.
She has gone to the kitchen.
Gretchen.
Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?
Wilhelm.
It has gone to the opera."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 03:28:32 PM EST
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Ah, "Unca'" is another good one.

Should be a fun night in Mississippi. We'll see who wins between "B'rack O-BAM-uh" and "Hill'ry Clint'n".

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 03:02:26 PM EST
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Well then, Sir, I believe I'm going to mogitate myself onwards, down to the flanks of the river, where I do believe there's a festival of tap dancing with some truly great feats, uhhh, feets. Damn, these intertuves are certainly hard on the inflection component. Miss Maude, would you please pour me another of those dialecticious mint juleps?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:30:37 PM EST
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y'offglide ??? (none / 1)

There were some examples of Mississippi speech in the paper this morning, can't be bothered looking to see which, where they used the word "y'offglide". But they didn't explain, we were supposed to guess.

What on earth does that mean ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:31:15 PM EST
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I think it refers to the way Southerners pronounce their i's, as when Edwards says "Ah will fahght for you" ("I will fight for you"). Not sure, though.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:35:35 PM EST
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...adding the obvious: I don't think "y'offglide" is an actual term we use but rather an explanation of pronunciation.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:40:02 PM EST
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Re: y'offglide ??? (4.00 / 2)

That's what it's about, though the y-offglide is absent in Southern accents. ("Mah" instead of "ma-y" for "my" - the vowel is similar, but in one pronunciation it glides into a terminal "y", in the other it remains open: "mah").

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 02:53:58 PM EST
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Yep, there ya go.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 03:03:57 PM EST
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Explained here, y'all.

http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/southern/

Karen in Austin

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 05:51:49 PM EST
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Ahhhh, thank you.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 06:01:21 PM EST
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Re: y'offglide ??? (4.00 / 2)

Now all y'all -- "all y'all" is the plural form of "y'all," by the way -- get it.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 07:18:14 PM EST
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This is an english-only site, non? n/t (none / 0)

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 03:41:49 PM EST
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non, obviousement. (none / 1)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 05:46:47 PM EST
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