Re: OT-CHAT: wet blanket re language
- Subject: Re: [iris] OT-CHAT: wet blanket re language
- From: A*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:49:54 EST
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
In a message dated 1/25/2003 6:49:07 AM Central Standard Time,
lmann@volfirst.net writes:
> I'm not sure I could order lunch in
> Mississippi! <g>
Linda, Maybe you didn't walk through it slow enough! I don't speak that
dialect but understand it fairly well. I could probably order lunch--after
the locals got done laughing at MY speech patterns!
Betty from Kentucky . . . . moved from Arkansas to St. Louis. Now that was a
trip. Don't do that unless you want people staring at ya, followed with
exclamations of, "Oh, I just LOVE to hear you talk!" Being young and thinking
all southerners spoke the same, I had a rude awakening when we vacationed at
KY Lake! Restaurant talk again . . . the highlight of the vacation for me
was listening to people talk.
Unfortunately, I can't really take part in this conversation cause I never
learned how to write southern, just talk it!
Betty from Kentucky zone 6, but still not above freezing.
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