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Was fixing to Drive to Libby
Today to recon some control…. decided against it.
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A bunch of snow fell on us last night and this morning; 4 inches here in Puyallup.
Just about shut this town down! The news was all over it; all morning long; amazing…
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The ACs are on today to keep my motherboards from melting.
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Today to recon some control…. decided against it.
Wimp!!! ????
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I drove a Hamster Car up and over Wolf Creek pass two weeks ago in a blizzard without chains……. Just give it a chance…. 😉
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Maybe it is a cultural thing but we in the south do not “fixing”, we always “fixin”…..no g at the end.
Is it an educational thing?
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Maybe it is a cultural thing but we in the south do not “fixing”, we always “fixin”…..no g at the end.
Is it an educational thing?
Interestingly (to me anyway), a few years ago on the TV game show “Wheel of Fortune” a contestant’s answer was denied as correct because the final “g” in a word ending in “ing” was not pronounced. There was little the contestant could do because of a waiver they sign prior to the show acknowledging the judges as the final say on any answer. But it did start a minor firestorm on social media about whether the Southern enunciation that so often ‘drops’ the “g” is proper or not.
I’m not sure if anybody’s mind was changed, but I did agree with one scholar’s explanation. He asserted that while the spelling may include the letter “g” common vernacular in some areas of the country choose to make it a silent “g”. One argument exampled the pronunciation by some folks of the word “about” spoken as “aboot”. I felt that was a good example of regional dialect defying phonetics.
I also drop the “g” sound in my speech (have all my life) and don’t consider it improper English. But my personal English also includes the word “gonna” as a contraction of the two words “going to”. 😉
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Then there is the added “r” on words such as “idea” that confuse those from certain regions.
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Everything in Texas must be broken because everyone is “fixin’ ” to do things.
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I drove a Hamster Car up and over Wolf Creek pass two weeks ago in a blizzard without chains……. Just give it a chance…. 😉
One of these ???
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And then we have the issue of the silent “r” in Yankee territory.
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I drove a Hamster Car up and over Wolf Creek pass two weeks ago in a blizzard without chains……. Just give it a chance…. 😉
One of these ???
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Close!
It was this:
Non_turbo Base model……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYOX5eYcViw
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Beginning in earnest about 25 years ago the south began to be flooded by economic refugees from up north. I frequently encounter folks from Illinois, Detroit, Joysey, etc. It seems they all made their former lands of Eden a crime and tax infested hell on earth so they want to spread the misery and bring it down here. Anyway every once in a while one of them has that god awful Boston or Minnesota accent with the typical southern style speech inflections of a dropped “g”.
Picture someone from Minnesota talking like they are from Alabama. They must have watched Sling Blade a lot.
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Beginning in earnest about 25 years ago the south began to be flooded by economic refugees from up north. I frequently encounter folks from Illinois, Detroit, Joysey, etc. ….
Sherman’s “Second” March to the Sea no doubt.
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