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    Minor grammar rant.......Southerners......

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    KY/TN girl here and we definitely are South! :tongue_smilie: Does anyone say I'z?---as in "I haven't seen him since I'z 10." Soft z. I still catch myself dropping off that w and I still drop my g's most of the time.

     

    When I first moved to Illinois. SE Illinois too-- everyone commented on my accent. I've lost most of it the longer I've lived here. Which is a shame because I find the Midwestern non-accent incredibly boring.

     

    Funny--dh and I were just having a discussion about how y'all and ain't are perfectly acceptable words in some situations. I don't routinely say them, but some situations call for it. I too say "Y'all need to settle down." It's also incredibly important to me that my kids call all adults Miss or Mister (first name).

     

    That never happens here in Illinois. I'm called by my first name by kids here. And yet kids I've known in KY and TN called me Miss.

     

    I think dialects are beautiful and hope they are never lost or forgotten.

     

    ETA: I read a Barbara Kingsolver book about a KY girl called The Bean Trees---and although it was good there was the gratuitous use of y'all as a singular and other Southern accent mishaps. It annoyed me.

     

    And don't forget "fixin'" I use that all.the.time. ie. I'm fixin' to go to the store.

    A Sunday Chat

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    I'm stressed so I need some comfort food tonight. I'm bringing some Lindt Dark Chocolate with a Touch of Seasalt.

     

    :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: I'm sorry you're stressed out mama. I wish I could help.

     

    What is comfort food for you? Cuban food. :drool5: Palomilla steak empanizado, platano maduro, black beans and rice, yuca. Pasteles de guyaba y queso. MMMMMMMMM

     

    What are you doing for or on Labor Day? Going out to dinner. :)

     

    Do you have a favorite joke? I have a couple I like but don't really have a favorite.

    Minor grammar rant.......Southerners......

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    I was wondering what the heck part of the south uses "youse," myself. I don't even remember transplanted New Yorkers using it when we lived in Florida.

     

    While I defend y'all as both sensible and grammatical, you 'uns set my teeth on edge when we lived in Tennessee. Maybe it was because it was always surrounded by a bunch of other words that were also difficult to understand. We gave up on asking directions, because they always sounded like this:

     

    Friendly Tennessee native: Oh, that's real easy to get to. You'uns just need to go yonder until you get to where the feed store used to be, then turn left and go until you see some new dirt. Take a right and you're purt near there, but watch out for the creek because it . . .

     

    And I never heard what the creek might do, because my sobs of despair drowned them out at this point. I am geographically challenged to begin with, and directions that include things such as new dirt and where things used to be push me over the edge :D

     

    Oh I hate those kinds of directions where they use a landmark that used to be there, but isn't anymore. :cursing: I'm directionally challenged too. :tongue_smilie:

    Minor grammar rant.......Southerners......

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    Oh, and another vote for Alan Rickman. (but I think I would rather listen to him read the phone book with his own beautiful voice than listen to him say y'all. However, I sure wouldn't complain if he leaned out the the drive through to do so.)

     

    Mandy

     

    :lol::lol::lol:. Oh my. I think I would just up and keel over if I went through the drive through at Hardees and Alan Rickman was at the pull up window talking Southern. Like literally just keel over!! That would be too awesome!! :D

    Books.....how do you keep them from....

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    I have to admit, I wasn't precisely sure which type of "books" you were talking about until the second sentence. lol Someone please tell me I wasn't the only one. :D

     

    OP, I have the same problem too. I have a tiny house, that looks like a library because of the number of bookshelves and I still have stacks of books that need a home. I've donated tons to the library already, but still have so many more than I have a place for. I'm trying to get hubby to build more bookshelves, but he says we need to get rid of more first. :(

    Minor grammar rant.......Southerners......

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    ... said that Kevin Costner sounded like he had been putting his green tights on in the Virgin limo from the airport and then just started speaking his lines when he got out of the car.

     

    Add that to the amazingly fast walk from Dover to Nottingham in that film. He says he'll be there by night fall. And then he does it via Northumberland (Hadrian's wall clearly visible). Google maps has that as a week's worth of walking, but that's without stopping to eat or sleep.

     

    I had to play with Google maps a bit: when I first put the route in, it tried to take me by ferry to Belgium and then by another ferry to Hull. Even Google maps thinks that's a long way to walk.

     

    Thank goodness for Alan Rickman.

     

    Laura

     

    YES!!! That movie was AWFUL but for Alan Rickman. He was brilliant as always. Kevin was just painfully bad. I have to give him some props though for not even attempting the accent. At least he had that much sense. :tongue_smilie:

    Six junk removal trucks lined up in front of my neighbor's house...

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    I have heard of cases where people lost all their stuff because the landlord evicted them and locked them out.

     

    This is true, but OP says the neighbor smiled and waved at her when she saw her so probably not an eviction case. We had neighbors who were renting the house next door and they knew they were going to get evicted because they weren't paying their rent for a loooooooooong time. They skipped town in the night and the owner put all of their carp on the street that was left in the house.

    So freaked out-Green on Blue attack

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    I'm so freaked out. I'm trying not to be, but I can't help it. I hadn't heard from James Bond in several days, which is unusual given that he works on a computer and has email access.

    I finally heard from his tonight (telephone) and he said the reason he hadn't been in contact is because he was involved in a Green on Blue attack (Afghan soldier attacking international forces) and communications were on lock down until the families of the wounded soldiers were informed.

     

    James Bond is fine. He was not hurt in the incident, but just the fact that he was involved at all has me on the edge. I can't go into details, but he's no longer a combat soldier but works in the rear. Technically, he's never really been a "front line fighter", but has been through plenty of combat. I went through years worrying about him in combat situations and thought I might breathe a little easier now that he's in the rear. Apparently not.

     

    I'm so upset I'm shaking. We have more than 9 months left of this deployment and weekly there are reports of Green on Blue attacks. I feel like my head whole body is in a vice and being compressed more every day. It's just after 10pm here and I'm tired, but I know I won't sleep for hours yet as my mind is racing and my lungs don't seem capable of pulling in oxygen.

     

    There's no point to this post. I just have to get it out so I can remain calm for the boys. Thank goodness they're asleep.

     

    Oh honey!! That is so hard. :( I'm so sorry you're having to go through this. :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

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