"Of course. Let's talk for a minute after class," seems like it might have worked better.
(Somebody, tell me what the right way to punctuate that is. I hate figuring out the punctuation marks within and around quotation marks.)
Heebie, don't feel guilty about not feeding the blog.
Don't listen to B-girl, Heebie, that's crazy talk. Feed the blog so I don't feel bad about not doing it.
Heebie, don't feel guilty about not feeding the blog.
...with this kind of crap.
All of the important news get ignored.
Heh. I did see that story, thanks to my Google News email alert for "penis".
I was confused by 5. I thought I was pwned by Apo and was upset because I checked the top six threads for "penis", "cancer", and "sheep".
Or properly-spelled wishes of welfare to them.
Ask not for whom the fare wells.
Maybe some top-tier academic or author or TED-type will stumble on this thread and be really impressed and then we'll be famous!
One assumes the TED people will find the thread more quickly because of the bestiality.
It houses bad puns, bestiality and the Fayette County Fair
It houses bad puns, bestiality and the Fayette County Fair
"I'll take "Contents of Federal Government Office Buildings" for $300, Alex."
Heebie, you may have talked about this already, but what do you do if your kids are learning to talk like locals instead of like you? Mara insists on "fay-ell" for "fell" and a few similar sounds. I know she's partly doing it to antagonize me, but she's going to turn me into some sort of snob!
We picked a preschool at least partially because none of the teachers used too many Pittsburgh-only pronunciations.
what do you do if your kids are learning to talk like locals instead of like you?
Some of us *are* locals, you racist.
I'm being hypocritical because we chose her preschool in part because she'd be around a lot of black teachers who talk with both local and more specifically racialized accents. I do think it's important for her to be able to code-switch and not be judgmental about the way her teachers and her biological family members talk, but I also want her to be able to switch into our way of doing it, not just correct me!
I know, apo. I'm local too, but I don't particularly sound like it. Accents here are not extreme, though my brother once described a neighbor's vowels as being "like a yoyo in her voice" and that's the part Mara's picking up from people who aren't me or my more-midwestern partner.
Kidding. I don't really sound like it either. My kids picked up some deep southern accents about that age from their daycare teachers, but the accents were transient and they all sound like relatively unaccented me now.
I grew up surrounded by strong southern accents and didn't develop one. Hawaiian Punch occasionally says "y'all".
Hawaiian Punch occasionally says "y'all".
As well she should. I don't know whether this is generally southern or specifically this part of the south, but the other expression that seems to get added quickly is "big old", as in "that's a big ol' truck, y'all".
Oh, I suppose I do say that. But I say it daintily.
As long as my son only says "yunz" or "yenz" ironically, I'll be fine with it. Also, "gumband" is a stupid word. I hope he doesn't start to use it.
36: I say gumband! Because a PGH friend of mine said it, and I thought it was hilarious. Gumband!
It's hilarious for a while, but people keep doing it and after a while you realize they are serious.
As far as I can tell, kids pick up their peers' accents once they get to school age, or even before. Code switching develops are you get older, I think, rather than being some skill one just has from day one.
Most of the kids in my own family have accents different from their parents. My mum is English, my dad Glaswegian. My accent, my brother's accent, and my sister's accent is neither. And our accents aren't that much like each others' either. My niece has a strong SE English accent, etc.*
* although she can, if she wants to, slip back into Scottish, for comedy effect.
This is my first encounter with "gumband".
I googled gumband and found the perfect place for Moby to buy his Christmas presents.
Cufflinks that say "Jagoff" would be nice, if I also got some shirts with cuffs needing linked.