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To: Sir Napsalot

I’ve traveled WV extensively, it is true many don’t speak English that a CNN turd would understand but this VA born and bred country boy understood them quite well.
Yes I heard you’uns, holler, crick and other nonstandard words used quite often. So what?

The Obama war on coal didn’t help the people of WV one bit but the speaking anal sphincter in the MSM will never admit that.

The people of WV ARE hardworking patriotic Americans and THAT is why the MSM must talk down at them.

Hack, spit.


12 posted on 08/04/2017 7:16:57 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Eat At Joes)
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To: oldvirginian

I’m a recent transplant from NE Ohio.

A lot of people I work with are able to switch between “newscaster English” and the local flavor with ease, depending on who they’re speaking to.

I’ve started to pick up some of the local dialect. I keep pronouncing “wire” as “wahr” without realizing.

I think some of the local words are interesting. Like anything with four wheels that’s not a car, truck or tractor is a “buggy”. ATV = buggy. Shopping cart = buggy. I stopped calling our valley a valley because valleys are hollers here. If creeks aren’t criks then they’re runs.

You could write a whole dissertation on the variable meanings the phrase “bless her heart” can assume based on the context, inflection and perspective of the speaker.


33 posted on 08/04/2017 9:04:29 AM PDT by chrisser
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To: oldvirginian
I have had to travel through WV and Western VA many times while driving to DC from Ohio (for work). Both are beautiful areas. To me, WV and Western Virginia are much more “real America” than that shiitehole known as DC. F the big city elites.
37 posted on 08/04/2017 10:15:50 AM PDT by ohioman
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