Posted on 07/28/2008 9:39:49 AM PDT by Perdogg
Randy Fobister's pictures have been circulating through Grassy Narrows like gossip this week.
They are of a 38-cm long, six-toed "big" footprint.
Driving to a blueberry picking site Tuesday, about an hour north of the Grassy Narrows First Nation reserve 80 km northeast of Kenora, Helen Pahpasay and her mother saw something they've never seen before.
"I seen a black, um ... thing," Pahpasay said. "It was tall and lanky and it was walking towards our way
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Thats Al Gores carbon footprint.
Heating his pools.
Flying around the world on jet planes.
Lines of limos in front of liberal elite conferences with the engines running with the air condition on.
I had a COLLEGE GRADUATE!!! co-worker who constantly used that grammatical monstrosity. I brought him up on it one day at work, and he argued that he was right to use it. I couldn't talk him out of the usage.
LOL! Trust me ... not everybody speaks perfect English in Texas. And Texas English is exactly what I based my comment on. Perhaps you learned a lot from the folks up in your neck o' da woods, but I can't say the same for the "I seens" in these parts.
Yeah, try it with someone who says "supposably" sometime. "Supposably" is a word, but almost always used incorrectly when the speaker means to say "supposedly".
To be sure if we could check the speech habits of everybody, we would find we're all (me too) guilty at times of incorrect grammar and butchering the English language. But the "I seen" locution seems to grate on me the most. Especially when used by college grads like my old co-worker.
Although I've never seen Bigfoot I did however once see a volkswagon beetle chasing a moose that was rather unexpected.
She doesn’t look dark and lanky to me.
These days, in (western) PA it's primarily a rural thing, but a lot of older folks, urban and rural, use it extensively. I suspect it has a lot to do with the pockets of immigrants from various linguistic groups who were shepherded into ethnic coal and steel towns. Unlike today's *immigrants*, they insisted their children speak English, which they did without anyone around to correct their usage.
Here in Louisiana, I'm personally aware of a couple cases where a journalist would misquote a correctly, but very softly spoken, "I've seen," as, "I seen," when it served to add color or to make the interviewee look like a rube.
To bring everything full circle, I really doubt this lady saw a bigfoot, but would not dismiss her story on grammar alone...In fact, if you rely upon highly polished elocution, you could look to academia, Hollywood, or even certain presidential candidates noted for their oratory, but are among the ranks of those I'd consider the very least credible people.
As a matter of course, I'd be far more inclined to trust somebody who began by saying, "I seen...."
thank you for the ping
I heared that! You go, Joe!
> Where I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, “I seen” is a very common speech error which simply results from the language people are raised with. If I discounted everything I heard simply because the speaker started with, “I seen,” I would have had to ignore the lessons I learned from a lot of old WWII vets, coal miners, steel workers and a lot of otherwise very intelligent, if undereducated people. Unfortunately the rest of our nation is not like Texas, where no doubt, every person speaks perfect English.
(giggle!) Hell-Funny! Well-said!
Greta Garbo’s famous statement. But I’m 66. ;^)
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