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To: RushCrush
I've been there. I still don't like how they talk.

I guess you prefer the "deese, dems and doese" of nuyawkas, or the "you knows" of air head Californians? How about "ya kaint git thare from heeaa" in New Engalund? How about "doancha know" from the great white north of the US? Or (God forbid) "nucular" as a certain Texan pronounces it? I've lived in most of those regions and actually cherish they way they talk because it's different.

Get over your bigotry and just deal with it. They don't talk like you do. Well you don't talk like they do. The regional differences are disappearing in this country because of the pervasiveness of television and we're all beginning to sound like we're from some useless place like Washington DC, and that's a crying shame.

85 posted on 09/02/2005 10:50:33 AM PDT by Phsstpok (There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
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To: Phsstpok

Reminds me of a story - I grew up in Hawaii, and was talking to a man who spoke with a Hawaiian pidgin accent. He served in WWII and used to hang with guys from New York who would be telling him, "Youse guyz from Hawaii - you moidah da English language don't chooz?"


216 posted on 09/02/2005 2:15:16 PM PDT by Stone Mountain
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