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To: durasell
Every group owns its own vocabulary. Ever see the faces on a group of Southerners when a Yankee tries out a southern expression? How about when a Southerner tries out a yiddish expression?

"Is this where I git me a fishin' license?" ... Jon Carry in Wisconsin during the 2004 campaign

35 posted on 11/23/2006 2:54:57 PM PST by nj_pilot
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To: nj_pilot

...or git'er done.

The difference being, a segment of the black community has adopted a perjorative. This is not unusual, since some in the rural community have done the same with the term "redneck." The term sounds different in Jeff Foxworthy's mouth than it does in Al Sharpton's.


46 posted on 11/23/2006 3:27:00 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: nj_pilot
"Wisconsin"

Some years back I met my first prospective father-in-law who lived in Milwaukee. I lived in a medium-sized town La Crosse. The first question he asked me was how were the farmers doing on my side of the state. I almost burst out laughing, but that's what people think of when you're not from the big city. It's funny that my prospective f-i-l thought I should know about farming (I know just about zilch). Because as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said in his autobio "the first thing I thought of when I'd heard I'd been drafted by Milwaukee was farmers". Stereotypes are common and held by all sorts of different people.

68 posted on 11/23/2006 5:19:11 PM PST by driftless2
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