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Brooklands said:
Macungie is just down the road from me...
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Macungie is home to me!

I've never heard anyone mix verb tense, but perhaps I jus't dont get out enough. I do hear plenty of PA Dutch spoken a few miles west of me though...

"Throw the dog over the fence a bone now, once".
 
The one that makes me crazy is "orientated" - "I used a compass to get properly orientated." Arrghhhh!! Like fingernails on a chalk board!!!
 
Silverghost said:
The one that makes me crazy is "orientated" - "I used a compass to get properly orientated." Arrghhhh!! Like fingernails on a chalk board!!!
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No kidding. Same here. Don't they know that you use a compass to make <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">circles</span></span>????

Jeez.

T.
 
Basil said:
Double negatives drive me over the edge. "I don't want none."
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"Ain't got none".....
 
Silverghost said:
Basil said:
Double negatives drive me over the edge. "I don't want none."
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"Ain't got none".....
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But double negatives are correct in Spanish. "Ain't got none" would be "No tengo nada."

OOPS - sorry - was channeling Cliff Clavin there... :jester:
 
How about people saying <span style="font-style: italic">"where you at?"..... </span>that line makes me cringe!
 
JPSmit said:
DNK said:
"crunk"???
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What is "the sound a broken Datsun transmission makes for $100, Alex."
:whistle:
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... And "Crick" is the sound a Japanese camera makes when it takes the picture :jester:
 
Gliderman8 said:
... And "Crick" is the sound a Japanese camera makes when it takes the picture :jester:
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Where I come from, it's where we kids used to swim in the summer.
 
Roger said:
Funny that someone from the UK complained about "gotten". They probably think it's an Americanism, not realising that it's a really old English word that has become obsolete over there! The suffix "otten" denotes past tense, as in "forget" and "forgotten".
Oh, well.
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you otten not do that.... :devilgrin:
 
Brooklands said:
When I worked in an Ice Cream store after college, I would have customers come in and ask "Do youse have a special flavor today", which more than once I answered with "Today we's have..."
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Ah, but if you'd not shopwered for a day or two I'd bet you'd have been especially flavorsome.... :jester:

Depends on whom would then be giving you a licking, I suppose.... :devilgrin:
 
Brooklands said:
judow said:
How fortuitous that you should say this. Just left a restaurant and the waiter asked "Did we enjoy our meal?" I was so torqued that I just couldn't respond. I almost countered with "Do you have a mouse in your back pocket and was he eating my meal with me?" Held my tongue. Of course he was the same waiter that asked me if I wanted catsup and I had already consumed 3/4 of meal. Fortunately for him husband paid the bill and determined the tip, not me.
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When I worked in an Ice Cream store after college, I would have customers come in and ask "Do youse have a special flavor today", which more than once I answered with "Today we's have..."
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youse, we's, and let's not forget yutes:

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Gliderman8 said:
How about people saying <span style="font-style: italic">"where you at?"..... </span>that line makes me cringe!
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Uh, sorry but "Where-yat" is considered proper Yat English in New Orleans.

Right, Mickey??
 
TR6BILL said:
Gliderman8 said:
How about people saying <span style="font-style: italic">"where you at?"..... </span>that line makes me cringe!
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Uh, sorry but "Where-yat" is considered proper Yat English in New Orleans.

Right, Mickey??
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Yeah, yer right, cap'n!
 
Mickey Richaud said:
TR6BILL said:
Gliderman8 said:
How about people saying <span style="font-style: italic">"where you at?"..... </span>that line makes me cringe!
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Uh, sorry but "Where-yat" is considered proper Yat English in New Orleans.

Right, Mickey??
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Yeah, yer right, cap'n!
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I was about to say...

Elloit, it's mainly used as a greeting. Like "How are you" or "What's going on."

Boy, I say most of the things y'all hate. No wonder I aint got none friends 'round here. :jester:
 
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