That's my guess, anyway. "Mar" in New England-ese = "mah." Mah-mee = mommy.
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 3:58:12 pm PST #2634 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Trudy Booth - Jan 31, 2005 4:04:10 pm PST #2635 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Holy COW!
That makes sense. And I'm stunned. Seriously.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 4:14:35 pm PST #2636 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
It took me forever to realize that too!
(I suppose that "Mommy" was so colloquial that there wasn't yet a conventional way to spell it.)
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:17:14 pm PST #2637 of 10002
Ok, that's so something I had missed in nearly 30 years, despite hearing many many stories of my dad's mystification at his car being called a cahmengear and various other NE-ese stories. And knowing my dad grew up without Js.
Never occurred to me it was an accent. Huh.
Just emailed what I hope is another lost friend (in her case, I lost all her contact info in a computer disaster.) It's like a plague!
amych - Jan 31, 2005 4:19:14 pm PST #2638 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
mystification at his car being called a cahmengear
Hey, now, my marmee drove a cahmengear.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 4:19:17 pm PST #2639 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Granted, I made this up out of my head, but it makes sense, doesn't it??
JenP - Jan 31, 2005 4:24:36 pm PST #2640 of 10002
cahmengear
I was following along nicely with all the pronunciation talk until this word. I can't deaccentize it.
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:25:10 pm PST #2641 of 10002
Hey, now, my marmee drove a cahmengear.
Hee. See, my parents were from the midwest (my dad, a swedish immigrant community, hence the lack of Js) and educated in SoCal. So when dad had a postdoc at Harvard, it was a wee bit confusing.
Boston also made dad stop driving to work from Scituate(? Either that or Felton, but I think that was where they lived in CA amidst the redwoods. I get confused. It was near World's End.) Dented his grill the first day, he did, in insano traffic. Mind you, this was probably 35 years ago.
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 4:26:35 pm PST #2642 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Hey, now, my marmee drove a cahmengear.
I used to drive a cahmengear.
(Jen it's a Karmann Ghia, made by VW.)
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:27:27 pm PST #2643 of 10002
Jen, Karmen Ghia. (or however that is spelled.) A really cute little car my dad loved that alas, didn't have a back seat. My arrival and Mass's salting (and thus bad rust issues) prompted him to sell it. And he STILL talks about that car.