Holy COW!
That makes sense. And I'm stunned. Seriously.
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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.
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
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.
Hil R. - Jan 31, 2005 4:28:52 pm PST #2644 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Karmann Ghia
Oh!
(I was trying to get that into a NY accent, and had all the right sounds, but couldn't figure out any way for those sounds to arrange into words.)