"don't touch them boxes neither" to get across the local flavor.Um?
Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?
'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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Topic!Cindy - Aug 12, 2005 9:35:31 am PDT #3586 of 10001
What is even happening?
Anne W. - Aug 12, 2005 9:37:48 am PDT #3587 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Um?
It may just be a Cape thing, but my family there uses "neither" almost as an emphatic negative at the end of a sentence.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 12, 2005 9:48:06 am PDT #3588 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh. It might be. It might even be a family thing, or social circle sort of thing. I was caught short by both the "neither" and the "them boxes".
Jesse - Aug 12, 2005 9:50:37 am PDT #3589 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Can we talk regionalisms for a minute? Does anyone outside of Somerville say "So don't I" when they mean "So do I"?
ChiKat - Aug 12, 2005 9:53:37 am PDT #3590 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Does anyone outside of Somerville say "So don't I" when they mean "So do I"?
That's just crazy talk.
sumi - Aug 12, 2005 9:56:12 am PDT #3591 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I've heard that. . . but where?
Jesse - Aug 12, 2005 9:56:58 am PDT #3592 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's just crazy talk.
I know it. But there it is. "I want to go to the mall." "Yeah, so don't I."
Topic!Cindy - Aug 12, 2005 10:02:47 am PDT #3593 of 10001
What is even happening?
Can we talk regionalisms for a minute? Does anyone outside of Somerville say "So don't I" when they mean "So do I"?
Maybe. I don't think I say it, but it doesn't sound out of place in my imagination. Granted, I'm still in general vicinity. I think it might be passing away, though.
Jesse - Aug 12, 2005 10:09:57 am PDT #3594 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, here's another stupid accent-ish example -- Dennis Lehane doesn't write out dialogue phonetically, but when Patrick is making a filler sound, he says "ahm," not "um," which is just so right.
Hil R. - Aug 12, 2005 10:17:05 am PDT #3595 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Can we talk regionalisms for a minute? Does anyone outside of Somerville say "So don't I" when they mean "So do I"?
One of my professors uses it and other similar constructions (and totally confuses everyone whose first language isn't English.) He grew up in Worcester.