don't speak patois often. Not unless I'm mad, really.
What if someone just started? Would you answer not in patois?
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
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.
Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:09:05 pm PDT #6212 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:14:31 pm PDT #6213 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nope. I learnt to speak in Canada, and my mother was pretty adamant upon our return to Jamaica that I only speak standard English around my baby sister. I'll use vocab reflexively, but not grammar or rhythm.
Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:17:24 pm PDT #6214 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ah. Sorry for assuming.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:25:26 pm PDT #6215 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nah, I'm the freak with the plastic accent. Teaching's really making it obvious -- I'm not always sure why some looks flicker across everyone's faces. But apparently the way I say "teeter totter" is distinctive. Which means I have to do the whole "Where I'm from" speech, and get the "But you don't have an English/Jamaican/Canadian accent! You just pronounce everything perfectly!"
Which is a weird distinction, so maybe I should just say "seesaw" instead.
Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:29:35 pm PDT #6216 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I like "teeter totter" cause a) I like the owrds "teeter totter" and 2) I like the way you really annunciate your "t"'s. I'ma guess it's from years of being called "ida".
Sean K - Jun 30, 2005 8:30:38 pm PDT #6217 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It would make it easier, I suppose.
Sean K - Jun 30, 2005 8:31:51 pm PDT #6218 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
But apparently the way I say "teeter totter" is distinctive.
I suspect my gf would pronounce it similarly to you, ita, and she's from Texas. She over pronounces her "t"s often
t /gf likes carrots
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:40:42 pm PDT #6219 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She over pronounces her "t"s often
I don't over pronounce my Ts. I just pronounce them.
::gives secret handshake to Sean's GF::
Mr. Broom - Jun 30, 2005 8:41:52 pm PDT #6220 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
By "distinctive," do you mean you aspirate the second T in each word? ETA: Gotcha.
Sean K - Jun 30, 2005 8:43:54 pm PDT #6221 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I just pronounce them.
That's exactly what she said.