I'm with you Anne. And I think parents do have a responsibility to explain how things in the world fit into their moral framework. I would disagree with people who use a book about gay people to explain to their kids that homosexuality is a sin and gay people will rot in hell, but I wouldn't disagree with their right to do just that. But you can't "protect" your kids from the world.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jesse - Mar 19, 2004 7:26:28 am PST #1559 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Skyzy - Mar 19, 2004 7:39:59 am PST #1560 of 10002
My step-mother went to elementary school in Ithaca NY, then junior high in Atlanta GA. When she started high school in Sacramento CA she was told she had a "speech defect" and sent to remedial English. Made her so mad she is now a Ph.D. in linguistics.
I'm a So. California native. My dad's family is all from NJ. When I was 7, I had to see a speech therapist because I had a NJ accent in California. To this day if they have to guess, people still think I'm from the east coast.
On the Merry/Mary/Marry note...I say them Mehrry/Mairy/Maiyry
deborah grabien - Mar 19, 2004 7:43:13 am PST #1561 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I've got an accent that's a bizarro blend of London-East Coast-West Coast and, when I'm really tired, Canada.
People have no idea where I'm from.
Vortex - Mar 19, 2004 7:48:20 am PST #1562 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
People have no idea where I'm from.
People say the same about me. The accent itself if very bland, midwestern-y generally. BUT, it has hints of the south and England in it as well in words and phrasing.
Katerina Bee - Mar 19, 2004 7:50:33 am PST #1563 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
People ask me about my accent all the time. I've heard guesses ranging from Irish to tony East Coast boarding school, both wrong. I think it's because my mother spoke English as a second language, and I picked up an emphatic pronunciation from her textbook English. What's interesting is that my little sister hasn't a trace of the accent thing. I figure she must have learned a lot from me. A generic American intonation, how to swim and ride a bike, and why the Ramones were the coolest ever.
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 9:59:46 am PST #1564 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Pronunciation:
A woman I worked with many many moons ago called a resident of the nursing home we worked at Ms. Camp-bell. When I corrected her with "cam-bell. the p is silent", she stared at me and asked how I knew.
"Do you call it camp-bell's soup?"
"Yes."
I left her alone.
Skyzy - Mar 19, 2004 10:08:35 am PST #1565 of 10002
Yikes! I do an almost Camp-bell pronunciation. I pronounce the 'P' very softly, so you can't really hear it. I basically slur the the p and the b together. Thank you for correcting the error of my ways!!!
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 10:10:23 am PST #1566 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Heheheh.
t says "campbell" to self a few times out loud.
It does sound like the p and b are sorter combined, huh? Well, that's the way to say it. NOT CAMP-bell.
Megan E. - Mar 19, 2004 10:13:50 am PST #1567 of 10002
Supposebly. Supposebly? They went to the zoo? Supposebly. t /joey tribianni
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 10:15:20 am PST #1568 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
BWAH!!