MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 2/1/2005 3:27:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Michele Riccio" <mr1 at rcosta.com> writes: > > > >>On 31 Jan 2005 at 17:31, MedCat7 at aol.com wrote >> >> >> >>>In a message dated 1/31/2005 3:10:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Shawn >>>Burns" <s1burns at ucsd.edu> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Language is like a thingamajig. >>>> >>>>There is always change and evolution in language, >>>> >>>> >>>Like "wicked." It really means something evil (or to that effect), but >>>the way I, and many New Englanders, use it is to mean something like, >>>"very" or "extremely," only meant more than exteme (if that makes >>>sense) (wicked cold, wicked awesome). There ar e other ways I use it >>>to, but I don't think anyone would understand them as I am a strange >>>person and say and do many strange things. >>> >>>-C >>> >>> >>> >>You left out my favorite - "wicked pissa"! >> >>M >> >> > >Ah, yes, and the eva popula "er" changed to "a." >Pak the cah in Havad's yad. >I love New England! >-C > > Yeah, but there's hardly any parking in Harvard Yard; you gotta go on Garden St. or maybe Brattle St. to find anything. I usually just leave my cah in my apahtment pahking space, and walk the ten minutes to Hahvid instead. I find, after only seven and a half years in the Boston area (Chestnut Hill & Somerville, if you must know), that I don't really drop Rs; I add them. I occasionally have trouble with Lawr and other such words, but I normally speak in the good ol' unaccented Miami dialect. So people mistake me for Canadian. I don't know why; every Canadian I've met has had a Canadian accent (including my boss). Jose -- Jose Marquez | There are 10 types of people in jhereg69 at earthlink.net | the world: those who understand http://www.hackwater.com | binary, and those who don't.