In a message dated 2/1/2005 4:19:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> writes: >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 > I usually find that with the adding "r"'s is either French-Canadian, or New Hampshire alone. My dad comes from 100% F-C, but he's also a NH native. Everyone on his side would say "Chiner," while my mom, being a mix of a bunch of nice stuff and being a native of Mass would say "cah." I am glad to not say "Chiner." -C >-- >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. > >