Unc: > > Well, we do all share a common philosphy. As Cindy > > Lauper sang, (gar)goyles just want to have fun... :-)
Jeff: > Good one. Cindy does hava NY accent. I always thought Bronx, but I never got all the Eastern accents straight. > I was brought up on Long Island but always eschewed the > accent. Would that be Long Gisland? :-) > Comes out in me sometimes when I get very excited, > animated or intense (which, fortunately, still happens > quite often). Less so for me, these days, partly due to where I'm living, partly due to having gotten over a lot of the things that got me really animated or intense after the recent US election. Kinda lost interest after that...the karmas look like a done deal, so what's to get intense about? > I would be interested to know where people on this forum > are from, originally (prefer this lifetime answers). Tough one for me. I have a problem with a question that is really not a problem for many if not most people: Where are you from? I'm an Air Force brat. I lived 20 or so different places before I graduated from college. Got into computers and have easily lived 20 more since then. The most mundane growing up were in the South, Florida and Georgia. The most interesting was Morocco. I was there from age 14 to 16. Those are fairly formative years. I have never been more thankful to any entity on earth than I am to the United States Air Force for sending my father and his family there. Changed my life forever -- took me out of Eisenhower America and dropped me smack dab into the middle of the Third World. Taught me many things. College in Texas and Pennsylvania and finally California, arriving there just in time to major in changing majors and better living through chemistry. Kept moving around. Got into TM. Kept moving around. Lived in Toronto for some time. Kept moving around. Still moving around. > Also, I'm interested in accents, types of speech, etc. In > college (Bucknell - Did you see them beat Kansas in the NCAA > basketball this year?) I had a roommate who wrote a paper > about teaching English as a second language to black kids > in NY. I thought it was a joke (I mean he had to be kidding, > right?). This was in 1973 and how many years(?) > later I hear about ebonics and think : "Man that guy was a > smart f****r" I've always thought that Ebonics should be taught to white kids to expand their appreciation of language. I'm kinda tuned in to accents and dialects because as a writer I sometimes have to try to do justice to one of those accents or dialects in writing. And the dialect they call Ebonics is really very cool, reminiscent in some ways of Cockney Rhyming Slang or Joyce's Dubliner English. It's got meter, where everyday English doesn't. I'll post a joke here to make the point, but please, Please, PLEASE don't anyone get too offended. I found this joke some years back and just LOVED it because of the creative language, and NOT because of any racial stereotypes or prejudices. It's just hilarious writing, whoever came up with it. (I found it as dialogue on a Usenet group.) >> Cindy Crawford used a body double in the Cadillac ad >> that was shown during the Super Bowl because her legs >> looked too fat in the original taping. > > Once again in EBONICs: > > Dat fly looking bitch dat Richard Gere use to pop be > gettin a monster butt. Wen she be riding in dat way > hopped hooptie, her rolls was showin 'round her poles. > She be usin some trick bitch ho settin in her spot. > I saws dis when da Packas dissed the north boys. :-) Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
