There are no visual “trailers” this week, but I do warn you to be prepared for weirdness with next week’s new Arlo & Janis strips, available here and, of course, in newspapers everywhere. Well, not everywhere. If that were true, I’d be driving a much nicer vehicle.
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To all Anglophiles and music lovers:
Friday evening, I attended a Lunasa concert at the Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio.
Phenomenal Celtic music.
I think that they are performing in Ashville, North Carolina, as I type this post.
Speaking of anglophilia, the GSVLOC is doing G&S’s ‘The Gondoliers’ F, S, Sun. 10 Mar.-2 Apr. at the Conn Aud., next to Plymouth Congregational Ch. in Mpls. Details at:
http://gsvloc.org/
We [Elaine and I, and later family or friend and I] have seen several productions and have been more than satisfied. Costume and sets are well done, though the costumes of Bunthorne [a fleshly poet] and Archibald [an idyllic poet] in ‘Patience’ a couple of yr. back were ill-chosen. Director didn’t do his homework.
Hidden orchestra is fine [under the stage, w/ a TV screen at rear of aud. where actors can see conductor]. The Conn seats only 300 or so, not really a bad seat in the house. Tickets are reasonable, and I also do a contribution, which is entirely optional. I suspect some evenings or Sunday matinees are already sold out. Expect to be there last weekend in Mar. Had them mail tickets to my younger son in Mpls.
Peace,
Interesting discussion of spoken language. I too grew up saying ‘greazy’. I also call my uncle’s wife my ‘ant’. I find that I frequently take on more of my childhood accents when I’m back in those areas, or other areas of the South. For me, it seems to be an unconscious effort to blend my speech into the rhythms and tones of the speakers around me. I had no trouble with professional speech while in the military, nor during the years I worked in various geographies in the technology business. I haven’t spent much time in the northeast, so I don’t know of those accents. I can, however, fit well in ‘most any area south of the Mason-Dixon as well as the Midwest. One of the things that I use to do with my daughters was to read excerpts from “Tom Sawyer” or “Huckleberry Finn” as written in regional dialect. Heaven forbid– I even read them stories from “Uncle Remus.”
Dad grew up in the Old Country and worked hard at losing his accent –
not to be picked on as a kid. He was young enough so he was successful.
Mom also worked on us so we did not get a NY accent.
There are some words that betray me but I spoke like a Minnesotan
before I moved to MN.
Once saw a map of the retreat of Yankee Speech from NY area. Now with TV
we are sounding the same – Not just News but all shows contribute.
(Heard Norwegians talk Texan because that is where they learned English)
It is not just how we pronounce words it is the words we use for things:
bucket – pail
bag – poke – satchel
pie – pizza
hero – grinder – sub – poorboy – gyro
soda – pop – tonic – coke(meaning all carbonated drinks)
to quote emb “Peace”
Debbe GM
(From a few days back)
Talking about giving parents what taste good –
Grand MIL was in nursing home after having appendix out
at 98, they wanted to restrict her sugar on her oatmeal,
MIL sad let her have it. GMIL lived to 104, mind still sharp –
rest of body not so much – but she was sharp.
Chessie is still hanging on bedroom wall from when wife was a kid.
Six Best Doctors in the World
?1. Sunlight?
2. Rest
?3. Exercise?
4. Diet
?5. Self Confidence?
6. Friends
One of my most favorite dialects is Appalachian, a dialect that is unfortunately rapidly disappearing.
For years, Appalachians were pretty much ignored unless they were being ridiculed, but, then, some linguists discovered them. What they found was interesting.
They focused on words such as “vittles.” After doing a bit of word sleuthing, the linguists stated that the old mountain people were speaking a dialect that was highly related to the speech patterns of Elizabethan England.
Some linguists concluded by stating that mountain people were actually speaking a “purer” form of English.
David and Old Bear:
Great stuff – I’m glad that you shared those histories.
I’m with Arlo. I hate Daylight Savings Time.
I even hate the name.
It should be called Daylight Shifting Time.
I did note that Jimmy got the spelling of DST correct. Some people get bent out of shape at that. In Detroit, we had a grocery store named Farmer Jack and their jingle was that it was Farmer Jack SavingS time. So Detroiters add the “s”. Of course they add the “s: to Fords, Chryslers and even mark the Men’s Room as Mens, instead of Men. That sign did kind of bug me.
Pneumatic and Pulchritudinous Hair Stylist, a life-long resident of my part of the Deep South, sounds like a Valley Girl…to me, at least. Actually, I noticed teenage girls in this area had developed that same accent over 30 years ago. I blame television shows for that.
Running late. What’s new?
Rick I will comment later. My relatives in Louisiana were part of that Appalachian study!
I’m seriously thinking of revising my Last Will and Testament to this: “Being of sound mind, I spent all my money.”
The trick, of course, is to make it come out even at the end.
Arlo should come live in The Village. It appears that we are not yet observing the change to DST here.
Good morning Villagers…….
I love the British and Australian accents, despite that sometimes I have a hard time understanding what they are saying because of the accent. Yup, I could listen to Sean Connerty all day and night….but is his British or Scottish? Inquiring minds want to know.
Mark, almost 2000 songs on your play list, wow…..and I thought I was bad. Have not yet set up playlist…still exploring Spotify and self-navigating.
GM Old Bear….love your doctor’s list, will copy and put on refrigerator with magnet. I like little ‘pick me ups’ on the fridge.
As for my accent, it took a while to loose my ‘Hoosier’ one when I moved to Corpus Christi, and not long for me to pick it back up when I moved back. I have somewhat of a light weight Southern drawl. You should hear me go ‘Dutchy” with my German ancestry. Dubois County is heavy in their Dutch accent. Mom could speak the local dialect of German. The Amish around here speak their own German too, not a textbook German.
Dad slept in until 8:30, had breakfast and now back to sleep in his recliner. No incidents through the night.
….later
GR 😉 that is exactly what I would love for my Dad to do….my baby sister is POA (sometimes I feel she is DOA), and is tight with the money….I can’t even get her to sign back up for trash pick up…says they are too expensive…so I have to have someone help me load it up, take it to the recycling center and then pay them….it’s about the same amount of money, but with less hassle.
…gotcha 🙂
https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/16/8/3/OyORl8BeLkKXDpPsFEY42w2.mp4
Rick, thanks for mentioning Lunasa! I looked them up and have been been listening to some of their music and they are wonderful.
emb, that’s an interesting way for actors to see conductor.
Old Bear, I like your doctor list.
Debbe, glad to hear your Dad had a good night. Connery is Scots.
Annual DST kerfluffle [ignorant speelczech]. It’s precisely that it shifts daylight from many people’s sleeping hours into most people’s waking hours that it’s good. Some can be out on the lake or golf course an hour longer. Specifically, as I’ve mentioned before, I can drive comfortably [and more safely] an hour later. Also, of course, that’s the time of year I’m more likely to be driving, there being less ice on the roads.
Ghost: 30 YA, a lot of effort went into cultivating Valley Girl speech, both accent and vocab.
As to ‘the trick’, if you have any extra, one trick is using some of it where it will do good in perpetuity. A scholarship here, exam rooms and a cancer fund there, plaques at a couple of museums. Of course, since they are named, I am letting my left hand [and the world] know what my right hand is doing, but they do serve as examples.
One of my examples was a man I’ve praised here before, my BSU boss, who died at ’99 and a half’ [which I think he dictated into his obit]. There are at least 4 Harold T. Peters scholarships in math and the sciences at BSU. It’s a win-win hobby, and there w/b enough for my 3 ‘kids’.
Also, I don’t have an all-female staff, but there are hugs, and occasional photos that could be titled, ‘Old goat sure can pick ’em.’
Peace,
Smigz: It may be more common than we realize. How often do we turn around to see what’s visible from the stage? I learned what a teleprompter [that big square thing off to my right] was at a dreadful F**t L****r show in the Second City. The suits on stage were so obviously reading it, to accompany the style images being shown on the center stage screen. Audience was mostly female store mgrs. and such.
Daughter choreographed the show [she’s now making an honest living as a psych counselor] and warned Elaine and me beforehand, ‘These girls cheer for SHOES!’ Strange the routes money takes to make the world go ’round. One such experience is enough, which of course, relates also to my previous post. I’ve not seen Everest, but have Kilimanjaro. Time, one hopes, for the rest later.
Peace,
Snow again, but expect eagles have dealt w/ this for millennia. Peace,
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/decorah-eagles-north-nest
emb, and others. The problem with the twice-yearly shifts from DST to CST (or whatever you have) is not the clock change. Clocks are for the mind, the conscious part of us that knows the difference. But the body is like a computer that gets programmed. And when the time changes, the body must reprogram itself to adapt. That process is harder for some of us than others, and I personally think the change is unnecessary.
I dated a New Hampshire woman for a while. Both of us noticed our regional accents were strongest when talking to our moms on the phone.
About that Appalachian study. In 1790-1805 a large group, about 25 families and assorted kith and kin left the Carolinas together and ended up in Winn Parish, Louisiana, a remote piney woods hill country. Deep in Louisiana toward north of state they preserved their Appalachian customs and their speech.
In college I was embarrassed but not surprised to hear they had been studied and recorded as preserving the language purely that our English colonial forefathers spoke in 1700s.