Caulfield: Imagine the panic if Frazz and Mr. Burke walked through the comb district. Miss Plainwell: I'm trying to imagine a city with a comb district.
‘Scuse me? Are you all a-runnin’ down that kindly li’l ol’ Suth’n drawl of mine? That li’l ol’ thang that don’t show up unless’n I’m real ’cited by sumpin.
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Go read some Uncle Remus, Little Black Sambo, and then the story of good old Daniel Webster.
Back in the ‘70s, a Vancouver TV critic blasted a Texas setting show for phony accents. I wrote giving ten authentic Texas accents with a speaker sufficiently well-known in Canada as an illustration for each. They wouldn’t publish it.. I did admit that my Piney Woods East Texas example – Ladybird Johnson – was really a combination of Hill Country Texas and rural Alabama, but the sound was the same. The show was accurate for Wichita Falls to Quanah..pschearer: I would really need to hear it, but your transcription sounds north-east Texas. I once knew a fellow student who delighted in those around-the-room introductions with, “:Mah name is Takioshi Ahbay frum Kobee Jahpayn”. He had practiced English in Lufkin before enrolling. His regular English was much the same, but I think he thickened it a bit for the intros.
I was always annoyed by Al Capp’s insistence on using “yo’” in place of “you”, as in “Yo’ must be…” . “You’re” or “your”, fine, but used in place of you? You must bout of yo’ mind.
runar almost 12 years ago
Barbershop Row would serve the same purpose.
Editer63 almost 12 years ago
A man’s comb is his hassle.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
Beats the Hannity district…
pschearer Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Comb. Bomb. Tomb. Why must English be so difficult?
twj0729 almost 12 years ago
?
jowgar almost 12 years ago
I just googled “comb district” and got nothing useful.
lemon868 almost 12 years ago
neither of them has hair that can be tamed.
ArtisticArtemis almost 12 years ago
‘Scuse me? Are you all a-runnin’ down that kindly li’l ol’ Suth’n drawl of mine? That li’l ol’ thang that don’t show up unless’n I’m real ’cited by sumpin.
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Go read some Uncle Remus, Little Black Sambo, and then the story of good old Daniel Webster.
Then we’ll talk. >^..^<
hippogriff almost 12 years ago
Back in the ‘70s, a Vancouver TV critic blasted a Texas setting show for phony accents. I wrote giving ten authentic Texas accents with a speaker sufficiently well-known in Canada as an illustration for each. They wouldn’t publish it.. I did admit that my Piney Woods East Texas example – Ladybird Johnson – was really a combination of Hill Country Texas and rural Alabama, but the sound was the same. The show was accurate for Wichita Falls to Quanah..pschearer: I would really need to hear it, but your transcription sounds north-east Texas. I once knew a fellow student who delighted in those around-the-room introductions with, “:Mah name is Takioshi Ahbay frum Kobee Jahpayn”. He had practiced English in Lufkin before enrolling. His regular English was much the same, but I think he thickened it a bit for the intros.
childe_of_pan over 7 years ago
I was always annoyed by Al Capp’s insistence on using “yo’” in place of “you”, as in “Yo’ must be…” . “You’re” or “your”, fine, but used in place of you? You must bout of yo’ mind.