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Re : Fw: Sent to me from Georgia

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Date:Monday, October 4, 1999, 16:35
the only place i know quite well in the states is Atlanta.
for some reason. so that was GOOD !

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 03/10/99 19:26:02  , jjbowks a =E9crit :
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> Sawthan Slang > > > >The Atlanta School Board, sensing that Oakland cashed in > >by labeling African American slang as the language > >"Ebonics," has decided to pursue some of the seemingly > >endless taxpayer pipeline through Washington by designating > >Southern slang, or "Hickphonics," as a language to be > >taught in all Southern schools. > > > >A speaker of this language would be a Hickophone. The > >following are excerpts from the Hickphonics/English > >dictionary: > > > >HEIDI - noun. Greeting. > > > >HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting. > >Usage: Heidi, hire yew?" > > > >BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow." > >Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck." > > > >JAWJUH - noun. The State north of Florida. Capitol is > >Lanner. > >Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck." > > > >BAMMER - noun. The State west of Jawjuh. Capitol is > >Berminhayum. > >Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left > >$20,000,000 in improvements." > > > >MUNTS - noun. A calendar division. > >Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I > >ain't herd from him in munts." > > > >THANK - verb. Ability to cognitively process. > >Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare." > > > >IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Alabama native." > >Usage: "Them Bammer boys sure are ignert!" > > > >RANCH - noun. A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. > >Usage: "I thank I left my ranch in the back of that pickup > >truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago." > > > >ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant. > >Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my > >pickup truck." > > > >FAR - noun. A conflagration. > >Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my > >pickup truck, that thing's gonna catch far." > > > >TAR - noun. A rubber wheel. > >Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't > >git a flat tar in my pickup truck." > > > >TIRE - noun. A tall monument. > >Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I sure do > >hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime." > > > >RETARD - Verb. To stop working. > >Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65." > > > >FAT - noun, verb. 1. a battle or combat. 2. to engage in > >battle or combat. > >Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup y'uh." > > > >FARN - adjective. Not local. > >Usage: "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed....mus' be from > >some farn country." > > > >DID - adjective. Not alive. > >Usage: "He's did, Jim." > > > >EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas: Oxygen. > >Usage: "He cain't breathe....give 'im some ear!" > > > >BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable. > >Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence." > > > >JEW HERE - Noun and verb contraction. > >Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job > >th that bob war fence cump'ny?" > > > >HAZE - a contraction. > >Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah....haze ignert. He ain't > >thanked but a minnit 'n 'is laf." > > > >SEED - verb, past tense of "to see." > > > >VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun. > >Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City....view?" > > > >GUMMIT - Noun. A bureaucratic institution. > >Usage: "Them gummit boys shore are ignert." > >