Re: Re : Fw: Sent to me from Georgia
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 8, 1999, 22:35 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> He has assured me, with only a tad of sarcasm, that the best method
> of communicating when trying to get gas in rural areas is some sort of
> improvised sign language, because the English they speak is entirely
> unintelligible.
My uncle and aunt ran upon an interesting sample of rural Kansan talk,
hearing a man ask something like
[?aw mV fO D& ?ir @ ?Orn] or something along those lines
I'm not sure if they were exaggerating it or not. The question was "How
much for that ear of corn?"
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