Re: USAGE: Knock and knock-knock

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> > Although I speak what I call "farmer talk" most of the time,
>
> Which no doubt explains why your mail comes from "corn.cso.niu.edu"?
hehehe.  That's my university being cute.  All of its servers are named
after crops.  DeKalb, being famous for its hybrid corn, is a large farming
town.  The "corn" server is the faculty server.  Students servers are
"wheat" "rice" and "farm".

My dialect evolves from my childhood.  I was raised on a farm in NW
Illinois.  When I go back to visit, it takes me all of fifteen minutes to
slip right back into warshing my hands, so he says, so I says, so he says,
ain't, and all the other pleasant little variations.  My step-grandfather,
the epitome of failed midwestern farmer, once said to me, "You proved
you're smart.  Now put down that book and get a job!"  He has also warned
me about being "over-educated."  When I pointed out that there ain't many
full professors without PhDs, he threw up his hands and said, "Okay!  You
know it all!"


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