> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Potter
> > That sparked a memory from my childhood in school in Norfolk,
VA.
> > But the phrase was always "have made," as quoted above. "We're
> > having our pictures made."
> >
> > But I don't remember ever using or hearing an active
construction
> > such as "He's making our picture."
> >
> > Charlie
> >
>
> Chattanooga, TN, must be in the real South, then, because I
> still hear this phrase all the time. :p
I never paid much attention to this usage. I guess I'll have to
listen to how it plays out here in Knox Vegas. E. TN has such a
variety of dialects though.
> Like in both other posts, we always use the phrase "have your
> pictures made", and it usually refers to a picture that involves
> posing, like at a wedding reception, or at the mall with Santa,
or for a
> school yearbook.
Or "having you picture *done*".