04 Mar
03
wanna whip some shitties while the devil beats his wife?
at long last, the results of the dialect survey i was talking about back in october have been posted. let’s go over some of the more interesting responses, shall we?
- the idiots who call “hosey” or “high hosey” when laying claim to the front seat of the car (0.44% of respondents) all seem to be centred around new england. “i call high hosey on that chowdah!”
- 2% of respondents say “expecially” rather than “especially”. reminds me of a woman i work with… (too bad “sectember” wasn’t on the dialect survey).
- thankfully, half of respondents had never heard of a drive through liquor store. not the smartest of ideas.
- “whipping shitties” isn’t catching on nearly as fast as i’d like as a replacement for “doing donuts”.
- oddly, more than half the people in the survey had no term for sun showers. i’m still enamoured with “the devil is beating his wife”, personally.
- 0.13% of respondents say “kitty wampus” when referring to something diagonally across a street from them. uhhh….
in conclusion, i’m the only one who knows how to speak properly.
it surprises me that more people didn’t vote for the stupid ones, because they’re funnier.
March 5th, 2003 at 12:28 pmps.
go leafs go!
bwahahaha
March 5th, 2003 at 12:31 pmwas that some sort of dig because the leafs got destroyed last night?
March 5th, 2003 at 4:55 pmyes, yes it was.
March 5th, 2003 at 7:27 pmwho’s your team? the sens?
robin aka god aka he of no taste would be happy to hear that.
March 5th, 2003 at 9:41 pmi like the canucks more than the sens, i like the sens more than the leafs, and i like the leafs more than i like rob. and i really hate the leafs.
March 5th, 2003 at 10:53 pmaww, how sweet.
March 6th, 2003 at 4:12 pmbrotherly love.