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Post by jasonrobertyates on Nov 15, 2005 22:40:22 GMT -5
A pet peeve of mine.......getting asked for my autograph when I'm taking a dump.
Man I hate that!
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Post by MelMac on Nov 15, 2005 23:36:43 GMT -5
I think another pet peeve is when people ask me where I'm from and when I say Texas, they say I don't sound Texan. I don't have a pronounced accent, but it's still there. Makes me feel that some people think we talk with a thick accent, ride horses, live on a ranch, wear cowboy boots and say "howdy" all the time. I know how to ride a horse, but I don't own one, have ropers (mid-calf cowboy boots), but don't wear them every day, and I say howdy when it's a response to a salutation of the same. I do have some colloquialisms, but they're few and far from what is considered typical.
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Post by jasonrobertyates on Nov 15, 2005 23:42:49 GMT -5
Sounds like my friend. He is Japanese and HATES being asked that. He is a second generation American.
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Post by MrsMaxwell on Nov 16, 2005 5:22:17 GMT -5
I think another pet peeve is when people ask me where I'm from and when I say Texas, they say I don't sound Texan. I don't have a pronounced accent, but it's still there. Makes me feel that some people think we talk with a thick accent, ride horses, live on a ranch, wear cowboy boots and say "howdy" all the time. I know how to ride a horse, but I don't own one, have ropers (mid-calf cowboy boots), but don't wear them every day, and I say howdy when it's a response to a salutation of the same. I do have some colloquialisms, but they're few and far from what is considered typical. If you think that's bad, try telling people you are from New Jersey! Usually when I say I'm from NJ, people laugh fist, then say "What exit"? (referring to the NJ Turnpike). I'm from SOUTH Jersey (5 miles from the beach). Nobody here has hideous accents like they do in NORTH Jersey, near New York. When I was attending collge in Virginia, I actually had a woman in a beauty salon ask me, "Are you Italian or Jewish?". I told her I was German with a bit of Irish, and she replied, "Oh, I thought everyone in New Jersey was either Italian or Jewish". Yeah lady, like there's a sign as you enter the state that reads, "Welcome to NJ: Italians and Jews welsome. All others go home!". ....and you wonder why the South lost the war.
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Post by billswoman on Nov 16, 2005 5:37:40 GMT -5
A pet peeve of mine.......getting asked for my autograph when I'm taking a dump. Man I hate that! Who are you, Eminem or something?
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Post by billswoman on Nov 16, 2005 5:47:01 GMT -5
Ah, MrsM brings up another peeve of mine: People assuming "Southerner" means "Idiot." God, I HATE that!
The smartest people I've ever known, IRL, were southerners: my dad, my grandfather and one of the partners at a software company I worked at, all southern.
To this date, Mississippi STILL has stricter high school graduation requirements than the state of Washington, as it did in the late 70's when I moved up here for my Senior year.
On the Fox National IQ test, guess which state ranked FOURTH best overall? Yep, Mississippi. (Oh, btw, Number One: Washington State.)
I received the majority of my junior/senior high school education in Mississippi, at the same school, and am I dumb? No. I was there from the second semester of 7th grade, through 11th grade, only to come up to Seattle to finish (thanks, Boeing!)
Some classes I took in Mississippi: Science Fiction Lit I & II, Reflections of Man, Grammar I, II, III (would've needed IV in 12th grade -- didn't here in Seattle), Aerospace Science, Geology, Marine Biology, and the usual: Physical Science, Biology and Chemistry. All told, I took SIX science courses in Mississippi (not counting what I took in 7th and 8th grade).
To graduate in MS (an example, this isn't all you need of course): 2 years of math 2 years of science American Government 3 years of english/grammar
To graduate in WA: 1 year of math, 1 year of science, 2 years of English; didn't require American Government at all. HAD to take Speech, Health and State History (again, for the third time).
I'm the first to admit that there're idiots down South, god are there ever... but there are idiots EVERYWHERE. So please, don't assume that "thick southern accent" means "I'm a moronic redneck with a pickup truck, coon dog and gun rack." I've seen those same people up here in the state of Washington, which certainly has its share of podunks, rednecks and good ol' boys, like every other state in the Union does. Now I'm really done, rant over.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Nov 16, 2005 8:28:35 GMT -5
I think another pet peeve is when people ask me where I'm from and when I say Texas, they say I don't sound Texan. I don't have a pronounced accent, but it's still there. Makes me feel that some people think we talk with a thick accent, ride horses, live on a ranch, wear cowboy boots and say "howdy" all the time. I know how to ride a horse, but I don't own one, have ropers (mid-calf cowboy boots), but don't wear them every day, and I say howdy when it's a response to a salutation of the same. I do have some colloquialisms, but they're few and far from what is considered typical. Well, I think most people might get that from Bush, you know. And since you were so "country-focused" in the game thread, you aren't exactly helping your image, you know.
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Post by billswoman on Nov 16, 2005 8:55:09 GMT -5
Bush is as Texan as I am Washingtonian, meaning he ain't. He and I were both born in New England.
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Post by MrsMaxwell on Nov 16, 2005 11:21:22 GMT -5
My remark about the South was in jest..I'll be the first to admidt that New Jersey has the highest concentration of morons per square mile.
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Post by billswoman on Nov 16, 2005 12:58:13 GMT -5
LOL, I dig. I knew you weren't dissing the South, but your mentioning it made me remember this peeve.
NJ's THAT bad?? Whoa.
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Post by MelMac on Nov 16, 2005 15:43:31 GMT -5
And since you were so "country-focused" in the game thread, you aren't exactly helping your image, you know. Well, HD, I wrote the past Ralph would land in from the top of my head, and figured it was a time that anyone could write a move in. If you've seen my photos in my Photobucket, you can see why it was easy for me to imagine the scenes for the story. Funny thing is, I haven't seen some of them in a year or so, but some of the moves would match the pics. And, I don't know how this happened, but it was funny to see the pic of the log cabin next to a modern day building and how well it matched to the last move you made for the story. I don't mind being called a Texan, and consider myself a bit country, but there are some stereotypes and exaggerations I don't like, and hence the pet peeve.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Nov 30, 2005 16:33:59 GMT -5
My remark about the South was in jest..I'll be the first to admidt that New Jersey has the highest concentration of morons per square mile. I actually didn't mind Jersey. A lot of people were more rude than stupid it seemed...especially around Newark and such. I think living in that close a proximity their whole life has made people too irritable.
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Post by MelMac on Nov 30, 2005 16:54:56 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, it happened again. Today, after I auditioned, I was asked from "what part of the north I was from." I answered my previous location (which is in West Texas), and she said, "Oh, I thought you were from the north as in (pointing upward)." She too mentioned I didn't sound Texan, so I guess it wasn't a one time thing. ...
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Nov 30, 2005 17:14:36 GMT -5
I have never gotten a question about an accent. Living in the midwest gives me that remarkable lack of one apparently. I got asked in graduate school what country I was from because my English had no accent, which meant I learned it overseas in a boarding school.
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Post by MelMac on Nov 30, 2005 17:43:44 GMT -5
Good thing, though, because if you act in a show, you could adapt better to accents than others with stronger accents can. But, I do at least see one good point in this, I haven't been asked if I was from Canada (furthest north I've been is Maine). Still haven't figured that one out from when we visited Massachusetts. We had fellow guests ask us what provience we were from, after seeing my brother's shirt that had "Canada" on it. Oddly, they gave us a funny look when we said Texas.
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Post by Ms Boku on Nov 30, 2005 18:54:33 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, it happened again. Today, after I auditioned, I was asked from "what part of the north I was from." I answered my previous location (which is in West Texas), and she said, "Oh, I thought you were from the north as in (pointing upward)." She too mentioned I didn't sound Texan, so I guess it wasn't a one time thing. ... That's funny, you sound Texan to me
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Post by MelMac on Nov 30, 2005 19:03:42 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, it happened again. Today, after I auditioned, I was asked from "what part of the north I was from." I answered my previous location (which is in West Texas), and she said, "Oh, I thought you were from the north as in (pointing upward)." She too mentioned I didn't sound Texan, so I guess it wasn't a one time thing. ... That's funny, you sound Texan to me How, through my writing? Telling stories? Long out synopses of what's going on in life? my grammar? (j/k on the questioning, but I've never really had anyone say that, and I don't list my location under my avatar, so it's interesting.)
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Post by billswoman on Nov 30, 2005 22:35:30 GMT -5
I have never gotten a question about an accent. Living in the midwest gives me that remarkable lack of one apparently. I got asked in graduate school what country I was from because my English had no accent, which meant I learned it overseas in a boarding school. Aren't Iowa and Kansas the two states that are known to have NO accent? I've had my MASH buddies, most of whom are in the UK, comment that people from those two states have no discernable American dialect. 'Course, Washingtonians claim to have no accent, and of course they do. I've got a mix of Yankee, Southern and Washington in me now. My parents' friend, who had her doctorate in English, did her thesis on American Dialects, and said Washingtonians most definitely had an accent (she's the one that pointed out I'd gotten one after being here a few years).
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Dec 1, 2005 1:04:28 GMT -5
I don't know about those two states, but that area is known for it, which is why so many good journalism schools are here. I live in Iowa now, but I was born and raised in Missouri, so on about three or four words, I might have a twang.
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Post by MelMac on Dec 1, 2005 1:07:55 GMT -5
I don't know about those two states, but that area is known for it, which is why so many good journalism schools are here. I live in Iowa now, but I was born and raised in Missouri, so on about three or four words, I might have a twang. Yep, that's my giveaway as well. It's usually, for normal words, I, for (sometimes said as fer), and then there's the usually culprits, ain't, ya'll, 'round these parts, etc., even then only in casual conversation.
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