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Lynx

Lynx

Folksy yet erudite
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Susanna said:
I’m thinking of taking legal action against an unlawful and anti constitutional conspiracy with the despicable goal of putting me on ignore. 😄🤣🫵🏻
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Nah, it never killed nobody.

And after you're on ignore, you can say anything you want - even in their own threads - without them even knowing. It's kinda fun.
 
seoulsearch

seoulsearch

OutWrite Trouble
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Susanna said:
I’ve just found a new cheerleader for my team😆
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Ok, this post just about killed me!!! :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

I was laughing so hard that I literally fell over while doing dishes.

@Susanna, not only do we think Lynx would be the perfect cheerleader for your team, but we also think you should make him the captain. :cool:

And the thought of someone telling Lynx that not only did he make the cheerleading squad, but that he's also going to be captain...

I just couldn't. :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

And I totally lost it!!! :LOL:


Y'all are really, really awesome!!! I haven't laughed this hard at a thread in a very long time. :LOL::love::p
 
SteveEpperson

SteveEpperson

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Magenta

Magenta

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SteveEpperson said:
You're so smart! :)

Your Canadian accent is pretty awesome too!:love:

I can say that, right, @Oncefallen?
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Thank you, Steve. I don't think I am that smart, but smart things interest me, and also people with a higher level of intelligence and/or awareness do, also. Plus, I think you may have confused "heh" with "eh." I use "heh" to express amusement. "Eh" is definitely considered to be a Canadian thing. I am also of the opinion that it is very much more an eastern Canadian thing than western, because when I first arrived in the west in 1977, I noticed that I said it a whole heck of a lot more than anybody else I knew! Because of that I worked at weeding it out of my diction, to the point where Americans, when I met them, would ask me, "Where is your 'eh'?" LOL. Although Americans can be funny, you know, like saying yella instead of yellow or fella instead of fellow, that sort of thing. Cwoffee. Eh? Cwoffee??? Like coif-ee. LOL. And also having the chef in a restaurant sending your server back to your table, to ask you, what are you going to do with the vinegar? Eh??? It's for my French fries. LOLOLOLOLOLOL Speaking of diction and how we pronounce words, it also rarely fails to amuse/amaze me how different I sound from all my siblings who stayed in the east (which is most of them, really). They say things like malk instead of milk, something that sounds much more like budado than potato, and turn rate here instead of turn right here. George Bernard Shaw was really onto something with his Pygmalion! Do you have an accent that you are aware of, or words you know you cannot consistently pronounce properly?
 
SteveEpperson

SteveEpperson

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Magenta said:
Do you have an accent that you are aware of, or words you know you cannot consistently pronounce properly?
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Oh, your reply was so great. I learned a lot from you, as usual. I hate the way I sound, especially on a digital recording. I am originally from Portland, Oregon, and New Yorkers often lament how we all sound as if we're stoned most of the time :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:.

We speak very slowly, and it sounds almost like a California surfer accent, but not quite.

I now live in the US desert southwest, where a lot of people ask me, "Where are you from?" :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

When I was a kid, I would say "pop," but now that I've lived in the Southwest so long, I say "soda." :)
 
Magenta

Magenta

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SteveEpperson said:
Oh, your reply was so great. I learned a lot from you, as usual. I hate the way I sound, especially on a digital recording. I am originally from Portland, Oregon, and New Yorkers often lament how we all sound as if we're stoned most of the time :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:.

We speak very slowly, and it sounds almost like a California surfer accent, but not quite.

I now live in the US desert southwest, where a lot of people ask me, "Where are you from?" :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

When I was a kid, I would say "pop," but now that I've lived in the Southwest so long, I say "soda." :)
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I still don't know what to call that bubbly stuff LOL! I have never been much of a pop drinker. There. I said pop. That must be it. Come to think of it, soda sounds kind of funny unless you are ordering a drink with club soda, whatever that is... I understand some confuse it with tonic water, although tonic water contains quinine, which became somewhat popular with the covid craziness. I was never big on mixed drinks, or cocktails as they are called, which is a very strange word, indeed. Or anything carbonated, come to think of it...

That is funny about others thinking y'all from Oregon sound stoned all the time. I looked up valley girl speak not to long ago because I think I have an element of that in my speech even though I am Canadian and not Californian. Like saying "like" all the time. LOL. Using like instead of said, even. Like, I said such and such and he was like, really? Haha. Other words get substituted for said also, such as (like) went, or goes. I said blah blah blah and he went/goes, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? Heh. I dunno where that comes from.

The thing about turning eye sounds into "A"... when we were kids, it drove my mother a little crazy. We would ask, whose turn is it to wape the dishes? She wanted to know where that word came from, but we did not know. We just knew that it was somebody's turn to wash the dishes, and somebody's turn to wape the dishes dry. And we always said wape!

I do not normally speak slowly. I have a tendency to go off on tangents to fill in background as I am telling a story, and to make up for the time this takes I rush my words LOL. I am pretty sure I was not always like this, because I was not always so talkative. Going off on tangents at my age can be dangerous also because then you lose the thread of the conversation and forget what you were trying to get at. LOL
 
seoulsearch

seoulsearch

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Magenta said:
I still don't know what to call that bubbly stuff LOL! I have never been much of a pop drinker. There. I said pop.
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It's nice to see Magenta has come around to the Dark Side.


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Crack yourself open a nice cold can of pop, and have yourself a cookie.

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melita916

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I think I’m in the ignore club lol.
 
SteveEpperson

SteveEpperson

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Magenta said:
Even though our mother insisted that no such word existed!
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It sounds like it might be the same accent that Frances McDormand used to perfection in the original movie, Fargo. I'm sure there are differences between North Dakota and Canada, though.

Still, I've always thought people spoke with a funny accent in colder climates because their lips were perpetually puckered up from the extreme cold. :LOL:

 
notmyown

notmyown

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SteveEpperson said:
New Yorkers often lament how we all sound as if we're stoned most of the time.

We speak very slowly
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here in New York, we ain't got that kinda time. everything has to be done in a New York minute, which is obviously shorter than an Oregon minute. ;)
 
notmyown

notmyown

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Lynx

Lynx

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notmyown said:
YES! when my parents moved us from Michigan to NY in the 60s, people would offer us a soda, and then, disappointingly, give us a pop. soda has ice cream in it! :D
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Ah, THAT'S why people get uptight about calling soft drinks different things!

If I had that disappointment in my life I'd start urging people to call it the right thing too.

Were you ever tempted to throw the ice-cream-less thing in their faces? I ain't gonna ask if you DID, but were you tempted to?
 
notmyown

notmyown

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Lynx said:
Ah, THAT'S why people get uptight about calling soft drinks different things!

If I had that disappointment in my life I'd start urging people to call it the right thing too.

Were you ever tempted to throw the ice-cream-less thing in their faces? I ain't gonna ask if you DID, but were you tempted to?
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no, we were just little kids. i do recall a general feeling of having been tricked, though.
 
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