Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

[dualstow]

The gal next to me tonight was yammering some long drawn out story and said something something ... “torlet paper”

I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard that before, but my brain went straight to “damn, girl, you from Boston?”

She was. North End.

I so love language. And our brains our mysterious things.

Archie Bunker used to say turlet.

[Tortoise]

Huh. I thought Bostonians just don’t pronounce Rs. “Bah” instead of “bar”, “cah” instead of “car”, etc. Wouldn’t have guessed “torlet”.

[dualstow]

Huh. I thought Bostonians just don’t pronounce Rs. “Bah” instead of “bar”, “cah” instead of “car”, etc. Wouldn’t have guessed “torlet”.

Maybe it's like the British where they put them in when unneeded. I sawr a film today. No offense to our British pp'ers.

[Smith1776]

Am I the only one who thinks the Boston accent is actually rather endearing?

[Mark Leavy]

Am I the only one who thinks the Boston accent is actually rather endearing?

My boy's wicked smart.

[Kriegsspiel]

Am I the only one who thinks the Boston accent is actually rather endearing?

LOL. Yea probably.

I was once at a friend's friend's place in Manhattan for a party. His girlfriend was smoking hot. Completely unintelligible Boston accent. Drunk-Bostonian is nearly a foreign language.

[Smith1776]

Am I the only one who thinks the Boston accent is actually rather endearing?

LOL. Yea probably.

I was once at a friend's friend's place in Manhattan for a party. His girlfriend was smoking hot. Completely unintelligible Boston accent. Drunk-Bostonian is nearly a foreign language.

lmao.

[Mark Leavy]

The view from my balcony this morning. The Blue Ridge Mountains, just before sunrise.

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[Smith1776]

I hope dualstow is staying safe and is having fun on his travels.

[Mark Leavy]

Mobile AL, tonight. On my way to New Orleans in the morning.

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I continue to be delighted at how much I enjoy basic polite conversation. Please and Thank You and Beg your pardon.

[drumminj]

I continue to be delighted at how much I enjoy basic polite conversation. Please and Thank You and Beg your pardon.

Everyone calls me 'sir' here in TN. Still freaks me out, but I appreciate the politeness/respectfulness.

[Kriegsspiel]

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[Desert]

Huh. I thought Bostonians just don’t pronounce Rs. “Bah” instead of “bar”, “cah” instead of “car”, etc. Wouldn’t have guessed “torlet”.

Maybe it's like the British where they put them in when unneeded. I sawr a film today. No offense to our British pp'ers.

Right!

I like to think of it as "conservation of R's." In other words, R's cannot be created or destroyed, so when they're eliminated in one word, they must be added to another word where they clearly do not belong.

So when a Bostonian talks about their "cah," they must then also have some good "idears" to conserve the total number of R's in the universe.

[Xan]

Huh. I thought Bostonians just don’t pronounce Rs. “Bah” instead of “bar”, “cah” instead of “car”, etc. Wouldn’t have guessed “torlet”.

Maybe it's like the British where they put them in when unneeded. I sawr a film today. No offense to our British pp'ers.

Right!

I like to think of it as "conservation of R's." In other words, R's cannot be created or destroyed, so when they're eliminated in one word, they must be added to another word where they clearly do not belong.

So when a Bostonian talks about their "cah," they must then also have some good "idears" to conserve the total number of R's in the universe.

The perfect example of this is "career" vs "Korea". Normal people pronounce them as written, while Bostonians do it backwards. As you say, the Rs are conserved.

[Tortoise]

I probably won't have internet for a few days.

...or a few weeks, apparently.

[vnatale]

I probably won't have internet for a few days.

...or a few weeks, apparently.

Yes. Dualstow's absence has been well noticed by me!

[Mark Leavy]

The elevator in my hotel speaks Southern. Complete with extra syllables.

Flo-or sy ix.