And today's showdown...

halfway · Post by **halfway** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:59 pm

Denver and Baltimore.......lez get jiggy Broncos!

Green Bay and San Francisco......cheese up dem bay slackers!!

:sneaky:

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:57 pm

halfway;1416352 wrote: Denver and Baltimore.......lez get jiggy Broncos!

Green Bay and San Francisco......cheese up dem bay slackers!!

:sneaky:

I hesitate to ask but I feel the need. Is the idiosyncratic spelling in that post an attempt to transcribe a specific American dialect? It has an affinity to the style employed by Joel Chandler Harris when he reported the Uncle Remus stories.

Or, perhaps, Yu come down dah wid yo hat caved in, Doo-dah! doo-dah! An go back home wid a pocket full of tin, Oh! doo-dah day.

I may be mistaking your intent, of course.

halfway · Post by **halfway** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:08 pm

FG;1416359 wrote: I hesitate to ask but I feel the need. Is the idiosyncratic spelling in that post an attempt to transcribe a specific American dialect? It has an affinity to the style employed by Joel Chandler Harris when he reported the Uncle Remus stories.

Or, perhaps, Yu come down dah wid yo hat caved in, Doo-dah! doo-dah! An go back home wid a pocket full of tin, Oh! doo-dah day.

I may be mistaking your intent, of course.

Part of where I come from. You have a problem with that?

Uncle Remus....oh my. What are you implying?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:10 pm

Score tied in Denver, go Ravens!

halfway · Post by **halfway** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:16 pm

chonsigirl;1416363 wrote: Score tied in Denver, go Ravens!

Ugggh. Bronco up!!! :guitarist

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:37 pm

halfway;1416362 wrote: Part of where I come from. You have a problem with that?

Uncle Remus....oh my. What are you implying?

I was interested in where you think the dialect you've employed descends from. I may be wrong in thinking it resembles a southern slave-plantation rural black speech pattern but if I am then I'd very much like to be corrected, and who better to correct me than the person who wrote it. Is it a representation of your own everyday conversational speech, for example?

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:43 pm

FG;1416376 wrote: I was interested in where you think the dialect you've employed descends from. I may be wrong in thinking it resembles a southern slave-plantation rural black speech pattern but if I am then I'd very much like to be corrected, and who better to correct me than the person who wrote it. Is it a representation of your own everyday conversational speech, for example?

It's a sports fan thing, not a race thing, fg. Saturday night live has done numerous skits on bears fans over the years, for example. We don't take offense.

Then again, as a Chicago sports fan you are kinda expected to get the joke:wah:

Although them bulls are looking promising this year:-6

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:50 pm

chonsigirl;1416363 wrote: Score tied in Denver, go Ravens!

Yeah, THIS is what a playoff game SHOULD be!!

Had to warm up the 92 inch early today!!

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:20 pm

flopstock;1416378 wrote: We don't take offense.Were I to demand of my confederates that they collectively "cheese up dem bay slackers" I would raise eyebrows. The context, it would appear, is all important.

What are these Chicago sports of which you speak? Are they native only to Chicago?

Although them bulls are looking promising this year

Those bulls, flopster. Not them bulls. Those bulls take the subjective case.

halfway · Post by **halfway** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:30 pm

Sorry fg, nothing of what you say deserves any response. Thank you to those that have tried.

Please put me ignore so we won't see each other.

And yes!!! We have a game indeed!!!!!!

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:32 pm

halfway;1416386 wrote: Sorry fg, nothing of what you say deserves any response.How startlingly defensive of you.

halfway · Post by **halfway** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:34 pm

FG;1416388 wrote: How startlingly defensive of you.

Just my observation.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:09 pm

halfway;1416390 wrote: Just my observation.

Dumbing down is a topic which interests me. Whenever I see television advertisements I try hard to work out whether the demographic targeting implied by the shouting dimwit impersonators does actually increase the sales of whatever's on offer. Presumably it must or they'd not do it. How this relates to encouraging a Bronco to get jiggy or advocating the cheesing up of dem slackers at the bay I'm not sure, but my underlying feeling is that it undoubtedly does.

Dumbing down is a despicable uncultured anti-social obscenity.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:23 pm

I thought "lez" might be a lesbian reference but I didn't care enough to ask. Cheese is a famous product of Wisconsin, Green Bay is in Wisconsin, therefore cheese and Green Bay get mentioned together fairly frequently. I don't know anyone that actually says 'dem' for 'them' but I hear people say "bidness" "birfday" and "sammich" quite a bit.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:34 pm

SnoozeAgain;1416400 wrote: I thought "lez" might be a lesbian reference but I didn't care enough to ask."Let us", snooze.

I'm tempted to try writing phonetically though I'll create a specific thread in which to do it. Finding grotesque examples of dumbed-down speech will be simple, it seems ubiquitous.

halfway · Post by **halfway** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:35 pm

Dem bouncin' Broncos be ridin' with da wind!!!

Pass me another Coors baby!

bawitdabawdangdadangdiggydiggy - Kid Rock.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:45 pm

This is the stupid stuff that goes on here during football season. It's embarrassing.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:49 pm

FG;1416403 wrote: "Let us", snooze.

I'm tempted to try writing phonetically though I'll create a specific thread in which to do it. Finding grotesque examples of dumbed-down speech will be simple, it seems ubiquitous.

Yes, I knew his meaning was "let us" but "lez be friends" has been around forever and I've never seen anyone use the word for anything else. It was an odd choice.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:14 pm

Tied, going into OT....................

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:18 pm

SnoozeAgain;1416406 wrote: Yes, I knew his meaning was "let us" but "lez be friends" has been around forever
It's a bit like Woody Allen's hypersensitivity to "Jew think so?".

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:48 pm

Ravens won! Yahoo, I'm going shopping for a new shirt tomorrow......

halfway · Post by **halfway** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:48 pm

Great job Ravens....solid effort.

halfway · Post by **halfway** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:50 pm

SnoozeAgain;1416406 wrote: Yes, I knew his meaning was "let us" but "lez be friends" has been around forever and I've never seen anyone use the word for anything else. It was an odd choice.

Well you learned something new today and will never be able to say "I've never seen anyone use the word for anything else".

Can't believe you called me "odd" though.

Lady J · Post by **Lady J** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:07 pm

chonsigirl;1416363 wrote: Score tied in Denver, go Ravens!
AreyYou are Raven fan chonsigirl or just against Denver?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 5:03 am

I am from Baltimore, so you must root for the home town team.