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Post by chiver78 on Dec 26, 2013 16:07:03 GMT -5
I do! and I also know they are French, not Canadian.
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 26, 2013 16:13:10 GMT -5
I do! and I also know they are French, not Canadian. We have a winner (as I expected you would know). An interesting little factoid.
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Post by chiver78 on Dec 26, 2013 16:13:54 GMT -5
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 26, 2013 16:17:57 GMT -5
What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road?
I just sat there trying to visualize a sidewalk and then grass between the sidewalk and the road. Here sidewalks end with a curb right up to the street. I have hit a curb or two but never run up into grass!! And I think the use of ya'll and 18 wheeler pegged me.
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 26, 2013 16:31:17 GMT -5
I supposed I could have been pegged Springfield, Worcester, and Boston, Massachusetts instead of Springfield, Worcester, and Providence, Rhode Island had I selected bubbler and tonic instead of water fountain and soda. The school nuns who taught me called water fountains, bubblers, and soda, tonic, but I went with my usage of the words today.
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Post by Malarky on Dec 26, 2013 17:01:27 GMT -5
What are your local terms for what's known as a " Michigan right ? " ( Turning left at a turn lane in a four-lane boulevard, usually with high traffic ).
Bang a left, I would think. I was going to mention "bang a u-ie " (you-eee) (U-turn) but realized I have no idea how it would be spelled. It aint propah English, ya know.
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Post by violagirl on Dec 26, 2013 17:24:45 GMT -5
Everything c'est tout fuckee. oui, j'pense so.... If you have ever tried to decipher local wanted ads, you need to be able to speak Chiac. It makes no sense until you say it out loud. "Acadieman" is also the only "French" television I can completely understand. There was a local school which did an anti-bullying video in Chiac, which is what everyone speaks. The school banned it at first, then relented and let them put in French subtitles.
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Post by chiver78 on Dec 26, 2013 17:49:12 GMT -5
If you have ever tried to decipher local wanted ads, you need to be able to speak Chiac. It makes no sense until you say it out loud. "Acadieman" is also the only "French" television I can completely understand. There was a local school which did an anti-bullying video in Chiac, which is what everyone speaks. The school banned it at first, then relented and let them put in French subtitles. thank you.....I had no idea there was actually a specific name for the bastardized dialect of French I grew up speaking! my dad's side that still lives there, they are all between Moncton and Shediac. I remember my cousins not being able to use the textbooks they got from Montreal in grade school, so much of their education was off-books. I just know that I can talk to people from the rest of the Maritimes even though it isn't exact. if I'm just speaking casually, I speak with an awful Boston-infused French accent now. I have to pay attention so I don't do that. when I'm with my family, I speak English - unless I'm asking my grandmother a direct question. all of us can understand both, so we speak what's easier to speak. it's a fun dynamic to hear The Captain - I guess I should say that I speak a subset "dialect" of Acadian French. Chiac is what I know. I linked to the wiki for Chiac, balance that against my earlier answer, and that should explain what I mean when I say "Acadian" ETA: my dad's been in the US since the early 60s. my 4 aunts and grandparents all moved back to NB in the late 70s.
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 26, 2013 18:07:43 GMT -5
If you have ever tried to decipher local wanted ads, you need to be able to speak Chiac. It makes no sense until you say it out loud. "Acadieman" is also the only "French" television I can completely understand. There was a local school which did an anti-bullying video in Chiac, which is what everyone speaks. The school banned it at first, then relented and let them put in French subtitles. thank you.....I had no idea there was actually a specific name for the bastardized dialect of French I grew up speaking! my dad's side that still lives there, they are all between Moncton and Shediac. I remember my cousins not being able to use the textbooks they got from Montreal in grade school, so much of their education was off-books. I just know that I can talk to people from the rest of the Maritimes even though it isn't exact. if I'm just speaking casually, I speak with an awful Boston-infused French accent now. I have to pay attention so I don't do that. when I'm with my family, I speak English - unless I'm asking my grandmother a direct question. all of us can understand both, so we speak what's easier to speak. it's a fun dynamic to hear The Captain - I guess I should say that I speak a subset "dialect" of Acadian French. Chiac is what I know. I linked to the wiki for Chiac, balance that against my earlier answer, and that should explain what I mean when I say "Acadian" This Chiac sentence from Chinver's link, " Sylvie, sa semble comme si tu work out man, moi shu naturally fit tho!" (Sylvie, it looks like you have been working out, i'm lucky enough to be naturally fit.), somehow reminds me of Barbara Billingsly's quote as the Jive Lady in the movie, Airplane: " Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side."
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Post by Apple on Dec 26, 2013 21:36:08 GMT -5
What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road?
I just sat there trying to visualize a sidewalk and then grass between the sidewalk and the road. Here sidewalks end with a curb right up to the street. I have hit a curb or two but never run up into grass!! And I think the use of ya'll and 18 wheeler pegged me. Yeah, there are a few places in town where they have it. It's sidewalk, a grassy area (maybe a bush or a small tree), and THEN the curb. So, it's like they cut out a little section of the sidewalk to add "more crap to mow". My house just has the sidewalk, luckily.
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Post by Apple on Dec 26, 2013 21:44:08 GMT -5
I don't understand what people don't get about traffic circles, rotaries or whatever else you call them. They keep traffic moving. You don't have to stop if there are no cars, and you don't have the right of way. They are safer than your regular intersection because if there is a collision, it is at a slower speed and therefore safer. There are only more collisions because people don't know how to use them. I hate getting stuck behind people who freak out when they see one. The one in my town sucks because 75% of the people refuse to use their turn signal when they are exiting. It's small and tight (this isn't EE!), so if someone doesn't use their signal and they start to exit, the car behind them is too close for you to pull into the roundabout. At one intersection, you have to make a sharp (45 degree turn or so) to enter and then immediately exit. If people weren't so stupid and self-absorbed, it would all go much more smoothly. I love it at 5:15 in the morning when no one else is on the road (I used to have the stop sign there), but it sucks to sit behind someone who wants to pull in and take the right, while car after car is exiting without signaling.
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Post by chiver78 on Dec 26, 2013 21:44:26 GMT -5
What are your local terms for what's known as a " Michigan right ? " ( Turning left at a turn lane in a four-lane boulevard, usually with high traffic ).
Bang a left, I would think. I was going to mention "bang a u-ie " (you-eee) (U-turn) but realized I have no idea how it would be spelled. It aint propah English, ya know.
as best I know, that's "bangin a u-ey" but that's not done in a turn lane so much as on a road where you wouldn't expect a u-ey....I don't have a damn clue what y'all would call that around the country. we've only gotten center "turn lanes" in the last decade or so, those are new here.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2013 23:44:06 GMT -5
What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road?
I just sat there trying to visualize a sidewalk and then grass between the sidewalk and the road. Here sidewalks end with a curb right up to the street. I have hit a curb or two but never run up into grass!! And I think the use of ya'll and 18 wheeler pegged me. Yeah, there are a few places in town where they have it. It's sidewalk, a grassy area (maybe a bush or a small tree), and THEN the curb. So, it's like they cut out a little section of the sidewalk to add "more crap to mow". My house just has the sidewalk, luckily. Interesting. All the blocks in our town have grass between the sidewalk and the street. We call it the boulevard. It's where all the trees are planted and I think technically it's owned by the city, but you still need to take care of it. BTW, the quiz put me in MPLS/St. Paul. About as accurate as you can get.
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Post by steff on Dec 27, 2013 0:00:28 GMT -5
When we moved to Georgia from Texas, we lived near a town called Winder. For 3 years I pronounced it like wind-er as in wind that blows. Someone finally stopped staring at me like I was a moron & told me that it's pronounced WIND-er as in wind your watch.
I've gotten a lot of "where the hell are you from" looks & comments here based on phrasing more than accent. Things like asking someone to close a door by saying "pull the door to". I said it 3 times & they just stared at me.
One of my favorite things is when all of hubby's friends get together & to just listen to them. Hubby is from Texas, there's a guy from Rhode Island, one from New Jersey, one from Georgia, one from Minnesota & one from New Zealand. They are just a riot to listen to with the regional phrases & wild variety of cuss word combinations.
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Post by Sammy on Dec 27, 2013 0:42:47 GMT -5
The quiz had me dead on... Harvard Dialect.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 27, 2013 8:35:33 GMT -5
Yeah, there are a few places in town where they have it. It's sidewalk, a grassy area (maybe a bush or a small tree), and THEN the curb. So, it's like they cut out a little section of the sidewalk to add "more crap to mow". My house just has the sidewalk, luckily. Interesting. All the blocks in our town have grass between the sidewalk and the street. We call it the boulevard. It's where all the trees are planted and I think technically it's owned by the city, but you still need to take care of it. BTW, the quiz put me in MPLS/St. Paul. About as accurate as you can get. Interesting what things are called. We have a boulevard but it is six lanes of traffic headed east and west and is bumper to bumper sometimes I will say I like quizzes like this since you learn something new most of the time.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 10:12:59 GMT -5
This is all so interesting, it sounds French to me.
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Post by 973beachbum on Dec 27, 2013 11:27:23 GMT -5
I took the test three times and it never game me the results. it works fine up until the end and then the screen just turns white as it says to wait for the results that never come. Some of the questions were pretty funny. my fav's were the term traffic circus for a circle or rotary. I've never heard it before but it does about describe them perfectly! the other was the name for a drive through liquor store. I said honestly I hadn't ever heard of it but kept looking for the choice of scary.
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Post by Apple on Dec 27, 2013 11:53:32 GMT -5
I'd never heard of a drive-thru liquor store either, lol.
The rain where it's still sunny (partly sunny with precipitation?), I don't even know if I had a word for it originally, here we have "sprinkling", "drizzle", "showers", "rain", "heavy rain", (I think rain is like the Eskimo version of "snow"--we have forty different words for it). But, I'd never heard a term for rain with the sun out until I heard a rigger call it "liquid sunshine" several years ago, so I picked that one up.
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Post by kimber45 on Dec 27, 2013 13:14:31 GMT -5
It put me in Aurora, IL (and Madison WI/someplace in Minnesota)... it's right I'm in a suburb of Chicago - just closer to Chicago Kitty Corner seems to have been the term that got me close to home.
So, what do you all call that area between the sidewalk and the street... other than the Front Lawn when it looks great and the tree is alive and any concrete is in good working condition OR you call it the City's property when the tree is dead/dying (or the tree is doing so well - it's killing the grass under it!) or the concrete (the courtesy walk or Carriage walk or curb)is broken (because the City is suppose to tend to the tree AND the concrete out there.) ? I didn't have a good answer for that question since I don't have a single word/phrase for it. I had no name for ìt either. It put me in Minneapolis and two cities in Nebraska. Molson is pretty darn close. I call it a boulevard
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Dec 27, 2013 19:19:13 GMT -5
The drive through liquor store thing is unique to Arizona I believe. Only state I've ever seen that had them anyway. We never had a nickname for them though.
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