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Fathers.zerofoks wrote:Okay then, someone explain to me what "fwothehs" is!
I don't think there's any particular etymology to it - I think it simply began as a nautical term, and nautical terms have a tendency to be shortened: "forecastle" becomes "fo'csle," "boatswain" becomes "bosun," "coxswain" (hee hee hee!) becomes "coxs'n," so on and so forth.Rip Tanion wrote:Actually, it's a Nor'Easter (no N at the end). Someone else can look up the etymology. We get them here on the North-east seaboard, from New England to probably as far south as the Jersey Shore, if not further. They're not much fun when they blow by your neighborhood.
But that's no nor'easter. That Red Sox fans riotting and setting fires after learning that A-Rod is coming to the Bronx. I wonder if either of our two (I mean four) park-psychos have an Oliver Stonesque conspiracy theory concerning that one.
Can't type....laughing!
Ah, I love the sour grapes that come out of the so called "Red Sawks Nation" this time of year. Jeter has four rings. He didn't get them by accident. A-Rod and Nomah have zero. 'Nuff said.CleverUserName01 wrote:And A-Rod is, indeed, on his way to the Bronx, where he will be hamstrung by playing 3rd, despite being a massively superior SS to the always-overrated Jeter. Big, fat, hairy deal.
), and those are what is called non-rhotic, i.e. 'r's aren't pronounced in certain places. Like carpark -> cah-pahk. ) I'm going to have to agree with "Nor-Eastah". I'm a native, ya see...Rip Tanion wrote:If you ask me (make it a habit) it should be "Nah-Eastah". I've been to a lot of Red Sox@Yankees games, and for every game, bus-loads of chowder-heads (hey, that's what we call 'em) come down from Boston, and infest The Stadium; so I've heard a lot of Boston accents in my day. In fact far too many for my liking.
While reading the comic, I interpreted the woman's speech patterns as being a result of her learning disability. That is, I assumed that she was talking with more child-like pronounciations, such as replacing "r" sounds with "w" sounds somewhat the way Elmer Fudd does (on a side note, I once had that problem, which a speech therapist solved by having me gargle water to hear better what an "r" was supposed to sound like). I hadn't tried to pin the accent to a particular reason. Likewise, with the man, I guessed that he somewhat developed odd speech patterns as a result of talking mostly to himself for years.Anonymous wrote:Following up on Bjorn's comments - there's a whole bunch of places where the pronunciations look really false ("stahries", "sweahing") and they really distract me from being able to follow this charming story by making me think "That's not anything like a Boston accent!" 'Fyou want me to go through and find all of them, I will....
