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Date Posted: 07:35:29 03/19/07 Mon
Author: Ye Editor
Author Host/IP: adsl-157-6-15.jan.bellsouth.net / 70.157.6.15
Subject: Re: Can you translate Southern?
In reply to: Billy Hill 's message, "Re: Can you translate Southern?" on 20:03:58 03/18/07 Sun

Haaaaaaaa . . . looks like a foreign language to me!

You've got the dialect down perfectly, B. :)




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>That tire sounds dist like hillbilly talk, moren hit
>does southern even, like I lernt when I'ze a yungin,I
>Yoosta lissen to them old timers a talkin an they
>used ever one a them thire words, I reckin ther
>ancestors wuz mostly european Scoth and Irish, mostly
>Ive heerd, and their jargon suffered a mite over the
>generations,and the colloquialisms and aphorisms were
>ther normal way o talkin, I'uz luck to git ta hear
>some o them really old fellers frum the mountains a
>talkin when ize little,a tellin tales that happened
>way back yonder in the old days. One feller told about
>(said hit wuz a true story) about a ol mule he plowed
>the garden with, an one time thez a big ol stump in
>the upper end o the garden and they decided to blow
>hit outta the ground with blastin powder, said thed
>dug at it till thez plum blue in the face with picks
>an matticks an hadn't hardly fazed it, so.. they lit
>tha fuze and run an hunkered behind a log, and then
>they seed that ol mule a walkin up torje that fuse,
>and they started a hollering an a wavin ther hats a
>tryin to git it to git away from thire fore hit blowed
>up, said the ol mule wuz a smellin of the smoke a
>comin off o that fuse and a wigglin hits ears, then
>all at once, KABOOM! he said that pore mule went about
>10 feet in the ire (air) and hits lags was a workin
>(runnin) whilst hit wuz still up in the ire! when hit
>hit the ground they said hit run plum off an wuz gone
>like a light blowed out, and didn't see hit fer 3
>days, then later he wuz a plowin and stopped an rolled
>a prince albert (cigarette) and started back in a
>plowin, and he said'dat ol mule looked around and seed
>(seen) smoke offa that ciggarat and said hit went plum
>crazy and broke aloose and run plum away agin, went
>outta sight through the barn wuz the last he seed of
>it till some feller, a neighbor brung it back a few
>days later, said he fount it about 9 mile away plum
>over in the dark holler, dist a standin thire a
>grinnin an eatin sawbrars...pore ol mule...

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