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   From: godsspeciallamb@gmail.com   
      
   It's not really a problem.  I don't want this to come off that way. It's   
   really more or less something I'd like to discuss with you, my new   
   Internet friends.   
      
   The thing is, there's a few people I have met in my many years living in   
   this great "Greater Cincinnati Area" (GO REDS!), who have moved here   
   from Kentucky, or Atlanta, or won of the other less-fortunate areas of   
   our nation, who have a tendency to "mispronounce" the language.   
      
   Now before you jump all over me saying, "Oh, you're won to talk, Wavy,"   
   let me explain: There are a certain few words that "Country people"   
   intentionally try to say wrong.  It's just a few words, that's all.  For   
   example, when somewon says "physical," and they are actually trying to   
   say "fiscal."  As in, "Have you updated the new 'physical' calendar?" Of   
   course, they know it's "fiscal," they just try to pronounce it   
   "physical."  Why do they do this?  Or when talking about a "Poplar"   
   tree, they say it like, "popular," as if they think "Poplar" is a   
   contraction of the word "popular" or something.  "Hey man, I cut down   
   that 'Popular' tree in my back yard last night."   
      
   I'm not exactly sure why these people do this.  I believe it comes from   
   the standard of removing "drawls" from words in attempt to sound more   
   sophisticated, like the people in their surrounding communities, and as   
   a result, totally fucking up certain words.  It's like they try so hard   
   to be like us, but it just doesn't "pan out."   
      
   When a Southerner relocates to the much more refined and civilized   
   North, they try to hide their down-home, "cornpone" ways in an attempt   
   to blend in with us regular people--especially in their language.  You   
   know, like when they use the term "You all" when addressing two or more   
   people.  You know deep-down inside they really want to say "Y'all," as   
   their Southern instincts would dictate, but something intrinsically   
   tells them, "Don't say it!  Don't say, 'Y'all'!  I don't want them to   
   see me as the backward, inbred buffoon that I really am."  Well here's a   
   tip for all Southerners: We normal people...we don't say, "You all," we   
   say, "you."  NEWSFLASH: "YOU" IS THE PLURAL FORM OF "YOU"!!!  IT DOESN'T   
   MATTER HOW YOU STRETCH IT OUT, YOU STILL SOUND LIKE A BUNCH OF   
   BUCK-TOOTHED, GRITS-SLURPING MORONS.   
      
   So anyways, I just thought I'd throw that out there and see if anywon   
   "bites."  What do you think?  Let's talk.  I love hearing from you all.   
      
   With love, as always,   
   Wavy G.   
      
   --   
   Mimus hasn't written anything funny about me lately.   
      
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