[lit-ideas] Re: "I said it in Dutch, I said it in German"
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:34:01 -0500
JL:
So I would say her brain is possibly bilingual -- but other than that,
most
people I've heard speaking _another_ language carry what I call 'a furrin
accent'.
Exactly. As the Kingston Trio used to introduce their song "Gue, gue":
"This next song is in French. Well, actually, it's Creole French. For
those of you who speak Creole French, it's Northwestern Creole French...as
spoken in perhaps Utah."
People in Seattle would scrunch their noses when I talked. "Where are you
from?" they'd ask, obviously afraid of catching my disease. Wiki says I
speak Mississippi Delta Southern American English. "Ah shucks," I say, "I
just speak wherever comes out of my mouth. Ain't got no time to think about
it."
Mike Geary
Memphis
watching from my verandah
(I don't need no stinking window)
at what is --
depending, of course,
on the meaning of is.
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From: <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:08 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] "I said it in Dutch, I said it in German"
I said it in Hebrew, I said it in Dutch
I said it in German, and Greek.
But I wholly forgot
and it vexes me much
That English is what you speak.
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