[lit-ideas] Re: "There's an old saying in Tennessee"
- From: "carol kirschenbaum" <cskir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:01:03 -0700
Perhaps it's a loose translation of an ancient Chinese
> proverb, gradually honed down to a southern phrase.
ck: I don't know about y'all, but I first heard the saying from the mouth of
Chief Engineer Scotty on Star Trek. You can guess where he said it came
from.
Carol
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From: <JulieReneB@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: "There's an old saying in Tennessee"
> I don't have any idea why he considers it (or called it) a saying
identified
> with TN. It's more (I think) like a piece of Americana. I would have
> expected it to have originated here, probably somewhere in the south
because it does
> have that flavour. > Julie Krueger
>
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> Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: "There's an old saying in Tennessee"
> Date:6/28/2004 9:24:34 PM Central Daylight Time
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> In a message dated 6/28/2004 10:17:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> JulieReneB@xxxxxxx writes:
> What confuses you? Bush just couldn't
> say it right. He forgot the second half
>
> What strikes me as interesting is that he wanted to qualify the expression
> as being 'an old saying in Tennessee' -- was the speech being delivered
> there?
> He then notes he _knows_ it's a saying in Texas.
>
> I would think that the proverb is actually generalized all over the United
> States, and possibly of English origin?
>
> I do not have the Oxford Dictionary of English proverbs to hand, but the
> post I sent earlier -- with the online link -- says it's an Oriental
> (Chinese)
> proverb. So what's the source for believing it's only Tennessee/Texas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
>
>
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