Comments on: I Tell You What http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/12/i-tell-you-what The Journal of Poorly-Explained Phenomena Sun, 20 May 2012 20:48:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeff http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/12/i-tell-you-what/comment-page-1#comment-181 Jeff Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:40:26 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/?p=1005#comment-181 "California's status as a relatively young state is significant in that it has not had centuries for regional patterns to emerge and grow (compared to, say, some East Coast or Southern dialects). Linguists who studied English as spoken in California before and in the period immediately after World War II tended to find few if any distinct patterns unique to the region. However, several decades later, with a more settled population and continued immigration from all over the globe, a noteworthy set of emerging characteristics of California English had begun to attract notice by linguists of the late 20th century and on." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_English “California’s status as a relatively young state is significant in that it has not had centuries for regional patterns to emerge and grow (compared to, say, some East Coast or Southern dialects). Linguists who studied English as spoken in California before and in the period immediately after World War II tended to find few if any distinct patterns unique to the region. However, several decades later, with a more settled population and continued immigration from all over the globe, a noteworthy set of emerging characteristics of California English had begun to attract notice by linguists of the late 20th century and on.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_English

]]> By: jmackley http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/12/i-tell-you-what/comment-page-1#comment-180 jmackley Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:08:51 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/?p=1005#comment-180 From Reader's Digest this month: You know you're in Georgia when you hear directions that begin: "You go down Peachtree" and end with "turn left when you see the Waffle House." I was in Florida for election season. They sure do politics different in the South than here in California. I've never seen attack ads like that before. From Reader’s Digest this month:
You know you’re in Georgia when you hear directions that begin: “You go down Peachtree” and end with “turn left when you see the Waffle House.”

I was in Florida for election season. They sure do politics different in the South than here in California. I’ve never seen attack ads like that before.

]]> By: Paul http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/12/i-tell-you-what/comment-page-1#comment-179 Paul Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:15:14 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/?p=1005#comment-179 Chuck, Saxby lost a lot of people 6 years ago when he ran ads accusing Max Cleland of being a coward and a traitor. You know, Max Cleland, the guy who lost both legs and one arm in Vietnam and then came back to serve his country as a secretary of veteran's affairs and congressman. Oh, yeah, and Vietnam was that war Saxby dodged by saying he has a bad knee. Walks pretty good if you ask me. Better than Max for sure, at least now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJGAWT90Xl4 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/the-amazing-story-f-saxb_n_144307.html But, "the Sack" won anyway, with the same kind of tactics as back then. Sure is a sack o' somethin', I tell you what. Chuck,

Saxby lost a lot of people 6 years ago when he ran ads accusing Max Cleland of being a coward and a traitor. You know, Max Cleland, the guy who lost both legs and one arm in Vietnam and then came back to serve his country as a secretary of veteran’s affairs and congressman. Oh, yeah, and Vietnam was that war Saxby dodged by saying he has a bad knee. Walks pretty good if you ask me. Better than Max for sure, at least now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/the-amazing-story-f-saxb_n_144307.html

But, “the Sack” won anyway, with the same kind of tactics as back then. Sure is a sack o’ somethin’, I tell you what.

]]> By: Alfredo http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/12/i-tell-you-what/comment-page-1#comment-178 Alfredo Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:41:23 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/?p=1005#comment-178 Chuck, I was in Douglasville, GA, for the Thanksgiving holidays and saw several of the Chambliss/Martin ads on TV. All pertinent issues aside, in my mind, there's no good reason why someone named "Jim" should beat someone named "Saxby". Which is probably why it's a good thing I'm not registered to vote in GA. I caught that Chambliss family holiday ad and was like "did they say God Bless Bush and Obama?!?" The funny thing was I had just brought up the topic of the old NYC Channel 9 station holiday ads (aka "From our family to your family, wishing you Merry Christmas...from everyone at Channel 9") when that one came on. Do you remember those? Hope you had a good holiday. Chuck,

I was in Douglasville, GA, for the Thanksgiving holidays and saw several of the Chambliss/Martin ads on TV. All pertinent issues aside, in my mind, there’s no good reason why someone named “Jim” should beat someone named “Saxby”. Which is probably why it’s a good thing I’m not registered to vote in GA. I caught that Chambliss family holiday ad and was like “did they say God Bless Bush and Obama?!?” The funny thing was I had just brought up the topic of the old NYC Channel 9 station holiday ads (aka “From our family to your family, wishing you Merry Christmas…from everyone at Channel 9″) when that one came on. Do you remember those? Hope you had a good holiday.

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