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>Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 17:36:24 +0000
>From: Michael Bush <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #5376.2  (FUN) Hickbonics (!)
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> non-standard dialects. If American academic and governmental power
> weren't centered in the northeast, southern dialect or black
> vernacular might be the standard against which your speech is right,
> wrong, or funny.

I have often heard that one can tell the difference between a dialect and a
language by observing which has the army and the navy.  Furthermore, it
seems that in this case, the issue is not only where academic and
governmental power have their center.  We must also consider the preeminence
gained by the region that came out on top in the American civil war,
constituting at least one example of the premise I reference.

Cheers,

Michael Bush
Associate Professor of French and
Instructional Psychology and Technology
Brigham Young University
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This is kind of funny, but remember the distinction between a dialect
and slang. A dialect is a language that just hasn't been so deemed by
the powers that be, and within every language there is slang, i.e.
non-formal colloquialisms that more often than not originate in
non-standard dialects. If American academic and governmental power
weren't centered in the northeast, southern dialect or black
vernacular might be the standard against which your speech is right,
wrong, or funny.

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> >Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:03:06 -0500
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> >From: "Daniel E. Meyers" <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Hickbonics
> >Cc: "Meyers, Dale & Elaina" <[log in to unmask]>
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>HICKBONICS
>
>The Association of Southern Schools has decided to pursue some of the
>seemingly endless taxpayer dollar pipelined through Washington designating
>Southern slang, or "Hickbonics," as a language to be taught in all
>Southern schools. A speaker of this language would be a Hickophone.
>
>The following are excerpts from the Hickbonics/English dictionary:
>
>HEIDI - (noun) -Greeting.
>
>HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting.
>Usage: Heidi, Hire yew?"
>
>BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
>Usage: "Mah brother bard my pickup truck."
>
>JAWJUH - (noun) - The State north of Florida.  Capitol is Lanner.
>Usage: "Mah brother from Jawjuh bard mah pickup truck."
>
>BAMMER - (noun) - The State west of Jawjuh's.  Capitol is Berminhayum.
>Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in
>       improvements."
>
>MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division.
>Usage: "Mah brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't
>       herd from him in munts."
>
>THANK - (verb) - Ability to cognitively process.
>Usage: "Ah thank a'll have a bare."
>
>BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops, and yeast.
>Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."
>
>IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native."
>Usage: "Them Bammer boys sure are ignert!"
>
>RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts.
>Usage: "I thank I left mah ranch in the back of that pickup truck
>       mah brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."
>
>ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant.
>Usage: "I sure hope mah brother from Jawjuh puts all in mah pickup truck."
>
>FAR - (noun) - A conflagration.
>Usage: "If mah brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup
>       truck, that thing's gonna catch far."
>
>TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel.
>Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a
>       flat tar in my pickup truck."
>
>TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument.
>Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I sure do hope to see
>       that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."
>
>RETARD - (verb) - To stop working.
>Usage: "Mah grampaw retard at age 65."
>
>FAT - (noun), (verb) -- a battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat.
>Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup y'all."
>
>RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege.
>Usage: "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."
>
>FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic.
>Usage: "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed...must be from some farn
>country."
>
>DID - (adjective) - Not alive.
>Usage: "He's did, Jim."
>
>EAR - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas: Oxygen.
>Usage: "He cain't breathe...give 'im some ear!"
>
>BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable.
>Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."
>
>JEW HERE - (noun) and (verb) contraction.
>Usage: "Jew here that mah brother from Jawjuh got a job with that
>       bob war fence cump'ny?"
>
>HAZE - a contraction.
>Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah...haze ignert.
>       He ain't thanked in yars."
>
>SEED - (verb) - past tense of "to see".
>VIEW - contraction: (verb) and pronoun.
>Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City...view?"
>
>GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution.
>Usage: "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert.