lynn jones Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 NOT TO BE OUT DONE BY EBONICS IN CALIFORNIA, THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS IS REQUESTING BILLIONS OF FEDERAL DOLLARS TO TEACH Y'ALLBONICS IN ALL CLASSROOMS SOUTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE. INCLUDED HERE ARE SOME SAMPLES OF Y'ALLBONICS. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ANY OF THEM, CONTACT YOUR SOUTHERN BUBBA FOR AN EXPLANATION..... HEIDI - (noun) -Greeting. Sumtimes used as 'HEIDI DO'. AX - (verb) "Don't ax me, I donno" HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting. Usage "Heidi, Hire yew?" GOODN - (Contraction) Denotes level of approval "HOO BOY!! At's a goodn." BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow." Usage "My brother bard my pickup truck." JAWJUH - (noun) - The state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner. Usage "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck." BAMMER - (noun) - The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayum. Usage "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvements." MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division. Usage "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts." THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process. Usage "Ah thank ah'll have a coke." 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 leff my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago." ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck." FAR - (noun) - A conflagration. Usage "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thing's gonna catch far." TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage "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, sure hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Pars sometime." RETARD -(verb)- To stop working. Usage "My 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'uh beehins." RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats." Different from the singular RAT - (adverb) "Gerald, you get yo ass home rat now" CHEER - (adverb) In this place. Usage "Just set that bare rat cheer." 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." ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas; Oxygen. Usage "He cain't beathe...give 'im some ARE!" 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 my 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 but a minnit n'is laf." SEED - (verb) - past tense of "to see". VIEW - contraction (verb) and pronoun. Usage "I ain't never seed New York City... view?" DJEET? - Contraction for "Did you eat?" Answer: "Naw, Jew?" - "No, did you?" GNOME SANE. "It jez dat way, gnome sane?" I postulate this to be a contraction of "Do you know what I'm saying?" to which I often think of replying, "No; as a matter of fact, I rather doubt it." IDINIT - inquisitive contraction. Example: "Nice day, idinit?" FIXIN - verb, indicates preparation. "I'm fixin' to git me another beer, y'ont one?" And the list goes on and on and on........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhino Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 SARR = sour ex: "OO-whee! Them pickles's SARR!" GAZINTA = arithmetic division ex: "Two gazinta six three tahms." AHMOAN = contraction of "I'm going to . . ." SEBMUP = the carbonated beverage, 7-Up Ex: "Ahmoan drank that sebmup." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 NIM (contraction) - "and them." Refers to a person and their relatives. Usage: "Yep, I been over to see Harold Dollar nim just last week." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhino Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 HAID = head DAID = dead; see also "Did" COWFEE = coffee, esp. in Kentucky HALE = the bad place, aka "Hell." ex: "War is hale!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 Rhino Are you coming to any Southern matches soon? I mean Deep South. Some of 'dem Good 'ol boys, might whup on yor haid. Make you think living North of the Mason Dixon line is Hale. And BTW, the Mason Dixon line is anything North of I-10. Lynn The verb, ax, is part of the ebonic vocalization trend, not the Bubba trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 Then there's Kiwi-bonics from the folks from DAY'N AN-duh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 skoo (an institution of learning) Wher'd chall go ta' skoo? Koolfiltakang (a brand of cigarette) Gimme a pakadem Koolfiltakang. (I actually heard someone make this request one night in an Arkansas 7-11, ROTFLAMO) sco (let us go) cummown, let sco downtada skoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkmccoy Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Fellas, I'z a'readin' this here thread an' tryin' ta figger out whass the durned punch line. See-nz how iss s'posed to be a joke. But I finely realizes iss juss edumacation for ya'll that lives summerz they tawks funny. Prolly nawth o' the M-D line. (Thass the Midland-Dallas line fo' you yankees.) Cheers from San Angelo, TX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhino Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Are you coming to any Southern matches soon? I mean Deep South. Some of 'dem Good 'ol boys, might whup on yor haid. Make you think living North of the Mason Dixon line is Hale. And BTW, the Mason Dixon line is anything North of I-10. Sounds like I'd better stay north of Kentucky if I know what's good for me! I was actually the first kid in my family not born in Kentucky and my mom was born in Kentucky. So I have a genetic predisposition to understaning the y'allbonics dialects. The verb, ax, is part of the ebonic vocalization trend, not the Bubba trend. I do know some Cajuns and others who live in similar areas in Louisiana that say "ax," but I've never heard it otherwise (except, as you say, in an ebonically enhanced conversation). I wonder how Mr. Miculek says it . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liota Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Maybe I'll "ax" him in April when I go there for the Ladies' Camp. L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Billy Joel recorded a pop tune called "Don't Ask Me Why" in the 80s. Exactly 1 minute and 48 seconds into the tune he repeats the hook refrain, but sez it like this: "...Don't AX me why..." I swear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Hey, anyone who runs their car into a tree and, is a confessed drunk, divorces Christi Brinkley, really doesn't have a lot going for him. Three strikes and you're out. It is hard to enunciate the Queen's English correctly when you got your head all bad. I don't care if he is the Piano Man... In this area, the use of AX as a verb is predominately used by people who also conjugate the verb, to be: I be, you be, he she it bes, we be, you be, they be. And Louisiana is next door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooterj Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Jerry don't taak no difernt den da res us coonasses don heea ron nawlins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Yeh, and Billy Joel isn't very pleasant to LOOK at, either!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twix Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 SL, that was just BJ's early attempt at "crossover". Try " In the Middle of the Night" for a more refined version. Tightloops crackin' the whip. Maybe we need to start up the FFW's again. Whew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 <thread drift> We haven't had a good Friday Flamer for a couple of weeks!! What's happened to us??!! Have we all gone soft??!!..... </thread drift> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimel Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 <thread drift reply> Well, those that typically start them haven't done so of late. As for me...I have working too hard and feeling like crap (as in barely getting out of bed and to work on time...let alone early enough to start a FFW) so haven't had the chance to start them in the morning. But I feel one coming on...maybe this week. </thread drift reply> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liota Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 <threaddriftmode>We could always declare a different day Friday. All things are waiverable. Just ask me about it on "Friday."</threaddriftmode> L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 <thread drift mode> From the gist of what'all I was reading this PAST week, I'd say some of us were buried in the self-brutalization of high expectations and performance disappointments. Too humiliated to complain about it any more. ...something like that. I have a feeling by the end of THIS week, there may be something entirely different to bi*ch about. (I'd rather bi*ch about something than feel sorry for myself.) But as L said, "...All things are waiverable." </thread drift mode> OK, now, where were we... Ah, Billy Joel and y'allbonics. right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reneet Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 I do know some Cajuns and others who live in similar areas in Louisiana that say "ax," but I've never heard it otherwise (except, as you say, in an ebonically enhanced conversation). I wonder how Mr. Miculek says it . . . Not sure how he says that but he came in the shop one day asking for tubin. It took some follow up questions for clarification for me to figure out what he needed and you know I had to give him a hard time about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 I be waitin' fo a splanatun 'bout "tubin" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 ..."tubing"...?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reneet Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 ..."tubing"...?... Bingo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubber Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Alrite, you fellers dun forced ma han. Wats I got tiz two fellars speaken. See if yuuns can translate it. MRPIGS MRNOTPIGS OSARCDEDBDIS LIBMRPIGS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liota Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Alrite, you fellers dun forced ma han. Wats I got tiz two fellars speaken. See if yuuns can translate it.MRPIGS MRNOTPIGS OSARCDEDBDIS LIBMRPIGS. Took me a bit, but L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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