There's a blaze of light in every word
Dec. 8th, 2004 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Does anyone else find themselves fascinated by issues of dialect? Like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pandarus's posts are all "bloke" and "frock" and "lass" and I always feel sort of odd about being so tickled by it, because it feels like I'm being all "Oh, aren't those English folks just so cute?" but really I'm not. There's just a sense of rightness to having phrases that identify a dialect. I was reading resonant8's commentary on Transfigurations and she says, "You can find anything on the internet, I'll tell you what" and I love it. I don't even know why. I just know that the phrase "I['ll] tell you what" fills me with glee.
I love "Lord willing and the creek don't rise," and I wish I could say it without sounding like a poser. I love the phrase "Well, I'll swan," which I'd guess nobody in my generation uses, and probably not many in the one before, but my mother says she might remember my great-grandmother using it. (And I don't imagine that many people know what it means -- raise your hand if you do!) I love the King James Bible, despite its (I know!) many, many, many failings -- I love "whither thou goest, I will go" and "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee."
I don't know what the point of all this was, except: I like that people talk different. (Grammatical error performed by trained English major on closed course.)
Does anyone else find themselves fascinated by issues of dialect? Like
pandarus's posts are all "bloke" and "frock" and "lass" and I always feel sort of odd about being so tickled by it, because it feels like I'm being all "Oh, aren't those English folks just so cute?" but really I'm not. There's just a sense of rightness to having phrases that identify a dialect. I was reading resonant8's commentary on Transfigurations and she says, "You can find anything on the internet, I'll tell you what" and I love it. I don't even know why. I just know that the phrase "I['ll] tell you what" fills me with glee.I love "Lord willing and the creek don't rise," and I wish I could say it without sounding like a poser. I love the phrase "Well, I'll swan," which I'd guess nobody in my generation uses, and probably not many in the one before, but my mother says she might remember my great-grandmother using it. (And I don't imagine that many people know what it means -- raise your hand if you do!) I love the King James Bible, despite its (I know!) many, many, many failings -- I love "whither thou goest, I will go" and "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee."
I don't know what the point of all this was, except: I like that people talk different. (Grammatical error performed by trained English major on closed course.)
