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Messages—Annie the Masticator

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English & Linguistics / Accents
« on: December 10, 2004, 08:07:51 AM »
It's OK, though, Anna, because even if people think the Southern accent is positive, it still sounds funny.  

"Vieng ici, Cheri-e.  Vieng ici!"

:P

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English & Linguistics / Accents
« on: December 09, 2004, 03:46:27 PM »
Almost everyone I know from Texas has an intense twangy drawl, but then again, almost everyone I know from Texas is from the Southeast.  A friend of mine from Arlington has no real accent, and a friend from El Paso has a slight California-type intonation, which I call Californian but is really a slight bit of Spanglish.  I think North and West Texas don't really talk with the drawl like the South and the East.

Once we were talking to a shopkeeper who was uncanny with accents.  He had my grandmother nailed within the first few seconds she spoke ("Green Bay Wisconsin, give me a break," he said) and even my Dad, who I thought has lost his Texas accent, was easily put in the category of "What part of Southeast Texas are you from?"

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English & Linguistics / Hors-d'œuvres
« on: December 07, 2004, 08:34:34 PM »
I finally got my long-coveted bamboo steamer for making dim sum, and then realized that I needed a wok in which to place it.  Big frying pans don't so much work.

Oh, well.  I have a good crepe pan - I guess I can't have everything.

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English & Linguistics / RE: Reexamine
« on: December 07, 2004, 08:31:14 PM »
Once I read a sewing manual that kept referring to me as the sew-er.  I couldn't figure this out until I tried writing it without the hyphen.

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English & Linguistics / Hors-d'œuvres
« on: December 07, 2004, 02:08:50 PM »
Calrose rice is my favorite for sticky rice.  Last time I went to buy some, I could get either 5 pounds for $4.00 or 50 pounds for $10.00.  Mathematically, I just couldn't let it go.

Unfortunately, this was a week before I moved home for the summer and I ended up having to move 50 pounds of rice.  My mom won't touch the stuff, but thought it was silly for me to move it again.  So, I moved back without it and now I keep having longings for the 50-pound bag of Calrose rice lying there unloved 230 miles away.

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English & Linguistics / Another survey
« on: December 06, 2004, 07:52:06 PM »
You'll know which is mine because I answered all of the questions in Arabic.

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