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"I says" he says
« on: May 12, 2020, 02:42:01 PM »
We have a couple of fire suppression techs working today. On of them is an "I says" guy.

"You know I was talking to him and I says..."
"He made me mad so I says...
"If I can do it I tell him, I says..."

It's a couple of times a paragraph, if not sentence. Nice guy, but it's getting on my nerves. On the annoyance scale it ranks right up there with arm slappers and people who insert the extended "Uh" or "and" at the end of each sentence.

About the only thing worse is loud eating (chewing or swallowing, doesn't matter). The first sound sends me straight into orbit and there's no coming down.

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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2020, 02:54:30 PM »
Is he from Noo Yawk? That's very characteristic of some neighborhoods in NYC.
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2020, 03:07:17 PM »
I've got a coworker that appends every other sentence with "...and what have you."

I tell him I have a waterbottle, or I have a mouse, or I have some other thing.  It started breaking him of it and was a joke between us.  Until the COVID era where we weren't in office together anymore, at least.  Now he's back to asking me what I have all the time when on phone calls.

If you've got a decent relationship with this guy, maybe turn it into a joke?  Start talking like Foghorn Leghorn?  "I say I say boy!  That's a mighty fine speech impediment ya got there!"
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2020, 03:07:39 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on May 12, 2020, 02:54:30 PM
Is he from Noo Yawk? That's very characteristic of some neighborhoods in NYC.

Having been raised in NYC, I didn't see anything untoward about that pattern (usually rendered as "I sez").

I did find, when I moved out to Colorado, that my NY accent was pretty off-putting, so maybe that's what you're sensing.  (We're probably all on edge lately.)

Only thing that grates on me nowadays? is that rising inflection at the end? of declarative clauses?  But I resolve that irk? by mentioning it frequently on APS?  =D

Oh, and Boston accents?

Oh, and marble-mouths on the telephone? and drive-up windows?   (But that may be due to age-related presbycousis?)

Oh, and Bernadette Wolowicz's voice ?

Come to think of it?, I must be a hell of a pissant?

Terry?, 230RN?
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2020, 03:15:22 PM »
Everyone knows that it's  "says I"  not "I says".
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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2020, 03:22:22 PM »
So say we all
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2020, 03:29:58 PM »
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I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2020, 03:55:14 PM »
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If there really was intelligent life on other planets, we'd be sending them foreign aid.

Conservatives see George Orwell's "1984" as a cautionary tale.  Progressives view it as a "how to" manual.

My wife often says to me, "You are evil and must be destroyed." She may be right.

Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.

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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2020, 03:56:06 PM »
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Re: "I says" he says
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2020, 04:05:58 PM »
I tell you what
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« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2020, 04:08:39 PM »
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"I'm a foolish old man that has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop."

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« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2020, 04:16:01 PM »
My pet peeve lately is Idano, as in, "It's obvious this virus was created in a lab Idano."

And have you noticed that if people can't think of anything else to say about a situation, they just go with, "it's crazy"?

People tend to get stuck in patterns.

Idano...
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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2020, 04:29:40 PM »
Quote from: fistful on May 12, 2020, 04:16:01 PM
My pet peeve lately is Idano, as in, "It's obvious this virus was created in a lab Idano."

And have you noticed that if people can't think of anything else to say about a situation, they just go with, "it's crazy"?

People tend to get stuck in patterns.

Idano...

When you have children you quickly discover what phrases you abuse.

And then you are left wondering "Do I really sound like that?"
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I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: "I says" he says
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2020, 04:44:13 PM »
Quote from: Ben on May 12, 2020, 03:15:22 PM
Everyone knows that it's  "says I"  not "I says".

Sez you!
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Re: "I says" he says
« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2020, 04:49:53 PM »
Quote from: fistful on May 12, 2020, 04:16:01 PM
My pet peeve lately is Idano, as in, "It's obvious this virus was created in a lab Idano."

And have you noticed that if people can't think of anything else to say about a situation, they just go with, "it's crazy"?

People tend to get stuck in patterns.

Idano...

Idano's on turd.

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« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2020, 04:52:49 PM »
Quote from: makattak on May 12, 2020, 04:29:40 PM
When you have children you quickly discover what phrases you abuse.

And then you are left wondering "Do I really sound like that?"

It's also interesting to listen to people talk and pick up on how we learn language. For example, I have a cousin who for the longest time pronounced the word for Italian pasta as "bizgetti."

My mother's pronunciation for the name of a lunch meal item consisting of some kind of stuff between two slices of bread was "sandridge." She knew how to spell it correctly, and I am quite certain that she had no idea that her pronunciation had nothing to do with the way the word is spelled. When she first encountered the word as a child, I guess that's how it sounded to her, so that's what it became.

I'm sure there are words that I unknowingly mispronounce, as well.
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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2020, 05:11:27 PM »
My wife told me years ago that I pronounce "both" as "bolth." I don't know why the l sound is in there, but there it is. When I pronounce it without the l, it just sounds strange to me. That's OK, though. She says "ex-scape." So there.

Just to throw out another one, a lot of people don't know the difference between "when" and "whenever."
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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2020, 05:59:28 PM »
Ex-scape? I think that might be code for "Save me from fistful!"
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« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2020, 06:14:00 PM »
A lot of kids pronounce it bisgetti or pisgetti.  I always wondered if Italian kids mis-pronounced it the same way.

Two guys meet up in  bar.  One has a very heavy thick British accent.

The other guy says, "Oh, are you British?"

The Brit says, in that thick accent, "Are you serious?  If I were any more British I wouldn't be able to speak at awl."

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« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2020, 01:52:06 PM »
LOL, talk to me IRL and ya will discover that, though from Louisiana, I can sometimes have the worst Texas, Red Neck, Country Bumpkin Drawl ya ever heard!
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« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2020, 03:42:47 PM »
Quote from: HeroHog on May 16, 2020, 01:52:06 PM
LOL, talk to me IRL and ya will discover that, though from Louisiana, I can sometimes have the worst Texas, Red Neck, Country Bumpkin Drawl ya ever heard!

There was a show on TV maybe 20 years ago that I loved called Frank's Place.  As much as anything, I enjoyed the accents.  The actor that played one of the cooks was a local they hired just for his accent; it was such a strong Louisiana drawl it was almost unintelligible.  (also there was no laugh track and if there was a studio audience they were not miked, you had to figure out for yourself when to laugh)
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« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2020, 10:54:49 AM »
Youse is ed zackley on the money, sez I.
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« Reply #22 on: May 17, 2020, 01:04:05 PM »
New York wannabes?

Perish the thought.
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