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neva mind quinn an cosner...watt bout madiline stowe? sum times ah wunder bout youse guys.. I know you don't get this on your own, so I will attempt to explain it once. When you use improper grammar and incorrect spelling incessantly it loses it's "cuteness", or charm. There have been great authors who have properly written their text in a dialect that was useful for the story at hand. None of them used it constantly, not even Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories. When it is used without discretion, or need, it becomes sickening. There is a parallel with this and with using profanity in writing (or speech). Used sparingly, and carefully, it makes a valid point and can be useful. Used without rein it is vile and boorish, and displays a lack of imagination. Attempting to set yourself apart from the "masses" by your constant misuse of a mixture of dialects does exactly so ................ but likely not with the effect you would wish for.
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neva mind quinn an cosner...watt bout madiline stowe? sum times ah wunder bout youse guys.. I know you don't get this on your own, so I will attempt to explain it once. When you use improper grammar and incorrect spelling incessantly it loses it's "cuteness", or charm. There have been great authors who have properly written their text in a dialect that was useful for the story at hand. None of them used it constantly, not even Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories. When it is used without discretion, or need, it becomes sickening. There is a parallel with this and with using profanity in writing (or speech). Used sparingly, and carefully, it makes a valid point and can be useful. Used without rein it is vile and boorish, and displays a lack of imagination. Attempting to set yourself apart from the "masses" by your constant misuse of a mixture of dialects does exactly so ................ but likely not with the effect you would wish for. ________________________ .................from my cold, dead hands. Yeah, ed. Work on your spelling. Its youze. (watts wid all de fookin dots, Stan????????) ___________________________ Luv dat hi lownsum. https://youtu.be/AMxKN0oiH2Q
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Harrison, along with others, Hunter S. Thompson, etc, was the kind of writer that seemed to think it was important for the reader to know how much and what kinds of illicit drugs they had been taking that week.
Those were the kinds of writers that, having read that, I immediately lost interest in their work, and quit reading.
Best,
Ted Well, you certainly have denied yourself some great writing over the past 30 years. Very little if any drug use in Harrisons works.
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Well said, Stan. I doubt if our "friend" Ed comprehends your message, nor will take it to heart. My favorite writer on guns and hunting/shootin' - the late Nash Buckingham, used dialect in many of his earlier stories, the best example I can offer is "The Shootin'ist Gent'man"-- for him, and in the era in which the story took place, it worked- today, perhaps, not so much.
But, to be realistic, my friend, I doubt if Ed grasped your phrasing in your "on point" message. Guess we'll just have to tolerate Ed, as we must do with "Ho-Jo", the Gent'man from the same Volunteer State as the late T.N. Buckingham hailed from- RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Gil,
I thought he was going to have a stroke several times. Losing to his old team LSU was bad enough, but to lose to Auburn in the same year really got to him. The problem SEC teams have is they have to play SEC teams. Pat Sullivan died Sunday, I hope he was able to see or hear the game; or at least able to understand when they told him about it.
War Eagle!
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Not only is HoJo from the same state as the Late Nash Buckingham he is also from the same area, ie Memphis. I too am from the Great State of TN. There are however parts of S Ca, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi & Kentucky that I live closer to than Memphis.
When HoJo is on the topic he normally has some good info, sometimes a bit brutally Honest for some folks liking, but so often correct.
Ever since I first read Nash he has been a favorite of mine. First item of his I can recall ever reading was Field & Stream ran his story "Great day in the Morning" back around 63 years ago where I read it in my High School library. I graduated from HS in '56.
I have never been "To Memphis" but have gone through it a couple of times.
Miller/TN
I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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sum o you guys are so self possessed, that you are really no fun...
an youze is correct, if you are in the bronx...youse in indicative of queens...
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keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Memphis has some interesting places to visit. My grandsons and I spend an afternoon there when we hunt across the big muddy, on the L 'Angjille, each year. They love to wander around in the pyramid Bass Pro, we have supper at The Rendezvous. Hope to take them to the DU Museum this winter, if they get to go with me.
Nash B. is one of my favorites, too. I have the set of his books, six or seven, can't recall. Getting to spend time with Bo Whoop was a highlight for me. Shouldering the big Fox and looking down the same barrels he did was pretty cool. I have hunted with my HE Fox on the Cache River, very close to Trappers Island, where he also hunted with his. Have also hunted with my HE at another of his old haunts, Beaver Dam Lake, at Tunica.
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Country bumpkins. __________________________ No sleep till...Brooklyn!
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Gil,
I thought he was going to have a stroke several times. Losing to his old team LSU was bad enough, but to lose to Auburn in the same year really got to him. The problem SEC teams have is they have to play SEC teams. Pat Sullivan died Sunday, I hope he was able to see or hear the game; or at least able to understand when they told him about it.
War Eagle! I hate to hear that about Pat Sullivan. I watched him win the Heisman between the hedges in Athens when he lit up UGA tossing the ball to Terry Beasley. Those two Auburn greats died too young. I had seen interviews of Terry Beasley and he really paid the price for playing football with concussions over the years. It was sad to see. Another Auburn great used to come by dad's office when the Auburn graduate was a young officer in the Marine Corps at Parris Island. Name? Vince Dooley. Gil
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