Chill out, people. Trooper knows his grammar and orthography perfectly well.
"Whose" and "photo's" are just ways to mock the pretentious.
People from other parts of the country don't often realize how speech and language define people on the East Coast. Boston, for example, always has been about halfway to England this way. You could tell, as soon as someone opened his or her mouth (I won't use "their," although it's been done for centuries), where they were from within a very small area, their ethnicity and socioeconomic status, and probably the Parish where they went to church. That's faded quite a bit in the last 30 years, but it's still somewhat true. Among ordinary townies, there was great suspicion of anyone too fancy and Not From Heah. There's a great vein of Boston humor about this, but no one seems to care much any more.
Noo Yawk is the same in its own way. Among ordinary people in the Northeast Corridor, the aversion to anyone too fancy is expressed in different ways, whether it's Brooklyn or Woburn, but it's pretty understandable, one place or the other. These subtleties are often lost on people from flyover country and the Out West. You've got your regional accents, but they don't usually imply an entire consciousness the way localism does here on the Right Coast. So, Trooper's spelling is really a way to tell us a lot about him, if you don't fall for it as being a mistake.
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I won't spill the beans ....or seeds....or anything like that there.
Well played my friend.
I've gotta go with Lori Lemaris.
I'm too polite to correct it over at Mr Trooper's site, but here I cannot allow it to stand:
It's "WHO'S"!
I thought it was "whose" as in "youse", in which case it really should be Whose Is Dem Goyls?.
In Brooklyn, anyways.
Palladian said...
I'm too polite to correct it over at Mr Trooper's site, but here I cannot allow it to stand:
It's "WHO'S"!
Settle down Palladian. I'm just playin' along.
"Hooz" is acceptable.
Hooz that Cooz?
She looks like Palin.
Wow she's cute!
Sometimes it's tricky telling whether someone's being intentionally dumb.
There's an evolutionary explanation, probably.
Hooz that Cooz works Palladian.
BTW, it should be "Who's" i.e. Who is that girl.
Not "whose" which is possessive. As in "Whose girl is that?"
Chill out, people. Trooper knows his grammar and orthography perfectly well.
"Whose" and "photo's" are just ways to mock the pretentious.
People from other parts of the country don't often realize how speech and language define people on the East Coast. Boston, for example, always has been about halfway to England this way. You could tell, as soon as someone opened his or her mouth (I won't use "their," although it's been done for centuries), where they were from within a very small area, their ethnicity and socioeconomic status, and probably the Parish where they went to church. That's faded quite a bit in the last 30 years, but it's still somewhat true. Among ordinary townies, there was great suspicion of anyone too fancy and Not From Heah. There's a great vein of Boston humor about this, but no one seems to care much any more.
Noo Yawk is the same in its own way. Among ordinary people in the Northeast Corridor, the aversion to anyone too fancy is expressed in different ways, whether it's Brooklyn or Woburn, but it's pretty understandable, one place or the other. These subtleties are often lost on people from flyover country and the Out West. You've got your regional accents, but they don't usually imply an entire consciousness the way localism does here on the Right Coast. So, Trooper's spelling is really a way to tell us a lot about him, if you don't fall for it as being a mistake.
She is JoAnna Garcia-Swisher. She was cast as a mermaid in "Once Upon A Time."
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