Your Linguistic Profile: |
70% General American English |
15% Upper Midwestern |
10% Yankee |
5% Midwestern |
0% Dixie |
Via Ed.
It's irritating that my speech is so bereft of colloguialisms that I'm 70% general. I like to think that I'm not that normal. I do say "pop" though (instead of "soda"), which I have been led to believe is pretty regional of me.
I had an extremely boring weekend. I accosted a realtor who showed up an hour late to show the house and who was giving me attitude, and I watched the Austin City Limits that featured the Pixies. Next weekend there will allegedly be Julie and Susan's annual joint-birthday party, which I'm not looking forward to. Is that awful of me?
I did have brunch with my dad yesterday; he's going in for surgery tomorrow, which means that I'll have to go through the whole post-bariatric thing all over again. He's worried, and I am too: he's a lot less healthy than my mom was when she went in for surgery. Which would be why he's going in for surgery.
5 comments:
The devil beating his wife is "dixie" saying for when it rains and the sun is shining. Origin? Good question.
That's what I assumed, from the question that was asked. It just is so colorful as to border on parody, and it sounded hilarious to me. I mean, what does The Wife expect, marrying Satan? "Oh, but I can change him!" Good luck, sister.
We don't have a word for that here, since it so rarely rains while the sun is shining. Actually, the sun so rarely shines in general.
I'm 60% general. LOL. Of course, like you, I could have easily skewed the results towards Dixie, or Upper Midwestern. I should take it again and try to achieve a specific geographical argot.
Real estate people are evil. Many moons ago when my parents were selling a house, the real estate lady showed up at the front door to do a 'walk through'...I told here "now" wasn't a good time, since my mom was in the shower. The woman said, "I don't mind" and barged in the house. Needless to say, my parents were't amused.
Any news back from your phone interview? I would love to finally hear a story that ends in a person getting a job. Seems most of the job hunting stories are so awful right now....
Nope, no news whatsoever. I would call, if I wasn't certain that I did horribly in the interview anyways. In a vaguely positive development, after a remarkable dearth of job listings in academic libraries, in the last couple of days the job boards have been sort of packed, which makes me think that maybe we have entered the hiring period (for next autumn) for academic libraries. I'll still apply to public libraries, just in case.
Um, well, you are in the Cornjob Memorial Library. If you would like information about the library itself, just ask the Reference Librarian, who is that shifty looking guy with the potbelly and a mohawk over there. If he swears at you, just ignore it; it's just his way. Have a pleasant stay with us!
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