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06-28-2003, 05:40 PM
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 ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]But i don't know where they get 'G'day' because i've never heard anyone say that without it being on purpose.[/quoteost_uid0]Or 'Eh?' I used to say it as an affectation, but I think it's grown on me.[/color ost_uid0]
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06-29-2003, 08:48 PM
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ost_uid0]It's Canadian too, I had a friend who used to do it all the time from Canada, but he kept getting teased about it, so he tried to stop using it. But, yeah, it's a common thing in Canada - I think, kind of like Americans and "like."[/colorost_uid0]
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#124
06-30-2003, 09:00 AM
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ost_uid0]And then there's "GAH!" I picked up "GAH!" from the members of this forum. (or rather, a certain member of this forum...) It's stuck with me now...As I told Sa'ar, the Psi Corps has got to be lurking somewhere...[/color ost_uid0]
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#125
06-30-2003, 09:03 AM
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ost_uid0]Eh is pretty common, eh, but not like Americans use, eh, we use it more naturally, eh. Do you get what I'm saying, eh, do yah?[/colorost_uid0]
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#126
06-30-2003, 04:41 PM
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ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]As I told Sa'ar, the Psi Corps has got to be lurking somewhere...[/quoteost_uid0]The Corps is Mother. The Corps is Father. Eat your vegetables.[/color ost_uid0]
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#127
06-30-2003, 08:15 PM
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ost_uid0]I use Eh all the time which could have to do with my proximity to Canada or my proximity to Minnesota, the votes still out.[/colorost_uid0]
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#128
06-30-2003, 08:56 PM
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ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]It's Canadian too, I had a friend who used to do it all the time from Canada, but he kept getting teased about it, so he tried to stop using it.[/quoteost_uid0]I can empaphise - when I first moved to Lewis everyone picked up on the fact that I pronounced 'h' like 'aich', rather than 'haich'. Drove me nuts, especially as there's one in my name, and of course I had to spell it out to every teacher in the school what felt like three times over.[/color ost_uid0]
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#129
06-30-2003, 10:46 PM
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ost_uid0]you mean just pronouncing the letter h? i say it aich too how ive never heard it any other way[/colorost_uid0]
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06-30-2003, 11:02 PM
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ost_uid0]Yup - apparently that's the Lewisian norm.[/colorost_uid0]
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#131
07-01-2003, 07:01 AM
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ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]British Columbians deride Albertans as flatlanders.[/quoteost_uid0]My dad found a limerick about them in a stall at a rest stop near the BC-ALTA border. It was crass and involved digestive function. [quote ost_uid0]I'm not sure what they call us.[/quoteost_uid0]Pot-smoking bitter-hippies, I would think. [/colorost_uid0]
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#132
07-01-2003, 04:55 PM
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ost_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Yup - apparently that's the Lewisian norm.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0][color=#000000 ost_uid0]It's not just Lewis, though. I know I've run across it in Dickens at least once ([iost_uid0]David Copperfield[/iost_uid0], I think, but don't hold me to that) and I'm pretty sure elsewhere.[/colorost_uid0]
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