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backhoeboogie

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:D :D :D

Half the US cannot pronounce Louisiana correctly and you have a pet peave with Iraq pronunication?

Iraqis probably don't want to know what most folks call them personally.
 

kolanuraven

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backhoeboogie said:
:D :D :D

Half the US cannot pronounce Louisiana correctly and you have a pet peave with Iraq pronunication?

Iraqis probably don't want to know what most folks call them personally.


You gotta a point there!!!
 

backhoeboogie

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kolanuraven said:
backhoeboogie said:
:D :D :D

Half the US cannot pronounce Louisiana correctly and you have a pet peave with Iraq pronunication?

Iraqis probably don't want to know what most folks call them personally.


You gotta a point there!!!

But the Louisiana pronunciation is a good thing. It lets you spot them right off.

Same thing with San Antone for native Texans versus the implants.
 

don

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the way she kept talking about eyerack and nucular weapons i thought dubya must have been her debate coach.
 

Mike

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kolanuraven said:
It's not EYE RACK......( Iraq).....it's EEEE Rock


Maybe that's the way the talk in Alaska?????

You ought to hear her pronounce......"Ordzhonikzeabad, Tajikistan".

Try it.............. :wink:
 

Mrs.Greg

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kolanuraven said:
It's not EYE RACK......( Iraq).....it's EEEE Rock


Maybe that's the way the talk in Alaska?????
Ummmm.....I call it Eye Rack....as do most Canadians I know.Maybe she was speaking Canadianise :D
 

VanC

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It just so happens that as I was driving home from work the other day I heard a guy on the radio talking about words that have disputed pronunciations. One of those words was Iraq. He said most Americans say eye-rack and that is perfectly acceptable, but that the correct "American" pronunciation is ee-rock, which is the closet we can get to the way the average Iraqi would say it.

My father-in-law, a fine man, is kind of the hoity-toity type and always takes great pains to correct people on such things. So whenever I'm around him, and the subject comes up, I always say eye-rack because it drives him nuts. Personally, I don't care how someone pronounces something as long as I know what they're talking about.
 

aplusmnt

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kolanuraven said:
It's not EYE RACK......( Iraq).....it's EEEE Rock


Maybe that's the way the talk in Alaska?????

Well if they wanted it pronounced that way then maybe they should have spelled it Eroq! :wink:
 

Soapweed

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backhoeboogie said:
:D :D :D

Half the US cannot pronounce Louisiana correctly and you have a pet peave with Iraq pronunication?

Iraqis probably don't want to know what most folks call them personally.

Ironically, Peach and I spent last night in a motel in Scottsbluff. As we were leaving our room this morning, a gentleman was also leaving his room next door. We exchanged pleasantries, and I asked him where he was from. He replied, "Loozianna," and went on to explain that his nephew lives in western Nebraska. This man's brother, also from Louisianna, had come up here to visit his son, gotten a small wound, and ended up in the hospital with a severe case of staff infection. The man I was visiting with had driven for fourteen hours straight to come to visit his hospitalized brother.

My new friend had made a career of being a heavy equipment operator, and is now retired. He lives on a 45-acre tract of land, and has a few cows and pigs. He loves to hunt and fish, and you could tell by visiting with him that he is a "good 'ol boy." As we were ready to part ways, I couldn't help but ask him, "Who do you hope gets to be President?" :wink: He looked me up and down like I had suddenly gone daft, and replied, "Who do you think?" I smiled and stated that I was rooting for Sara Palin and her partner. A look of relief spread across his face and he said, "Me, too, but I am worried sick there are enough idiots out there to vote in the other guy." We shook hands and will undoubtedly never see each other again, but we shared a brief moment of respect for our fellow man. :)
 

Soapweed

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backhoeboogie said:
Soapweed, LOL no dubya in Louisiana. It wasn't named afer any Lewis fella.

I see now that I slipped an extra "n" into the spelling, also. Can you cut me just a bit of slack on account of my funger? :wink:
 

backhoeboogie

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Soapweed said:
backhoeboogie said:
Soapweed, LOL no dubya in Louisiana. It wasn't named afer any Lewis fella.

I see now that I slipped an extra "n" into the spelling, also. Can you cut me just a bit of slack on account of my funger? :wink:

No problem. Mississippi made it easy. They doubled up on all the consonants after the first one.
 

kolanuraven

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After 2 wks of having been asked constantly in WY & NE, " Where you from?"......." can you say that again?" ........" How do YOU say this word?".. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: ...I arrived 6AM @ the Casper Airport ready to leave.


I heard in the dstant the most wonderful ' Cajun' voice. After we both got past " Security" he and I both were so pleased to find each other and be able to actually " talk" to each other.....and not need ' translators'.
 

Soapweed

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kolanuraven said:
After 2 wks of having been asked constantly in WY & NE, " Where you from?"......." can you say that again?" ........" How do YOU say this word?".. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: ...I arrived 6AM @ the Casper Airport ready to leave.


I heard in the dstant the most wonderful ' Cajun' voice. After we both got past " Security" he and I both were so pleased to find each other and be able to actually " talk" to each other.....and not need ' translators'.

Yesterday we drove past your old establishment east of Scottsbluff. It doesn't look nearly as well-kept and glamorous as when you had it.
 

kolanuraven

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Soapweed said:
kolanuraven said:
After 2 wks of having been asked constantly in WY & NE, " Where you from?"......." can you say that again?" ........" How do YOU say this word?".. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: ...I arrived 6AM @ the Casper Airport ready to leave.


I heard in the dstant the most wonderful ' Cajun' voice. After we both got past " Security" he and I both were so pleased to find each other and be able to actually " talk" to each other.....and not need ' translators'.

Yesterday we drove past your old establishment east of Scottsbluff. It doesn't look nearly as well-kept and glamorous as when you had it.


I haven't seen it in a few years, a couple of years before Dinklage and Weinreice(sp) bought the parcels. It looked ragged before then.


It was a money pit to"keep up" the way we did it. I did have a lot of good times there for sure...but things march onward
 

backhoeboogie

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kolanuraven said:
I heard in the dstant the most wonderful ' Cajun' voice. After we both got past " Security" he and I both were so pleased to find each other and be able to actually " talk" to each other.....and not need ' translators'.

He wasn't from down around Nawlins was he? :D :D

I didn't know you liked Cajuns. My last name is on the Acadian Memorial. I haven't met a cajun yet that I didn't cross in to a few times in my pedigree. :D
 

kolanuraven

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backhoeboogie said:
kolanuraven said:
I heard in the dstant the most wonderful ' Cajun' voice. After we both got past " Security" he and I both were so pleased to find each other and be able to actually " talk" to each other.....and not need ' translators'.

He wasn't from down around Nawlins was he? :D :D

I didn't know you liked Cajuns. My last name is on the Acadian Memorial. I haven't met a cajun yet that I didn't cross in to a few times in my pedigree. :D


That's a ' Southern' thang....you can ALWAYS find someone ' kin' to you. :wink:

We both lamented about the lack of sweet tea that we'd endured in WY and no grits.......and what we each gonna have for supper when we got home to " real food".


He was from some small fishing village , I forgot the name. He was there as an oil patch worker and was going home for his 2 wks off.
 
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backhoeboogie said:
kolanuraven said:
I heard in the dstant the most wonderful ' Cajun' voice. After we both got past " Security" he and I both were so pleased to find each other and be able to actually " talk" to each other.....and not need ' translators'.

He wasn't from down around Nawlins was he? :D :D

I didn't know you liked Cajuns. My last name is on the Acadian Memorial. I haven't met a cajun yet that I didn't cross in to a few times in my pedigree. :D

A Coonass :???: That explains a lot... :wink: :lol: :p
 
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