So, You want a BUNCH of bullets?

[S Mac]

My wife had an assistant from Pennsylvania that was always very critical of southern and Texas dialect.
The first time she caught herself saying "I'm fixin' to go do something" she freaked out.

Around here to say that properly would be "fitzing to do something"

 

[Rick]

Yeah some things need fixin and some things need fitzing, All depends on what ya need ta git did.

 

[Pistolero]

My mother would sometimes say she was just futzing around...like fiddling around.
I lament the death of nouns, assassinated in favor using the associated verb as if it
were a noun.....a la The Beverly Hillbillies. Example: Send him an "invite". Invite is a verb,
and the associated noun is invitation. Yet, even our idiots on TV are slowling sliding off
into the Beverly Hillbillies language. Another is: That is a big " ask".....ask is a verb, the
associated noun is 'request'. But if you insist on having a 3,000 word vocabulary, then
a lot of those complicated words get deep sixed.

Bleck!

Bill

 

[KHornet]

Agreed Bill!


Paul

 

[462]

Abbreviations used as if every reader knows what they represent . . . #^*(&^#%&!!

 

[Pistolero]

Yeah. I worked in a big gov't contractor for 35 years. BOY did they have acronyms.
Sometimes I'd ask what an acronym meant and the person using it didn't actually know what
the letters meant....

Bill

 

[RBHarter]

It's a real place . I really do know where Over Yonder is .